Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Magician’s Nephew and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis and the first two Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling have a multitude of complex characters for and against the quest’s in their texts. Northrop Frye’s “The Mythos of Summer: Romance.” outlines how he believes what a character’s traits are based on their position on the quest. Frye claims that, “Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they…

Question 1. Vernacular Tradition. The term Vernacular refers to stories, songs, or sermons that spoke to a particular community, or group; in this case black slaves. Usually the content was meant for the inner circle of folks that were doing the writing or singing. The folktale, I chose, called “Big Talk” (Hurston, 58) was a perfect example of a humorous tale; a casual conversation between two men/slave friends. The first thing you’ll notice the dialect, the men spoke in a broken dialect that…

was right but when I got past the rocky start, the book captured my attention. But even with the shaky start personally, I enjoyed the book. I would gladly say that this book gave me a good impression and I would recommend for anyone that’s into romance and action combined to make a dramatic novel. The time honored tale of The Princess Bride gave off good morals that could be useful for anyone to attain in their brain for future references. One part that I personally enjoyed in the book is how…

for stealing all great characteristics of his lover (Sonnet 99, 2016). For contribution, although the meaning of the sonnet may be familiar to many people, this sonnet is totally different from other sonnets. To be specific, sonnet 99 is one of the three abnormal sonnets that Shakespeare wrote. It has 15 lines whereas normal sonnets have only 14 lines (Analysis, 2010). Moreover, some old-fashioned grammars are detected above as well. To illustrate, “e” in “en” in verb 3 or “ed” in verb 2 was…

also a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's poem Annabel lee. Poe's Annabel lee is similar to the construct of Nabokov's plot in Lolita. The speaker, in Annabel lee, talks about his long-lost love Annabel lee, a girl he knew when they both lived "in a kingdom by the sea." (Annabel lee) Humbert's love for Annabel is described in the following lines, "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of…

the characters and foreshadows the certain points in the story. The way Wright used color was through the costume design, making the protagonist wearing black and white shows the darkness of the criminal underworld and white of his daily life and romance. It also shows the way the protagonist views the world, only in black and white. Wright mainly used the colors as a way of metaphoric storytelling, but it was never acknowledged for it. The use of colors today may be used to enhance the film,…

modernization through his son, King Mongkut’s modernization of Siam had a positive effect on the country and its people. The King and I looks like your typical Broadway musical. The fifth musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, it has been revived on Broadway three times. It has also been made into two…

believe in happy endings; but I will try and write something with a good end to it and no better way can a story be brought to life than through the antics of wood pigeons. There was a group of eight pigeons and in that group there were five males and three females; I know the odds are not looking good for all the males and some will miss out and, of course, it is generally the weaker ones. It was spring, that time of year when…

Splendid Suns and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale put forth the idea of overcoming adversity. The authors recognize that some ordeals may be too difficult to overcome; however, in order to effectively deal with such difficulties a person must have three key elements: courage, belief, and sacrifice. Courage can be used at the expense of emotion, denying the oppressor’s satisfaction…

The Nature of Blood in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the African Political Space By Segun Omosule Ph. D Department of English, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye.08052037088; jala1964@yahoo.com/omosulesegun@gmail.com/www.scholarsviews.com ABSTRACT The preoccupation of this paper is to prove that Macbeth and the orgies that are associated with him are borne out of fear and that the series of killings that are recorded during his reign are meant to prove that he is a fearless soldier and…