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Odyssey 2
1787 Words - 7 Pages.... drunk and sleeping, Odysseus and his men got out of the Trojan Horse and then started killing them. They had taken over City of Troy and that was something that when people tried doing, but they would never return. He did this and then when he was about to leave he was told by the Water that he would not ever return home because of such a thing he did. He would be sailed out into the sea but never return home again. Odysseus was astonished by this and was angered. He screamed out for the Water and started getting more and more mad. He told his men they had to start leaving anyhow. They were sailing for five years when they came on to an island that they thought they mi ....
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Mary Shelleys Frankenstein
1033 Words - 4 Pages.... people, including the one who created him, flee in terror from his deformed shape, and finally, when all hope of a reversal of that situation has disappeared, he starts to use this deliberately for purposes of revenge.
The incident where he loses his last hope of ever being seen as anything but a monstrosity is when William Frankenstein, the younger brother of his creator and also a young and hopefully unprejudiced child, proves to see him the way any adult would, with disgust and horror. After completing the act of killing the child, he resolves to "carry despair to [Victor Frankenstein], and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him" (p. 137). According to ....
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The Trickster
1364 Words - 5 Pages.... argue that each trickster should be evaluated
in it's own cultural setting, but in order to see their archetypal value they
must be and can be evaluated as a group. Jung would say he is a manifestation of
our own collective unconscious. Evidence to support such a claim was found by
psychologist John Laynard. In his research on schizophrenia he found the
qualities of the trickster surfacing in the disorder (p.54 Euba). This suggests
that the Trickster is within all of us just sitting on the borderline of
conscious and unconscious though.
So who is this Trickster? He has many forms both human and animal. His
physical form seems to be particular to each religion. The best w ....
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
843 Words - 4 Pages.... she let her ideas flow. The content of those legal pads resulted in a bestseller, of which contained Maya Angelou’s flowing style, the use of dialect, settings, and characterization.
Dialect is very influential to the tone of Angelou’s autobiography, as it was to the tone of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd. It was only through the dialect that the reader was able to understand Billy’s character. As in Billy Budd, Angelou uses dialect in her writings to enhance the tone of the book. "That’s right. You know, the children was readin’ me something th’ other day, Say folks dream about whatever was on their mind when they went to sleep."(Pg. 158) Angelou ....
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Our Grandmothers By Maya Angel
696 Words - 3 Pages.... “She lay, skin down on the moist dirt, / … the whispers of leaves…/ the longing of hounds…” (“Our Grandmothers”, 1-4). These lines are very effective to the readers because the imagery behind these lines allows the readers to feel the cool breeze blowing, hear the leaves rustling and even sense the smell of fear; everything that one could think of to enhance the setting of a plantation. Reading this poem is an escape from modern day life. As readers, we observe everything that the narrator and the main character experience. To fulfill the imagination of the readers, Maya Angelou concentrates primarily as to how the readers are goi ....
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Beowulf: A Story Told In One Mothers Point-of-View
638 Words - 3 Pages.... all at once, he is floating beside her.
He reeks of manly confidence and heroism. She reaches a quick-as-death hand, on
which are a set of vulture-like talons, and snatches him to her. She is intent
on grinding his bones into powder. She grimaces when her talons fail to gain
access to the hated heros heart. She opens her mouth to shriek her rage, but is
only answered by the firesnakes who nip and tug at her flesh. Still she is not
deterred from her morbid course. She swims back to her cave with the man still
in her evil, cunning clutches. She gains solid ground again, and casts the
killer-of-children to the floor of her dingy home. As he is recovering from the
shock of the ....
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Wars Of The Roses
956 Words - 4 Pages.... would be pleased with what she saw
when she went to watch the play. Because Queen Elizabeth was a Lancaster, Shakespeare wanted her family to look noble.
Richard III couldn’t have been deformed as Shakespeare said that he was, because in real life Richard III was a knight that
fought in battles. He couldn’t have been deformed if he were a knight because he would have to fight with his sword and shield.
www.yahoo.com search stated that in the play Clarence was a good guy who loved everybody, but in real life Clarence was
jailed and executed for committing treason. www.altavista.com search engine said that in the play, Shakespeare said that Richard
had Clarence ....
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The Tempest - Duality Between
690 Words - 3 Pages.... generally associated with civilized beings. He displays promise in becoming civilized, but eventually it becomes evident that it is impossible to fully tame a wild animal, which is what Caliban essentially is. Caliban is more of an animal rather than a monster. While he is labeled a monster throughout the play due to his appearance, he is in fact an animal. He is not inherently evil or malicious, but relies on his own instincts and skills that he has learned to adapt to his surrounding and survive. What is vital to survival in society is not necessarily important in nature; and vice versa.
In nature only the most basic aspects of survival are required. Nature is all a ....
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