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The paper explores how mythology of the ancient Greeks expressed their views of themselves and of the world around them on a number of levels. The paper explains that mythology served as a quasi-historical background to each separate city-state and reinforced their sense of pride and of identity. The paper adds that it also expressed the national character and imparted heroic qualities to their perseverance, courage and enterprise. The paper describes how mythology offered opportunities for them to further their love of beauty and their desire for philosophical inquiry.

From the Paper
"In exploring the myths of the Greek civilization, one can apprehend the interconnectedness of the Greek character and culture with their stories of the fabulous past. On one level, myths attempt to preserve the history of a people, and tend to reflect historical events, albeit in a rather stylized and fictionalized format. On another level, myths express the views and self-image of a people, by personifying elements of the national character at a heroic level. On yet another level, myths offer a divine explanation for natural, but puzzling, occurrences, as a particular nation chooses to understand them. The early Greeks were composed of small, family-centered tribes living in hamlets. Pirates from land and especially from sea were a constant danger."

Tags:greek, culture, mythology

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The paper discusses how literary modernism, at the beginning of the twentieth century, is considered to have emerged as a radical break with tradition in the field of both artistic production and criticism. The paper examines how the break with tradition presupposed, among other things, the novelty of ideas and technique, new artistic means of creation and a new perspective on authorship. The paper examines the poem "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock", concluding that the main theme of the poem is the discrepancy between modernism and the primitive, between daily life and the dream world, all these being dualities, not oppositions, and being at the very core of artistic creation, as part of human experience as such.

From the Paper
"The modern artist's search for novelty is thus not a break with tradition in itself, there are no new emotions to be found, only new means of expression, new rhetorical devices, and especially the inclusion of common or " low " things, next to the "high" ones, to the extent that all kinds of experience can be considered literary experience. These features just mentioned are also among the most striking particularities of Eliot's poetry."

Tags:rhetorical, mythological, paternal, citation, self-sacrifice

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This paper contends that, within almost every literary genre, there are myths about love that fuel ideals that are rarely, if ever, realized. There is no place where this is more true than in the stories of mythology. The perpetual love myths that exist in classical mythology demonstrate ideals confronted even today by individuals searching for love. The ideals of love explored in this paper include love at first sight, the myth of 'one true love,' and the human phenomenon of overly idealizing unobtainable love.

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"Of course, in today's secular world most rational people would discredit a flying boy and his arrows because it's just not possible, but they find other ways to believe in the existence of the power he was said to possess. Instead we choose to interpret Cupid's powers as acts of fate. Another description of love at first sight is "the blissful melting of souls that would somehow make their existence meaningful" (White 45). The relationships that are results of the acts of fate that create the ideals of love at first sight follow that, the idea of a love connection, when its destined happens instantaneously. There are countless modern examples of the perpetuation of the phenomena of love at first sight, movies, books even television programs that feed this idea. The myths of love at first sight often leave normal every day people with feelings of having been left behind or forgotten by fate, possibly feeling as if they don't deserve to have "That sort of love". Furthermore, considering Cupids' roe in this love myth, to be literally struck by an arrow is painful, but being struck by Cupid's love arrow does not hurt, after all it is the legendary reason for love a first sight."

Tags:cupid, attraction, relationships

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This paper explains that T.S. Eliot is one of the defining voices of modern poetry; his works, such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (Prufrock), incorporate and explore almost all of the qualities which define modernity. The author explains that, through his technique of expressing emotions through an "objective correlative", Eliot uses Prufrock's thoughts to describe a breakdown of the social order and the fragmentation of experience so prevalent in modernist literature. The paper relates that the most striking modernist trend in this poem is Eliot's use of multiple allusions from a variety of sources, such as literature, history, mythology, science, the arts and his own work.

From the Paper
"These internal allusions continue in the final portion of the poem. When Prufrock in line 122 asks, "Shall I part my hair behind?" he alludes to the many references in the body of the poem to his thinning, graying hair-thereby alluding to his own impending mortality and again bringing to mind the earlier image of a "patient etherized on a table." When in line 127 Prufrock introduces the image of the mermaids "Combing the white hair of the waves blown back," he again alludes to his earlier references to his hair. The next line's mention of "black water" reinforces the linkage between Prufrock's hair and his mortality."

Tags:antihero, disillusion, modernist, mortality, anesthesia

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In this article, the writer argues that because of its large numbers and popularity, Christianity is a religion in which one finds it easy to drift away from the central beliefs that Jesus taught. Living one's life as a Christian was not supposed to be all sweetness and light. The writer discusses that the harsh truth is that in an age where wealth is a goal and anything is acceptable on TV and in the streets, it is difficult to maintain one's true Christian beliefs. The writer looks at how Jesus became the huge religious phenomenon that he has become. The writer maintains that living one's occupational life inside the Church is easier if one looks at Jesus' willingness to sacrifice home and family for his ministry of teaching. The writer concludes that Jesus did not see himself as a God, but pointed to the loving nature of his Heavenly Father and the comfort of the Holy Spirit which God has endowed us with, while he himself lived a modest, humble life.

