Question

In 150 to 200 words, explain what made it possible to bring the Story of Sinue and The Eloquent Peasant to the Egyptian

people.

Answer 1

In the New Kingdom period, there were two important developments in the literary texts production. First, the material for writing the texts - from papyri to ostraca. Also, a tendency was observed - to copy excerpts of the poems rather than full editions.

Moreover, the ancient Egyptians were very concerned about how a person should be in order to adequately pass the earthly path. Apparently, this explains the emergence of literature such as the Story of Sinue and The Eloquent Peasant, which was very popular among the Egyptians and gained further distribution.

The Story of Sinuhe can be considered the representative of a realistic novel in Egyptian literature. In this fascinating story, everything is natural and corresponds to the era and reality, starting with the form. The latter is borrowed from tombstones of a biographical nature, in which a list of Sinuhe’ posts, epithets, his name is prefixed on behalf of the hero, and then direct speech in the first person is used. The literary merits of the literature monument determined its prevalence and popularity. It was read and copied in schools as an example of the classical style; it was kept in home libraries and even taken with to tombs for afterlife use.

Another famous literature monument of the same era is The Eloquent Peasant. It is characteristic that the complaints contained in the poetic part relate to the specific problem of the villager only indirectly. Complaints raise the general, broad issue of justice. The situation with the villager is just a cause to consider global problems, to affirm the importance of justice, the need for justice, and condemnation of corruption. The main subject of the villager's speeches is the concept of Maat, i.e., truth and justice. This story, created by a brilliantly talented writer, was very popular in Egypt: its text was copied many times. Perhaps the plot was based on a real case from ancient Egyptian legal proceedings at the end of the third millennium BC.

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Answer 2

In the account of Sinue, the aboriginal New term period revealed a common enthusiasm in Middle Kingdom culture, and the New Kingdom scribal class put into view the early poems classics. The early New Kingdom term experienced two important shifts in the creation of literary texts. The main one is the substance on which the texts were inscribed, from papyri to ostraca. The second is the fact that there was a likelihood to copy excerpts of the poems instead of the complete editions. Those variations in text creation were mirrored by an alteration in burial activity and process which as to do with the use of writing boards, instead of papyrus scrolls, deposited in tombs (pp.175-179). Parkinson was of the notion that Sinuhe, in particular, influenced the New Kingdom elite and could have structured the conceptions of foreign lands.