Peer Pressure In The Aeneid

228-30). He struggles with this yearning emotionally, but is forced to remain strong. Furthermore, Odysseus later confronts yet another seductive goddess, known as Kirke, on the Aiaia. He almost loses the majority of his crew to this deity, but is ultimately able to save them from her. Eurylokhos, one of his crew members, tells him, “Like sheep they followed her, but I saw cruel deceit, and stayed behind.

The holy war which was not known as the crusades until the 16th century were a series of wars that were started by the pope of the Holy Catholic Church he thought that because of the “serious theological disagreement had split the Greek Church of Byzantium and the Roman Church of the West. The pope believed that a crusade would lead to strong Roman influence in Greek territories and eventually the reunion of the two churches.” (McKay 401) to help motivate the people and the upper echelon of the militaristic society Pope Urban II declared that all who participated in the crusade that all their sins would be forgiven without ever having to confess to a priest, while all at the same time declaring that the “Infidel” (which is a term both sides

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare writes of a budding love between two adolescent lovers. However, their destiny is to never come together because of the enmity among their families. They deem it impossible to survive without one another, so they rob their mortal bodies on the souls that occupy them. The tragedy of their deaths brings the two noble homes together to unify for their children. Many people conclude that Friar Lawrence or the parents are at fault but in reality Friar Lawrence just does as Romeo and Juliet ask.

In Henry IV Part 1, Worcester says to King Henry IV that the rebels “were the first and dearest of your friends” (5.1.35). This is ironic because he is saying this as the rebels are about to have a bloody war with the King in which they are willing to take the lives of the king himself and his son away. Likewise, kings themselves must prepared to be the ones to destroy a friendship. In Henry IV Part 1, Hal “takes the opportunity to rehearse in comic terms the devastating attack that he will make on Falstaff at the end of Part 2, and his reply to Falstaff’s request not to banish him is the simple, chilling ‘I do, I will’” (Legatt 247). Hal is prepared to give up his friendship early into the play which the reader discovers when Hal says to himself, “I know you all,, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humor of your idleness” (1.2.202-3).

In Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, Nwoye battles an internal conflict of whether to stay on his tribe’s side, or to go against them. Nwoye ultimately resolves this conflict by choosing to follow the British instead of his father; however, this choice also illustrates his true character as both timid and bold. Nwoye’s decision to following the British also reveals the universal theme that you can settle on a path that you choose instead of following a path you were designated to follow. Nwoye struggles to choose which path to take, his father’s or the British. “The arrival of the missionaries had caused a considerable stir in the village of Mbanta” (Achebe,144).

From the age of eight until her death, Sylvia Plath struggled with mental illness. Along with frequent therapy visits, she wrote poetry to reflect the many events in her life. She wrote about everything, from the things that brought her great joy to the things that drove her to attempt suicide. One recurring topic of her poems is her father, Otto Plath, who she adored until he died of undiagnosed diabetes when she was eight. This event sparked a lifetime of depression and anger towards her father.

In addition, Hermia 's childhood best friend and Demetrius were in love prior to his sights turning towards Hermia. This crushed Helena, causing her to lose self-confidence, but still: she yearns for Demetrius 's love. Hermia and Lysander 's love, Egeus 's harsh rule, and Helena 's unrequited love for Demetrius causes the lovers to leave Athens. Various factors cause the lovers to run away together. Hermia and Lysander 's love causes them to leave Athens.

Compelling her husband by giving him an ultimatum, be a coward or kill the king. Macbeth succumbs to evil and in doing so, betrays his King. You could argue that when he ‘wore the Thane of Cawdor’s robes’ he became a traitor like the Thane of Cawdor. His traitorous actions would have been met with death at that time. God's divine order is disturbed as Macbeth challenges God by killing the God appointed King and assuming the role for himself in his quest for power.

After making love in the cave, they return to Carthage as openly lovers. Dido even considered themselves to be married to each other, but this was a big mistake. Book IV states, “That day was the first cause of death, and first of sorrow.” (221-222) This piece of text basically says that Dido is setting herself up for no good thinking that they are a married couple before they actually went through with the authentic marriage ceremony. In no time at all, rumors spread that Dido and Aeneas have given up themselves for love and stopped doing their duties as rulers. The text says, “In those days Rumor took an evil joy at filling countrysides with whispers, whispers, gossip of what was done, and never done: how this Aeneas landed, Trojan born, how Dido in her beauty graced his company, then how they revealed all the winter long unmindful of the realm, prisoners of lust.” (246-252) These rumors later then spread to the gods and had some

Romeo and Juliet are not in love with each other because just a day before they met, he felt heartbroken because of a girl named Rosaline who didn 't love him, he pressures Juliet to profess her love to him, and after just barely meeting, they both agree to get married. At the beginning of this popular Shakespeare play, Romeo claims to be in love with a girl named Rosaline. He cries for days about her before he meets Juliet because she rejected his love for her. When Romeo first appears in the play, he appears to be too distracted with his heartache from Rosaline’s disenchantment of Romeo’s affection. His dwelling over his “love [for Rosaline], feel no love...”(Shakespeare, Act I, line:177) seems to take up all his attention, making him only want to talk about how glum he is rather than the carnage of the town after the fight between the Montagues and Capulets that happened just moments prior to his arrival.