Perspective In Ovid's Metamorphoses

Point of view is a particular attitude or way of considering a matter. Every story has different point of views, whether it is first person, limited third person, or all-knowing omniscient. The point of view determines how much the reader knows about each character.

Since the Metamorphoses needs both the straightforward ramifications of reason for the Aeneid, which changes over history into guess keeping in mind the end goal to trumpet the foreordained rule of Rome and the radiance of Augustus, and since it is made out of a unique progression of once in a while twisted stories, researchers and faultfinders have truthfully thought about the lyric, with the point of deciding its unity as well as of finding a solitary perspective. Verifiable in many contemplations of the Transforms is the basic inquiry of whether it is an earnest work. Does it point to Augustan Rome as the end to which all change was tending, or is the ballad really an unexpected analysis about Augustan qualities, subversive of Roman grandness

At first glance, there seems to be a clear distinction between humans and wild animals, mainly human intelligence versus instinct. Nevertheless, the distinction that separates species may not be as clear as initially thought as both Ovid in the Metamorphoses and Kafka in the Metamorphosis explore the theme of transformation and bring to light a continuity across species in their respective works. However, Ovid emphasizes the continuity by creating a parallel between human qualities and animal qualities in tales such as ‘Lycaon,’ ‘Arachne,’ and ‘Ceyx and Alcyone,’ where the main characteristic of the human transcends the metamorphosis and stays with them in their animal form. While on the other hand, Kafka’s piece highlights the continuity

This piece was inspired by an excerpt of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in book number six which describes the slaughter of Niobe’s seven sons and seven daughters. Niobe was the queen of Thebes, married to King Amphion. She lived an extreme life of luxury and often bragged about how great her life was. One day the goddess Leto, also know was Latona, heard Niobe boasting about how much better her life was. Niobe could not stop comparing her extreme fertility, hence her 14 children, to Leto mere two offspring. Niobe told the people of Thebes they should be worshiping her instead of Leto. In response, Leto’s two offspring, Apollo, the god of music, and Artemis, also known as Diana, the goddess of the hunt, came to Thebes and murdered Niobe’s children with

Perspective is like a form of art. Some people will think the masterpiece is marvelous while others will think it is absolutely hideous. Everyone has a different opinion, unalike minds, differing thoughts. It is what makes us from being all similar. Divergency is what keep the world alive. That is where Literary Theories come into action. Literary theories attempts at viewing all perspectives that are based on the study of literature. Just like in ‘The story of a Hour’ written by Kate Chopin. The story is about a woman named Louise Mallard. She has a lot of heart issues, so her sister has to come and tell her the news of her husband. Louise Mallard thinks that he is dead because it listed his name on the railroad accident. After sobbing for

The ancient Roman poet Ovid was one of the countless influential writers in history. His dactylic hexameter poem Metamorphoses is what he is most prominently known for. In it, he accounts, amongst various other topics, the creation of the

Throughout history art has been one of the most essential expression that humanity uses to portray emotions, preserve history, communicate and even to just capture one’s own beauty before it demolishes. However, in order for us to understand the real work of art, we have to understand the experience the artist goes through while making a work of art. In “Art as Experience”, John Dewey states that a real work of art is the experience of making the work of art and not the final piece. For instance, in “The Metamorphoses of Ovid” Ovid ‘s Arachne serves as an allegory for Dewey’s belief, that art is not the object but the process of creation.

I believe the origin of life is explained in Ovid’s Metamorphoses;this book explained how Romans believed the world was created. After Chaos arrived the air was not breathable and the land and water were still interchangeable matter. It was only until Gaia, the earth goddess, arrived that Earth became habitable. There is no explanation as to how Chaos and Gaia were formed. Ovid also wrote about the Divine Creator who added lakes, oceans, mountains, and forests to the Earth. The creator then spread the air to the rest of the world. Chaos and Gaia continued to give birth to other beings that would contribute to life like Night, Sky, and the sea as well as Day, Death, and Fate. After the Iron Age, the gods created mortal men to farm and take care

Perspective is a specific vision you have on something or someone; a point of view. The world revolves around people ideas, thoughts, and actions. That’s why as you continue to grow throughout your life, your mind will begin to change and start to emerge in its own thoughts. This is what we call “a turning point in your life”, this is what makes every person different and unique in their own way. For me a turning point in my life would be when i was diagnosed with epilepsy. I couldn’t have predicted the magnitude that this would have on my life. Both mentally and physically changing me into the person i am today.

