Philosophy Writing for LES MISERABLES Victor Hugo's novel LES MISERABLES is an example of literary Romanticism. Marius Pontemercy courted Cosette from afar, and won her affections with a love letter. Marius crafted his persona with words, representing and embodying himself in a letter, and he g...
Throughout Homer's The Iliad, Hera's unwavering determination and resourcefulness from the poem's start to finish is a testament to the goddess's character. ... The epic centers around a conflict of powerful men with an underlying theme of the helplessness of women, yet Hera transcends the gender-based limitations by exerting her powers and taking full advantage of her sexuality in order to achieve her merciless goal of trumping the Trojans. ... Even though women are portrayed as powerless throughout the poem, in this scene Hera proves that women, in fact, possess arguab...
The whole poem is simply an insult to a woman's demeanor and thrives off her uneducated social status. ... The evidence supporting the effect of figurative language, poetic form and carpe diem on the theme of insult and irrationality in Marvell's poem clearly puts the man at fault. Man has taken natures way of reproduction and turned it into a sport: one that deprives women of respect and relies on the geographical breadth, comparisons to epic events, and apocalyptic imagery presented in metaphor for success. ...
The common theme of love forms a bridge between these four poems and throughout the rest of Mu'allaqat. The first of these poems, The Wandering King, is especially amorous in regard to Imr al-Qais' description of his horse. ... The poem of Tarafa is unusual both in structure as well as in his description of his camel. ... (84.29-32) These descriptions of Tarafa's she-camel are used as a literary vehicle to express love and bring power to the poem. ... " (143.3-10) These descriptions are reminiscent of the gardens from the Song of Solomon and perhaps even the epic ...
The Measure of A Man John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is an attempt to justify the ways of God concerning Creation and the fall of man. Part of Milton's effort at justification is providing the characters of Adam, Eve, and Satan with a measure of humanity and depth not found in the Bible. As a re...
The Inferno is epic that is about a telling of Dante through his Journey throughout Hell while being guided by Virgil. In the poem, Hell is shown as nine circles of suffering depending on what you did and serves as different levels of punishment and along in this journey, Dante understands the soul towards God along with the Inferno describing the nine circles of hell being Lucifer, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, and treasury as he explores hell and meets different people along the way. ...
hhhhhThe film, like the ship, is of epic proportions. ... Many people today, like Matthew Arnold, believe what he writes in the poem "Dover Beach," that the world offers nothing as worthy of believing in as love: "Ah, love, let us be true / to one another / for the world. . . hath really neither joy, . . . nor peace, nor help for pain" (577). ...
