Write a short essay (at least two substantial paragraphs) an…
Write a short essay (at least two substantial paragraphs) analyzing one of the passages below. Include the following: What is going on in the passage? For example, who is doing what? Who is speaking to whom? What text is it from, and who is the author (where relevant)? How does the passage relate to the myth as a whole? E.g., what happens before and after? How could this passage be interpreted using social charter, psychoanalysis, gender, structuralism, etc.? Refer to specific parts of the passage and use examples (e.g. from other parts of the myth, from similar or contrasting myths, etc.). Choose a different method of interpretation for each essay. A: “If you were to listen to me, build beneath the slopes of Mt. Parnassus, where beautiful chariots will not clatter and no noise will be made by swift-footed horses around your well-built altar…” thus she spoke and convinced the far-shooter, so that renown in her land would go to herself and not to him. B: “You surely are the slyest schemer of all. You really delighted in swindling me by stealing the fire, but soon you will find it a curse to yourself and to men yet to be. I shall give them a present to compensate for the fire. May they all be merry at heart, forever embracing this horror!” With a nasty smile…. C: When first he had cut off the genitals with the adamant and cast them from the land on the swelling sea, they were carried for a long time on the deep. And white foam arose about from the immortal flesh and in it a maiden grew.
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