Enchantress

Beauty and the Beast is one of the most well-known Disney movies in history. With the main protagonists being a beautiful girl and an ugly beast, the storyline is truly one that anyone of any age can enjoy. But this story is not a simple love story, there is a deeper meaning to the movie than what we think. The beginning of the movie starts off with a song called “Little Town”. Belle, one of the main protagonists, is singing along with the rest of the town. The song does not seem like much, but…

The Odyssey, written by Homer, is an epic that revolves around Odysseus and his men overcoming many obstacles while trying find their way back home to Ithaka after being lost for 20 years after the Trojan War. Back in Ithaka, Odysseus’ wife Penelope is struggling to keep up with her marriage due to the suitors forcing her to marry one of them. Telemachus, his son, who has been fatherless for a very long time now, will not give up on the idea that Odysseus will soon come back and embarks on an…

Maleficent, a beautiful and wicked villain, warned, "[t]o all man in the world, think twice before you break a promise and break a woman’s heart because you’ll never know what she might become” (_____). The consequences of breaking a promise are overlooked and the damage that goes unnoticed becomes irreversible. Maleficent was always seen but never heard until she began to cause trouble. Morgan le Fay from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by the Pearl Poet, was a similar villainess. People…

To the Editor of Fairy-Tales, I suggest that all Fairy-tales of the school curriculum should be kept intact and not banned due to the reasons of how they are lessons to teach ways of being a good behavioural person. Yes, I agree with mum-of-two, Sarah Hall, about the fact that it is not right for children to have sexual connections with those who are asleep, but then again, that is only about one thing. Her complaint was about the well-known Fairy-tale Sleeping Beauty where the princess…

zone;” with the purpose to conciliate her. Considering this fact, it can be sustained that the roles have switched and the man stops being the victim. In fact, does she actually do something to seduce him? Certainly not! She is described as a cruel enchantress, but in reality he is the one that starts everything. It is a common accusation that women are the ones that own evil forces, for example the biblical myth. Adam claimed that Eve was the only culprit for the ancestral sin, she was the…

Through cannibalistic islanders, one-eyed giants, and being held captive by Greek goddesses, Odysseus’ voyage teaches readers quite a bit about Greek values and beliefs. The Odyssey was said to have originated around three thousand years ago as an oral epic recited by the blind poet, Homer. Since then, the poem has been recited and built upon, and even deemed a poetic masterpiece. Archetypes make the world feel united; they create a sense of relation between different ethnicities, cultures, and…

still include her sweet tendencies, but often, they spoke of her evil ones. If her more compassionate ones were mentioned, it was mostly spoken of as something in her past. Many of the times she is in a story, poem, etc., she is identified as the enchantress who deceived and misguided those who fell victim to her devilish charm. In “Merlin and Vivian: A Lyric Drama”, Ethel Watts Mumford describes Avalon as an “Enchanted Island” in which “[no] tempests [could] vex thy golden days, [and] /no…

The Laws of Gods and Men in the Odyssey The odyssey is one of the most famous ancient epic Greek poems credited to Homer around the 8th century. It is a magnificent novel about a man on a journey to return home while overcoming various hardships to return to his kingdom and to his beloved family. Greek poet, Homer recited his tale about the Trojan War by stating that the war took place in 1250 B.C when Queen Helen of Sparta was kidnapped by Paris, thus King Menelaus, king Agamemnon and Odysseus…

In Homers’ The Iliad, Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero during the fabled Trojan War. It was he who was the architect of the Trojan horse, which was a giant wooden horse filled with Greek soldiers left outside the walls of Troy to feign surrender. The Trojans fell into the deception and had their kingdom sacked as a result, culminating the end of the war. The plan developed by Odysseus exhibited his cunning, a trait that would serve him well in the upcoming years of his journey home.…

Calypso imprisons Odysseus on her island and forces him to be her immortal lover. Calypso was so desperate for a lover, that when Odysseus arrived on the island, she felt the need to imprison him and make him a slave to her love. Odysseus says, “The enchantress in her beauty fed and caressed me, promised me I should be immortal, youthful, all the days to come; but in my heart I never gave consent through seven years detained.” (VII,273) Odysseus clearly values his wife’s loyalty and love over…