The Bacchae Symbolism

In the story “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” One of the most prominent examples of this is Rowdey. He is extremely hurt by the fact that our main character, Junior, is going to a different school that he lashes out quite often. Revenge can commonly be a response to anger, whether it

The first example of these transgressions in Odysseus’ journey takes place on the island of the Lotus-eaters. The fruit of the lotus is a tasty and tricky fruit that can tangle the mind so that one forgets about home. While Odysseus’ crew devours the fruit, he chooses not to partake. The discipline that Odysseus shows in this book is unlike that of the rest of the epic. This demonstrates that Odysseus does possess self-control, and that his focus is on reaching home. Although he proves he has the determination to resist temptation, he later falters in the epic. His submission to temptation is a flaw he needs to learn how to control. Odysseus proves that he has the power to overcome; he just doesn’t always have the self-control to resist.

Selflessly Overcoming Obstacles Contrary to popular belief, seemingly devastating hardships motivate people to push themselves away from those very difficulties and fight against them. Far too often, one exhausts all the vitality he finds within himself, struggling to stay afloat on the verge of hopelessness. But just when he almost surrenders, an unexpected wave of inspiration secures him, giving him hope to carry on and eventually start a fight against the misery that once confined them. Throughout both the literary and the real world, this pattern emerges regardless of the time or context. Consider Odysseus, stuck on Calypso’s island, who faces the choice of fighting temptation or remaining faithful to his wife and returning home.

Sometimes having control can go another way which could be happiness. The play A midsummer night’s dream is a example of this like how Hippolyta and Theseus both take control in confessing their love to each other and that leads to them getting married. “‘Now, fair Hippolyta, Our nuptial hour draws on apace. Four happy days bring in another moon’”. (I.i.1-3) You can tell by reading this quote that there is happiness in their voice and happiness by tracking the days till their wedding. This is how gaining control can lead to happiness by two people’s love for eachother like Theseus and Hippolyta. Also in the movie She’s the man at the end Viola tells the truth and they all forgive each other which makes everybody happy.

According to Jaffe, “Many early psychological views toward revenge were based on the larger concept of emotional catharsis. This idea, still widely held in the popular culture, suggests that venting aggression ultimately purges it from the body.” Moreover, this led me to think that revenge can also be put towards others to have the feeling of revenge as well. While you are getting it out of yourself, it can lead someone else to feel revenge towards the person or thing you were dealing with. Revenge is something that leads to people getting hurt, emotionally and physically, or even killed.

To start, as I mature, I will have to make many more choices. This includes temptation, possibly in the form of alcohol, drugs, or other dangerous acts. However, one can choose to resist or give in, one immediately leading to one’s demise. This is directly related to Odysseus’ struggles with the Lotus Eaters and his crew. The Lotus Eaters are peaceful and offer

The food, game, and resources in Odysseus’s manor is taken voraciously by the suitors, and there is nothing that his son and wife, Telemachus and Penelope, can do. They treat the king’s family with such disrespect that Athena helps Odysseus plan to kill them. The suitors do not pay attention to the fact that they are being so ill behaved. One suitor in particular, Antinous, throws a stool at Odysseus when he is disguised as a beggar. Another suitor mentions that this may upset the gods; after all, the gods tend to visit Greece in the guise of someone wishing for help. The fact that Antinous so bluntly disregards this only adds to the gods’ wish for him and the suitors’ deaths. The actions of the suitors come back to haunt them, when Odysseus kills them all with no mercy. Odysseus’s actions, however have earned him good favor from the

In Homer’s historic epic The Odyssey the protagonist, Odysseus, is venturing home to his native land of Ithaca. Throughout the story Odysseus is faced with many great challenges and is forced to make many decisions that will greatly affect his life and that of everyone around him. Each decision is crucial to his survival and his journey home. Homer portrays many patterns that are susceptible throughout the tale. One of the major themes that he portrays is that temptation can befall any man, even Odysseus. Many times throughout the story Odysseus and his men fall or are delayed due to the sweet temptations that the world offers them. These temptations do not end even after Odysseus

An impressive amount of self control is displayed in Book 9 when Odysseus and his crew go to the land of the Lotus-eaters. In this book, Odysseus's crew is given fruit of the lotus. The crew “ate the honey-sweet fruit of lotus [were] unwilling to take any message back, or to go away, but they wanted to stay there with the lotus-eating people, feeding on lotus, and forget the way home” (9.139.94-97.). Odysseus has the control to resist the lotus fruit, and therefore brings his crew back to the ships, which then returned their desire to return home. Odysseus' self control over temptation saved him and his men’s wishes to return home. Him and his crew could have been stuck on the island for the rest of their lives if Odysseus did not have any self control like his men.

Dionysus moved on to Thebes, which at the time was ruled by his cousin Pentheus. Pentheus did not know who Dionysus was, or that he was a god. Dionysus was with his group of followers, we were singing and dancing while drunk on wine. Pentheus did not like the strangers, and ordered his guards to imprison all of them. Pentheus insulted Dionysus, and called him a ‘cheating sorcerer’. The prophet Teiresias, who had already dressed as one of Dionysus's followers gave Pentheus a warning: "The man you reject is a new god. He is Semele's child, whom Zeus rescued. He and Demeter, are the greatest upon earth for men.” Pentheus laughed at Teiresias, and ordered the guards to continue.

In this play, we are reminded that Dionysus is also the god of madness. One thing this play also reminds us is that he is a god and like all the other gods he cares little for the mortals and does whatever he wants to do to them no matter what happens to him. One way that he does this is by bringing out the unconscience desires that the Greeks would have feared. Tiresias, the seer, says “For you are sick, possessed by madness so perverse, no drug can cure, no madness can undo” (537-538).

Edgar Allan Poe an American based writer well-recognized, even still today as being one of the greatest authors. He wrote many stories and poems like; “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Raven”. Poe uses four key, story elements to create his theme of “The Fall of the House of Usher”. The theme infact is undoubtedly, dread. The first, of the four key elements is setting.

“Holding in anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” This is a commonly repeated quote, usually credited to Buddha, he addressed the fact that holding in anger does one no good. Anger results from one feel undervalued, unappreciated,

Shortly after escaping the Cicones, the men are presented with another temptation, but their folly blinds them to the consequences of trying to escape from their present worries. Odysseus’ shipmates, unable to resist the temptation, ate the lotus and as a result forget about their journey home where their loved ones and community are waiting for them. They are tempted by the idea that they could stay there forever and never return home. Much like drug users, the Lotus-eaters and anyone who shared in their activity forgot their troubles and earthly concerns for the time being. As the men “grazed on lotus” their “memory of the journey home dissolved forever” (Od.9.109-10). The real temptation was the ability to detach from the world and forget their worries. Ultimately, if they had stayed, not only would life become a

The story of Moses begins when a man from the Levi tribe married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant then gave birth to a healthy son. Afraid of him being murdered, she hid him for three months. When she was no longer able to hide him, she placed him into a tar covered basket and placed the basket along the bank of the Nile. The daughter of the Levite woman stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. The basket floated down the river and got stuck in some weeds. The daughter of the Pharaoh was bathing in the Nile and spotted the basket. She sent her female slave to retrieve the basket and the female slave did so. The Pharaoh 's daughter opened the basket and saw the crying baby, and