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Virgil and the Aeneid Literature Essay
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It is common place to find reference to the Greeks as the Fathers of Civilization. As such, they left behind a lot that would cause the Romans to look up to them time and again. It is said that Julius Caesar wept when he stood before a statue of Alexander the Great in a temple of Heracles in Gades, fearing he would never be as great himself
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The Character's Search for Identity in Novels Literature Book Report/Review
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Alienation and dissatisfaction are perhaps the hallmarks of the modern teenager, but in the novels observed, they are taken to an extreme level. Indeed, one of the characters, Holden Caulfield, has become perhaps the most infamous character in all of literature. Many real people, often of a disturbing nature, have found a home within Holden’s search for an identity.
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Mending Wall by Robert Frost Literature Essay
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The poem tells us that walls are a necessary separation, but this wall was not Frost's wall it was only being mended for his friend. When Frost says "Something there is that doesn't love a wall," he is telling us that it is a rare occasion that something does not like a wall. We know there is something, but we don't know what.
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Analysis of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Raising Victor Vargas by Peter Sollett Literature Essay
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Martha is unable to truly reject Lieutenant Cross, going so far as to continue a written relationship with him, whereas Judy is more comfortable rejecting Victor. This difference between the two women indicates the way in which changes in society and culture have altered sex and romantic relationships. 
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Huck has been brought up to see blacks as slaves, as property, as something less than human. He gets to know Jim on their flight to freedom. Both are outcasts of the sort, running away from a society they cannot understand. Jim fears the physical slavery of the 1840's South while Huck fears the captivity of thought.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the story is narrated by Janie through an unlimited flashback to her best friend Pheoby who narrates the story to the curious society on her behalf. Janie is a young woman who's grandmother, a borne slave for whom living in comfort implies being just able to sit on the porch.
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The Novel a Passage to India Literature Essay
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Aziz re-creates the same feelings of friendship as when he had offered to show Mrs. Moore Indian culture out of sheer kindness. Aziz thus begins to demonstrate the same positive traits that he had displayed before the trial. In a sense, Mrs. Moore reclaims Aziz’s soul from the depths of hate and bitterness.
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Eliots Waste Land and Becketts Endgame Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the allusions in the poem to events of his own life, to classical Greek mythology, Old English poetry, religious allusions—not only to Christianity but also to Hindu and Buddhist philosophy—were so many that it both confounded and delighted readers, and made it necessary for the poet to provide annotations—a “scaffolding”.
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The Glass Menagerie Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the play deals with a family down on its luck, with each of them grappling with pathos-laden conflicts and each of them refusing to face squarely their throttling circumstances through fantasies, escapism, and illusions. When their dreams were shattered into pieces, both mother and daughter recoiled to their own shells.
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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that psychoanalytic criticism adopts the methods of ‘reading’ employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author’s own neuroses.
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Portrait of America by Steven B. Oates Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the “Portrait of America” speaks of the period of President Andrew Johnson and how the period of “Reconstruction” brought with it a lot of positive things but since it was not feasible enough it had failed. It speaks of the political corruption that prevailed in addition to the slave trade that was carried on.
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Enlightenment age or age of enlightenment Literature Essay
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We all know that the French walked the streets of Paris and that the revolution was from the people.Be aware of Kant, his ideas where not the same that lead to freedom. His idea is based on self criticism.
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The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc Literature Essay
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The author of the paper states that Belloc also offers a number of philosophical observations and reflections.  He is describing Europe, philosophy, and ideas.  This essay will discuss two passages from the text in an effort to illuminate how this work is much more than a standard travel account.
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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner Literature Book Report/Review
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The purpose of the writer of the prose of creating such was to represent a character that was uniquely portrayed in an ordinary backdrop of social mode during the period. Also, the story was uniquely written using the voice of the representative of the townspeople. Emily Grierson was actually characterized by weakness and flaws.
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My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the poem reflects the poet’s relationship with his father and describes the ambivalence of his feelings for his father. To understand this poem completely, we need to look at the life of the poet. Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan. His father was the owner of a greenhouse business.
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The Long Road To The Fast Track: Career And Family by Claudia Goldin Literature Essay
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Results for the women of cohort 5 show, that the fraction with children rose slightly against cohort 4. The real change is that the fraction with careers rose to around 35 to 40%, up by about 10%. Thus, as has already been mentioned, the fraction with both family and career increased to around 21 to 27%.
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Remarks on the Interaction between Perpetrator and Victim by Von Hentig Literature Essay
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The person’s way of life also increases the chances of being victimized. For example, “if a person's lifestyle or routine activities place him or her in frequent contact with potential assailants, then they are more likely to be assaulted than if their routine activities and lifestyle do not bring them into as frequent contact with predatory individuals”.
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Critical Thinking for a New Age and Uncertain World Literature Book Report/Review
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It analyzes two books, How to think about weird things: Critical Thinking for a New Age by Theodore Schick, Jr., and Lewis Vaughn Uncertain Science...Uncertain World by Henry Pollack. Both are a means of understanding the world and not taking things at face value. The first one focuses largely on how to deal with arguments, fraudulent or real.
