jmsailer

To answer this, we must look first at the definitions and relative positions of good and evil. God, as the Supreme Being, is what is known as the Ultimate or Highest Good and the source of all...

In the Poetics Aristotle describes the ideal tragedy as having a cathartic effect based on fear and pity. An interesting essay would illustrate how these emotions of fear and pity are evoked in the...

I have set these quotes under headings, but many of them could be put under more than one heading. Temptation: "Fools, they foiled / themselves: they ate the oxen of the Sun, / the herd of Helios...

Book 1 begins with the fate of Odysseus after the Trojan War: having angered the god of the sea, Poseidon, he is trapped on the goddess Calypso's island.  Poseidon being distracted, however, the...

Browning makes us understand that his remarks are biased first by the first person narrative which from the very beginning establishes the speaker as the reference point for all his remarks: "my...