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Piety and Truth: the Last Testimony of a Spouse at Loss A month after Socrates' death in Athens, many realized that what had become of the once-revered righteousness of democracy - that which had turned the minds of men to what seemed now like a sorrow. Many of Socrates' admirers and listeners privately objected to the result of his difficult case, and studied the recorded words of quite possibly his greatest speech and reasoning unto mankind. None, though, suffered a loss alike the ill and elderly spouse of Socrates, who contemplated his death with the high knowledge she acquired from her husband for her day and age. In rebellion, many unfo

Philosophy and Compromise: Two Utopian Sociopolitical Factors that Create Questions About Early Renaissance Values Sir Thomas More's Utopia is a whimsical approach to clarify the subtlety behind the modeling of a better society, told by the notions and encounters of Raphael Hythloday, a fictional character that acts as the author's device to assert the popular Renaissance concept of humanistic thought. In the company of Character More  and Peter Giles in Book I, Hythloday disagrees that as an intellectual and well-traveled man, he should offer himself as an advisor at a royal court, because either his thoughts would be discarded by the king

The Validity of Parker's Argument in "General Review of the Sex Situation" In Dorothy Parker's "General Review of the Sex Situation," the poet assesses a concept about a man's faith to a woman in a relationship. The poet does so by enhancing a male wrongdoing in three different metaphorical translations in order to strategically convince a reader to take on her point of view, perhaps to spit in the fire of gender issues and impose on the dominance of the males in relationships and society. To mask this exaggerated outcry for women, Parker cleverly synthesized a rhyme scheme for her poetry and briefly completes the poem to ensure that it appe

The Rape of Lucrece: Shakespeare’s Meditations in Francesco Petrarch’s Shadow William Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece is a historical and tragic poem that documents the excessive scheming and explicit rhetorical illustration of a timeless crime in Ancient Rome. Embedded with brazen and brutal themes, this poem transcends a literary frontier by adopting a style of its own. The text is also quite unlike any other Shakespearean work, in the sense that readers will detect a different and rather twisted approach into the poet’s manifestation of the protagonists’ crises and thoughts. The poem begins with disdainful boast

English value: the importance of Sidney's effect on the works of John Donne and William Shakespeare Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesie originates as a direct reply to Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse, a piece that discouraged the arts in its entirety, but more specifically, condemned the practices and production of literature as a focus. In an unwavering answer to this, Sidney tackled Gosson's deductions by evaluating his argument against poesy and (in response) shining light on those characteristics which Gosson condemned in The School of Abuse. In its entirety, Sidney's work became an archetype as the first form of literary criticis

What is varna? How was varna integrated into Vedic religious beliefs and practices? How does varna relate to caste in India today? Varna: its earliest fundamentals and relative adherence to today's Indian caste system Hinduism established its form of ritualistic morality and tradition through Vedic scriptures, the oldest literary remains of Indo-European religion as a whole. In the earliest of these scriptures, the Rg Veda, readers can identify the "somewhat unique" (Hawkins, 15) Aryan social order that was commonly adopted into Indian culture: varna. Respectively understanding the Vedic concept of varna may be tricky at first for those unf

Nicolo Machiavelli and Aristotle: two men that were hardly ever alike Nicolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Aristotle's Politics are (in essence) two very different texts. Although both works have been considered timeless for several generations, one should note that the first distinction lies in the era of production for The Prince and Politics. It is without a doubt that in between the period of Aristotle and Machiavelli's lives, a duplicated amount of world history and policy study existed and ensued, which therefore established evident reasons for differences between the texts. However, a reader of these two texts will notice that a differ

Ulysses in the Malebolge: a Roman Fixation of Hubris and Direction In Canto XXVI of Dante Aleghieri's Inferno, protagonists Dante and Virgil stride through the Malebolge of Hell until they catch sight of a sea of "flames that glittered in / the eighth abyss." (26.31-32) As Dante approaches the fire, Virgil explains how each sinner is punished by existing entirely in a flame of eternal condemnation and raze for achieving deceit in a physical life. Eager to discern an anomaly, Dante points out a "twinned" (26.52) flame that seems to have encapsulated two souls instead of one, and Virgil quickly distinguishes the damned pair as Ulysses and Diom

Temporal temperance: the worldly shift of ideals in Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio In Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, readers can detect a dissimilar stance of optimism in Purgatorio, the second installment of the poet's allegorical trilogy about spiritual destiny in an afterlife. In contrast to the poet's eternal measure for life after death in Hell or Heaven (demonstrated in Inferno and Paradiso), purgatory stands as a transitory region for sinners who are granted a second potential for salvation by God's will. Reflectively, Alighieri's representation of this spiritual stage can accordingly be regarded as a temporary conjunction between

The Ultimate Creator: Dante Alighieri's Transcending Scheme for Spiritual and Physical Measure The Gospel of Matthew asserts a prominent Christian virtue about vanity and earthly materialism in the New Testament. Within the sixth book of this hallowed doctrine, a reader will find that one must not "store up for … treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. / But store up for … treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. / For where [one's] treasure is, there [one's] heart will be also." (Matt.6:19-21) With intents to conserve spiritual morali