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Apuleius' "The Golden Ass", 2007.
This paper discusses the themes of fate, fortune and wandering in Apuleius' "The Golden Ass: Books X and XI".
1,100 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 38.95
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This paper explains that the journey of the Golden Ass, the eponymous hero of Apuleius' "The Golden Ass", is an account of the trial, tribulations and triumphs of one individual, whose story stands for the voyage all people take from birth to death. The author points out that, as 'Book X' reveals, the Golden Ass is uniquely placed to both observe and experience what fortune holds in store for mortal men and women. The paper relates that the Golden Ass's journey in 'Books X and XI' is a fascinating account of what can happen to a rational being that makes full use of his or her intellectual powers and physical circumstances.
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"'Book X 'of Apuleius' "The Golden Ass" begins with a moralistic tale about a woman who breaks all the conventions of her society. Her desire for her stepson is thwarted by the stepson's faithfulness to the moral precepts of the time and place, and to his loyalty and devotion to his own father--his stepmother's husband. The stepson's life is also saved by the desire of others to preserve the worthwhile traditions of their world. The majority of the people would have rushed to judgment and executed the son without first having a trial and hearing all the evidence... ."
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"The Golden Ass", or "Metamorphoses" ( Apuleius ), 1999.
Analyzes concepts of justice & vengeance & their relationship to love & desire in the story of Cupid & Psyche.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 47.95
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" This study will analyze the concepts of justice and vengeance, and their relationship to love and desire, in the story of Cupid and Psyche in Apuleius' The Golden Ass, or Metamorphoses. The perspective of this study will be that the story as presented by Apuleius is designed to portray the evolution of the spirit. In that context, the story of Cupid and Psyche uses the forces and concepts of justice and vengeance, in opposition to love and desire, to develop the view that the purpose of life is, indeed, the advancement of the spirit or the soul.
This context allows the reader to see that vengeance is not a necessarily negative force, and justice can be a force which benefits even the one against whom that justice is levied. The point to keep in mind in understanding the story of Cupid and.."
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"The Golden Ass" by Apuleius, 1996.
Critiques 2nd Cent. A.D. bawdy, satirical odyssey of hero & worshipper of goddess Isis.
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"Apuleius was a North African Roman citizen of the second century A.D.; he was a pagan. He firmly believed that his worship of the goddess Isis was valid pursuit of the One True Faith. In his classic picaresque adventure, The Golden Tale of the Ass (aka The Golden Ass), Apuleius contrived to present a comic odyssey with a moral purpose designed to convince readers of Isis' value as a goddess deserving of devotion.
All odysseys lead to home eventually. In The Golden Ass, Apuleius designs a spiritual odyssey for his hero, the man-turned-ass Lucius; all of Lucius' beastly travails lead, eventually, to the homecoming of its hero into "the mindful love of the Goddess" (248): "O Lucius, what a happy and blessed man are you, whom the august deity has selected for such direct honours . . . the day that you have so constantly desired is..."
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"The Golden Ass", 2002.
An analysis of the gender roles In Apuleius' "The Golden Ass".
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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This paper will discuss the gender role of Psyche in Apuleius' "The Golden Ass" and determine the how she is identified in the story in this perspective. By analyzing the themes in the tale that reflect her sexuality and her relationship to Cupid, we can see how gender roles get confused at times in the search for love that Psyche sets out to find. In her gender construction her main elements reveal a much more complex blend of gender mixing than one would assume from normal gender stereotypes. The gender aspects of Psyche will be revealed in this study and ascertain how they are mixed throughout the tale.
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Religion in Literature, 2002.
A study of religion in the three literary works Chaucer?s "The Canterbury Tales", Apuleius? "The Golden Ass", and Boccaccio?s "The Decameron."
1,785 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper analyzes the religious themes in literary works of Chaucer?s "The Canterbury Tales", Apuleius? "The Golden Ass", and Boccaccio?s "The Decameron." It investigates how the authors illustrate that religion is an important component of daily life of their times. The paper uses of early literary works form the Classic age to the Middle Ages.
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"Religion is an important component of early literature, especially literature from the Greek and Roman periods and into the Middle Ages. It is a thread that combines many works of literature, not only because of the manner in which it is addressed, but also because of what the particular author of a work is saying about the dominant religion of his or her time within the context of the story being told. Three such works are Chaucer?s "The Canterbury Tales", Apuleius? "The Golden Ass", and Boccaccio?s "The Decameron."
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God in Mythology, 2002.
A look at the Gods as portrayed in "Odysseus", "The Golden Ass" and "The Voyage of Argos".
