Part II: In both Euripides’ the Bacchae and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a main character is given an opportunity t re-asses his own values and to “journey” back to nature- in the Bacchae, to the orgies on the mountain , and in Gawain, finally to the Green chapel. Freud argues that human represses their instinctual feelings to creation civilization from nature. In a footnote from Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontent, Freud mentions that primal man has an “infantile desire… to… [enjoy] sexual potency in a homosexual competition”(Freud, 33). However, by “damping down the fire of [an individual’s] own sexual excitation,” (Freud, 33) an individual would tame that external force and subdue it to his own use. The ability to realize that human being, in order to survive, require complementary external …show more content…
Gothic churches are having thin walls and large stain-glass windows that allow light to penetrate. While Romanesque churches have relatively thinker wall and smaller windows as Romanesque churches are built corresponding to St. Augustine’s theology of distancing from the material world.
Gothic churches have more sharp and edgy characteristics usually pointing high towards the sky. When Romanesque churches usually have more blunt. Another difference manifest in their building shape viewed from above.
Usually Romanesque churches are built in the shape of cross. On the other hand, Gothic usually incorporate geometrical shapes that manifests it faith within the church.
Another significant difference is that Romanesque churches has statues that are at least half connected to the church itself, those statues have their back aligned against the walls of the church to signify that everything is based on the faith. In contrary, Gothic churches would have completely individual statues outside of the