From the Paper
"Christianity is built around the teaching of one named Jesus, who His followers believed was the Christ, or the Messiah. Christianity is the belief that God is working among humans on earth and in the ultimate sacrificial act, sent down his only son, Jesus, to become a human being to walk among mortal beings on the earth. This is the myth that surrounds Jesus, and the unbelievable belief that has become the heart of the faith of those who follow Jesus' teachings. It is, indeed, Jesus' teachings which have stunned the world into looking at this Jewish Rabbi, born between 6 BC and 30 AD in an obscure village in Palestine, as divine. Jesus was born poor and remained poor his entire life by choice, yet he has become the most well-known man on earth today."

Tags:minister, pastor, teachings, God

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This paper discusses how, often, in traditional societies, the mythology comes to reflect the culture and works to establish certain social conventions. It examines how the attempt to raise awareness of injustice through the reinterpretation of mythology is shown in Deepa Mehta's film. "Fire", in which Mehta attempts to parallel her alternative storyline to traditional Hindu myths in order to demonstrate the purity of the love between the two, female, main characters in a male-dominant society that will not accept their love. It shows how Mehta uses the traditional Hindu myths that are embedded in Indian culture to teach the societal values that she believes to be true, even if these ideals are not the traditionally accepted values of modern culture.

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"In the film, the protagonist Radha is the barren wife of Ashok, who because of his wife's inability to have children, practices celibacy in training to become a swami. Radha represents the "traditional" Indian woman, duty bound and disregarding of her individuality in favor of attending to the needs of the family. She runs the family take-out business and is also the primary caregiver to Ashok's mother, Bhiji, who is mute and paralyzed from a stroke. The other protagonist, Sita is the newest member of the household, as the wife through an arranged marriage to Jatin, Ashok's younger brother. Sita quickly becomes dissatisfied with Jatin, as it becomes apparent that he is still in love with his Chinese-Indian girlfriend and that he will not give up the affair."

Tags:homosexuality, india, radha, love, hindu, culture

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This paper explains that myths are fictional narratives or stories dating back to the remotest historical periods and thus are intimately connected with the roots of modern civilization. The author points out that the most logical explanation for the existence of myths is probably the fact that they function as a way of interpreting the world we live in. The paper presents the myths about Narcissus, Echo, the ants and the Myrmidons, Gilgamesh and Icarus.

From the Paper
"The myth of Narcissus contains two such transformations: that of the nymph Echo and that of Narcissus. The story of the beautiful man who falls in love with his own reflected image has been overly interpreted and rehashed into works of art, but its meanings cannot be exhausted. As it is well known, the myth of Narcissus is the myth of self-love. The allegorical story expounds on Narcissus' tragic fate of being in love with his own image. It is obvious that the myth revolves around this archetypal self-love."

Tags:psychological, roots, self-love, limitations, mortality

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This paper begins by discussing Aphrodite, the goddess of love. It also deals with the history behind the goddess and her purpose and importance in Greek life. It then focuses on Zeus and discusses the god?s history and worship, respectively. It then follows the same pattern for Apollo and, finally, discusses Poseidon.

From the Paper
"There is some disagreement about the origins of Aphrodite. The poet Hesiod for example holds that she was formed from sea-foam, while Homer has a more conventional view of Zeus and Dione as the godess's parents (Barthell 31). She was chosen by Paris, the Trojan prince as the most beautiful over Hera and Athena. It appears that she bribed him into saying this by offering the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. At the time, Helen of Troy - originally Helen of Sparta - held this position, and as promised by Aphrodite, offered her love to Paris. The two eloped, after which Helen of Sparta became Helen of Troy. The consequence was the Trojan War, where Aphrodite remained loyal to Paris (Barthell 33)."

Tags:troy, helen, sparta, worship

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This paper discusses the mythological Goddess, Isis, and her maternal influence on art. The paper looks at how she became an Egyptian icon, idolized in art because she represented the feminine aspects of life: creation, rebirth, ascension, intuition, wifely fidelity, healing, magic, love and compassion. According to the paper, Isis possessed great skill in magic, loyalty to her husband, womanly power and maternal protection, all represented in artifacts.

From the Paper
"The Egyptian culture had an amazing ability to preserve their past because their civilization focused on a strong religion-based mythology. This mythological faith was prominently observed in relics of art. The prevailing mythological Goddess Isis was among the most important illuminating and inspiring Goddess displayed in Egyptian art. Her influence in mythological tales caused her to be an Egyptian icon because she represented the feminine aspects of life; creation, rebirth, ascension, intuition, wifely fidelity..."

Tags:Isis, Egyptian Art, Mythology

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This paper looks at the Greek Goddess, Aphrodite, the mythology of her birth and how she has interfered in the lives of man and woman throughout key mythological events such as the Trojan War and the journey of Odysseus to Ithaca from the battlefields of Troy. The author uses such texts as Hesiod's "Theogony," and Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey."

From the Paper
"Aphrodite is known by many followers of Greek Mythology as the Goddess of Love, desire and beauty, amongst her normal immortal gifts Aphrodite also has a magical girdle, which compels those whom she desires to desire her. Aphrodite has been given many names as the Goddess of Love the most famous being Venus, even within the mythos of the tales from Homer she is given this name as a substitute to Aphrodite, in some ways Homer and the Greek bards give the names of Gods and Goddess both Roman and Greek names as if they are writing for a classical Greco-Roman audience instead of a pure Greek one."

Tags:greek, mythology, goddess, love, birth, desire, iliad, homer, odyssey, odysseus, war, troy, trojan, venus, eros, helen, paris, alexandros, diomedes, ares, marriage, hesoid