Chimera Sparknotes

The book, Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods, is narrated by Percy Jackson. The author, Rick Riordan, wrote the Greek myths from Percy Jackson’s point of view. The first two stories written in this book were about Perseus and Psyche. The first chapter/story is entitled, “Perseus Wants A Hug.” It is the story about a demigod named Perseus, son of Zeus and Danaë. Perseus’ grandfather, Acrisius, went to the Oracle of Apollo to find out why he doesn't have any sons. However, Apollo told Acrisius that there would come a day when Danaë’s son will kill him. The prophecy scared Acrisius, as a result, he locked Danaë in a bronze tower so that she would never marry or have a child. However, Zeus fell in love with Danaë and Perseus was born. Acrisius

Penelope fits the archetype as a vulnerable woman who needs to be rescued after her husband has left her and her only son, Telemachus, for years to go fight in the Trojan War. While Odysseus is journeying home, Penelope is left in Ithaca to deal with suitors pleading and fighting to be her husband. Penelope is left at home waiting for the day Odysseus will return and relieve her from the pain inflicted on by the suitors who destroy and take advantage of her palace. Penelope is the damsel in distress because Odysseus goes on a journey and as she waits at home “she has been breaking the hearts of the Akhaians,/ holding out hope to all, and sending promises/ to each man privately- but thinking otherwise” (page 21-22). Suitors who want to take her husbands position as king attack Penelope but she still believes he is alive so she needs to delay the picking of a new husband. Penelope tells her suitors they would have to wait until she wove a burial shroud for her father in law, Laertes. Each day she wove and then every night she un-picked her work. In this way, she delayed and tricked the suitors until Odysseus returns to save her. Penelope is helpless and in need of rescuing: “she had mounted to her rooms again/ with all her women, then she fell to weeping/ for Odysseus, her husband” (page

One day she comes to him in the garden to discuss the arrangement, she has grown bored of him and her suitor feels uncomfortable having him around. She has found exactly what she needs in this new man, not another slave, but rather a man willing to take the reins. Severin explains that he does not want to lose her and even that he would kill her than let another man marry her. She continues her role as his master and threatens to surrender her control over him to her husband to be. When Severin grabs her and threatens her with her dagger she switches around and starts saying that she loves him also and that this was all a jest. She says she wants to leave Italy and marry him. She asks him to take care of a few formal matters while she says goodbye to her friends in the city and that they will leave the next day. He goes to mail her letters while she packs and when he returns the servants tell me that she called for him. He goes to her room with some trepidation and sits at her feet. Then she reverts to her mistress self and calls to have him bound so she can whip him and elicit his love for her from him. He gets bound to a support in the room and she puts on her furs to get ready for his “punishment.” When he asks for the whip, she calls out and from behind a curtain emerges her young, greek courtesan, to dole out the whipping. The Greek whips him into fury, shame, and despair and then he and the Venus leave Severin all alone. Severin thinks of

In The Thousand and One Nights the audience is introduced to a pair of brothers who share a similar misfortune: unfaithful wives. While the younger brother, Shahzaman, handles the unfortunate situation at a more intimate level, the older brother, Shahrayar, takes his revenge to a grander scale. Becoming completely untrusting of women and even developing an intense hatred for them, Shahrayar forms a plan to marry a new woman in the town every day, sleep with them, and then kill them the next morning. His plan progresses at such a quick rate that the only girls left in the town are his vizier’s daughters. The older of the two, Shahrazad, who is established as being well-educated in a multitude of topics such as knowing “poetry by heart, had studied historical reports, and was acquainted with the sayings of men and the

Although it is the wife who is always looking for a husband in her personal life, in the Wife’s tale, it is the man who is forced to find what it is that all women desire. In the end he is obligated to marry, while the Wife is always excited to marry her next husband. The Wife wants the woman in the marriage to make the decisions and to have power, which is also seen in the old woman in her tale. In her tale, the old woman basically tricks the man into marrying her, and then into kissing her. This gives her control and she can then reveal her true self.

The third and final story is Creusa and Ion. In this story Creusa is a young child. She was gathering on a cliff when Apollo came, and picked her up and took her away. She then fell in love with Apollo and they had a son. Hamilton says, "when the time came for her child to be born, he showed her no sign and gave her no aid" (286). Inturn she had to give up the child. She then meet the child one day and he did not believe Creusa was his mom. Creusa meet her son in a church. He became a priest and she was at his practicing church. But through the this all Creusa never gave up and always loved her son Ion. Even though Ion didn't love her she still loved him. This shows the same idea as the other stories because Creusa could not make Ion lover her. It took his dad Apollo, Ions dad, to tell him that Creusa was his mom.

