1. The good, the bad and the
ugly
"Bhagavad Gita."

2. The
Good
The Bhagavad Gita shows the
power of religion as good.
Krishna, the Lord, uses religion
to preach to Arjuna. In the end,
Arjuna understands his duty is to
fight his kin.

3. Power is used by Krishna to preach
to Arjuna the importance of one’s
duty on earth, or dharma.
The author is using Arjuna’s
struggle to show significance of
religion is attaining yoga and
fulfilling one’s dharma.
The
Good

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuRvBoLu4t0
Oppenheimer was one of the “fathers of
the atomic bomb” during World War II. He
uses the quote from the Bhagavad Vita
when Krishna takes on multiple forms,
one of them being death or the
destroyer. Like Arjuna’s duty, people’s
duties can be difficult to do.
The
Good

5. The
Bad
The Epic of Gilgamesh shows
the power of seduction,
tyranny and the power to
attain immorality.
Gilgamesh has the power as King
however fails to become victim to
the power of seduction by the
princess Ishtar.

6. Gilgamesh uses his power to become
a King, a tyrant. The power of
seduction is used when Ishtar
attempts to seduce Gilgamesh and
fails leading to the death of his
friend. He attempts in vain to
attain immorality after the death
of his friend.
The
Bad

7. The author uses Gilgamesh to show
how Kings can abuse their power
and be “power hungry” in the
search for power beyond their
control, and uses the journey’s
end to show how Gilgamesh
became stronger and more apt
to lead Uruk.
The
Bad

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFLLv8b7huY
The
Bad
After a tyrannical rule and the
death of his friend, Gilgamesh
learns to relinquish some power as
King.

9. The
Ugly
Medea shows the power of
revenge as Medea kills her
former husband’s new wife, the
wife’s father and her children.
Medea has power and uses it
against her husband who turned
away from her.

10. Medea uses her power to hurt her
former husband, the King. The
author uses ‘The chorus’, a group
of Athenian women, to send us a
message of the importance of
equality and justice.
Revenge is useless and only
leads to destruction.
The
Ugly
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<http://www.iskconseattle.com/content/bhagavad-gita>.
Simon, Peter . The Norton Anthology World Literature. New York,
London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. Print.
Oppenheimer Quotes out of Hinduism's Bhagavad Gita after the
first Nuclear explosion. YouTube, 2009. Film.
"Welcome to standupforthetruth.org." . N.p., 1 Jan. 2009. Web. 15
June 2014. <http://standupforthetruth.org>.
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