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This paper describes the role of the gods in three stories: "Odysseus", "The Golden Ass" and"Tthe Voyage of Argos".
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The Golden Ratio, 2006.
This paper explores the popularity of the the Golden Ratio in many areas.
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The paper explains that few mathematical figures have achieved the status that the Golden Ratio has throughout the historical past and well into the modern and post-modern era. The paper discusses how the Golden Ratio (GR) has also been termed the Golden Mean or the Divine Proportion because of its seemingly endless recurrence in nature as well as its perpetual application not only by mathematicians but by artists and architects alike, as well as others (Clawson b. 33). The paper explains that artists and architects seem to enjoy the predictability of the GR as well as its symmetry.
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"The GR has been attributed to the Greeks whose quest for knowledge, 0x01 graphic as employed by the Greeks as being representative of the GR in many respects where, "Golden Means. F = AB/BC = CH/BC = IC/HI = 2DE/EF = EG/2DE" (Clawson a. 121). In this respect the GR has also been related to other unique and fascinating mathematical principles."
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"The Golden Notebook", 2002.
An analysis of Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook".
1,715 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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?The Golden Notebook? provides a detached critique of Anna?s attitudes about writer?s block as expressed in ?Free Women.? Offering self-conscious critical detachment, ?The Golden Notebook? shows Anna?s ability to create lies within herself, independent of any external factors. This paper shows how this realization of her complete freedom to write produces Anna?s sense of responsibility to create ?Free Women?, in which she can ironically treat her prior belief system. Therefore, through her ?unremitting self-consciousness?, Anna reveals her ?complete freedom,? and finds the ability to generate writing.
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"According to Friedrich Schlegel, ?irony?stems from the artist?s critical self-detachment and unremitting self-consciousness; it denotes his complete freedom?and becomes manifest in the liberty with which he creates, decreates, and re-creates.? (Furst, 26) In Doris Lessing?s The Golden Notebook irony manifests itself in a similar manner as a means to sincerely meditate on the writing process. ?Free Women,? apparently the primary narrative, appears to be authentic articulation of the impossibility of producing a genuine text when words retain no transcendent meaning. The philosophy in ?Free Women? progresses toward a ?decreat[ion]? of literature reflected in Anna?s total disavowal of fiction writing. At the same time however, this progression leads to ?The Golden Notebook? which in turn subverts ?Free Women,? embracing writing in all its limitations and allowing for ?re-creation.? The recreation necessitates that ?Free Women? be reread with the added consciousness of ?The Golden Notebook,? revealing it as an ironic testament regarding the frustration of language. The enhanced reading of ?Free Women? indicates that only through an ironic understanding of language can the writer obtain a ?complete freedom? given the fact of perpetual productivity."
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Golden Mean in Art and Architecture, 2005.
This paper discusses Greek culture and beliefs and looks at the Golden Mean in art and architecture.
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This paper briefly looks at Greek art and architecture to determine the relationship between them and broad cultural and/or philosophical currents animating Greek society and culture. Specifically, this paper examines the relationship of the Greek concept of the "golden mean" to art and architecture in the classical world and suggests that there are interesting manifestations of the Golden Mean in Greek art and architecture.
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"The culture and beliefs of the ancient Greeks clearly manifested themselves in the artwork they produced. This paper examines the relationship of the "Golden Mean" to the art and architecture of the Greeks. What should become apparent is that the "Golden Mean" - which in the world of art meant an emphasis upon harmony, balance, symmetry and austere beauty - was an animating factor in the vase work and architecture of the Greeks. This paper examines the above-mentioned relationship by looking first at examples of the "Golden Mean" in Greek pottery. From there, the paper examines the presence of the "Golden Mean" in Greek architecture. Specifically, because of its pre-eminent place in the architecture of the ancient world, special attention is devoted to the design of the Parthenon."
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"The Golden Compass" and "The Wind in the Willows", 2008.
A comparison of the characters' relationship to community and friendship in Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" and Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass."
2,154 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper compares friendship and community within Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" and Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass." It argues that in "The Wind in the Willows," friendship creates community, which in turn overcomes conflicts, while in "The Golden Compass," the characters are far more selfish and tend to sustain themselves only.
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"Thus we see that in the fantasy world of The Golden Compass, the protagonist, Lyra, has no community, no true friends. All she has is her daemon - which appears to be little more than a very animate extension of herself. She is thus dependent upon her own resources to rescue herself from problems and conflicts - something she does remarkably well. On the other hand, the principal characters in The Wind in the Willows, Rat, Mole, Badger and Toad, all exist together in a community of mutually supportive friends. They have some individual autonomy, but when it comes down to it, there are rules that must be followed, and that are enforced. However, in return for this, the members of the community gain the security of an utterly reliable community of friends to help them out when need be."
