The Gendered Divide Between Goddesses and Mortal Men: Immortals as Servants in Odyssey
Throughout Homer’s Odyssey, a social hierarchy is present between the immortals and the mortals. The gods’ power and dominance is...
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Beatrice as God: Where Divine Love and Mortal Lust Collide in Dante’s Inferno
In Christian thought, the highest form of love, referred to as agape in the Bible, is the divine love God has towards humans and,...
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Margaret Atwood's Feminist Revisionist Mythology
Greco-Roman mythology, with stories developed around heroic gods or demigods, is full of male dominance. Within these texts are gods...
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Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on Diary of the Seducer
In this essay I will be primarily looking into Schopenhauer’s views on pessimism, explaining the impossibility of fulfillment (i.e., a...
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Kierkegaard on Love
The human understanding of romantic love has two prominent necessities. We expect love to be a spontaneous infatuation and a never-ending...
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Sartre On Anguish
Sartre claims that fear is borne of our uncertainty about being able/unable to carry out our choices and defines anguish as the...
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