Lord Farquaad

Safe, But Dangerous How can something be safe and dangerous? Society considers lots of things safe and dangerous; money, knowledge, marriages, promises, and most importantly people. In the novel Lord of the Flies two things in particular stand out as safe, but dangerous. Ralph and fire. The children on the island all consider the fire safety and the little ones think of Ralph as comfort. But fire kills, and every person have a potential to be dangerous. For reasons unknown people are drawn to…

Symbolism is often used by authors to represent important ideas or qualities in literature. Objects, situations and even people, are used to represent those specific concepts that the author is trying to communicate to the reader. In the novel, Lord of the flies, William Golding applies symbolism throughout the book to represent the theme of civilization and savagery that is explored in the novel. One of the very first symbolic objects was the conch shell discovered on the beach by Ralph and…

“War is so complex; human nature is so complex. there is no filmmaker who has ever figured it out the perfectly.” Angelina Jolie. He was portrayed in many different ways by many different authors. In the Lord of the flies by William Golding, he uses a person to pretrade evil unlike in The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie evil is presented by alcohol. Night by Elie Wiesel protrudes evil to be humans as well. Certain situations because people to do the unspeakable.…

In the contexts of the Monomyth, Bilbo and his journey in the book The Hobbit (1937) can be compared to Moana’s journey in the film Moana (2016). J.R.R. Tolkien’s book, The Hobbit, tells the story of Bilbo’s journey to the Lonely Mountain with Gandalf and thirteen dwarves. Moana, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, tells the story of Moana’s journey to return the Heart of Te Fiti. The Monomyth, first coined by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), is a storytelling…

A few years after his journey, and the death of Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo was sitting comfortably in his hobbit hole, reading a novel, when he heard knocking on his door. He assumed it to be the Sackville-Baggins. But his guess was incorrect as it was a much taller, but skinnier dwarf that he had never seen before. His name was Fendrel, shield of Dain. He was a personal bodyguard of dain. “Greetings Bilbo Baggins, I am Fendrel Shield of Dain” “Come sit down and have some tea-” Bilbo replied, but…

All narratives refer to an art of storytelling, a sequence that is followed known as the Hero’s Journey. An example of a narrative that exhibits the Hero’s Journey is The Hobbit, a fictional novel written by J.R.R Tolkien, first published in 1937. This is a story about a creature known as a Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, who goes on an enticing adventure. This essay will elucidate why the sixth stage of the Hero’s Journey, tests, allies and enemies, is the most significant within the narrative.…

Imagine if you and two of your friends are stuck in a huge maze built with tall concrete walls, covered in ivy. To make this situation more interesting, this maze is filled with huge monsters, called the grievers. You don’t have any memory of what happened two days ago. If you had the choice to save your friends, what would you do? This was the situation of Thomas, the lead character in the Maze Runner, by James Dashner. Thomas is sent to a hidden place called the Glade. This place has a huge…

personified as cockroaches in his stomach. In times of fear he imagines cockroaches crawling up his stomach. Throughout the novel he mentions the cockroaches several times. He mentions, “…the night terrors that brought on the cockroaches and their quick hairy legs.” (36). Whenever Mitchell began to think about the constant fears he would feel these cockroaches crawling up the walls of his stomach. The personification of the cockroaches shows us to what drastic extent Mitchell was concerned about…

It is clear that human beings are easily enticed to do things that we do not need to do. In Book 12 of The Odyssey, Odysseus is trying to get back to Ithaca when he is warned about an upcoming danger in their travels, the Sirens. Odysseus was instructed by Circe to give his crew earplugs out of wax and to have himself tightly tied to the mast. At the time when Odysseus and his crew encounter the Sirens, we are shown how becoming consumed by greed and losing self control in immersing oneself in a…

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” – Mark Twain. One incredible book which is worth reading is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. The book is a bildungsroman, following the protagonist, Huckleberry Finn, as he evolves from an immature child to a levelheaded, although somewhat defiant, grown person. At the beginning of the novel, Huck follows the adults around him, adopting their value systems. Throughout the middle of…