Disguise

preparing for his trip to Pylos and Sparta, Athena visits him again, this time disguised as Mentor, another old friend of Odysseus. She encourages him and predicts that his journey will be fruitful. - Athena then sets out to town and, assuming the disguise of Telemachus himself, collects a loyal crew to man his ship. - Telemachus himself tells none of the household servants of his trip for fear that his departure will upset his mother. He tells only Eurycleia, his wise and aged nurse. She…

scheme necessitates roadside checks and analysis of drivers’ breath samples using an approved screening device (ASD). Several drivers had challenged the B.C.’s roadside prohibitions in recent years, claiming that the ARP scheme was a criminal law in disguise and invades the federal government’s exclusive jurisdiction over criminal law. Further, civil liberties…

Don’t let Susan Hendrix’s quaint apartment fool you; hidden within is a score for which thieves and con men would kill. Employing disguise and deception, two newly acquainted crooks become all the more desperate and depraved, but must wait until dark to play out this classic thriller’s chilling conclusion. Frederick Knott’s play inspired a film of the same name and multiple Broadway productions, earning Tony and Academy Award nominations for many of the actors involved – including the film’s…

What happens when one is able to live in any way they wish? No longer restrained by the expectation of society or the moral code of the line of justification transforms into gray. The freedom that comes from this sinful outlook brings out the worse in one. While on the surface is a clean countenance brimming underneath is a disturbing persona of contradictions. Victorian society itself while seemingly pleasant and pleasing to the eye was brimming with an underworld of carnality. In Robert Louis…

use deception to fulfill their individual endeavors. It is pertinent to establish that there are two types of deception. There is physical deception and deception of the mind. Physical deception can be described as deceiving one’s eyes through a disguise. Whereas, deception of the mind involves manipulation and lying. In the tragedy of King Lear, both types of deception are implemented. It becomes evident in King Lear that deception must be used…

King Lear contains themes such as justice, evil, and fate that show Shakespeare’s philosophy. Through the characters’ actions Shakespeare 's philosophies behind these themes becomes evident. The ending of King lear also provides a distinct idea of how Shakespeare feels about these ideas. Justice exists but is not common. Evil is the result of selfish desires. Fate controls someone’s life in correspondence to free will. These three ideas show up multiple times throughout the play which allow the…

The novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston, is a depiction of an endless journey through the eyes of a woman named Janie and her longevity of a life. Janie finds herself struggling in three contrasting marriages. In each of these relationships, evidence proves that loneliness lingers in the shadows. Some may believe that when one is exclusive with another and they are explicitly loved, it doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t convey loneliness, while others would…

In the article “Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the (In)Credulous Spectator”, Tom Gunning argues that the first people who watched Lumiere’s Arrival of a Train at the Station were not in shock because they believed that the train was real, they were astonished by the illusion they witnessed before them on the screen. In contrary to the myth that people feared that they were going to be killed by a train, Gunning stresses that the Audiences’ astonishment was derived “from a magical…

There are multiple similarities in the themes emerging from these stories including eruptive small crimes, attention to detail, apparels, crime investigation, location or setting, deception, and blessings in disguise. It is possible to share exactly the same set of themes and even setting, yet have a different set of storylines. This discussion allows readers and potential authors to find an interesting relationship between unrelated articles. Although stories…

In William Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, the characters find themselves caught in between the freedom in nature and the authority gained in civilization. Shakespeare manifests these two contradictions through the court and the forest. They are not simply places, a mere setting where the story unfolds, but they possess greater and more meaningful implications. Court life is portrayed as artificial and oppressive and in the beginning of the play, the main characters are under immense amounts…