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Create a document entitled Timeline of Masterpieces of World Literature. In the document create a table consisting of three columns or an outline with three items per entry:
Writing - the name of the work and the author if historically known or attributed to
Period - the year or era the work was created/published
Themes - 2 themes YOU found in the work AND evidence from the story to support that theme
Your task is to complete the timeline as a Lab Report due in the 5th Unit of this course. The works should be organized by Unit, using the appropriate Unit title (not Unit number) as the header for the section of works. You are encouraged to add to the timeline each Unit rather than waiting until the end of the course to create it. Please reference the template for a possible format for this assignment.
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Answer
Timeline of Masterpieces of World Literature
Earliest Literatures
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Themes
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1. Epic of Gilgamesh – Anonymous
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2000 B.C
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1. Theme of death – the story is about Gilgamesh, who tries to defy death as he seeks immortality.
2. Theme of friendship – the central relationship in the epic is the friendship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu. The loss of Enkidu inspires Gilgamesh to seek for the meaning of life.
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2. Illiad – Homer
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762 B.C
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1. Fate and free will – The poem explores the idea of fate and that man does not really have a choice of what is going to happen through the life of Hector and Achilles.
2. Love – The love and friendship between Achilles and Patroclus is incredible and powerful as Patroclus even request Achilles to burry his bones next to his.
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3. The Art of War – Sun Tzu
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512 B.C
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1. Deception – this is a recurring theme in the literature as Sun Tzu emphasizes on winning the battle through the mind rather than actual warfare.
2. Planning and strategy – Sun Tzu explores the theme of strategy and planning as the most important before partaking in any action whatsoever.
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1. Metamorphoses – Ovid
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8 B.C
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1. Transformation – as depicted in the title, the central theme is the transformation that takes place through out the book. There are transformations in the human culture, the natural order of things and as material objects acquire new forms.
2. Love – the theme of love is explored as Ovid depicts two sets of characters who cannot bear living without each other.
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Early Middle Age Literature Influencing Western Thought
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Writing
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Period
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Themes
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1. Confessions – Saint Augustine
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397 A. D
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1. Sin –the story is about the sinful youth of Saint Augustine as he asks why people sin. He believes he could save his soul by understanding why he sins.
2. Suffering – Augustine explores suffering of the soul-searching variety as he connects it with his separation from God as he sins.
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2. Beowulf
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1000 A. D
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1. Vengeance – The author indicates how vengeance is far from justice and how it is evil and lacks value.
2. Loyalty – The conflict between Beowulf and Unferth shows how loyalty is of more importance than royalty.
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3. Inferno –
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1. Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
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1400 A. D
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1. Social satire – The author shows how the different levels of the medieval society did not perform their duties as they claimed. He shows how the society was filled with immorality and depraved heart.
2. Competition – the author explores the idea of competition through two friends who fall in love with one woman, one ends up killing the other to acquire the hand of his bride in marriage.
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Literature Arising from the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
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Writing
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Period
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Themes
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1. Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
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1532 A. D
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1. Virtue – the author defines virtue as qualities that can be praised by others such as generosity, piety, and compassion.
2. Warcraft – Machiavelli believes that the presence of a good military will lead to good laws in the land. His ideas revolve round how to fortify a city and get a successful warfare.
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2. Hamlet – Shakespeare
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1603 A. D
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1. Revenge – As the play unfolds, Hamlet seeks to avenge his father who is murdered by his uncle.
2. Women’s struggles – the play also depicts how women have suffered through out history.
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3. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
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1615 A. D
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1. Morality – As the author brings forth the idea of the old and the new morality, he explores how incompatible the two ideologies can be.
2. Truth and justice – Most characters in the story are only able to see the truth as it is documented in the books of law, a notion that Don Quixote scorns since he believes it is limited and may obscure the real truth.
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The Age of Enlightenment and Romanticism
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Writing
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Themes
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1. Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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1808 A. D
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1. Science and spirituality – The author explores the idea of science and technology vs spirituality and faith as Faust exclaims that through science, he is loosing his faith.
2. Enlightenment – While the story is written during the age of enlightenment, the author argues that reason plays a major role in science and art.
