Abyss

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you” (Friedrich Nietzsche). Nietzsche is illustrating how everyone has a monster (evil) that they have to fight, and there is abyss (darkness that exposes the evil). By fighting back you are constantly staring the abyss in the face, it staring back is the evil trying to consume you. The characters all had their monsters to fight,…

a strong impact on is the protagonist, Westley. In his journey, death appears as the abyss stage, and he encounters it twice in the movie. The first time he enters this stage is when he encounters the Dread Pirate Roberts, when he was captured in an attempt to amass a fortune to marry Buttercup (Reiner 42:50). In her work, Molly Kaushal analyzes a hero through all the stages of the hero’s cycle, and in the abyss stage, she describes how the hero reacts in the the most critical moment of his or…

The students at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and many others were forced to put together the pieces of their memories after the 1968 occupation of UNAM and the Tlatelolco massacre at the Plaza de Tres Culuturas. Roberto Bolaño takes this event as inspiration for his novel Amulet. Auxilio Lacouture, a fictional character who narrates Amulet, is a woman who remained in the women’s bathroom for thirteen days beginning during the army’s raid at UNAM. As she tells her story, she…

This near death experience causes him to rethink his entire way of life, to renounce his violent, gangster ways. This, of course, is the next stage, revelation. The revelation causes the hero to go through a transformation, and they return from the abyss to the real world, bringing wisdom with them to bestow upon others. As Ringo, after an unsuccessful attempt to rob the restaurant, sits across from Jules at gunpoint, Jules tells him that he is going “through a transitional period” and that he…

Celie is a character that is very submissive. This is because of her horrible upbringing. Celie was raped by her stepfather repeatedly. She was also beaten by him. I think this type of upbringing can break someone. Celie has to live a double life. She doesn’t like being beaten but she puts up with it. Celie doesn’t like having sex but does so in order to please their needs. It is very clear that “The Color Purple” wants people to see the dark reality of sexism. However, the most traumatizing…

sometimes it brings happiness. One thing always remains the same, and that's the uncertainty that consumes us as the curtain closes. As we may suffer from a "joy that kills," or we may be stricken with such an amount of grief that we too plunge into the abyss. When Mrs. Mallard heard of her husband's death she was overwhelmed by shock but then filled with a joyous freedom, only to have it ripped away when her husband walked through that door and sent her plummeting down into death. Joy may have…

In Lovecraft’s “The Music of Erich Zann,” the viol that Erich Zann loves to play is a symbol for a drug because Zann becomes addicted to playing his viol. The story begins with a university student, who is the narrator, telling of the time he visited Paris and had to stay in lodging that he could afford, which is where he met Erich Zann, the protagonist, who plays otherworldly music with his viol. The college student stays in an apartment on Rue d’Auseil street, which is in a part of the city he…

John writes to a number of Christians who were experiencing troubling times of public suspicion, Jewish antagonism, imprisonment, and execution (Harris 2014, p.437). Research shows that some believers may have considered rejecting Christ, due to the orders from Pliny to comply with the standards of Roman society. As a result, John uses his visions of cosmic conflict to strengthen those whose faith was unsteady due to the universal struggle between good and evil. Also, John’s motive was to…

everyone see how upset I was, so I hid my emotions behind a fake smile that no one ever knew existed. That is where all my problems started; something started to grow inside of me like an embryo of a new unborn child. Slowly but surely I sank into a dark abyss of depression. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness one in eight women will have major depression in their lifetime. I wasn’t alone but at the time I had never felt more alone in my whole life. I was leaving for college.…

Dragonlance Legend Series There are three books in the Dragonlance Legends series, titled Time of the Twins, War of the Twins, and Test of the Twins. This fantasy series was written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman in 2001. It is set in the mythical world of Krynn where many races roam the land, including humans, dwarves, kender, elves, gnomes, minotaurs, and—who could forget?—goblins. All of the books are written in third person limited, with Caramon’s thoughts being shown but the main…