Adriana and her sister, Luciana are represented as contrasting figures towards marriage and ones role as a wife. Adriana and Luciana embody two extremes of opinions of marital duties. Adriana preaches the bonds that married couples inherently share, which she expresses through her dependence on Antipholus, ‘Then is he the ground / Of my defeatures’ (97-98). Luciana is ambivalent to Adriana’s apparent distress, criticising her ‘impatience’ (86), but Luciana can only preach the importance of submission of the wife and sexual liberation of the husband from the standing point of an unmarried, and inexperienced woman. By placing Adriana in contrast to her level headed sister, this aids the comical mockery of Adriana and her dramatic expression. Adriana embodies the controlling and undesirable result of marriage. She is also a contrasting figure in herself as she believes in the emotional bonds of marriage, but her marriage was an arranged one, she being a reward for Antipholus’ military service by the duke. Their marriage is more of a transaction – which follows more closely Luciana’s outlook on marriage. The two sisters are verbally and idealogically linked in this way, as Adriana’s rhyming couplets begin from Luciana’s line. They’re in tune with each other, but Adriana takes her line from her and begins her own monologue, as if interrupting her sister. Later in the play,

For this particular research paper, a question to be answered was: What role does myth plays in Song of Solomon? This particular question had posed the most important and significant part of the novel. Was really myth or the truth that had helped the novel to progress to in its ending? The answer for these questions will be answered as this paper moves on with its pages focusing on the myths and events that had transpired in the whole novel.

Both Oedipus and Antigone live through a struggle that tests them morally and which ultimately destroys them.

In Virgil’s The Aeneid, he tells the tale of Aeneus, “a man remarkable for goodness” (Book I, 16). From the beginning of the story, Virgil emphasizes the roles that the gods and goddesses play in the lives of everyday people. By focusing on Juno, the queen of the gods and goddess of marriage, and Venus, the goddess of love, Virgil gives reason to the “so many crises . . . so many trials” (Book I, 17) that Aeneus faces throughout his arduous journey.

Perseus was born into a problematic family and destined to live a chaotic life. His grandfather, Zeus, was determined to kill his own daughter to avoid his birth. But even after escaping this inequitable treatment, he experienced peculiar adjustments in his life. Nonetheless, Perseus was an unquestionable hero.

    The myth of Persephone starts when she is born to her mother Demeter who had her out of wedlock with the head god himself Zeus.As a child Persephone was  a mother’s dream always listening and obedient without thought.She enjoyed playing with her sisters Athena and Aphrodite Zeus’ other daughters.Innocence shined within Persephone which award

Lastly, education is the most impacting in our lives today. As for The Wife of Baths, she doesn’t have the opportunity to educate herself and learns what could be successful or benefit to her. “By God, if women had written stories, as clerks have within their studies, they would have written of men more wickedness’s” (“Chaucer: The Wife”). This is to show that women are not the same level as men. An educated child today becomes strong and independence of their own. Life brought her bad luck because she doesn’t have her youthful time to form herself as a woman; who is ready to have a family, who knows how to love and care about others. Nevertheless, The Wife of Bath’s have no goal as these days’ children. She was beaten by her fifth husband and still she mentions, “For blood symbolized gold, as I was taught” (“Chaucer: The Wife”). She wasn’t educated well, guided properly, and treated the way she should be. The Wife of Bath’s instructed herself through tough time and ended up being rich, yet

The king at last remembered Talia and went back to her house to see if the lovely lady was perhaps still asleep. Driven by lust, he told his wife he was going hunting. Once he entered Talia’s house, he saw the girl and the two toddlers and told her who he was and what had happened. As they continued speaking to one another, their friendship and love grew. When it was time for him to leave again, he promised her he would come back soon and knew he was madly in love. He dreamt of the girl and of his children often and called their names in his sleep. The queen was enraged by hearing him call out these strange names and became suspicious. She told the king’s secretary to look for Sun. Moon and Talia. If he would betray his king, he would get all the money he wanted, but if he didn’t, she would have him killed. The poor man decided that his life was more valuable than his loyalty and so he told the queen what the king had told him in confidence.

    The myth of Oedipus’s incest and parricide has been retold many different times. The basic story line has remained the same. Oedipus leaves Corinth to try to escape a fate of incest and parricide. After he leaving the city, he ends up saving Thebes from the Sphinx, becoming king of the city and in the process fulfilling the prophecy. The character of Oedipus changes in each play to help support a different meaning to the entire myth. Cocteau’s The Infernal Machine and Sophocles’s Oedipus the King are both centered on the myth, yet their themes are different. By changing Oedipus’s personality, motive, relationship with Jocasta, his mother and wife, and his character