Hag

Throughout history we have seen many different hero stories and how the hero of the story changes. Joseph Campbell's “The Hero’s Journey” describes all the steps of the hero’s journey, from being an ordinary person, to the call for adventure, to the tests all the way to where the protagonist has changed hopefully for the best and has returned home. These stages are important for combination myths, like what Linda Seger talked about in her article “Creating the Myth”. In her article she talks…

This article analyzes the subconscious desires within the Wife of Bath and the Clerk in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales by comparing and contrasting the characters' apparent goals with the consequences of their tales' endings. At first glance, The motivations of these characters seems clear; the wife tells a tale that demonstrates woman's desire of mastery over the husband and the Clerk wants to refute her point by offering an example of a perfectly submissive wife. However, due to their…

Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet suggests that dreams predict our fate. The Queen Mab speech from the first passage, scene IV from the play, reveals the truth about our dreams through Mercutio’s wit. Mercutio opens up his speech as an ironic response to Romeo’s claims that he’s in love with Rosaline. He turns all of Romeo’s words into sexual metaphors. Mercutio brings up the legend about Queen Mab during the mocking of Romeo’s statement - the bringer of dreams. The story about Queen Mab…

Glamorously Enchanted: 
The Romanticization of Witchcraft in Modern Entertainment Since the late 1990s, the perception of sorcery and witchcraft in popular culture has become a progressively fashionable one. Captivatingly depicted in shows like Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Charmed, in addition to the critically acclaimed Harry Potter series, the practice of witchcraft has achieved increasing popularity in mainstream entertainment. Unfortunately, the light-hearted portrayals depicted in modern…

Shakespeare transforms the weird sisters into ugly androgynous hags and they distinctly take on a more sinister role than was assigned to them in Holinshed’s Chronicles. Shakespeare’s sisters are far more theatrically captivating than the nymphs found in Holinshed’s text and as a guide. The Discoverie contains a brilliant description of witches, and it is possible Shakespeare used it as a basis for purely dramatic…

In his famous frame narrative, The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer satirizes the thirty pilgrims on their pilgrimage using a story within a story. The thirty pilgrims consist of a cross-section of fourteenth century England, including aristocrats, clergy, middle class, trade class, and the peasants and omitting only royalty and serfs. They congregate at the Tabard Inn, Southwark, directly outside of London, and make their journey to their final destination, Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine in…

Portrayed as repulsive and bearded hags, the three witches play a significant role in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. One tends to take for granted the context and audience in which this piece was created for, ergo the aura the witches brought to 1600’s English society. Presently, the persona of witches are far away fairy tales. By having witches in his play, one would assume that he was risking his success, which is truth to some extent. In fact, Shakespeare needed characters so bluntly vile to create…

Introduction Attention Getter: You and your friends are trapped in a world where dragons roam the skies, WereWolfs seek blood in the night and witches and hags look for easy prey on the outskirts of towns. Relate to Audience: Everyone has wondered what it would be like to be in a world of magic and mystery. Where God's choice mortals to fight as champions for them and Demons and Devils fight an never ending war in the underworld. Establish Credibility: I have been a big fan of adventure novels,…

place to be nor what the people in charge say it is. The way that Owen uses his tone is depressing because he is talking about the struggles that the soldiers are facing from stanza 2-8. For example in stanza 3-5 he says, “Knocked-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through…

respect. Macbeth’s words express a sense of modesty that he currently embodies. Moreover the way Macbeth communicates changes to direct and careless as he meets with the Witches. Macbeth carelessly babbles, “How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags” (4:1:47). The demeanor in which Macbeth…