'Don Quixote Essay\r'

'He was a retired nation scholar: Alonso Quijano, obsess with books and knowledge, dried up his brain and pull away his wit; chose to be a knight-errant, journeyed the initiation with horse. He wore himself in armour though rusty it was and a cardboard helmet; rode in his horse, searched his adventures, called himself: Don Quixote de la Mancha. Alas! transfiguration revealed. Married a farm miss whom he re telephoned: Dulcinea del Toboso. Beat up by servants of traveling merchants, who refused to recognize Dulcinea’s enormous splendor; rescued by a neighbor and carried him home.\r\nExpedition came a nonher expedition. Suffered in his long quests. Don Quixote whose real name was Alonso Quijano returned home humiliated, locked in an ox-cart that served as his cage. The Odyssey An large poem created by Homer, said to be a ‘sequel’ of Iliad. It was Odysseia in Greek, as what torpedodotus has called it. Odyssey, derived from the Greek’s, indicated an imp ortant and arduous journey. kept as a pri passworder in Calypso, Oh! Odyssey, until the gods held a meeting and set him free. He built a raft and voyaged over stormy seas. Entered the palace of queen regnant Alcinous,\r\ntook go with the games that were held, sang the Trojan War; the King queried who he was: â€Å"I am Odysseus. ” He then narrated his quests: the Island of the Winds, the kingdom of the dead; of psyches of ancient heroes and women, passed over the magnificent song at the isle of Siren. Fortunate he was, he survived from Zeus’ thunderbolt which struck the transmit; carried he was at the shore of Phaeacia, he then met Athena in Ithaka. stir has transpired; Yet peace and victory awaited. Flourished.\r\nOedipus He has been made King of Thebes due to his rarified act of liberating the people from the plague and cuss of Sphinx. Epidemic from another epidemic, people soak up always asked him to rescue them. Oedipus has always foreseen the needs. Hero he may seem, he has been charge as the murderer of Laius, the former King. anger by allegation, announced it as a plot. A conspiracy for Creon to gain his throne. A battle soon to happen, yet Jocasta arrived in time to stop the fight. She guaranteed that prophets, who declared the accusation, were not reliable. As evidence, she cited the old prophecy that her son needed to murder his father, and have children by his mother.\r\n'