A comparison of the influential role of the chorus in Sophocles’ Antigone and Euripides’ Medea It has been said by Napoleon Hill‚ “Think twice before you speak‚ because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another”. This has been put to use in the plays Antigone by Sophocles and Medea by Euripides. The chorus which was an integral part of ancient Greek drama was used in the dramas to play an influential role. However‚ the group they mainly influenced
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Saint Lucy was a local saint of Syracuse‚ who had been denounced as a Christian by her former suitor and had died in 304 from the tortures inflicted by local pagan authorities. Caravaggio may have worked in haste to produce a picture before the feast of Saint Lucy on 13 December. Originally‚ Saint Lucy’s head was severed from her body but later Caravaggio joined it and left just a slit in the front of her neck - perhaps recalling Saint Cecilia‚ whose still-intact body with a gash in the nape of the
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creating disorder. Our perception of our relationship with nature‚ however‚ is something that has shifted over the years—especially from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. This can clearly be seen in a comparison between Poussin’s Burial of Phocion and Turner’s The Slave Ship. Despite both having the same subject of death and injustice‚ differences in formal qualities reveal a shift from thinking man dominates nature to nature dominates man‚ which makes sense given the contexts surrounding
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Love is one of many themes in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. This novel is a perfect example that everybody needs love in their life. Love can be expressed in the most indirect‚ but effective ways. Lily and Snow Flower became friends very quickly. They share each other’s stories and communicate on a fan that will forever be a symbol of their friendship. When Lily and Snow Flower were finally allowed to see one another‚ you would never catch them apart and were always by each other’s side.
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Set against the austere Icelandic terrain‚ Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites delves into the life of a condemned woman‚ Agnes Magnusdottir and explores how the people who live and work with Agnes transition from feeling antipathy to sympathise with her and her plight. Structurally the text marks this transition and the six months of her stay at the Kornsa farm also allows Kent to frame the transition metaphorically through the changing seasons. Moreover‚ By granting Agnes the ability to voice her view –
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strong one who never shows any emotion‚ which is usually the male. Then there is what people call the drama queen‚ who often lets her emotions control her entire life; more than likely this describes the woman in the relationship. In this poem‚ "Home Burial"‚ Amy and her husband fit these gender roles perfectly. They argue about the way grief should be express and fail to see it from the other’s point of view. We learn that Amy’s sorrow began from the moment that she saw her husband "making the gravel
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Burial Rituals of Native American Culture At some point in our lives‚ we all come to realize that death is a part of life. Cultural diversity provides a wide variety of lifestyles and traditions for each of the unique groups of people in our world. Within these different cultures‚ the rituals associated with death and burial can also be uniquely diverse. Many consider ritualistic traditions that differ from their own to be somewhat strange and often perceive them as unnatural. A prime example
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In Ancient Egypt‚ masks were an extremely important aspect of the burials and spiritual rituals in the transition from life to death. These elaborate masks‚ usually made of gold and inlaid with precious stones‚ were believed to not only provide the dead with a face in the afterlife and protect the “Ka” or spirit‚ but it was it also believed that it enabled the spirit to recognize the body. They often contained inscriptions‚ and many of these masks included written spells that were meant to protect
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writers who used elements such as these in his writings. Poe was famous for reflecting the dark aspects of his mind in a story‚ creating detailed imagery intriguing the reader. The fantastic and supernatural elements are expressed in The Premature Burial as impossible and in a sense‚ horrifying. The idea of people walking after their believed death is very extreme thinking in a world that seems normal. The writing style of Edgar Allan Poe shows the writer to be of a dark nature. In this story‚ he
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Mount Vesuvius What? – Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano located near the bay of Naples in Italy (at the convergent boundary where the African Plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian Plate)‚ and it is mostly known for its eruption year 79 A.D. that buried the city Pompeii under a thick layer of volcanic ash. Although the destruction of the Roman cities Pompeii and Herculaneum is mostly mentioned when talking about the eruption‚ Mount Vesuvius also affected other cities such as Oplontis‚
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