Ogre

Modern science-fiction films vividly illustrate modern social issues and current attitudes toward the future. Based on the short story “Super Toys Last All Summer Long,” “Artificial Intelligence” takes place in the end of the 21st century at the United States of America. Spielberg 's film raises many questions: foremost among them, what does it mean to be a person? Degree of personhood is the status of how much a thing is a person depending on certain qualities. This theory concerns with…

I am certain that everyone can name numerous fairy tales. The most popular ones such as “Cinderella”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, and “Beauty and the Beast” are well known among the young and the elderly with a slight difference due to the various versions. The fairy tales that the elderly know are generally dark and disturbing while the most recent ones are happy and fantasy like. They attract more the little girls who want to be pretty princesses. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë does not seem to…

other words, is inducing fear the correct step? (Tatar 3,4)” (Apurva Jakhanwal, Week 3 reading questions). “Why did Jack go back even when the golden hen ensured that he wouldn't be poor anymore? Or more generally, was Jack right to take these from the ogre as we are always taught that stealing and greed are not good things? (65)” (Apurva Jakhanwal, Week 4 reading questions). The sample RIP projects were quite helpful in understanding the prompt and getting started. Not only were my own reading…

Although there are many different interpretations of the term “monster”, it is often a word that is feared by people and can bring about many negative connotations. The term has evolved and changed over time but still can be interpreted to mean something that causes fear for people. In the epic poem Beowulf, one of the main monsters is a character named Grendel. Grendel has caused grief for the Danes for a long time, and has put people in danger because his destructive nature. Beowulf is seen as…

the banished monsters, Cain’s clan, whom the Creator had outlawed and condemned as outcasts” (Greenblatt 103-07 p. 44). The narrator explains that by Cain murdering his kin, the “Eternal Lord” had declared he be exiled to the realm or territory of, “ogres and elves and evil phantoms and the giants…

Java is the fourth largest island on the nation of Indonesia. Due to the dynamic split of the eighteenth century, the royal courts of Yogyakarta and Surakarta were established and each of the courts had created its own versions of the classical Javanese court dance bedoyo. The empire of the Asante stretched from central Ghana to present day Togo and the ivory coast of Africa region. The Asante’s region is said to be filled with highly disciplined and militaristic people. On many of the occasions…

“So, uh, did you meet any other monsters?” “Sure. A huge ogre covered in warts.” I eyed him skeptically across the table littered with our half-played games of checkers. “What? You don’t believe me?” I thought about it, looked at Grandpa’s face so honest, and open. What reason would he have to lie? “I believe…

Powah Chia-Tong Professor Aimee Record ENG 334.051W(6835) 12 September 2017 Society and Storytelling It is important to pass on our culture to our children. There are many ways to teach children their culture, but this one is probably the earliest method a child will be exposed to. Storytelling draws children’s attention while also teaching them many aspects of who they are and who they will be. While facts from history books are important, they should not be the only narrative with which…

Many readers of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein believe that the Monster is just a tall, scary monster because no human resembles him. The text says that he has never seen a being similar to him. Also, the Monster says to Victor, “God in pity made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image, but my form is a filthy type of your[s], more horrid from its very resemblance.” Therefore, since some readers see him as a monster rather than a human, they may be inclined to believe that he does not have…

arrogance. Beowulf is the longest surviving Anglo-Saxon poem; The setting of the epic poem is in 5th century Scandinavia. Hrothgar, whose successful rule is symbolizes by a magnificent central mead-hall by the name of Heorot. For 12 years, a monster-like ogre named Grendel, who is a descendant of the biblical murderer Cain. Grendel menaced the tribe the Danes, raiding Heorot and killing the king's warriors.…