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"The Man with the Golden Arm", 2005.
Examines the crime genre and the social/cultural impact of "The Man with the Golden Arm" by Otto Preminger.
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This paper brings forth the elements of pre and post-production, which was an important aspect of "The Man with the Golden Arm" in the 1950s. By understanding the basis of the film in relation to drug addiction, it is clear that Preminger offers an insightful and modern interpretation of drug use in the post World War II period. The paper shows that the histrionics of drug use in relation to war veterans brought about a conscious attempt to humanize and understand drug addiction, as well as the characterizations of drug abusers in the film.
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"This film study will examine the nature of the crime genre as depicted in the Transition Era of filmmaking in regards to the film The Man with the Golden Arm. Through this aspect of Hollywood filmmaking, one can realize the aspects of innovation that create a movie based on deviant acts through the drug induced behaviors of its central characters. By exploring this genre of filmmaking that gave license to the horrors of drug addiction in the 50s, one can realize the impact on culture and society this film created. Through the auteur sensibilities of shooting this film through moving cameras and stark scene depictions of drug related crime, the crime genre was taking stylistics and techniques of film noir into a new formatting for film."
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"On Golden Pond", 2002.
An analysis of the theme of feminism in the film "On Golden Pond".
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This paper will discuss the film "On Golden Pond", and seek to understand how the movie reflects the idea of feminism in the early nineteen eighties. By making this connection, we can how the history of this time period tells us the story of how women 'connect' with their identity in the film. By realizing this, the ideas of feminine thought can be more clearly brought to attention in this scope.
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The Golden Gate, 2005.
This paper examines the novel 'The Golden Gate', by Vikram Seth, that is written entirely in verse.
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This paper is a short analysis of the novel in verse 'The Golden Gate' by Vikram Seth, Indian-born author, educated in the UK and the US. The paper looks at the form of the novel, focusing on the iambic tetrameter sonnet, in which the entire novel is written. The paper also discusses the readability of the novel and how the poetic form does not interfere with the hip modern content.
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"What one first notices about 'The Golden Gate', by Vikram Seth is the remarkable fact that it is a novel written entirely in verse, like some kind of modern day Homeric Hymn. The second thing one notices is that it's no obscure Greek tale of ships and battles, but an amusing story of four modern, urban, young and upwardly mobile professionals in the early 1980s. Seth's novel blends the esoteric skill of a lyrical poet with the hip awareness of modern American life into a work that is enjoyable to both the literary scholar and the average reader. Calcutta-born Vikram Seth is one of three children from a wealthy Indian family. His family sent him to the best schools, where he was more scholarly than social, but his hard work paid off."
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"The Golden Meane", 2002.
Examines the role of stoic consolation in the "The Golden Meane" by John Ford.
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This paper examines John Ford's "The Golden Meane" and assesses its place in the canon of renaissance stoicism. The author discusses the role of stoic consolation in the work, and compares Ford's position to contemporaries such as Bacon and Donne.
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"The Golden Compass", 2004.
A examination of the concept of daemons in the book, "The Golden Compass", by Phillip Pullman.
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This paper reviews "The Golden Compass" by Phillip Pullman and, in particular, looks at how daemons are the most interesting personification of spirits and how they create a powerful image and striking experience for the readers. It examines how the daemons, or the spirits, go through the transition in a similar manner as the human soul, from the complicated emotional state to a more mature state. It also examines how, through this representation, Pullman mirrors the very important element of human life: how the inner souls are perceived in reality and how the mechanics of daemons works. Daemons or spirits can be bad and good, and that is representative of the inner personality of the individual, which can care, love, deceive, torture, and betray.
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"The Golden Compass is the first book of the trilogy that Phillip Pullman wrote. This book, like many other fantasy books of J. K. Rowling?s Harry Potter series, earned many controversies with respect to Pullman?s treatment of good and bad, evil and spiritual. In the series, Pullman exhibits his atheism in the character portrayal and he does so by justifying and arguing that many books and literature that are written for children are from the point of perspective of Christian believes and is in a way directed and assertive for children in the following of the good or bad in their lives. However, with his Dark Materials, Pullman argues that things are not that simple as many Christians could like to believe and would like to see in the books that their children need or ought to read. In fact, Pullman goes as far as saying that children should experience and build up their own sense of good or bad and they should not be protected by the religious outcomes of the faiths and beliefs."
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