S by Doug Dorst

Intro: There are a wide variety of themes present throughout the Odyssey, written by Homer. Be it hospitality, perseverance, vengeance or power of the Gods, loyalty is truly the theme that brings the whole book together. Being 10 years after the Trojan War, many have forgotten about Odysseus and his men as they constantly brave what the gods throw their way. This essay will be talking about Odysseus and Penelope’s mutual loyalty to one another, the loyal relationships between Gods and men and finally, the loyalty Odysseus’ men show for him until death. This essay with prove to us that without loyalty, Odysseus’ legendary journey would have been put to an end near where they started. The general theme of loyalty is what kept Odysseus

Now Theseus is older and is in his father’s palace in Athens, the fame seeking youth decided to set his sights on a new journey. A journey which would lead to him being loved and remembered by all the people of Athens. During this time Athens had a severe problem, the neighboring island Crete would attack them every so often. The king of Athens decided to try and compromise with Crete. He stated if Crete left Athens alone for nine years they would send fourteen Athenian youths seven male and seven females as a sacrifice to Minos to be fed to the Minotaur king Minos pet. The king of Athens goal was to build a strong navy, so they could defend themselves from Crete. Surprisingly the king of Crete Mino kept his word and never attacked Athens. Now nine years had come, and it was Athens turn to keep their word. The king of Athens was conflicted as he knew the value of keeping one's word. Theseus seeing this as the perfect opportunity to earn new fame and liken his image in Athens volunteered as the seventh male Athenian youth. Theseus’s goal is to slay the Minotaur and save his fellow Athenians. Theseus promises his father, he will return alive and when he does, he will change the color of the sail on the ship from white to black. In the event the sails stay black his father should assume Theseus has met his demise. After the Athenians arrive in Crete they are welcomed by King Mino’s and princess Ariadne, upon seeing

Theseus, the newly found prince of Athens, embarks on several hero journeys including on against Minos’ Minotaur and the Labyrinth. Joseph Campbell’s representation of the hero’s journey fully encompasses Theseus’ narrative throughout his quest to defeat the Minotaur. Beginning with a call to adventure on through the crossing of the threshold and on to the reward and resurrection. Compared to Rank’s hero’s journey which includes a revelation and transformation with atonement, Campbell’s process fits more precisely to Theseus’ story.

Even though Agamemnon made a success for his homecoming, what was waiting for him was her wife’s conspiracy with Aegisthus and his death (262-263). Namely, his nosmos was rather a failure and he also faced fate of his failed household. This Agamemnon’s gives a comparison with Odysseus future success for preserving his family and throne. Furthermore, Clytemnestra’s unfaithfulness and infidelity provides a foil to Penelope’s faithfulness and loyalty. Clytemnestra’s merciless and brutal actions, not sealing Agamemnon’s eyes while he was dying, adds contrasting characteristics between Odysseus and Agamemnon’s wives. Note that here, the story of successful vengeance for Agamemnon by Orestes gives a foil to Telemachus’ weakness and deficiency. Orestes here is depicted as a heroic example with murder of Aegistus after he comes of age (264). On the contrary to Orestes who saved his household and restored order in his family’s kingdom, Telemachus, as he came of age, couldn’t serve as protecting his household and repel his mother’s suitors in the absence of his father. In the light of comparing each heroic figures’ sons, the son of Achilles is also depicted as successful warrior with great strength and fame in the battlefield against Trojan, adding a foil to Telemachus’ unsuccessful position as a son (266).

Our first introduction of Ariadne is of her abandonment by Theseus. Ariadne looks on as Theseus abandons her on the island “ bearing wild furies in the heart.”

Within the myth of Perseus, the plot generally follows the structure of the archetypal hero’s journey. These aspects can be clearly identified throughout the lifetime of Perseus.

