Interpreting The Myth

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When you read a myth, the way you interpret the myth is your own way, there are many different Theoretical view-points, that people think about when they are reading the myth. The way I interoret myths are difffernt then someones was of nterpreting. When reading Myths I tend to read them in a Reader-Response Criticism, this is the most basic level of criticism. This makes you react to literature and it is vital to interpreting the meaning of the text. There are different approaches that can be taken while using Reader-Response, there is psychoanalytic lens, feminist lens, or a structuralist lens. These different lenses have in common approaches that they maintain and what a text and how it cannot be separated from what it does. The role of …show more content…
In the Creation, Death, and Rebirth of the Universe this is what it is all about. The beginning of each of the Maha Yuga is a Krita Yuga which is known as the age of virtue, and moral perfection. Krita Yuna is a bright, and golden age located on Earth. Vishnu who is known as The great god, or he is also known as Brahma. Brahma is the grandfather, and is also the creator of the world. The Krita Yuga lasts for 1,728,000 years. During this time the humans will need no shelter. The humans will just libe in either the mountains or they will live by the sea. There is something called the Gift-giving tree, that provides the humans with endless amounts of food, clothing, and different objects that they can decorate with. Everyone is born good and lives a happy and beautiful life, and sorrow is something that doesn’t exist. When the fires consumed everyone from all three worlds, Shiva-Rudra also known as Vishnu blows out storm clouds that kill off the rest of the world that may have been missed. For over 100 years rain will poor until everything and everyone from the world is buried deep beneath the waters from the flood of storm clouds. Besides the sea, only the great god Vishnu will continue to exist, for the fire and flood will have destroyed all of the other gods along with the rest of all …show more content…
Which is a conflict between the Greek warriors who sailed to the Aegean, that is to now known as Turkey. The Greek warriors surrounded the town of Troy for over ten years. The Greek hero who is known as Achilles gets into an argument with Agamemnon who is the chief king. They got into an argument over a female slave named Briseis and she was awarded to the Greek soldier Achilles as an honor for him serving their troop. Agamemnon seizes the woman from Achilles and he then stops fighting, to try and prove a point, Achilles is in a rage, and remains withdrawn for most of the poem. During his withdralwing time the Trojans, who are being led by a guy names Hector, they burn one of the Greek ships and forces the invaders into the sea. In the middle of the Trojan War, Agamemnon refuses to return captive Chryseis, causing Apollo to send a plague to the Greek encampment. Hector kills Patroclus, who is one of Achilles good friends. Hector tells Achilles to continue to fight in the Trojan War even though he doesn’t want to until he gets his slave woman back. Achilles then kills Hector, and then he returns it to Priam his father so that Hector can have a funeral. Achilles dies from an arrow, that was shot into his
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