Essays on Literary Genres

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The Age of Innocence: The Role of Conventions in Society

3 pages / 1452 words

Although Edith Wharton describes a society that had disappeared in order to make way for the progress of a later age, she both criticizes and lauds the unrecoverable culture that helped to define New York City in the 1870s. Throughout The Age of Innocence, she...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence

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King Arthur: Two Stories About One Tragedy

7 pages / 3033 words

As one of the most important figures of bravery, goodness and heroism in British legend, the idea that, as a tragic hero, Arthur Pendragon might have deserved his fate, is an uncomfortable one. However according to Aristotle’s Poetics, there can be no escaping the fact...

King Arthur Tragedy

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Analysis of Aeneas as a Worthy Fighter

6 pages / 2906 words

‘I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile’, begins Virgil, and it is on precisely the issue of this man of arms that critical debate in recent years has tended to centre. Scholars continue to disagree on whether or not...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Exploring The Theme of Impossible Love Throughout Virgil’s The Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses

3 pages / 1253 words

Throughout the ages, the theme of impossible love in literature has prevailed. Impossible love is an overall broad theme; generally speaking, it is a love that is forbidden, unrequired, or unable to flourish. Somewhere between 29 and 19 B.C. the legendary Roman author Virgil wrote...

Ancient Rome Metamorphosis Poetry

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Lavinia: The Only Ruler of Rome

4 pages / 1721 words

In Book IV of Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, the gods’ messenger Mercury advises the hero Aeneas that “An ever uncertain and inconstant thing is woman” (IV.768-7). As Aeneas makes his journey from the ruins of Troy to the potential glory of Latium, he discovers just...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Aeneas and Turnus: Their Roles in The Plot

4 pages / 1801 words

In The Aeneid, Virgil introduces the post-Homeric epic, an epic that immortalizes both a hero’s glory and the foundation of a people. The scope of the Aeneid can be paralleled to the scope of the Oresteia of Aeschylus, which explores the origins of a social...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Ovid and Virgil: Two Perspectives on The Same Relationship

3 pages / 1163 words

Mythological accounts constantly transform themselves in crossing cultures and enduring time, but two versions of the story of Dido and Aeneas, one by a shy, serious, government-sponsored poet; the other by an often lighthearted author, a future exile, show that even among contemporaries living in...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Potential of Beauty in The Age of Innocence

6 pages / 2766 words

It has been said that the true power of beauty is felt most deeply by those who have caught but a glimpse of its potential; those able to see its ethereal quality without demanding more. Perhaps, some have said, the fragility of aesthetic beauty can...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence

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Confronting The Public

8 pages / 3574 words

“It’s worth everything, isn’t it, to keep one’s intellectual liberty, not to enslave one’s powers of appreciation, one’s critical independence?” (164). Questioning the concepts of true freedom and liberty, the overall theme presented throughout Edith Wharton’s masterful novel, The Age of Innocence, is the abstraction...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence

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Edith Wharton’s Opposition of The Past and The Future in The Age of Innocence

7 pages / 3404 words

The past permeates the lives of New York Society as portrayed by Edith Wharton in The Age of Innocence. Society appears to be an inherently conservative institution with extreme attention to ritual and tradition, evidenced by our introduction at the beginning of the novel to...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence

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The Role of The Creative Process in The Aeneid

3 pages / 1343 words

How can art and warfare be reconciled? It would appear that art would have no place on the battlefield, where men are too concerned with survival and personal glory to indulge in aesthetic appreciation. The combination of art and Aeneas’ shield in the Aeneid however...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Stylistic Analysis of Aeneid: Repetition

3 pages / 1297 words

Repetition in the Aeneid 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 Ancient Rome was highly dependent on repetition; a repetition of Greek Architecture, repetition of the Olympian Gods,...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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Landscape Symbolism in The Aeneid

2 pages / 1111 words

Introduction Throughout The Aeneid, Virgil details the fated trajectory of Aeneas, who follows his preordained path from the ashy ruins of destroyed Troy to the high ramparts of incipient Rome. In the convoluted framework of the epic poem, these two cities appear as among the...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid

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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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Image Creation in Aeneid

2 pages / 1082 words

An important recurring image throughout Virgil’s Aeneid is that of the serpent, which appears both realistically and metaphorically. The serpent icon is a harbinger of death and a symbol of deception. These two elements represented by the snake are important to the whole epic, but...

Ancient Rome Poetry The Aeneid