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can identify Paris as a representative of this type of masculinity because of his traditionally female characteristics. For example, his actions are motivated by emo- tions and he acts cowardly in battle. 8 Robert W. Connell, “Arms and the Men: Using the New Research on Masculinity to Understand
later be con- ceived as a box – also took on a life of their own and found their place in ever new cultural contexts. Having been drawn out from the “plot” (in the Aristotelian sense of μῦθος), these elements formed separate strands of reception that at times interfered with each other and at other
tragic hero because the very success that is his meaning is his undoing”. 40 By asserting himself as an individual above the crowd, by living the American dream if you will, Scarface inevitably creates the enemies that will destroy him. As in Aristotle’s view, the very aspiration for a good outcome is
tragic hero because the very success that is his meaning is his undoing”. 40 By asserting himself as an individual above the crowd, by living the American dream if you will, Scarface inevitably creates the enemies that will destroy him. As in Aristotle’s view, the very aspiration for a good outcome is
is, of a rhetorically and literarily productive comparison between different modes of life starting from its compositional framework: work at sea and work on dry land, vs. the city cosmos, inhabited by parasites and courtesans. The social universe represented in the epistolographic collection
, “When he deals with ordinary matters of life, he almost always shows good sense, and often acuteness. His moral essays constantly remind us of our friend Miss Edgeworth. A pleasant and healthy tone pervades them”. 27 In his essay, “Books”, Emerson observes: Plutarch’s “Morals” is less known, and
from Helios (1–89). In the central part (90–304) she visits Eleusis, where she eventually orders the people to build her a temple. In the final part, she creates a famine, which deprives the gods of sacrifices, and so brings about the return of her daughter, followed by the restoration of life to the
endeavour would be like a living death.16 Separate from all the distractions of public life, a man could fol- low the Stoic philosopher in learning much from reading improving works and writing texts of great value to humanity. By the same token, he could emulate Virgil in presenting the countryside as
two of them—the most important series written for children. The first one is the aforementioned series about Alisa Seleznyova called “Alisa” [Alice] or “Priklyucheniya Alisy” [The adventures of Alice].14 The second about the life of a little girl in the twenty-first century written by her father
to give up immortality, the hero makes the challenge of death possible, which is tied to living a meaningful human life. The Voyage-of-the-Argo narrative serves symbolically as a katabasis , a journey to/through a virtual Underworld which contains powers of inversion and chaos, as well as secrets of