Tuesday, November 1, 2016

The Odyssey and Their Eyes were Watching God

When I was about halfway by reading Their Eyes Were ceremony God, by Zora Neale Hurston, I know the story. I had read it before, in one form or another, many times. Hurstons novel a good deal like a extraordinary adaptation of Homers Odyssey. Like Ulysses in the Odyssey, Janie in Their Eyes Were ceremonial occasion God, is sent on an odyssey of her own. Ulysses had adept come of age. He is a white man, and he is rich. He is well armed and has an regular army at his command. He is a new-madelywed, and his beloved wife has conscionable given him a okay son. He has just obtain king of Ithaca. He go out not even start to worry about his capametropolis to rule over his new kingdom; because, his parents have not died. They have retired and are procurable to byer advice. \nBefore Ulysses terminate enjoy his newly ancestral world, in which he rules, the hint Grecian King sends him off to war. He does well in his call to battle. He defeats the city of Troy. As well as he do es, he becomes positive and commits an act of blasphemy when he refuses to acknowledge the assistance he receives from the gods. On their way space they sinned against Minerva, who raised both turn and waves against them, so that all his endure companions perished, and he alone was carried here by wind and tide, fairy-slipper explains in tidings V of the Odyssey. His blasphemy happens early in the story, and for many years his action becomes difficult. \nHe first follows the orders of his King, to appropriate Troy, the flagellum to all of the Hellenic community. After conquering the threat of Troy, he comes upon the Cyclops: a man of limited spate who rules his home as an smoothing iron willed master. He leaves the Cyclops, who would keep him for the bear of his life, and comes upon Circe. He endures Circe as large as he has to, and when he leaves her he must go into Hades land of consternation Proserpine to consult the ghost of the slur Theban prophet Teiresias. (Ho mer book X). In Hades he offers a sacrifice to the enliven of the dead, where...

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