Fable

High school students are always urged to fill out college applications as part of their daily routine. They research different colleges based off of things like location, pledging opportunities, history, etc. But they all have one thing in common, they are all skeptical about the prices included. There are some who don’t think twice about the cost of education and then there are the ones who cancel the application when they hear about the prices. The two articles How the Cost of College Went…

We’ve all known about urban legends, whether we believe they are true or untrue, they've always been familiar to the public. Urban legends have existed for a long period of time through different fables and folktales told by various people. The verification of an urban legend can remain unknown based on how many times it has been passed on and shared around the world; in different countries and regions where each culture varies in beliefs and traditions. An urban legend can be spread and created…

Apart, by Chinua Achebe tells the story of a very proud man by the name of Okonkwo, who lives in a tribal village in Nigeria, when his life and the ways of his culture are torn apart by the Europeans. Animal imagery is very common in the folktales, fables, proverbs, oral traditions, and theories on the causes of natural phenomena that the people of the tribe exchange with each other. They use these animal figures to explain not only natural phenomena that science had not yet taught them about…

Repentance and the Albatross Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 classic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a tale of an ancient mariner sharing his story with a young guest at a wedding. Coleridge uses the mariner’s fable to teach his readers valuable lessons on topics ranging from having respect for God’s creatures to acknowledging the consequences of an action before acting. In The Rime of an Ancient Mariner, Coleridge specifically uses the symbolism of the albatross to teach his readers…

others on such special occasions. W.S. Merwin celebrates the polar opposite, mourning his own death, and celebrating his last possessions. In the poem For the Anniversary of My Death by W. S. Merwin illustrates the author and his understanding of his fables of the beloved treasures left behind. “Every year without knowing it I have passed the day”. Merwin sets the tone of the poem immediately, enticing readers to listen to his concept of death. Merwin attempts to solidify an uncontrollable…

From the original fairy tales gathered to preserve their German history, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm unknowingly established a foundation and framework of how children stories have been previously told and how inevitable adaptations are to come. The Grimm Brothers wrote a plethora of gruesome and violent folktales to share with “their fellow scholars” around the late 1850s; coincidentally during the time period of when the French had conquered Germany in their attempts of acquiring land and power…

Faustus talks with Mephistophilis, a devil, and still does not realize how erroneous his deal with the devil is even while conversing with him. "Come, I think hell 's a fable." (5.124). Faustus is showing his disbelief for religion by comparing Hell to a fable. He does not understand that Hell is much more real than he believes even with a devil standing in front of him. Marlowe is showing Faustus at a point of no return, which is reoccurring for Faustus the more…

Seldom is not often or rarely. As found when Mr. Raymond said “ When I come to town, which is seldom,if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in clutches of whiskey- that’s why he won’t change his ways.”(268). I may also say that I miss school on a seldom basis. Unhitched is to unhook or unfasten. As seen in “ He unhitched his watch and chain and placed them on the table saying,”(270). I may also say that I must unhitch my belt after Thanksgiving dinner.…

Animal Farm and 1984 Boar, Horse, Donkey, Winston Smith, Julia and O’ Brien, are you hooked? Want to read the rest of the essay? Animal Farm and 1984 are two of the best novels of George Orwell. In both Animal Farm and 1984, the authority is not to be questioned; those who dare to are punished and considered as traitors. In this comparison essay both Animal Farm and 1984 have corruption of power and political as its background. These similarities divided into three group’s character…

Grendel from Beowulf and Satan from Paradise Lost can be both compared and contrasted, shown by the text. Grendel is described as an evil, powerful monster (Beowulf 23). Satan in the story Paradise Lost, is also described as a monster born of cain and the archenemy of God (Beowulf 38-51). While Beowulf’s Grendel and Paradise Lost’s Satan exemplify power, evil, and unsuccessfulness, their tactics prove different. Grendel and Satan can be compared as powerful. We can see this in Grendel through…