Hag

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She lives in a tower with a witch, Dame Gothel, and is known for her long beautiful blonde hair. The archetype of the hag would fit into a witch character. The hag archetype is a when a female is often jealous of the princess/warrior archetype. She was jealous of Rapunzel’s hair. The reason why Rapunzel’s hair is long. The witch also was jealous of Rapunzel’s parents. She wanted a royal lifestyle…

In pop culture, the sexuality of women are often depicted as a binary: either as a slut or a whore, or pure and innocent. Adelina Anthony’s and Margaret Cho’s performances challenge these representations with their comedic performances and being open with their sexuality. They disidentify with hegemonic cultural representations by working with and against dominant representations such as sexism and classism. They use humor such as sarcasm to make people see how absurd about people’s…

in inscrutable trouble. The first thing Abigail did was accused another person for her actions “She made me do it…” (Miller, 1154), by that statement she is referring to Tituba making her dance and drink blood in the woods. Abigail knew Tituba would hag for false accusations, but she did not take any mind to it. The only person she was worrying about was herself. Everyone lies to stay out of trouble,…

One of the most influential pieces of literature in history is The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales takes place in medieval England, a time full of religious pilgrimages and exploration. The Canterbury Tales is a revolutionary piece of literature, known for its satire and truthfulness. Chaucer begins the tale with a prologue that individually describes diverse characters. Chaucer created these characters to be authentic; they are boastful, mean spirited, reckless, and…

The love Romeo and Juliet is known to be based on desires, which influences families and genders in a patriarchy society. Dymphna C. Callaghan essay on “The Ideology of Romantic” argues that the desires in romantic love are benign, and the feeling of love presents as evanescent. Furthermore, the desires in romantic love are based on social conditions and constraints. In this critical response essay, I plan to broach two subjects of desires that Callaghan conjures – the social mechanism through…

It was a hot summer day, when a thought occurred to Riley, “I need a job badly- just as much as I need sex!” she chuckles to herself. As usual, she talks to herself; it’s just a part of who she is. This talking to herself is her genetic makeup so to speak. Riley can’t avoid it; in fact, she’s done so all her life. There was never a time when she didn’t daydream or talk to herself. As she continues to ponder on this job searching, more like job window-shopping. She stumbles across a nursing home…

While there are some similarities like the starting of both passages where Mather describes the Malefactor as "accused of witchcraft as well as murder"(The Wonders, Mather, 329) and his overall belief that God and the Devil are at constant war over the soul of man. I do see many differences between these passages, Mather seems to be less opinionated and more informational but in comparison witchcraft is described more in The Wonders of the invisible World than Pillars of Salt, Mather explains…

The hag that the knight unceremoniously married was the opposite of any person he would wish to marry, and he lamented his luck. “He saw no living creature, except a woman sitting on the green: no one could imagine an uglier creature” (227). With her lowly…

In the play called The Well of the Saints by J.M. Synge, Synge emphasis on blindness, appearances, sight and being deceive throughout the play. Martin and Mary Doul are two blind beggars who have been led by the lies of the towns people to believe that they are beautiful on lines 29-32, “Let you not be making the like of that talk when you’ve heard Timmy the smith, and Matt Smith, and Patch Ruadh and a power besides saying fine things of my face, and you know rightly it was ‘the beautiful dark…