World Literature was the third Honors class I took, and (since I am an English major) a very important class overall. We studied great works of literature from all sorts of cultures, from Ancient Greece to the Enlightenment. These works included The Iliad, Candide, Dante’s Inferno, and many others. We read them for homework, and class time consisted of long discussions of what we had read. We also wrote write-ups about whatever culture we were reading about, and our midterms included essays as well as multiple choice.
The essay that is below is an essay about the Trojan War, as presented in the Iliad. This essay was written for my midterm exam, and it was completed over the course of four days. At first, I thought that there was no way I could write an entire essay in the span of four days (previous essays had taken at least a week). Then, I actually tried it, examining what Homer was trying to say about war as a whole, as well as the lives ruined by war. It was a lot more interesting than I thought it was going to be. I finished the essay in time, and I learned a valuable lesson: if I set myself to my task, and I get invested in proving my point, I can get things done in record time. It is a lesson that will stick with me throughout the rest of my college days.
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Open in new tab This is my essay on the Trojan War as presented in the Iliad (dated March 24, 2018), which I wrote for my final exam. While writing it, I made several realizations about ancient Greek culture than I hadn’t made before.