Literary Devices In The Night By Zeus

In the poem Zeus is shown in a very positive light, as he is one of the key characters in the story. The author continually praises Zeus throughout his poem, making the text not only a story of the creation of the universe but also showing characteristics of a hymn to

Zeus gains pleasure from creating things he may destroy, which includes death (“The ruling principle of Hate/ Which for its pleasure doth create”). This is where Prometheus gains power over Zeus. While Prometheus is merely mortal, he can foresee his destiny, which is death; Zeus cannot see his own fate. At the end of the second stanza, Zeus demonstrates his apprehension and fear that his sentence may be reality: “And in thy Silence was his Sentence/ And in his Soul a vain repentance/ And evil dread so ill dissembled/ That in his hand the lightnings trembled,” (line 29-34). Here we see a reciprocation or exchange of power between Zeus and Prometheus. It is representative of the victory of the individual over an oppressor and directly compares Gods and man.

Elie uses literary techniques to explain to the reader the dread and suffering during the Holocaust. Elie wanted to leave an impression on his readers so they would never forget the atrocities he and countless others endured. Elie used many forms of literary devices to show this. For example, he used simple, stark language, symbolism, juxtaposition, and much more in order to portray the feelings he felt. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he uses writing techniques in order to show his despair during his experiences in the Holocaust.

While reading this poem, the reader can identify many archetypes. There are the heroes, the villains, the wise teachers and many more. Numerous themes and ideas are portrayed throughout this poem, it is the basis of which all other books model themselves after. “The Odyssey” was written by Homer in 720 BC, known as the Bronze Age. It is an Epic that tells the story of a father, Odysseus, who goes through many trials and adventures In order to be reunited with his Wife Penelope, and Son Telemachus.

Greek tragedies Oedipus the King and Euripides’ Bacchae are both timeless stories in Greek literature. The engaging plot of both is what is most rememberable however the significance of the chorus is overlooked. The chorus can be defined simply as a group of dancers and singers that participate in dramas by singing poetically and lyrically in certain pauses of the play. The music, movements and gestures of the chorus symbolically define the mood and the themes of the play as the story line develops. The flow of Oedipus the King and Bacchae are dependent on the chorus, proving their significance.

The first stanza contains a solemn and reverent tone which shows the Chorus’s respect for the gods. In Strophe I, the Chorus states that their action abides to the “laws of the pure universe” (46). Pure has a connotation of untouchable, which happens to describe the gods’ state of beings. Also, it hints that the gods have no flaws since pure means untainted, which signifies that they do not commit wrongs. This also hints that the gods’ prophecies are true, and Oedipus is denying the truth. One mythological reference they state is when they say “[the gods] Father is greater than Time” (46). This allusion hints to Kronos, the father of most of the Greek gods like Zeus and Hestia. Despite having a terrible reputation of trying to kill his children, he is also known to be impressively strong as he overthrew his own father Uranus, the ruler of the universe. Just like Kronos is powerful, the Chorus is emphasizing on the gods’ impressive statuses. The Chorus also contrasts the gods with them by saying describing the gods as “never of mortal kind” (46). They clearly distinguish gods from humans and hints that their obligations are different; the gods are not constrained by mere mortal laws, unlike Oedipus.

Despite the absence of Zeus in Prometheus Bound a reader can still get a great deal of description of and how Zeus rules the Gods and creation. It seems very different from the scene a reader can get in the Hesiod. Zeus is vilified in Prometheus Bound. He is the villain in my impression from the author. Zeus has inflicted the same punishment on Prometheus in both stories, but the brutality of this punishment is emphasized more in Prometheus Bound and all the characters in the story or play, except for Strength, show disdain toward this tragic and harsh punishment.

One way that the play highlights the severity of Oedipus’s crimes of parricide and incest is through the chorus, which also represents how the audience is expected to react. After hearing Tiresias’s prophecy about Laius’s murderer, the chorus is horrified by the implications of what Tiresias has said, saying, “Now, even horses of the wind are too slow for his escape. The son of Zeus leaps after him with blazing thunderbolts, and the horrible death-goddesses cannot be shaken off his trail,” (Sophocles, 2003, p. 81). They are saying that the crimes are so unforgiveable that Apollo, the son of Zeus, will smite this person and they will be chased by death-goddesses, or furies, who chase those who commit crimes against their family members and basically saying that they can’t escape the justice of the gods, which turns out to be true. Later, once Oedipus realizes that he is the same baby that Jocasta tried to have killed, the chorus chimes in again saying, “O, Oedipus, one harbor served you as a child and as a father sailing into marriage.

