The Lion

Both Odysseus and Telemachus play extremely pivotal and important roles in Homer’s The Odyssey. The phrase “like father like son” can easily describe the similarities between Odysseus and Telemachus’s characters. However, no human beings are exactly alike as both characters also share a great number of differences. So although Odysseus and Telemachus are both similar in the way that they’re great heroic warriors, they differ in craftiness and arrogance which reflect Ancient Greek values.…

Presented by Jackson High and Hollywood “The Wizard of Oz” is a story that followed Dorothy and her adventures in Oz as she searches for a way back home. Along the way she meets several people who are looking for a solution for their problems as well. They run into obstacles along the way but with the help of Glinda, the good witch she manages to leave Oz and return to Kansas. The musical was filled with amazing props and effect, which improved the overall show. When Dorothy lands in Kansas she…

The road of yellow brick is an element in the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, with additional such roads appearing in The Marvelous Land of Oz and The Patchwork Girl of Oz. The 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, based on the novel, gave it the name by which it is better known, the Yellow Brick Road (it is never referenced by that title in the original novel). In the later film The Wiz, Dorothy has to find the road, as the house was not deposited directly in front of it; in the novel…

“The idea that animation is an innocent medium, ostensibly for children, and largely dismissed in film histories, has done much to inhibit the proper discussion of issues concerning representation.“ (Wells, 1998, 187) Disney has had a great impact on our everyday lives. Every child, boy or a girl, and every adult, man or a woman, can say that they have encountered Disney's product at least once. Therefore, it is obvious how the certain features which Disney includes in the movies are important…

NBC brings Emerald City, another version of the popular Wizard of Oz. If viewers are looking for a story full of magic but has the taste of Game of Thrones, then Emerald City is it. A new trailer from NBC releases what to expect from Emerald City. It is an adult version of the classic fantasy drama. If Wicked is not adulty enough for theater viewers, this adaptation is definitely it. Grown-up Dorothy The actress who plays Dorothy Gale is Adria Arjona, cites Slash Film. She definitely looks…

The Senufo Face Mask and Western Guinea Coast Masquerade Figure both have Raffia as one of their materials. Raffia is a palm tree native to Africa with a short trunk and very long leaves. Another meaning is the fiber from the leaves of the raffia tree that can be used to make mats, baskets, hats and other things. On the back of the Senufo Bird figure, there is a tail, one bird on each wang facing each other, two figures that seem to have two arms and two legs, or four legs, and a wavy line on…

Ambition is something everyone has. Your ambitions strives and makes you achieve your goals. However, too much ambition can corrupt and destroy a person. Ambition is like a drug, small amounts can make you feel great, but too much can kill you. Shakespeare clearly portrays the negative effects of too much ambition throughout his play The Tragedy of Macbeth. He uses the main character, Macbeth, to show us how excessive amounts of ambition can lead someone to their doom. In the beginning of…

Maleficent is a 2014 American adventure fantasy film directed by Robert Stromberg from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton and starring Angelina Jolie, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, and Lesley Manville. Loosely based on Charles Perrault's original fairy tale and inspired by Walt Disney's 1959 animated film, Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent portrays the story from the perspective of the eponymous antagonist, depicting her conflicted relationship with the princess…

Spirited Away is an animated Japanese film (anime), by Hayao Miyazaki, he “has made many famous films including; Laputa: The Castle in The Sky (1986) and Princess Mononoke (1997) and his excellent work has earned him the title of ‘Walt Disney of Japan’” (Dugdale). Even though the film maker decided to retire in 1997, he decided to create Spirited Away after noticing that young girls don’t have much to look out to in the media other that romance, he wanted to create a film “in which they could be…

The fox and the hound is a 1981 American animated adventure drama film based on a 1967 novel written by American novelist Daniel P. Mannix. The novel unfolds the details of the life of Tod, a red fox that was raised by a human at the early year of its life and Copper, a bloodhound hunting dog. The novel won Dutton Animal Book Award in 1967 which made Walt Disney Production to buy over the film rights for the novel. After modifying from the original source to make it into a more family story,…