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2. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “To Autumn” – John
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1. “Ulysses” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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1842 A. D
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1. Death – The theme of death and immortality is common in the whole book. Stephen’s mother dies, his father commits suicide, and his son died over ten years before – making him well aware of the feeling of death.
2. Escape and exile – the theme of exile and escape is evident in the thoughts of Stephen as he chooses to “fly in the face of tradition”.
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2. “A Better Resurrection” and “Remember” – Christina Rosseti
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1862 A. D
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1. Grief – The speaker in “a better resurrection” is filled with grief arising from her pain in loss.
2. Hope – However, the author also shows a ray of hope for the speaker as she has a vision of what life would be like if she is transformed by Jesus Christ.
3. Prayer – the author shows the importance of prayer when one is still alive as the speaker claims that when she is dead, it will be too late to pray for her.
4. Role of women – The author explores the role of women in the society especially in a male dominated world as the speaker becomes rebellious and resentful of such mistreatment.
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3. “After great pain, a formal feeling comes” – Emily Dickinson
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1890 A. D
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1. Pain – the poem explores pain with wit (with the word occurring over 50 times in the poem) as the author delves into what one experiences during pain.
2. Suffering – The poem captures suffering gracefully to showcase a dark place where one can even loose their senses due to pain and suffering.
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From Realism and Modernism to Contemporary Literature
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Writing
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Period
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Themes
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1. How do I Love Thee – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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1846 A. D
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1. Love – as illustrated in the title of the poem, love is a major theme as the poet illustrate the extent of her love and devotion to the listener of the poem – her significant other.
2. Faith – The poet describes how her love to the listener is as the passion of her childhood faith – illustrating the idea of how children do have faith in such circumstances.
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2. God Sees the Truth but Waits – Leo Tolstoy
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1872 A. D
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1. Faith – The author explores the idea of faith as he questions whether one should have faith in God no matter how difficult things may be.
2. Forgiveness – despite the fact that Aksyonof spent 26 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, he learns and manages to forgive his wrong doers, the man who actually committed the crime.
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3. Metamorphosis
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1. A Haunted House – Virginia Woolf
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1921 A. D
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1. Love – Love is the central theme of this story as two couples show their love for one another even after death.
2. Persistence of memories – The author shows the power of memories as she describes how the two ghost couples reassembles their memories of love in the house, especially the ones they made in the bedroom.
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2. Premium Harmony –Stephen King
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2009 A. D
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1. Marriage – King explores the idea of marriage and what it becomes after living together for a while. He shows how people can lose the ‘sparkle’ they had before they were married.
2. Addiction – Both the characters are addicted to something, Ray to cigarettes and Mary to junk food. It is this addiction and unhappiness in marriage that eventually kills Mary – indicating the fragility of the human life under unhealthy addiction.
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– Kafka
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1915 A. D
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1. Social isolation – The novel suggests that when an individual undergoes social metamorphosis – like Samsa – he faces social isolation until he adjust to the social requirements again.
2. Transformation – considering the title, this is a major theme in the novel as Gregor Samsa transforms into an ugly bird. This transformation is not well received by his circle, leading to his eventual death.
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Keats
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1820 A. D
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1. Death – in the Ode, Keats describes the inevitability of death as it occurs every day.
2. Contemplation of beauty – Keats explicates that beauty is a way of delaying death, even though all must die eventually.
3. Time passage – in “To Autumn” Keates shows the progressive changes in time through seasons thus illustrating the changes that come along with time.
4. Nature – as Keates continuously personifies Autumn as a person who could do human actions, he illustrates the power of nature itself.
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Dante
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1320 A. D
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1. Love – The aspect of love is well documented in the epic poem as the author depicts how God created the earth and everything thereof from love.
2. Punishment for Sin – Dante and Virgil enter hell and explores its nine circles where people are punished based on their types of sin
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4. Oedipus – Sophocles
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430 B.C
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1. Fate and free will – The story of Oedipus shows that no matter what a man does, they are only leading towards their fate as shown by how Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother.
2. Self-discovery – As Oedipus discovers who he really is, he is led to his downfall and tragic end. He was intelligent but did not know his life story, a theme clearly brought up by the author.
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References
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Appendix
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