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[kitaloon]

Things With Which I Will Reward Myself Upon Finishing My Essay

-An hour of yoga at the gym.

-The good ice cream in the dining hall.

-The first night I have free time, popping a bag of popcorn and watching Master & Commander.

-Reading The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold, which my mom sent me in her care package. ♥

-Buy Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are

Comments

[my_daroga]

This seems tighter. AlthoughＩ liked the idea of saying something about the gods, I think you're right and that's too heady a topic to choose for a paper like this, not to mention too unsupportable on a grand scale. This way, you've narrowed your focus to something concrete: individual instances of deception, compare and contrast. So you can spend most of your paper talking about those contrasts, and at the end, decide what (if anything) this may indicate about the cultures involved. So I think you're on the right track.

Unfortunately, my memory of the events you cite is too dim for me to really put them into place, but it seems like you've still got a little theme of "tradition" vs. "God's will" going on, which would make a lot of sense since the Greek myths illustrate stories of days gone by and Genesis is cataloging the origins of a culture (to be overly simplistic about it). And that's one question you can ask, maybe; what are these stories for? What is their place in their respective cultures, and what are they trying to teach?

I don't know if this helps in the way you want/need. But feel free to bounce stuff off me; I'll be busy lots of tomorrow and Sunday, but if you shoot me an email or reply here (just so it goes to my inbox) I'll be able to get back to you.