The Aeneid, written by Virgil, was written in Rome between 30 and 19 B.C. Virgil wrote many of his writings during the time of Octavian, the estranged nephew to Caeser. During the beginning of the times of Octavian and the time of these writings Rome was in a state of civil war, which later turned into the most peaceful place in the world. Many people were torn from their homes and new boundaries were created. It is important to know the culture and gender roles of the people, the person in power, and the system of government in place at the time of the writing.

Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound serves as an example of the battle between individuality and conformity; which directly symbolizes the battle between free thinking and conforming to the ideas of the almighty church; this battle is scene through Prometheus’s stance on freedom and the metaphorical representation of each character presented in the

One theme of ancient Greek texts is that you will regret the unnecessary things you did without thinking.

Prometheus Bound is an Ancient Greek tragic play that is one of three plays concerning the large-than-human figure, Prometheus. Zeus, the king of the Gods on Mont Olympus in ancient Greek religion, Prometheus, a Titan, he stole the fire from Mont Olympus and brought the secrets using fire to mortals, then punished by Zeus to a life bound in chains. This is where the title—Prometheus Bound—is given to the play. Prometheus myth is originated from ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s Theology. In Theology, Prometheus is an evildoer, a liar. However, In Aeschylus' works, he fights for human survival and against Zeus. Prometheus’s name means "anticipate," in the play, he had known that Zeus would punish him, but he declined to comment on the tales, instead, still doing the things under his willing. “It is painful to me to tell the tale, painful to keep it silent.” ---- Scene I “Prometheus Bound”. Prometheus violates the fate and against with it. This action is a tragedy but incredible. The image of Prometheus refers to the people's rebellion and noble. This revolution is intimately related to the progress of social civilization. It is rooted in the individual in the struggle with the fate, society, and itself. From time to time, people reading “Prometheus Bound”, Prometheus tagged as “iron-hearted” and “made of stone” but Zeus is “furious” and “arrogant”. However, the good

In the very first ode it depicts the condition of the plague and its devastating effects in the city of Thebes that the plague has made the women and the fields or land infertile. The various songs of chorus tell the readers and audience about the changing situations. It sometimes sings about the situation of Thebes. Sometimes it makes prayer, sometimes it makes wishes, sometimes expresses joy and grief and sometimes preaches philosophy and moral lessons. The chorus also takes part in the development of plot. The contribution of Chorus makes the play

In section 18 of the Poetics Aristotle criticizes Euripides for not allowing "the chorus to be one of the actors and to be a part of the whole and to share in the dramatic action, . . . as in Sophocles." Aristotle may be thinking of the embolima of Euripides' later plays (satirized also by Aristophanes), but he is certainly wrong about the Medea. Its choral odes are not only all intimately related to the action but are also essential for the meaning of the play, particularly because here, as elsewhere (e.g. Hecuba), Euripides forces us reevaluate his main protagonist in midstream and uses the chorus (in part) to indicate that change.

Zeus constantly seemed to enjoy his abuse of power through the bedding of several mortal women during his reign, Leda being one of the many to fall prey to his sensual desires. Yeats signifies the role of sex in this poem in the first line, represented through the “beating” of the swan’s “great wings”. The rhythm of a bird’s beating wing mimics that of the rhythm of sexual intercourse, while the wings can be seen as a phallic symbol. Also, throughout the poem almost all the lines hold a steady syllable count of 10, which simulates the steady pace of sex. Yeats does not use the rhythm of the poem to create a sexual build up, however, but rather the diction itself, as during the first stanza the girl’s “thighs [are] caressed”, and then throughout the second stanza her submission begins to magnify as her “loosening thighs” are unable to “push the feathered glory” away from her, and then begins to climax by the third stanza as a “shudder in the loins engenders” – the same stanza that shares the climactic consequences of the Trojan War. Yeats chose this method of portrayal to inform the reader that when looking at the situation holistically, with the consideration of magical realism in mind, it may have seemed calm and steady, but when focused on in detail, it was far less collected, and signified a build up of death and