Hag

It painted a picture of horror and griminess’. He starts of the poem saying “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knocked-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge” (lines 1 and 2). At this point he reveals that the soldiers were in a trench. From the start of the story, it already paints an unpleasant picture. Readers can see that war is unpleasant, which is what Owen was showing. He…

Some authors may not even realize how equality can easily be thrown off and as a result have a negative effect on books and readers who notice it. We as readers, tend to not completely fully grasp the presence of the anti-feminist or proto-feminist society. Feminism, or equality of the sexes, can be seen in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s text as he portrays women as innocent, powerless, and non influential individuals. Not only does feminism play a role in the painted society of “Young Goodman Brown,”…

Beowulf is an epic story. It is a complete epic; the oldest surviving Germanic Epic as well as the longest and most important poem in Old English (Anglo). Scholars think the story originated around 500 AD (Notes). An epic story is a poem or story that is about a larger than life hero that goes on a long adventure and does heroic things. Example of an epic story besides Beowulf would be something like Star Wars, The Odyessy, or the movie Three-Hundred. An epic story consists of many different…

fairest of them all. By using both the behavioral and psychodynamic perspectives of psychology to analyze the Evil Queen’s actions, behaviors and thoughts, we are able to question the Queen’s true nature: whether or not she truly was the cruel, evil old hag everyone believes her to be, or if she…

variety of ways throughout the poem. The first two lines of ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ present two shocking similes. The soldiers are in reality ‘boys’ and ‘children’ as he says later in the poem but here they are ‘like old beggars’ and ‘coughing like hags’, worn out and aged by war. A lot of his imagery is ironic. The soldiers are ‘drunk with fatigue’ and there is ‘an ecstasy of fumbling’ but their feelings are not happy, they are exhausted and terrified. A very horrible simile is the…

Considered one of the greatest writers of all time, William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His family contained his father, John Shakespeare, who was a leather merchant, his mother, Mary Shakespeare, who was a heiress, his two older sisters, and his three younger brothers. Before William was born, his father became a successful merchant, an alderman, and a bailiff until his achievements slowed down in the late 1570s. Not much has been known of William’s…

that Macbeth had sealed his fate. Already insane and power crazy over the first prophecies, Macbeth finds the witches and demands more prophecies from the spirits the witches speak to, he finds them and says "how now, you secret, black and midnight hags! What is't you do?" (4.1.48-49) the witches abide to Macbeth's wishes and call toward the spirits who relay prophecies to Macbeth shown when they each list off a prophecy saying; “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff; Beware the thane of…

into her nutshell chariot, and imagination (in his case, a sort of madness) threatens to drag him off into fairyland. He attempts to move on with his speech with what would normally be nothing more than a bawdy joke, but when Mercutio mentions “…the hag, when maids lie on their backs, / That presses them and learns them first to bear, / Making them women of good carriage” (92-94) in such close proximity to the tangled, “foul, sluttish hair” the audience doesn’t laugh, but curls back in…

Onibaba: Art Film or Prestige Horror? What is or is not horror is defined by the viewer, and with that perspective, it is within my role as the viewer to declare Onibaba, prestige art film, a horror film as well. In the Kawin reading, we are told that "bad horror" is a "spectacle", full of meaningless death and gore, with no investment required by the viewer, or greater message to provide (325). "Good horror" guides the viewer to psychological understanding of human nature and teaches us…

Spoilers ahead. Be spoiled. Be wicked. Live deliciously. For the past year I’ve seen trailers and tidbits on a new movie “The Witch” that apparently was a film festival hit and would soon be reaching our screens. At first I was pretty flippant about the whole thing, I assumed it was simply another puritan witch hunt movie and I’ve had my fill of films like that. While this is essentially that type of movie, it does take things in a new direction, especially towards the end. The scariest thing…