Leatherstocking Tales

The Three Little Pigs, the pigs are good and the wolf is evil; good triumphs as always. This appears to be the obvious theme, the character the story is centered around is the hero and he defeats the villain. However, on closer inspection this "fairy tale" motif is unstable due to inconsistencies within the text and the story itself. The Three Little Pigs in its original form doesn 't fit completely with the conventional good and bad unity. One of the main parts of a commonplace good vs. evil…

The calling for gold is actually the hidden calling for Milkman’s hero’s journey “Road of Trial” (Campbell). Milkman’s hero journey started out as a quest looking for gold, but instead he encounters trials that ultimately brought him to a higher stage of mind. On his trip to the Deep South, Milkman encounters “a series of tests, tasks, or ordeal that the person [hero] must undergo to begin the transformation. Often the person fails one or more of these tests” (Campbell). Furthermore, the…

created a time in which Japanese art and literature flourished, and the Japanese court was at its peak. The unified religious practices of the Heian 's and, most importantly, the influential texts and works of literature such as lady Murasaki Shikibu 's tale of Genji, made the Heian period a great and successful golden age. The Heian period was a time in which a civilization not only existed but flourished. It was a peak time for the Japanese aristocratic court. The Government was originally…

Now that Gilead has been established, any and all written words are forbidden to women. The government gets rid of even the most harmless lettering of a state controlled store in the hopes that women will eventually be unable to read. Gilead’s women will only rely on the pictographic signs to know what their shopping tasks are. In practice, eventually this could become the way of life, but Offred is not a product of the time she is in, she is forced into this lifestyle. On the second night she…

contract between two families and that women were treated as objects. They were to be the perfect maidens and “the emblem of all man 's strivings for self-perfection and self-fulfillment-for his ‘joye’ and ‘solas’ (Hanning, 580).” In the Canterbury Tales, Wife of Bath’s character presents a different perspective of what the audience believe a medieval woman is like. The Wife of Bath is a unique character, one might even say that she is a feminist because she was able to use her feminine power to…

meaning in a tale or story, especially middle English literature. Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower were two famous authors of that time and conveniently wrote tales that seem to relate to each other in many ways, and are opposite in many ways as well. Both tales have knights being asked to make a choice, one that will affect their knighthood as well as their future. Both tales have an old hag challenging the morals of the knights, but only one tale seems to have that quintessential fairy tale…

“A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her”(Hosseini 355). A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, is a story centered around Mariam and Laila, two Afghani women. Mariam’s Nana told her “each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. As a reminder of how women like us suffer. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us” (Hosseini 82). Each has…

published in 1986 by Greenwillow Books of New York, is no exception to this statement. Sophie, the main character, is the eldest of three daughters and “In the land of Ingary…it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest,” (Jones 1). Early in the tale, she gets transformed into an old lady by a spell that is cast by the Witch of the Waste. The only way for her to rid herself of this awful spell would be to find an always-moving castle in the hill whose owner was the powerful wizard Howl.…

In The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Offred, one of the main characters lives in the Republic of Gilead. The Republic of Gilead is a regime where fertile women are used for their ovaries to reproduce children. Known as handmaids, these women are treated like prisoners and are forced to have sexual relationships with their Commander. Before Offred entered the Republic of Gilead she was the wife of Luke and the mother of a daughter and her life was complete. “Our happiness is part memory.…

Persephone agreed to let Willowthaus stay on Earth to be raised by Demeter. As Willowthaus got older, she became more and more curious about what life was like in the underworld. Her mother would come visit her and share stories of great battles and wild tales. This made Willowthaus want to do some exploring of her own. However, Demeter feared for Willowthaus and did not want her to leave Earth. Demeter was afraid that Hades would never let Willowthaus return to Earth after she made it to the…