A List of Different Myths

Topic 1- Myth of the Titanic

A) The most widespread myths surrounding the sinking of the Titanic.

The myths mentioned by Richard Howells diversify in five installments, “Women and Children First!”, ‘We Shall Die Like Gentlemen’, ‘Be British!’, ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee’, and ‘The Unsinkable Ship’. These myths are a combination of different characteristics the attitudes of people should direct their lives, the behaviors of gender concerning with age, and the ideals of the ship itself.

Beginning with “Women and Children First”, this myth is reveals the spectrum of heroism of the men who were on the ship at the times of the Titanic’s sinking as well as their actions of obligating women and children to exit the ship first. Richard Howells writes about the two different types of heroism, active and passive, while some men such as the Captain of the ship acted upon active heroism while saving a child; other men were named heroes for passive actions of meeting their fate with death and allowing the women and children to exit the ship first. (pg.123). While this myth does not embrace the actual women and children leaving the Titanic first, it specifies on the men of the ship and their praise for being heroic by allowing them to leave the ship first. According to Howells research, the concern to save the women and children first was based on rulings of the old law of the seas as synonyms to the law of human nature. (pg.123). The context of this myth is in relation to Edwardian cultural and social beliefs, not a myth itself on women and children first. It’s a myth that demonstrates concerning values and expectations men should have in any occasion such as the sinking of the Titanic.

The second myth, ‘We Shall Die Like Gentlemen’, is a my...

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...fferent string theories. Thus taking multiple set of algorithms and creating a newer version to support its ideas or representation of an understanding. Myths are understood as being adopted and transformed elements to fit certain cultural aspects of a society or group of people.

The other aspect of M-theory is the ideology that all the ingredients for the creation of existence are based on the research of everything being created by strings that move at different frequencies from one another. These different frequencies apply the distinction of a myth provided by Levi-Strauss, having the basis as a string and the changing elements are the vibrations at different frequencies.

The commonalities between Levi-Strauss myth-structure, Bach’s Fugue, and M-theory are their formulation around structures in order to create a theme, an algorithm, or foundation for a myth.