The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus’ Paradox, is a thought experiment that questions whether an object is fundamentally the same object after having all of its parts replaced. The story goes that Theseus, a mythical hero of Athens, went on an endeavor to kill the Minotaur who had been harassing the townspeople. When Theseus returned successful, his ship was left in the harbor to commemorate his victory. Consequently, the ship’s planks had deteriorated and were replaced one by one. Thus, the question begs: is this the same ship, or a different one? Throughout this paper I will argue the stance that Theseus’ ship is not the same ship nor has it ever been the same ship the second it left the port in which it was built.

At the end of a day, Theseus became a very brawny and a savvy human being. He is the main character that changed throughout the story. Identically like other stories, they both have a nerve-racking villain, in this case, the two villains were called Grendel and Minotaur. Something unique about Theseus’s story is that Ariadne can be considered as an ally or lover.

personality while comparing him to Theseus. The main characters are not the only aspect of this

It’s easy to tell that the ocean is a mysterious and isolating place from all of the tragic tales we hear from sailors both real and fictional. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and an anonymous author’s “The Seafarer” are quite similar in that they both revolve around said tragic tales told by sailors. However, there seem to be more commonalities between their themes, tones, and messages rather than their seaward-bound settings. But before we can discuss these similar settings and deeper themes, we have to tackle their origins.

In these four novels, they illustrate some critical tragedies that had taken place in different scenarios relating to one main theme, which is tragedy, created by four infamous authors, King Lear written by William Shakespeare, Oedipus the King written by Sophocles, Wind From An Enemy Sky written by D'Arcy McNickle, and ultimately Agamemnon composed by Aeschylus. These writers depicted these novels as a distinctive and dynamic catastrophe implied for the benefit of heart winding up going into miserable spirals of catastrophe. Others surveyed these stories as a “felicitous renderings of catastrophe in which … faithfulness to the ancient content meets poetic phrasing and meticulousness of imagery’’ (Andreas Markantonatos). Whereas in my point of view I viewed these stories as a 'well' suited novel implied to be headed towards catastrophe in which I believe instead, its given more of its content illustrating a more graceful expression and carefulness of symbolism rather than it's normal assumption of tragedy.

Within the course of the text, it is evident to the reader that the novel portrays communication and chaos seen through the eyes of the protagonist Oedipa Maas. Oedipa, embarks on a journey of mystery, she is hold accountable with settling the property of her former boyfriend. Through the course of the text, Oedipa uncovers an

For now, I'll set aside considerations of why The Goal is a novel, how effective it is as a book, whether it succeeds as literature, and so on. This article is primarily about the ideas behind the book, and why some are valuable while others are probably quite useless.

Professor Meyers utilizes this text to develop Almásy’s copy of The Histories of Herodotus as a key component in developing the novel’s plot. He begins the article by discussing the tale of King Candaules, who is consumed by his braggadocio over his queen’s beauty and usurped by his soldier Gyges who claims his throne and wife. While a typical analysis would correlate the Candaules-Queen-Gyges triad to the Clifton-Katharine-Almásy trio, Meyers asserts that this interpretation is slightly fallacious since Almásy himself states, “This man was in no way a portrait of Clifton” (234). Thus, Candaules’s tale serves as more of warning that foreshadows misfortune for Katharine and Almásy, rather than an exact depiction. It is worth noting at this point that Almásy’s reliability as a narrator should not be vastly questioned because Caravaggio’s morphine concoction

Both the ‘The Odyssey’ 1(1616) and ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ 2 (2010) feature male protagonists who traverse the seas, and the concepts and themes of men seafaring is common throughout most canonical texts. For example, the allusion of Odysseus’ difficult journey is made when a minor male character in Apuleius’ ‘The Golden Ass’ (1998) describes his seafaring adventures as being ‘positively Ulyssian’3 (Kenney: 29) (‘Ulyssian’ thus being a reference the Roman naming of Odysseus). Furthermore, both texts share themes, such as: seafaring, the supernatural, trials and tribulations, tradition, belief systems, and the geographical setting and pride in the protagonist’s home city play a key role to the overarching plots of the texts in the sense of the protagonist’s endurance and motivation to both leave and return home. Likewise, the supernatural is used to further the plot of both texts.