Essays on Literary Genres

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Analysis of The Selected Pessage from Virgil's The Aeneid

3 pages / 1463 words

This passage from Vergil's Aeneid comes from Aeneas' tale to Dido, as the Trojan leader describes his city and comrades on the night when Sinon released the Greeks from the Trojan Horse and opened the gate for the Greek armies on the beach. Aeneas did...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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One Word for All Female Emotions in Aeneid

4 pages / 1619 words

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” This popular saying, paraphrased from William Congreve’s The Mourning Bride, was written nearly 1600 years after Vergil’s Aeneid. Even so, the quote speaks to the Aeneid’s exploration of the relationship between female characters and the emotion of...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Analysis of Women in Aeneid

5 pages / 2070 words

Virgil’s Aeneid details the trials and tribulations of Aeneas and the Trojan people en route to Italy from Troy. The journey parallels the epic adventures of the Homeric hero Odysseus. Virgil borrows Homer’s narrative style and frames a story that pays homage to the founding...

Poetry The Aeneid Woman

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I Stood There Alone Or The Fall of Troy

3 pages / 1229 words

In lines 2.730-2.742 of Virgil’s Aeneid Aeneas is describing the terror that hefelt when he finally realized that Troy was falling to the Greeks. In these ten linesVirgil uses careful diction to create an image of a solitary Aeneas pausing for a briefmoment to observe...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Boccaccio's Interpretation of Dido in The Famous Women

2 pages / 903 words

In 1362, Renaissance scholar Giovanni Boccaccio wrote Famous Women, in which he analyzed female characters from Classical texts. Other Italian scholars at the time devoted their efforts to studying male heroes and gods, but Boccaccio brought attention to these women who oftentimes existed solely to...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Surrey’s Innovations and Achievements in His Aeneid

10 pages / 4386 words

Elizabeth Smith Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay Professor Colin Dickey Eng 640 22 October, 2006 Surrey’s Innovations and Achievements in His Aeneid Henry Howard, Earl of...

Poetry The Aeneid

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Contrasting Virgil’s Aeneid and Early History of Rome by Livy

5 pages / 2103 words

Virgil and Livy were the authors of two substantially different works; one a propagandist epic in the style of Homer, the other an informed account of Rome’s history. This said, it is interesting to note Virgil’s inclusion of short historical narratives within the fictional tale,...

Ancient Rome The Aeneid Tragedy

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All a Woman Needs is to Be Beautiful: Analysis of Aeneid

4 pages / 1694 words

Admirable qualities of men in Virgil’s The Aeneid include bravery, honor, and courage, but a woman’s value is based less on their power, wit and brains and more on their beauty, or lack of beauty. There are many instances within The Aeneid where both male...

Poetry The Aeneid Woman

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Stylistic and Genre Features of The Adventure of The Speckled Band

3 pages / 1483 words

The genre of the detective story is one of the most remarkable categories of short fiction. The Sherlock Holmes stories are genuine masterpieces created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the usage of the detective stories elements has contributed to their popularity. In “The Adventure...

Band Short Story The Adventure of The Speckled Band

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Emotions of Anger in Aeneid

5 pages / 2084 words

The idea of piety in Ancient Rome is not the same idea of piety that we have today. To the Romans, piety, or “pietas” in Latin, describes a set of social constructs that governs what makes a respectable person. Piety encompasses one’s devotion to the...

Ancient Rome The Aeneid Tragedy

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The Last Scene of The Aeneid: Analysis

2 pages / 1071 words

Virgil borrows many stories and themes from the Homeric epics and revises them for the Roman tradition in the Aeneid. Aeneas’ journey in search of the Latium shores parallels Odysseus’ journey to Ithaca, except the latter knows what home he is going to. The war...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Separating The Fiction from Reality in Aeneid

6 pages / 2512 words

Virgil’s Aeneid is one of the seminal works of the antiquity which offers us a lens into the life and art of ancient Romans in the era of 1 BC – the year the epic was written. A reading of the epic shows that Virgil’s...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Saul Bellow: The Analysis of Main Drives in His Early Works

8 pages / 3489 words

Fundamental human similarities in motivation are at the core of the works of novelist Saul Bellow. Bellow was a Chicago born Jewish author, and as such his protagonists are often of a similar demographic, young Jewish men in Chicago. Despite Bellow’s uniformity of protagonists, his...

Novel

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Tennyson’s ‘in Memoriam’ and Thackeray’s ‘going to See a Man Hanged’: Breaking Down The Role of Writing

4 pages / 1822 words

Winston Churchill said that ‘the truth is incontrovertible’. This statement construes ‘truth’ as an absolute concept, where there is only one truth, and anything else is by definition a non-truth. Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Thackeray’s ‘Going to see a Man Hanged’ are certainly diverse in...

Poetry

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Analysis of Tess of The D'urbervilles as an Ancient Greek Tragedy

2 pages / 801 words

Indubitably, Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ is largely reminiscent of the archetypal Grecian tragedy; evoking an overwhelming sense of pity/catharsis for the female protagonist. However, the constituents of said ‘tragedy’; though in essence prevalent throughout, are discordant throughout the majority of Hardy’s novel. It...

Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy Tragedy

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The Critical Role of Paganism in ‘tess of The D'urbervilles’

3 pages / 1366 words

Upon reading Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one may notice that references to pagan goddesses and ancient religions of the past are strewn throughout the book. These allusions range from the affectionate names of endearment by which Angel Clare refers to Tess, such as...

Novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy

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Nature and Religion in Alfred Lord Tennyson's in Memoriam

3 pages / 1404 words

Although it is commonly understood that God created the natural world, Nature is often depicted as a force working in opposition to God and His creation. In lyric 56 of the poem In Memoriam by Lord Alfred Tennyson, Nature seems to have conquered God, leading...

Poetry

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Analysis of Poetic Techniques in "The Lotos-eaters"

2 pages / 1009 words

In the opening line of Alfred Tennyson’s “The Lotos-Eaters,” Odysseus issues the rallying call of “Courage!” to his men as they head forward in their trajectory towards a strange and unnamed “land.” For these weary wanderers, this place is clearly another inevitable detour and not...

Poetry

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Describing The Speaker's Indignation in "Maud"

2 pages / 870 words

Tennyson’s reclusive speaker is shown to condemn the actions of both people and society as a whole within ‘Maud’; many of the speaker’s social criticisms are shown to be valid social critiques of the Victorian age, in contrast to his sometimes erratic and distorted cognitive...

Poetry