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To Kill the Mockingbird by Scout Finch Literature Essay
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The thesis for this paper holds that the lead character Lousie learns from the environment within which she grows and by doing so, adapts to conditions and circumstances that one would not expect the average everyday girl to cope with. Scout is the protagonist of the story and the novel starts off when she was 6 years old.
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Grendel by John Gardner Literature Book Report/Review
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Later a hero by the name of Beowulf kills the monster and also the mother of the monster that came to take revenge. Beowulf later dies while fighting the dragon and killing him. The monster Grendel has the power that human weapons can't hurt him given as a curse by the same dragon that later dies fighting Beowulf.
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God in the Wasteland by David F. Wells Literature Essay
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A David Falconer Well is a distinguished professor of historical and systematic theology at Gordon- Conwell theological seminary. He has authored and co-authored numerous books which speak of evangelical theology and the modern world. Wells is also a council member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
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Toni Morrisons novel Beloved Literature Essay
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Sethe's definition of "rememory" (sic) provides a framework for examining the healing work of memory in the society and in the novel. Sethe lives in a world where "nothing ever dies" and where "rememory" can be encountered in physical form while walking down the road.
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Poetry analysis College Essay Literature Essay
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In the poem, we are shown a day in a woman's life in a studio, a place she had assumed will remain the same day after day, and all the artistic artefacts of her lover will remain intact, requiring no upkeep. But she finds that each morning at five the milkman comes up the creaking stairs, and daylight reveals the remnants of last night's meal, also a bug in the kitchen,where she knows there are many more.
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Things Fall Apart Literature Essay
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The author states that Umuofia may be regarded almost as a large, self-contained village, held together because of the clan’s strict adherence to its religion and laws. It is pride that brings its people together. With remarkable economy and simplicity of language, Achebe describes the fragmentation of this ancient culture.
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Role of Father in Annie John and Drown Literature Book Report/Review
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The works of Caribbean writers are closely related to the political, social, and physical environment of the islands. Many of the Caribbean writers have been educated abroad and continued to live there, returning once in a while to their homelands. All this has built up a sense of dislocation, a historical void, lack of a common indigenous culture that has no clarity of tradition.
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The Inevitability of The Fall of the House of Usher Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the grounds and the house can only be expected to produce a disconcerting effect on the viewer. The house is haunted, not by the dead, but by the barely living. Poe’s depiction of a crumbling world introduces the fragile remnants of the Usher family and foreshadows their inescapable demise.
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Raymond Carvers Cathedral Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that in this story, the central character is isolated, coarse, and even bigoted, as Carver shows by revealing his racism “Her name was Beulah! That’s a name for a colored woman. The purpose of this literary analysis is to demonstrate how Carver produces revelation in “Cathedral” through the use of strong characterization.
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The Setting of Oedipus the King Literature Essay
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The setting of Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King is such an important element that it is almost impossible to imagine the play taking place anywhere else.  Were the events of this play to take place elsewhere, the character of Oedipus would confront them much differently and perhaps be a much different person. 
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Christ In Concrete by DiDonato Literature Literature review
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The novels Christ in Concrete by DiDonato, Giants in the Earth, by Rolvaag, and Native Son by Richard Wright share common underlying themes of disillusionment and disappointment with the American Dream. The hardships of life in America for the uprooted immigrants or minorities confront the characters of these novels at periods of their life when youth must give way to adulthood and responsibility.
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The Quiet American by Graham Greene Literature Book Report/Review
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The ordinary people of France usually contain some views like this which might be where Fowlers personality pulled his one-sided attitudes from the most. Graham Greene's representation of American citizens is a bit subjective on his own individual and cultural feelings with regards to Americans.
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Big Friendly Giant by Roald Dahl Literature Book Report/Review
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Literature has the ability to affect the way that we think about those who are different from us, those who have different cultures, and sometimes work to encourage a particular dominant worldview.  It is up to the author to determine what should be placed as ‘good’, ‘desired’ or ‘right’ and then to contrast this with something that is ‘bad, ‘undesired’ or ‘wrong’. 
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Working with a Democratic President Literature Essay
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In his book Back From the Brink: The Greenspan Years, Steven Beckner presents a very detailed account of the policy-making process of the FED. Positioned in the middle of this process is the FED Chairman, who since 1987 has been Alan Greenspan. Greenspan, dubbed as the most powerful man in the United States second only to the President, played the central character in this book.
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A Walk by Gary Snyder Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that it is possible to assume that this simple action has a metaphorical meaning. A walk can be compared with memories and spirit, life path and dreams. The physical action of a people turning and looking is so simple and thus subject to so slight a variation in interpretation that the reader has an illusion of the cutting of the range.
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How to Date a Brown Girl by Junot Diaz Literature Essay
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The ironic treatment of the lack of knowledge that is displayed by the narrator regarding the complexities of other cultures is continually mocked within the narrative. The linearity of the narrative that the speaker aims at is subverted by the constant interruptions that are consciously introduced by the writer of the short story.
