English

It's "An attempt to trace the defects of society back to defects of human nature." -Golding

William Golding

Law and order

The boys losing it

Hope

Democracy

Authoritanian man

Intelligence and thought

Jesus or a saint

Point of view; i.e. first person, thrid person omnisent, thrid person

Strict dictionary definition of the word

Emotional or infered definition

• 1. Departure
• 2. Initiation
• 3. Return

The monomyth is the cyclical journey undertaken by the standard mythological hero as described by Joseph Campbell. The core concept of the monomyth is: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow men."

Stories explaining objects or events in the natural world as resulting from the action of some supernatural force of entity, most often a god.

• Idea that combines two opposites
• Ex. Promethus is both a hero and a villian, because he brings us fire and a lot of plagues.

• The main charcter in a story who plays the leading role in the hero cycle:
• Self sacrificing, questioning, trials, fault, (hamartia), death, saves.

• Regarded as the truth
• Explains why humans are on Earth
• Always supreme beings
• Defines relationship to gods and what proper behvaior is.

• Goddess of the soul
• So pretty Aphrodite was jealous and sent Cupid to make her fall in love with a bad man
• Fell in love with Cupid instead

• Evil and vain goddess of love
• Mother of Cupid
• Tries to get rid of her sons love by putting her through trials

• God of love
• Falls for Psyche
• Forgives her when she crosses him

Homer

800 BCE

Long poem about a hero

the hero in an epic poem

First person and thrid person omnipisent

• Excellence and greatness
• Virtue
• Honor

• Extended simile, many lines long
• Takes form of "As when____, so does____"

In the middle of things

Man of many ways or man of many tricks

• any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or
• attributed quality

Island where Circe lives

King, leader of the Greeks in the Trojan war, Helen's husband

• n. Greek Mythology A king of Phaeacia, father of Nausicaa,
• who entertained Odysseus.

Head of the Suitors who dies first

Zeus' daughter, goddess of war who helps Odysseus

Nymph who keeps Odysseus for a while

Whirlpool by Scylla

a goddess living on the fabulous island of Aeaea. Her magical powers turned Odysseus' men into swine

Faithful swine herd

Odyssues's old nurse/ Penelope's servant

The woman who was promised to Paris who starts the whole war

The sun god whose cattle Odysseus' men kill

The messenger god

Excessive in pride or arrogance

The land where Odysseus is trying to get back to

• Caused anyone to eat the flower or seeds to forget who he was, and their only
• interest was to eat more of the plants

People who had eaten the lotus

The perosn Athena disguises herself as

A magical herb given to Odyssues by Hermes to protect him from Circe's magic

The Nine Muses were Greek goddesses who ruled over the arts and sciences and offered inspiration in those subjects. They were the daughters of Zeus, lord of all gods, and Mnemosyne, who represented memory

is trying to give answers to Telemachus questions about his father's death (or disappearance), he also tells him the true events that happened in Troy.Agamemnon's death, all the Greeks that returned home after the war was over, but he has no answer about his father.

The fake name Odysseus uses to trick Polyphemus

The god-like hero of the story

Island where Calypso lives

Odysseus' wife

The inhabitants of the land of Scheria.

Cyclopes that traps the men and then gets his eye blinded by Odysseus

Six headed monster that eats 6 of Odysseus' men

God of the sea whose fucking pissed off at Odysseus

Monsters whose singing lures away men

• The most famous of all Greek seers. The legend was that in compensation for his
• blindness the gods had given him his awesome visionary powers. His spirit is
• consulted by Odysseus in Hades

Odysseus' son

The place where the Helen of Troy battle was fought

• Topic sentence must include:
• 1. Title
• 2. Author
• 3. Literary device
• 4. Author's purpose
• Incorporated, documented textual proof (Quotation)
• Explanation of author's purpose (why or how the author uses this literary device, NOT what is the definition of the literary device)
• Conclusion- relate author's purpose to a major theme in the work.