Each essay question is worth twenty-five points. Your responses should be a page and a half to two pages in length. Be sure to reference assigned texts and follow MLA guidelines. Compare Virgil’s Aeneas with a hero from one of the Homeric epics. What might Virgil be saying by means of the similarities and differences? […]
Eng 231
Quiz 4
In Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”, much can be learned from the things being discussed by the many different characters. It is interesting to listen as they tell their stories about many topics and the morals of each story that is told. Even the entire story in itself contains common morals and standards. Chaucer did an […]
Dante’s Lie
In the Divine Comedy, Dante shows us that to him, the worst of all sins is fraud. He even breaks fraud down into smaller parts, being; seducers and panderers, flatterers, simoniacs, fortune tellers, grafters, hypocrites, thieves, evil counselors, sowers of discord, and counterfeiters or falsifiers. In Dante’s view, these are the souls who in life […]
The Civilized Life
Would our lives be better if we didn’t have to work to pay the bills? What if all we had to worry about was food, and sleep? Would that make us truly happy? In the story of Gilgamesh, we are introduced to a man who could answer those questions from a personal perspective, his name […]