Argos

The poem ‘Leda and the Swan’ by William Butler Yeats retells a renown story from Greek mythology. According to the myth, Leda, a queen of Sparta, was raped or seduced by Zeus in the guise of a swan. Leda then gave birth to three eggs, one of which did not hatch. The other two gave life to Helen (of Troy) and Pollux, who are assumed to be children of Zeus, and Castor and Clytemnestra, children of Leda’s husband Tyndareus. In the poem, Yeats alludes to the Trojan war and depicts unusually violent and explicit imagery through the use of powerful symbolism and various literary techniques. ‘Leda and the Swan’ differs considerably from Yeats’ earlier poems due to the violent and striking imagery. The opening line of the first stanza - ‘A sudden blow: the great wings beating still’ - immediately creates a dramatic atmosphere and a sense of foreboding. The word ‘sudden’ suggests that ‘ the staggering girl’ has not anticipated the event. In here, Yeats also uses caesura in order to emphasize the abrupt and unexpected advent of all-powerful God Zeus and bring readers closer to Leda’s perspective. Leda is absolutely vulnerable against the God and is not able conquer him. Her helplessness and weakness is juxtaposed with Zeus’ limitless power that he holds in his ‘great wings’. Interestingly, the poem is written in the form of Petrarchan sonnet, which is usually used to praise ideal love and beauty. Yeats’ sonnet, however, does not center around the theme of love but instead deals…

Black Gold and the Islamic Revolution Ben Affleck not only stars in but also co-produces and directs the historical drama-thriller, Argo, which was adapted from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative Tony Mendez’s book The Master of Disguise and Joshuah Bearman’s 2007 Wired article The Great Escape. The film centers around the real-life CIA rescue mission of six American diplomats during the 1979 seizure of the United States Embassy in Tehran. The diplomat’s 52 fellow employees…

The movie Argo, directed by Ben Affleck (Antonio Mendez), tells the tale of six American diplomats stuck in the chaos stricken Tehran, Iran. The movie begins in chaos and it ends with peace finally falling unto the characters as they reach their homes all alive and unharmed. Now, as normal with Hollywood films we have some fiction in this “nonfiction” story, such as it is a story. Affleck managed his Hollywood-esque ideas in a very intriguing manner. With seemingly small things such as the…

Analysis of Argos Recognises Odysseus and “Argos” Greek Mythology has a very profound impact on the world of literature and art. Tales that were created to teach life lessons, that have gone way farther than to just teach morals. For example, the story of Argos portrays the idea of loyalty. Argos goes through a hardship,yet he still stays loyal to his master. Argos has been a mythological reference of many works in the area of the arts, including visual and textual works.Both Argos Recognises…

This marble free - standing sculpture is a nude male athlete, who seem to lean on a broken part of a tree. This sculpture look like it could had been done by the sculptor that go by the name Polykleitos of Argos because of the Canon focused on the proportion of the body that in the relationship to each other to create the ideal human figure and to allow see symmetria in the Canon. The young man also show contrapposto by one leg bears the weight of the body while the other leg is in a resting…

Argos is a UK based store having Home and Garden items to get fixture as well as beauty items you can take from the store after ordering online and get stuff through fast delivery which you must have been waiting to procure for a long number of days. Buy with Argos vouchers home and garden items such as Bathroom, Bathroom mirrors and Bathroom scales there are mainly items for the bathroom and make your home look good fashioned and imperative to work with as a source you can ascertain with proper…

Argo, the 2012 drama-thriller directed by Ben Affleck, tells the story of the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979-1981. Iranian citizens took 52 Americans from the Iran embassy hostage. 6 escaped and find refuge in the Canadian ambassador’s home. 69 days into the hostage crisis, the C.I.A starts coming up with ways to get the 6 escapees out of Iran. C.I.A agent Tony Mendez comes up with the idea to create a fake film and assign each escapee a role in the film, such as director or producer. This would…

The Mission and Goal The mission statement of Argos is ‘Argos publishes two catalogues a year, the spring/summer edition in January and the autumn/winter catalogues in July.’ (Argos case study, 2015). And those catalogues make Argos become unique compere with its competitors. In addition Argos now is one of the UK’s foremost retail pioneers in digital which got huge success by sell products through the online shop, thus Argos set goals and planning to opening 53 new digital stores across the…

Ideology is usually characterized as a collection of the thoughts reflecting the social needs and desires of an individual, group or culture. Each film presents us with methods of acting, whether negative or positive, thus offering us an implied or explicit mortality or ideology. In this paper I will be discussing the ideology terms and modernism in the film ‘Argo’. Modernism is seen as a reaction to the formulas and moralism of the Victorian period. The most interesting scene in Argo is the…

In the heat of the crises, it is common for many politicians, filmmakers, and citizens of the United States to take obtuse views on those we are against. Argo, a movie narrating the Iranian Hostage Crisis, tells the American truth of this triumphant story. Like any Hollywood film, the movie is not only meant to inform the public but also to entertain. With that there are minimal fabrications but the ones that do exist can lead to a bigger problem if not careful. As Matt Singer states from…