Pyre

All technology starts with an idea. An idea developed from one who is willing to step away from the boundaries of modern-day life and explore the unknown. This idea is thought of by someone who is willing to wonder how life can be improved and see things from a perspective no others do. One must be willing to take risks, not only risks to their security, but explore and invent with the knowledge that they may be unsuccessful. In the dystopian novel Anthem, although it is set in the future, it remains

methods and under the guidance of Jagadish, an extremist freedom fighter, derails trains and plants crude bombs in government buildings. When Sriram returns to his house in Malgudi, where his grandmother is dying (and comes back to life on the funeral pyre in an extremely comic incident), the police arrest him and he is sent to jail. He remains in jail for a few months after India attains independence, and is then released, and walks out into a new, free India. On finding out that Bharati is in Delhi

Living in a world with no free thought would be bland as cardboard. But, if that cardboard illuminated with fire, would it have more meaning than it did before? The answer is yes. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the main character, Montag, finds much meaning behind the simple element of fire. The symbol of fire is used to represent how Montag changes himself and his ideas and thoughts about fire throughout the novel. At first, Montag views fire as destructive, but enjoys burning because

1. During Odysseus’ absence, his family faces conflicts regarding his wife’s suitors trying to take his fortune and his son, Telemachus, not being of age to inherit the wealth. 2. To tell the story of Odysseus, Homer asks one of the Muses of Olympus for help. 3. Home is where the heart is, is a theme in the epic demonstrated by the lack of temptation Odysseus feels towards Calypso, and his determination to get home to his wife and son through time and effort. 4. In the section, “I am Laertes son”

Part 3 8. Beatty had compared Montag to a mythical creature called Icarus. Icarus is a guy in Greek Mythology that got curious and flew too close to the sun with his wax wings, this caused his wings to melt and him falling straight to his death. Beatty had compared Montag to Icarus because both of the characters were curious. They were both curious and got too close to their objects of curiosity, which ultimately destroys them. They were both warned beforehand, and they both chose to ignore those

Krishna. A fifteenth-century princess of Rajasthan, Mirabai entered into an advantageous marriage at a young age (Fisher 82). When her husband died, her in-laws made their wishes clear that she was to sacrifice herself and throw herself onto his funeral pyre (Fisher and Bailey 82). Ignoring their wishes, Mirabai chose to forsake the luxuries of the palace life and become a wanderer, devoting her life to the deity Krishna (Fisher and Bailey 82). Mirabai’s life and devotional practices serve as a model

In the literary work of Beowulf, it is imperative to analyze the relationships between characters and how those relationships function to create new meaning or a better understanding of the literature as a whole. In Beowulf, it can be said that the characters of Beowulf and Wiglaf share parallels that serve to show Wiglaf as becoming the next king, and not only the successor of the throne, but a sign of hope for the doomed society of the Geats. These similarities can be recognized especially well

desecrates the body of Hector, and cruelly sacrifices twelve Trojan men at the funeral of Patroclus. "All that I promised you in time past I am accomplishing, that I would drag Hektor here and give him to the dogs to feed on raw, and before your burning pyre to behead twelve glorious children of the Trojans for my anger over your slaying," This demonstrates a heinous character that only a very sick person could relate to. When Priam comes to take back the body of Hektor, he feels forced to beg Achilleus

Allow me to preface this by stating that I’m horrible at introductions; it’s not a complete lie, but it does grasp the reader’s attention (albeit usually only because they want to see what monstrosity I ended up with) better than any introduction I can come up with at three in the morning. Onto the actually essay part, now; I found the two books to be amazing in the end, albeit the teen-romance-y stuff in “The Hunger Games” took some getting used to. If I had the time, I might read them again. In

History of Opium Opium is a narcotic drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy, Pa paver somniferum, a plant probably indigenous in the south of Europe and western Asia, but now so widely cultivated that its original habitat is uncertain. The medicinal properties of the juice have been recognized from a very early period. It was known to Theophrastus and appears in his time to have consisted of an extract of the whole plant, since Dioscorides, about A.D. 77, draws