The Miller's Tale

“The Girl Who Howled Human” Wolves are loyal, compassionate, and would do anything for the ones they love. And, humans on the other hand? Not so much. In the story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, Claudette, the narrator, through the so-called ‘stages of human development’ by adapting to human culture from lycanthropy , and soon acquired the ways of homo sapiens lifestyle and the many differences in the civilizations. This story is about her and the rest of the…

Magical Realism Magical realism is a mixture of culture and oral tradition, made to seem a reality. Magical realism is when the story is in a real world setting, but has magical factors and unexplainable events that attempt to make the reader a believer of something. Magical realism is composed of, historical and cultural realities, magical elements, and a metamorphosis occurring with someone. Historical and cultural realities help to convince the reader that there was a real event that took…

The case of the Capitoline wolf Capitoline Wolf Until recently, this bronze statue was considered to be one of the most iconic pieces of the archaic period, created in 5th century BC. This bronze statue is modeled after the ancient legend of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. Roman history tells a story of two young children who were sent away to die, but luckily were saved by a she-wolf who raised them until they could care for themselves. The wolf is positioned in a threatening/…

Throughout fairy tales, the expectations of beauty and romance that are woven into the story are absorbed by the children viewing them. Children pick up on these ideals and quite often try to translate them into reality. Fairy tales, such as the one’s produced by Disney, often contain a magical romance with characters as magically beautiful as their love. However, these high expectations of love, beauty and happiness are unobtainable in our everyday world and leave children disheartened that…

George Bernard Shaw once said “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart 's desire. The other is to gain it” (Man and Superman). Within Margaret Atwood’s (1985) dystopian fiction The Handmaid’s Tale, desire is shown to be a omnipresent aspect in the theocratic military dictatorship of Gilead. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, desire can be defined as “a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen” (388). Within this novel, desire is…

The novel, The Handmaid 's Tale, by Margaret Atwood concentrates on the decisions made by the general public of Gilead in which the protection and security of humanity is more extremely respected than happiness or joy. The general public has experienced numerous physical changes that have urged remarkable mental consequences. I assume that Margret Atwood accepts that the likelihood of our general public getting to be as that of Gilead is extremely obvious in the decisions that we make today and…

Education is the cornerstone of advancement and success. In The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, the women of Gilead are not allowed to receive an education. The regime does not allow the women to read and write because it makes them more dangerous and more likely to rebel. The lack of education gives men extra power over the women as they can feed the women information without the women having the opportunity to verify it for themselves. This practice is much like the works of the Catholic…

Daisy Drama101 Kreilkamp 10/14/15 In the play, A Doll’s House, there were many uses of imagery and symbols. The symbols that I chose to write about are the use of the Christmas tree, Nora’s tarantella dance, Nora’s costumes, and the macaroons. Each symbol helps move along the story of Nora and Torvald’s relationship and how Nora is treated inside of her home. Her emotions change throughout the play and the symbols help show how she feels. The Christmas tree represents happiness and joy. It’s…

Margret Atwood’s novel "The Handmaid's Tale" published in 1985 is a brutal and unimaginable prediction of America’s future as a totalitarian state. The Republic of Gilead resorts to old fashion traditions in order to get the population back to where it once was. By recruiting fertile women as handmaids who's sole purpose is to carry children for the social elite. The government of Gilead stripped the women of any right to education, forbidding all women the ability to read and write. Instead,…

The Father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer, was born around the year 1340 in London, England. He was born into a wealthy family who acquired their money from the wine industry. In his early life, Chaucer attended the St. Paul’s Cathedral School as a student where he became familiarized with writing. His first position was when he was hired a public servant in the year 1357 to Countess Elizabeth of Ulster. During this time of his young childhood, he went off to fight in the Hundred…