Medusa

Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” Woolf discusses the injustices that women have suffered in the past. She starts out by discussing the notion that if Shakespeare had had a sister, who shared his genius, she would have been unable to flourish because she would not have been sent to school to hone her craft; not to mention theater at that time was considered a man’s craft, so she would have been unable to even work in her preferred field. Next, she talks about the first time she read about two women…

I was 4 years of age and I would be 16 years old, now a god's life span is infinite so it wouldn't be that bad. Medusa, a god who has snakes on her head from a curse can turn you into stone forever. Anyway Going back to the Prophecy it says this In order for a god to make rain he must be the god of the seas and water Next you shall go into the underworld and kill…

Ordinary World (Stage 1): The “Ordinary World,” in the Hero’s Journey, is the stage in which you’re revealed to the life the main protagonist is familiar with, or, in some cases, is just starting to get familiar with. You are revealed to what seems like a routine to them, in order to distinguish this stage from the following ones, in which their world starts to change. In The Lightning Thief , this stage takes place in the first few pages, when the reader is introduced to the surroundings,…

Why are there so many similarities in a lot of the stories told in today’s world? Are all stories connected in some way or another? Well, a majority of the stories that are written and told in the current world are connected to older myths from Greek or Norse mythology. One example of the connection between current day literature and older myths would be found between Perseus and Prince Caspian. Perseus of Greek Mythology and Prince Caspian of the Chronicles of Narnia share a mythological…

Leonardo’s Shadow takes place in the city of Milan that was a major city in the Renaissance in which the book’s time period is in (1497). In Milan, lives Leonardo da Vinci, who is a famous painting and is expected to paint the Last Supper for the duke (Ludovico Sforza) and church. The main character in the book is Giacomo, who is Leonardo’s servant. This book is about a boy named Giacomo who lost all of his memories and is the servant of Leonardo da Vinci. The main storyline is how Leonardo…

The poem “Jabberwocky” is a nonsense poem written by author Lewis Carroll, AKA Charles Dodgson, in the year 1871 and included in his second novel “Through The Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There.” It has been considered by many to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language. This is a poem told again and again through popular college literature, as famous as works like “Beowulf” or “Frankenstein”. Many of Carroll’s whimsical and previously nonsensical words have…

outline, for a total of eight body paragraphs. Jellyfish are spineless sea creatures that have many cells on their tentacles that allow them to inject their victims with toxins. When some unsuspecting creature comes into contact with these dangerous medusa, whether it be human or wild sea animals, they will trigger tiny…

Aeschylus’ trilogy of plays, the Oresteia, deals with gender roles in ancient Athens, particularly through the chorus in the third play, the Eumenides. The expectation of women in Athenian society included caring for and watching over the home and family, and also listening to the men, as they were of higher status. The Erinyes in the Oresteia, however, are female characters independently willed and portrayed as violent and powerful. They later become the Eumenides, hidden underground and…

Imaginary Nonsense An analysis of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky The absurd has always piqued the interest of many, no matter when or where in time they are. Lewis Carroll seems to have mastered the art of the preposterous with his poem Jabberwocky featured in his book titled Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alive Found There. Published in 1871, Jabberwocky tells the tale of a son who fights the Jabberwock in an odd world. Carroll manages to captivate and make use of the reader’s imagination…

Tourlough strolls through the vom and spills onto the lower pedestrian carrier streets of Nou Barri Gòtic—not glancing back at his atelier, just noting that his former workspace is a shadow on his back. Close quarters and narrow alleys make him ponder the traffic he is part of and apart from. The phrase 'mostly human ' enters his mind. The mostly human crowd is composed of individuals that are mostly human, certain percentages of their body mass replaced with various synplants. Tourlough…