Lusus Naturae Essay

We can see Both “The Cask of Amontillado” and “Lusus Naturae” involve the cruelty of human beings to other human beings. In “The Cask of Amontillado” we can see the cruelty of Montresor here. When Fortunato insults him he decides to take the revenge. And he has done that by killing Fortunato cruelly. On the other hand, “Lusus Naturae” is a story about a normal girl who has somehow transformed into a kind of monster. Because of her this disease her family starts to avoid her. It is decided that…

Betrayal: “Lusus Naturae” and “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” Betrayal is a violation of trust which creates conflict within a relationship. Margaret Atwood’s “Lusus Naturae” calls attention to a protagonist, who understands and copes with a disease which turns her into a ‘monster,’ and who forfeits her own life for the sake of her family. Similarly, in Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” the theme of betrayal is present when Claudette realizes her desire…

published in the UPI Health News, transgender adults were found to be twenty two times more likely to commit suicide than the general population. These individuals struggle with the hardship of being different than what is considered “normal”. In Lusus Naturae, a girl also faces the problem of being different from the community. In The Lost Children of Taum, Dan Barry exposes the treatment of families of wedlock. In Know Thyself, Bence Nanay explains the constant struggle of being someone who is…

Fantasy and reality are like twins: sometimes it is hard to distinguish between the two. Scholars of all ages have discussed around this theme. In the allegory of the cave of Plato’s work The Republic, the cavemen see the shadows cast on the walls, and they regards that fantasy as the reality (Haarlem, 1604). There are a few intelligent individuals who are fortunate enough to see the original statues that cast shadows on the walls, nevertheless they are still seeing the fantasies because the…

FICTION Exam Instructions & Prompts 1. Toni Morrison “Recitatif” (200-214) How do the girls’ relationships with their mothers affect how Twyla and Roberta develop and change in the story? From the beginning the two girls shared a common bond, that was different from the other resident of St. Bonny. Despite the two girls’ different races, they were separated from the other girls because of their mothers. While the other children were placed in the orphanage because of death, Twyla and Roberta was…