One of his most famous works was Metamorphoses. It covered hundred of Roman fables, from the creation of the world to the eminence of Roman official and war general Julius Caesar. In addition to Metamorphoses, he wrote another poem called Fasti. It explicated the reasoning behind the festivals and ceremonies of certain gods and goddesses
Zora Neale Hurston’s book, “The Gilded Six-Bits” is an important piece of literature due to its impact on the world during the Harlem Renaissance era. It is considered a brilliant piece of modernist literature due to Hurston staying true to her background and roots as a black woman from the south, in which segregation was still a huge issue. The reason why it is considered a piece of modernist literature is because she wasn’t afraid to write in the black vernacular which was considered uneducated as blacks were progressing in arts, literature, and the music was alive. The story is filled with many different themes and issues that people can relate to such as money, deceit, and for people who have a big heart forgiveness and reconciliation.
Tiresias’ role in society is the reason that only he has the authority to dissent against Creon and sway his opinion when he would disregard everyone else’s. . When Tiresias appears in Antigone, Creon accuses the prophet of being a traitor, saying that Tiresias must have been bribed: “T: How far good counsel is the best of goods?/ C: True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills./ T: Thou art infected with that ill thyself./ C: I will not bandy insults with thee, seer./ T: And yet thou say'st my prophesies are frauds./ C: Prophets are all a money-getting tribe./ T: And kings are all a lucre-loving race./ C: Dost know at whom thou glancest, me thy lord?/ T: Lord of the State and
Many written pieces can vary in language usage, yet still impact the character’s social ranking and mental attitude towards the world, and life itself. While Miklos Radnoti uses the juxtaposition between his past life and his current life in 7th Eclogue to emblemize hope, Ruta Sepetys uses the language of nostalgia in the form of flashbacks in Between Shades of Gray to illustrate the decline of her protagonist’s social rank. Similarly to the hopeful theme in the 7th Eclogue, Ruth Minsky Sender uses the symbol of hope in The Cage to display a rise in social rank. Though Girl by Jamaica Kincaid contains neither nostalgia nor hope, the story has a motif of obedience similar to Miklos Radnoti’s Fragment that lowers the characters’ social rank by
At the start of the novel, Tacitus broadly explains how racially pure the inhabitants of Germania were compared to the rest of the world. Explaining their lack of immigration and intermarriage as a defining feature for them, “…has never been tainted by intermarriage…” (Germania 4). Tacitus further explains how their absence of communication with the
Once the piece of literature begins, the reader begins feeling captivated in the imagery that the author created to be envisioned. In John Muir’s extraordinary essay, The Calypso Borealis, he creates a vivid picture in the reader’s head of his experience to find a beautiful flower. In particular, he creates an image of his adventure into a swamp surrounding The Great Lakes through his writing. When his journey began, he was introduced to several diverse flora. During his journey, he is able to admire and soak up nature’s beauty as well as
The tornado figuratively represents immigrants and their culture, which the people are afraid of. The author especially focuses on the people’s reaction and interaction among themselves as the tornado is coming and passing by: they feel lonely, isolated, and segmented from each other. Amy Wright uses imagery, symbolism, and irony to give the readers a message that people should not fear the new change or the immigrants because they can be stimuli for further development and auspicious future with interactive and cooperative generations. The very first literary element Wright uses in the poem is
In Persepolis, a Bildungsroman genre graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, the main character experienced many events that made her become fully grown up in Iran, yet the turning point was her life in Vienna. A Bildungsroman is a novel that describes the process in which the character grows from child to adult, which he or she has a reason to start a journey while the coming of age is difficult, suffering, uncomfortable, and long. There are many particular events where Marjane has many difficulties in the process of maturity. When Marjane is still a child in Iran, terrible historical events happened around her and formed her to become more mature. Although they made her become a mature child, the real part of her life that changed her were her days in Vienna, where she really understood the cruelty of
We sometimes get looked down on or said to be blaspheming. In the book The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt, we learn in detail why De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things) is a poem that became such a threat to the catholic theology. This poem was written by the late great Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius in an attempt to breakdown the epicurean philosophy. A brief breakdown of this is by the meaning of epicurean
W. J. Verdenius quotes, "Tiresias is at once a traditionalist and an exceedingly clever man." Tiresias' humorous conduct and mentality towards uncovering prophecy makes him typical to the