Nibelung Essays

The greatest literary works reflect the human condition: from adversity come epiphanies of wisdom and heroism. Despite varying time periods and cultures, literature shows how solely through hardship can humanity heroically advance with wisdom. For example, The Iliad’s conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans show the wisdom of humanity in war and the heroic acts of war. The Iliad and The Biography of the Prophet show the human condition of suffering as the sole means of bringing heroic acts and

There is evidence that would strongly support the outcomes are decided long before the action is initiated, but there are also scenes where character’s actions are clearly going to come back around and affect them negatively. “The Song of the Nibelungs” has prophetic dreams and mythological insights into the future, but there is not a time where a character sees their future and successfully changes or maintains their behavior

series has for decades been hounded by these allegations, although it seems unlikely they will ever come to anything more than debates among fans. These allegations suggest that Tolkien’s series has borrowed many things from the epic opera Ring of the Nibelung, composed by Richard Wagner. During his lifetime, Tolkien denied having based anything in his books on the work of Wagner, despite it being known that he did an extensive study of the composer’s work shortly before beginning work on The Lord of the

Romantic opera was opera written during the Romantic time period. The Romantic Time period in music began in 1820 and ended in 1910. The term opera is defined as an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet. Opera is also an Italian word meaning work and is the plural of the Latin word opus meaning a musical composition. Opus originally meant a service, work, or

(Lovecraft, 1927). For him, Scandinavian stories are full of horror, with Ymir and his shapeless spawn, then Beowulf and the Nibelung tales are full of eldritch weirdness (Lovecraft, 1927). “Eldritch” is a term that means “weird, ghostly, sinister” and Lovecraft used that term in his stories and even today there is a board game called “Eldritch Horror” based on his books, so it

Tchaikovsky was interested in music growing up. One time, before he took formal music lessons, he was so into a rhythm that he was tapping it on a stain glass window. The window broke and young Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky was cut in the hand. This is when Tchaikovsky’s parents thought it was time to get him a music teacher. That said, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev are two of the leading composers in the 19th century. Which one has influence today’s music more? Tchaikovsky was born May 7 1840 and died