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It is too important, I want it as soon as you can the maximum hours is 6 hours from now, please if you can do it now just let me know .
it is just 150-200 words and you have 6 choices, please choose one topic.
Choose one topic from the following and write an essay to respond (150-200 words).
Cite passages from the works to support your argument. You may use your Norton Anthology of Western Literature book .
1. Aristotle said that the man who is incapable of working in common, or who in his self-sufficiency has no need of others, is no part of the community, like a beast or a god. Discuss the figure of Achilles in the Iliad in light of this statement. Cite examples from your text to support your argument.
2. Compare and contrast the involvement of the gods in human life in Homers Iliad and Odyssey and Ovids Metamorphoses. What did the deities want from the humans? How do the gods treat the humans, and how do the humans treat the gods?
3. Augustine in the Confessions claims he is ashamed at having wept for Dido. What does he think is wrong with reading imaginative literature? How would you compare Augustines attitudes regarding imaginative literatures with those of Aristotle in the Poetics?
4. Discuss the physical details of material culture used by Marie de France to describe the regal elegance and sexual attractions of the otherworldly lady (the fairy lover) in Lanval. How is she shown to possess qualities that diminish Arthurs realm and his jealous queen?
5. Discuss the title Lastic. What does it mean? What significance does it have in terms of the story?
6. Perceval is always on a quest in The Story of the Grail. First, it is to become a knight, then to find his mother, and finally to seek penance for his sins. The quest has always been and continues to be a central theme in literature. Compare The Story of the Grail to another work we have read in this course in which you identify a quest. What is the protagonist questing for and why? How is this quest different from those of Percevals?