The author draws on his or her surroundings to give the book validity, one that gives the story meaning past the superfluous one, one that gives the story a meaning that is unattainable unless the reader goes one step further – a sort of puzzle that needs to be unlocked. This puzzle can be solved however through understanding the authors, as McGann puts it, “point of origin”, “by studying biography and bibliography” (Murfin 267) and by learning “the history of the works reception, as the body of opinion has become part of the platform on which we are situated when we study the work at our own particular ‘point of reception’” (Murfin 267). The author’s upbringing, his childhood, his experiences and the cultural, societal, economical and intellectual atmosphere around him dictate the reason behind why the author wrote

Echo and narcissus are a myth from Ovid’s metamorphoses. The introduction of the myth begins with the nymph Echo in the mountains and in a deep forest. Echo was a beautiful nymph. Nymph was very fond of talking, she always had the last word, whether it was a chat or argument. One day Hera was suspicious about her husband, she feared that he was using echo to cover his affair. Hera discovered that her fear was true, then She put a spell on echo. “you shall forfeit the use of that tongue with which you have cheated me, except for that purpose you are so fond of reply. You shall still have the last word, but no power to speak first.” Echo ends by falling in love with; a beautiful youth, Narcissus. Narcissus rejected her love.

The Metamorphosis is divided into three parts which depicts the various stages of transformation of Gregor and how he and people around him adapted to the change.

In an event, there are multiple sides to the story and each side has many similarities, but there are still differences because of the perspective each person has. Everyone can see the same event but each person interprets it in a different way. This can be due to many factors such as emotion, position, history and bias. So no one is capable of giving the true story of what occurred in an event. This is a reason some people don’t believe the newscast stories, due to their abilities of changing the story in their own perspective. They can mix up opinions with actual facts from the story. In stories, authors can use perspective to make readers perceive characters the way they desire them to be. Through this, authors show how they perceive people and society as well as the ways they are able to manipulate characters and situations to cause the audience to to think the same. In A Raisin in the Sun, a play by Lorraine Hansberry, the Younger family has different perspectives on societal influences and their family that it tears their family apart. Hansberry uses perspective to illustrate her ideology of society and teaches us how perspective changes a story or event.

In Ovid’s book Metamorphoses, transformations have usually taken place as penalties inflicted by gods for sacrilegious or villainous conduct. Since the author portrays gods to be moral arbitrators, one may consider the purpose of recounting these stories to be admonishing people against blasphemies. However, unlike many epic poets whose works usually show great respect to the divinities, Ovid, holding a slightly disrespectful attitude towards the gods, boldly characterizes the deities as flawed as he suggests two destined qualities of irrationality and hypocrisy. Throughout the book, uncontainable lust leads gods to commit aggressive sexual assaults, and morbid jealousy of goddesses results in unjustified vengeance. Specifically, the flaw of gods can be perceived in Lycaon in Book I (12). In the story, enraged by Lycaon, Jove convoked the gods and announced that he “shall destroy the mortal’s race” to “lest the untainted beings on the earth become infected” and “ensure their (half-gods’ and rustic deities’) safety on the lands.” The corruption of gods insinuates a subtle similarity between them and human, challenging the conventional belief that humanity is never comparable with divinity.

Within the fourth book of The Metamorphoses of Ovid, the story of Athamas and Ino presents a wary warning about the wrath of the gods through a tale of madness. Juno, angered by the joy and prosperity of Ino and her husband Athamas, along with the prospect of being “denied the force to right a wrong”, uses the assistance of the Furies in the “wasteland” of Hell to drive the two prideful beings to the brink of insanity and cause them to kill Ino herself and their two sons, Learchus and Melicerta (126). Besides the main plot, it is through the smaller and nuanced details of the story that readers gain more insight regarding the interesting disposition between the netherworlds, Earth, and heaven, and the different transformations presented when venturing from one world to another. While there are numerous occurrences of various fundamental physical and mental changes within the narrative poem, the transformation between life and death is the most ambiguous yet frequently repeated one. Therefore, the keyword of “blood” plays a very important role in introducing an added sense of physicality and concrete evidence of such a transformation, thus reinforcing the various tiers, specifically that of humans, within the ancient Greek hierarchy of all mortal, otherworldly, and godly beings.