It was a rather odd place to have a meeting, Orianne admitted to herself, but that was the genius of it, the location would be the very last place others would think to look for the Empress and her ladies. It also didn't hurt that it was a bit of a challenge to get to it, especially without instructions. Nevertheless, before Orianne proceeded on her course, she had obtained a rather bleak looking cloak with a hood, better to be discreet than look suspicious and gain attention -- even with a full skirt. It is when she reaches the stairs and takes a few steps down the tight corridor does she move her hands to take off her hood; a few more steps and she realises just how cramped it is, another, and she slips on what is most certainly fresh droppings.
She returns to her grandmother’s house with the baby, and since there are no kids allowed where her grandma lives, she has to be extra careful that the baby doesn’t cry. The reason that she went to her grandmother’s house is because that’s where she lives. Her mother left her a long time ago. Anyway, she spends the whole night taking care of the baby by feeding it with the formula provided in the bag, and changing its diapers. She soon gets really sick of it.
She begins to tear strips of the wallpaper and continues to do so all night until morning yards of the paper are stripped off. Her sister-in-law Jennie offers to help, but at this point the narrator is territorially protective of the wallpaper. She locks herself in the room and is determined to strip the wall bare. As she is tearing the wallpaper apart she sees strangled heads in the pattern shrieking as the wallpaper is being torn off. At this point, she is furious and even contemplates jumping out the window, yet even in her euphoric state, she realizes this gesture could be misinterpreted.
Although the trial of People v. Sweet was a clear legal victory for Ossian, his wife, his friends and all others involved in the defense, the story as a whole was a heart wrenching and grim calamity for the Sweets. Not to mention the NAACP’s failed initiative to champion the case in hopes that it would foreshadow a bigger, nation-wide residential segregation victory in the Supreme Court and maybe even a civil rights movement. After Henry’s acquittal none of the men spent day in jail for the night of September 9th 1925 but both trials didn’t have the effect the NAACP planned and ended playing an insignificant role in the big picture of residential segregation and minority rights as a whole. After the trial of Henry Sweet, Robert Toms announced the end of the trials, People v. Sweet would never see another day in court. However much relief it was to hear that, it was small victory compared to the permanent damage the trials inflicted on the lives of the defendants, especially Ossian Sweet.
Throughout her time in the room she notices the wallpaper “a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight” (514). After a couple of days in her opinion the wallpaper is starting to change. She sees “a women stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern” (518). In the daytime she sees the women outside the house “I see her in that long shaded lane, creeping up and down. I see her in those dark grapes arbors, creeping all around the garden“(521). The places where the women is creeping is where the narrator can’t go so she he creeps in the daytime “I always lock the door when I creep by daylight” (520).
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is one that has been passed down through generations for thousands of years. Almost every generation has heard a rendition of how Orpheus and Eurydice fall in love with one another and are eventually parted by death. I say rendition because this myth is passed on by word of mouth, which in return causes the story to change depending on the story teller. This may also have a great deal to do with the different interpretation people form about the story. Black Orpheus, directed by Marcel Camus in 1959, is an interpretation or modern rendition of the Greek myth, Orpheus and Eurydice. Although this film does not adapt the literal meaning of the Greek myth in every scene, I do believe that many scenes adopt the symbolic nature of the film, particularly the decent to the underworld.
The idea, one is not born a hero, but must become one, can also be applied to tragic heroes. “The hero’s fall is the result, to use Aristotle’s term, of hamartia: an error or transgression or a flaw or weakness of character…. According to [Aristotle’s] interpretation, every tragic hero has some moral Achilles’ heel that brings him or her to a bad end.” (Rice and Watson 2). Blanche, from Tennessee Williams’s play, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Oedipus, from Sophocles’s play, Oedipus the King, are both protagonists who become tragic heroes. They have misfortunate pasts, free choice, tragic flaws, a reversal of fortune, and cruel punishments. Both Oedipus and Blanche share the common characteristics of tragic heroes, but have their own unique personalities and perceptions.
Why does an author opt for a mysterious character in the novel? The answer to this ultimate question is that he wants the reader to consider himself in the place of the character who is solving the conundrum, or who is narrating the story. In this case, the main character, Snowman, is recalling the tale of a girl whose nature and psyche is difficult to explain. It is difficult, but not impossible to explain due to the reason that the narrator gives some description of her physical attributes and her personality traits. We can have the blurred imagery, which can be clarified into a clear visualization by giving close attention. The recollection of memories by Jimmy is in the form of a puzzle, and sometimes there seems no certainty in the clues he gives. In other words, he might have added these false clues, because he has nothing else to do on the planet with the “I am the only human being” tag on it. There's a possibility that Oryx story is made up by Jimmy in the silences of loneliness just as he makes up other stories to while answering weird questions of Crakers. There's a greater possibility that Oryx knew Crake's plan since the beginning, and she was a partner of Crake in crime, because she is an expert in choosing morally bad pathways to achieve the target she is given.
“As he lay in his bed, Orpheus’ Death would watch him sleep.” This is one of the most notable reoccurring behaviors of the princess of death in Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus. As made apparent, one of the many differences between Cocteau’s version of Orpheus and the Greek version is that death is personified through a female princess, rather than that of a male god. How does Cocteau embody death through the princess, is she all powerful, does she escape mortal tendencies, and finally, what does all this suggest about death?
On a warm, Summer's afternoon, I sat in my room, a Wii remote clutched in my right hand and a Wii Nunchuck in the other.
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The heavy door seemed like a prison door that was meant to keep inmates inside. The Nurse on the other hand who was attending the visitor’s desk was dressed in a white uniform. She was as cold in her reception, similar to the day that was cold outside. Marian does not tell the nurse her true intentions of being there except that she was a campfire girl wanting to visit some old lady. When asked by the nurse in a manly voice “Acquainted with any of our residents?” (122), Marian nervously pushing her hair behind and stammers “With any old ladies? No – but – that is, any of them will do”. (122) showing that the both of them were really not concerned about the
Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi is a non-fiction graphic novel about the author and about her experiences growing up in Persepolis, Iran. While the structure of the story is jumbled, it is presented in chronological order and describes events in the main character’s history. Marjane, the narrator, is often witness to numerous events and speaks to the reader about the lessons she learns. As religion and the government play a major role in shaping Marjane into the person she becomes, Marjane remembers specific events from her childhood and develops a better understanding of how these events shaped her.
realizing her fate she stoically takes of her coat and as an imitation of the
I chose the story of Orpheus and Eurydice as the myth I will be analyzing. It is one of the earliest tales of a relationship ending tragically, and countless of modern stories have undoubtedly been inspired at least in part by it. There have been many artistic interpretations of the myth, and each lends its own unique perspective.
To stand back and see what has arisen, all because of Viola’s disguise, is overwhelming