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Valediction by Sherman Alexie Literature Book Report/Review
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The main discussion contemplates the poem "Valediction", giving a detailed opinion on various poetic perspectives before the conclusion. Literature consultation regarding the author and the poem facilitates the development of the opinion and backs up the thesis statement established at the end of the introduction.
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In the final analysis, Hector is a greater man than Achilles. Discuss Literature Essay
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This dramatic poem is important as it “presents the heroic way of life” during the Trojan War and the siege of Troy (Mishra, pg.3). In this literary war, the Olympic gods and goddesses play a huge part. This poem speaks volumes about “abnormal events, traits such as pride, courage, and loyalty and also about weaknesses such as anger and betrayal” (Mishra, pg.3).
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Reflection of Robert Frost's Life in His Poems Literature Research Paper
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Considered as ‘America’s poet’, Robert Frost (1874-1963) is certainly one of the world’s most infamous of all poets. Frost first published his books in Great Britain in the 1910s, but he soon became in his own the country the most read and constantly anthologized poet, whose work was made familiar in classrooms and lecture platforms.
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Women's Roles in Lord Byron's Don Juan Canto I and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park Literature Essay
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The story of Don Juan which is famous all over the world is based upon ancient Spanish legend about a handsome man who falls in love with the daughter of the Seville commander and then seduces her. After their affair becomes known to the public, her father challenges him and is killed by Don Juan. As the legend states, Don Juan starts to ridicule the statue of her father and invites this statue to the feast.
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Alex Espinoza's Still Water Saints Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the narrative and spiritual center of the novel and the town is Perla Portillo's Botanica Oshun. There she sells potions, candles, salves and all other forms of solutions to the problems that people in the town come to her with. Throughout the novel, Espinoza's focuses on a number of themes throughout the work.
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Fences by August Wilson Literature Essay
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According to Robert Brustein, 'August Wilson larger purpose depends on his conviction that Troy's potential was stunted by centuries of racist oppression. "Fences" takes place during a period of time when the fights against segregation are barely blossoming results'.
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Instances of Classical American Poetry and its Initial Impression Literature Essay
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This poem leaves me feeling strange. Immediately, the fact that the saw is snarling and rattling alerts me that something bad will happen. I am alerted to danger. I am then temporarily soothed when the sweet scent of the dust is mentioned, and the mountain ranges of Vermont are noted. The transition from snarling to sweet scents is unsettling.
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The Impact of Racism on Shakespeare's Othello Literature Essay
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When it finds that no actual crime has been committed, Brabantio accepts the cause of the public good over his own personal grievance. Act 1 of Othello shows Venice as an organized and just society. This play also shows that order prevails over chaos, and harmony over dissent. It mirrors the racism which was prevalent in the setting, the individual characters of the play, the development of the play, and its historical references to the period. 
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Robert Bolts A Man for All Seasons Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Henry decides that the pope has no authority over him and appoints his own head bishop, creating the Church of England. But More doesn’t believe the king has this power, and he cannot give his approval of the divorce. Although many characters appeal to his sense of love, pity, friendship, morality, logic, and fear.
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The Road by McCarthy Literature Essay
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McCarthy is shocked by the conditions under which refugees live in the world and he has placed them in a different landscape only to highlight their plight. They are people with no present and no future. They are living on bare minimum and the parallels that the author has drawn only helps us understand their condition with more clarity.
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Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht Literature Book Report/Review
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The three unities of time, place, and action, considered to be the touchstone of success of a good drama, is given the go-by Brecht in a daring move to shift the scenes of the play across nations and spanning a decade.  However, this departure has not in any way dampened the enthusiasm of the audience all over the world to appreciate Brechtian content.
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Discord sows punishment in Romeo and Juliet Literature Book Report/Review
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Romeo and Juliet was a play written by William Shakespeare and performed in public around 1594. It was a tragic story about a pair of star crossed lovers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.
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Tragic Form and the Possibility of Meaning in Death of a Salesman Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the supremacy of Death of a Salesman over other worthy American dramas is the compassion of its myth: the serious association of its central character—the Salesman—to the understanding of the entire present-day life. In the representation of salesman, Arthur conveys a figure that is a ritual envoy of industrialized civilization.
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The Brute by Anton Chekhov Literature Book Report/Review
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According to the findings, it can, therefore, be said that the main character in the play is Mrs. Popov, a rich widow who has vowed never to remarry and live with the memories of her deceased husband. Another character is of Grigory S. Smirnov, a creditor of late Mr. Popov, who comes to the widow to claim his money. 
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Beowulf and his Monsters Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the opening of the poem is joyous and full of celebration because of the great Hrothgar. Although, the world seems perfect at this point, it is obvious that envy is not growing, “Nor far was that day/when father and son-in-law stood in feud /for warfare and hatred/that woke again /with envy and anger an evil spirit".
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Odysseus in the Iliad and The Odyssey Literature Essay
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The poems are written in the fascinating poetic language of Homer, and they became the source of inspiration of many other ancient authors. The poems are also a good source of historical knowledge about the period described as there are not so many artefacts of that epoch were found.  Odysseus’ cunning nature is also reflected in The Odyssey, for example, when he thought a plan to escape from Cyclopes.     
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