Otherworld

RELIGION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PLAINS One of the largest and most influential tribe is Lakota. It is also known as “Sioux”, which means snakes. The Wakantanka, which means “the Great Spirit” or “the Great Mysterious”, refers to the 16 deities and was derived from the number 4 (multiplied by the number itself). The number 4 was a sacred number and it refers to the 4 directions (north, south, east, and west). The Wakantanka was known at the Creator. The Inktomi, which means spider, was a…

In Gyn/Ecology, Mary Daly aims to take the reader on a journey to a new unconventional reality. Throughout the book, Daly invents words and coherently rambles about the origin of the patriarchal society we live in. She speaks to all kinds of people - battered, strong, independent- and continues pressing until the reader inevitably breaks. Daly aims to distort our perception of the world, which makes her writing so brilliant. She sets a chaotic, uncomfortable mood that urges the reader to move…

little of his evilness is in her as wall she would rather see him die than see him with another women than here self and you have to think what would you do if you were in her shoes would you rather see the one you love die and wait for you in otherworld or would you let him be with the other women She…

Time Between Times. I lounged in the same spot, an old patio chair minus the cushions on my back deck, and watched my kids come and go. They are a flurry of youthful exuberance. Fighting, screaming, yipping, laughing, and talking a mile a minute-- bare feet, bug bites, and snack-hungry tummies—they demanded and took but also gave kisses and breathless hugs. The sun shifted and changed as I watched. Shadows engulfed the yard. The sun and the moon faced one another. The time between times fell,…

“The Dunwich Horror” was written from 1913 to 1928 and was first published in 1929. Some of the other works lovecraft wrote are “The Colour Out of Space”, The Shadow Out of Time”, and “The Outsider”. A common theme that he tends to write about is terror, he is known for using overblown adjectives. Lovecraft likes to write about creatures that come from alternate universes, he believes that that those creatures will come back to claim back the land that was once theirs. The Dunwich horror is one…

In the 1990s a game series started known as Silent Hill. This game series takes a main character into a town that’s warped by a nightmare landscape. The series itself has many common themes that fit in with Freud’s writing “The Uncanny”. Specifically, the second entry in the series aptly titled Silent Hill 2 is a prime example of the uncanny. Through the series’ regular themes, but also in terms of the double and Unheimlich James’ story unfolds and the player is left with a truly emotionally…

or a meaning of some kind to his life. He was passive and let everyone make decisions for him. But because he fought for what he wanted and defeated a menace to his happiness. There was a restoration. Now that the well has been filled and the otherworld closed off, Toru came to a conclusion as to what he wanted in his life. He wanted Kumiko and he had defeated the main thing getting in their way. “I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world”(590). However morbid, that may…

C.S. Lewis was an Irish writer. Born in Belfast in 1898, and living in County Down until the age of nine, as a young child, Lewis probably heard many of the old Irish Legends and mythological stories that most Irish children would learn, even to this day. This essay seeks to find evidence of the influence these stories had on Lewis’s work in later life, especially in ‘The Chronicles of ‘Narnia’. It focuses mainly on ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ and ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’. It examines…

The values of values like loyalty, courtesy, generosity were widely adapted as a secular chivalric code that was applied to the King Arthur’s knights. Over the course of the authorship of his Arthurian romances, Chretien’s opinion of secular chivalry changed and he began to critique the system more and more blatantly. Chretien wrote during the High Middle Ages, where a newfound focus on commercial value and Christianity was taking a much stronger hold in broader communities. Adoption of…

wavering thing, reminded the girl of translucent ribbons. The sun broke the horizon like an angry red god bathing the world in light. The boy’s skin held this angry light inside it, so he glowed a light reddish orange. He looked like something from the Otherworld. The carpet settled beneath the glowing child. He stole the crowd’s attention, and they stand like stone statues. “We must go,” the boy king softly tells the girl. The king’s guards spring to life. They surround the young couple,…