Damsel in distress

is left for the men, in her time of trouble the young women only weeps and begs awaiting her brothers who are stronger than she is. Women are shown as to rely on men to be stronger than them and save them in a time of need. It was a typical damsel in distress situation, and yet what if her brothers where one second late? It shows that without them there was no other possible way for her to survive, and that ridiculous she was in the house alongside her sister there could have have been so many…

Over the course of cinematic history, there have been more Tarzan tales and reincarnations than anyone can count (you probably can, I guess – but who’d want to?). As a result, this is a character that has as much name recognition as any fictional personality ever conceived – right there with Superman, James Bond, and Robin Hood. However, just like James Bond and Superman, there have been some rather dreadful and forgettable inceptions of Tarzan – with the WB’s attempt at creating a television…

further emphasized by the fact that the harp would have probably been carved “nearly naked lady” (Bowen 15) as an adornment. The harp is personified as “weary alike of the eyes of strangers and of her master's hands” (Joyce 48). Rather than a damsel in distress, the harp (and by extension, Ireland) is instead a picture of a woman exploited by years of abuse and poverty. While the image of the harp and her master could be interpreted as the ways in which Corley and Lenehan exploit young…

Throughout the movie, there are several references to other stories and characters throughout Greek mythology. However this attempt is for the most part inaccurate and includes main characters that have absolutely no contact with Hercules or warps their characteristics and meshes characters/stories together simply to create the plot Disney wanted. Some quick examples before going into depth with the main characters include references to the tragedy of Oedipus, the plagues and troubles in the…

His actions again show his arrogance with the gods. After the short battle, Briseis is brought to Achilles’ tent, whom he develops a fondness for. He immediately unties her showing that he doesn 't mean her harm. Briseis could be viewed as the Damsel in distress because the hero saves her multiple times from the threat of other men. Agamemnon knew taking Briseis would infuriate Achilles, in hopes that he could have control over Achilles. The hero is realizing Agamemnon has placed himself on his…

Our culture instilled in us the idea of sex and gender. Sex being the biological and physiological that helps define whom is a woman and whom is a man, and Gender which consists of socially established roles, behaviors, activities, attributes, and way of living that society deemed appropriate for men and women. Since the inception of this idea, society has differentiated and manages both categories. It is severely instilled in our daily life in a subtle manner- from our birth to our death, we…

developing their personality, for social standards can cause one to suppress certain urges, causing them to become an inmate in the forever expanding prison. Archetypes are roles that humans have conformed to for centuries: the gallant knight, the damsel in distress, the jock, and many others. These roles, although mainly prevalent in literature, point to the roles that people feel like they have to conform to in the real world. These roles demonstrate the wholeness and complexities of human…

There is nothing more classical in film then the Western, and no one tackled the Western better than John Ford. Shawn Dwyer a classic movie expert states, “if there was ever a director-actor tandem that defined the Western genre, it was John Ford and John Wayne” (Dwyer 1). His film Stagecoach was the first of it’s kind in the film industry as being the first talking picture in the Western genre. The film included everything known to the classic Western, however, Ford wanted to question some…

Tina Belcher is a character from the animated television show, Bob’s Burgers. The series is about the Belcher family who owns a burger restaurant in a seaside community. Tina is the eldest child of Bob and Linda Belcher and has two siblings, Gene and Louise. Tina, Gene, and Louise all work on the restaurant. Tina can be looked at different perspectives, the psychoanalytic personality theory of the intrapsychic domain, and the approaches to self of the cognitive/experiential domain. In the…

est WR 121 Ashputtle Analyzed Growing up as a child we are fed stories of happen endings, fairy tales and moralistic tales that teach us right from wrong. Cinderella, Snow White and even Beauty and The Beast all have hidden messages of triumph, sacrifice and true love, but is there possibly more than we can see? Different countries, authors and religions all have different variations of these magical stories. The story I am going to…