Selkie

Learning How To Drown, a musical written by Patricia Noonan and Amanda Jacobs in 2007, revolves around a the love story of a young couple, Emma and John, and their parallel to Emma’s grandparents, Aidan and Clare. The play illustrates the importance of fables and the balance between the themes of love and freedom. Emma, portrayed by Caroline Portu, is a young woman who is questioning the proposal of her long time boyfriend, John, while stranded in their house due to a hurricane. Paired with the…

societies. EXPAND Introduction Set in the 1940s, The Bluest Eye, explores the psychological impact of an eleven-year-old African-American, Pecola Breedlove, in the predominantly Caucasian society of Lorain, Ohio, whilst Sea Hearts, a fantasy based on the Selkie legend from the Orkney Islands of Scotland and Ireland depicts/reveals Misskaella Prout’s discovery of her differences in nature and appearance. Both protagonists, misfits in their respective contexts, experience the negative impact of…

platform. She thanked fortunate circumstances, she didn’t have to work on the main deck during this violent storm. However, her worries didn’t stop at herself, Duncan, Kendrick, and Torin were still exposed to the furious weather conditions. In their Selkie form they stayed relatively safe in the sea, but in their human body, they were in jeopardy as much as any other man on the platform deck. Nothing stopped the flow of crude oil from beneath the ocean floor, no storm would stop this rig…

There Aileana stood gazing at the moon over the dark water looking so bonnie in the moonlight. She made his heart pound as no other woman or Selkie female ever had. Kendrick was drawn to her now, just as he was when she was a young teenage lass. Only now the years had passed, and he could act upon those emotions. His thoughts brought him to the conclusion he would make Aileana his in body and soul. Her willful nature was a challenge that called to him, she would be strong and stand at his…

able to shapeshift by shedding their seal skin. This is extremely risky for them because they must put the same skin back on to return to seal form. These shapeshifters are usually found in romantic tragedies. Many times, humans fall in love with a selkie without knowing what they are. This is tragic because the selkies can only remain human for a short period of time before being forced back to the sea. These can be found in the story of…

Tomm Moore brings yet another beautifully depicted animation of his background story to life in his film Song of the Sea, which tells a story of Ben, a young boy, and his sister Saoirse about their adventure on the Emerald isle in Ireland. The story entrances the audience with it’s visual effects that were hand drawn, and captivating details about different types of Irish legends and creatures which make this film a very moralistic and gratifying experience. Oscar nominated, Award winning…

Women spend their whole lives trying to find who they are and who they want to be; they build on their self-confidence, beauty and intelligence. People find it extremely easy to define women in popular culture by identifying them by race, ethnicity, class and their sexual orientation. On social media women actions are misperceived and judges frequently. When society is viewing women they also portray them by their images they display on social media. Women are attacked more on social media than…

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“If you don’t imagine something better, it will never happen,” she said. I was a child then, crying for her mother to save her. I sink down a bit in the mud, barefoot. Holy ground strips away the advantage of glamour as my natural form replaces the dull cover of terran flesh. “Are you sure this will work?” Bryce asks, looking down the riverbed for any sign of life. I nod. Experience takes over in measuring out the grave. Looking at Bryce, I wonder who’d he be if he…

She felt right at home, living in her Seanmhair’s cottage and with Scotland, as her new address. Scotland had actually always been her second home. It was going to take only a small amount of time to get acclimated to her new living arrangement and the Scots’ way of life. Aileana decided she should take a walk into town to see if any of her friends might be out and about. It was a magnificent sunny day, now that the morning mist had burned off. As she walked along the sidewalk in town, the smell…