INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS (RL 9-10.9) fro Final English

The Role of Allusion in Literature in Antigone

• Antigone compares her fate to that of Queen Niobe who turned to stone from grief

• Danaie was hidden in a tower by her father who heard a myth that her son would try to kill him but then she had a kid with Zeus showing fate is inescapable

• Cleopatra the wife of Phineus was punished and so was her kids, similar to generational suffering as a result of Odysesseus’s crimes

• The furies→fate is inescapable

The Role of Allusion in Literature in Things Fall Apart

• Locusts from the bible

• White man's burden

• “The second coming”

The Role of Allusion in Literature in Frankenstein

• Prometheus myth 

• Genesis in bible → victor is god the creator, creature is adam and satan

• Paradise lost

• Other pieces of literature→ Plutarch's lives and Ruins of Empires

• Romantic and gothic traits

• Byronic hero

• TRAM

The Role of Allusion in Literature in Persepolis

• Ancient persia of persepolis

• Religious references

• Marxist leaders —> fidel castro

The Role of Allusion in Literature in Night

• Judaism

• The tragic/unlistened to prophet

• “Night” represents the holocaust

• The trials of Job in Judaism

The Role of Allusion in Literature in TRAM

• Albatross as the religious cross

• Romanticism ideology over enlightenment

Emotions as They Connect to the Shaping of Human Behavior in Antigone

• Antigone's loyalty and grief cause her to bury her brother

• Creon's pride and hubris lead to his downfall

Emotions as They Connect to the Shaping of Human Behavior in Things Fall Apart

• Victor selfishly abandons creature

• Victor thinks creature wants to kill him and puts loved ones in danger

• Obsession and isolation

• Creature wants revenge for not being loved

Emotions as They Connect to the Shaping of Human Behavior in Frankenstein

• Okonkwo is afraid of being as seen as weak

Emotions as They Connect to the Shaping of Human Behavior in Persepolis

• Mariner makes split decision to kill albatross and therefore suffers

Emotions as They Connect to the Shaping of Human Behavior in Night

• Childish imagination

• Protesting and rebellion

Emotions as They Connect to the Shaping of Human Behavior in TRAM

• Immoral acts driven by survival acts