The Omen

As a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, nautical fiction focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments. “Master and commander”, a 2003 American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Peter Weir. Because both the written and film version of Master and Commander were created long after the characteristics of nautical themes and perceptions solidified into literature, the film draws to many…

The Devil's main job is to stray people from the path of righteousness, and into sin and corruption. The Devil can be shown as many things whether it be a someone trying to pressure another into doing wrong, the actual Devil, or bad omens like seeing a black cat crossing. On the third page in the fifth paragraph the Devil talks about how he knew Brown’s grandfather ( a constable or policeman) explaining he helped when they slashed a Quaker woman in the streets of Salem. Showing that…

French philosopher Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria. He, along with Jean Paul Sartre, is often attributed as being a major proponent of the theory of absurdism and existentialism. Despite being a major advocate for existentialism, Camus also believed in the necessity of values, such as truth and justice, and their need to be defended. Beginning in early childhood into progressing until his adolescent years, Camus experienced sporadic tuberculosis attacks that often…

story that “I” killed the black cat twice and then manslaughterde “my” wife which eventually ruined “my” own life. Poe uses symbolism to interpret human fears. In the western culture, the black cat is the incarnation of the Witch and the symbol of the omen and "Pluto" in the Greek myth is Hades. This makes the novel more a stagnation of death. When the darkness, fear and struggle in my heart are embodied by the white hair of the black cat's gallows, the black cat becomes the reference of human's…

“The Scarlet Letter” was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, the actual story takes places in the 1600’s in a Puritan society. Hawthorne was an anti-transcendentalist. An anti-transcendentalist means that humans are naturally evil , society keeps them in check and nature is evil. Hawthorne used symbols throughout the story to represent his ideas, symbols are a representation of qualities or ideas. In his novel “The Scarlet Letter”, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the symbolism of the wild rosebush,…

to. Caesar was always viewed as a strong man, and being the leader of a nation, he had to, for Rome to be seen as strong as well. A country is only as strong as its leader, and for Caesar to back down from a fight just because of a bad dream or an omen, he would be seen as weak, and if he were weak, Rome would be weak. So Caesar did not march to his death due to arrogance, he marched there knowing full well he may not come out, but he had to stay strong, for Rome! And tell me, how would you feel…

The rise of democratic institutions in Athens with growing naturalism of sixth-century BCE sculptures reflected the important development in Greek spirit of innovation and accomplishments (Sayre 59). In Herms, Kouroi and the Political Anatomy of Athens (Apr., 2007), Josephine Crawley Quinn looks at both sculpture types, Herms and Kouroi, relationship between them, roles of representations of male body in promoting and reinforcing the political ideals, democracy, in archaic Greece (Quinn, p. 83)…

“We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.” Gene Wolfe, a published author (AP), clearly describes the importance of symbols. Throughout a story, one item can have such a substantial meaning that it changes the reader’s perspective entirely. Edgar Allan Poe is a man of countless symbols and horror – his story “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a monologue with numerous underlying meanings and deranged thoughts. In…

but at this point, his fate rested in the hands of the gods, who favored Aeneas. He is described as “huge” and even tells Aeneas “you don’t scare me, big-mouth. The gods scare me” (XII.1084-1085). Turnus is not the only one who knows his fate. An omen that solidified Turnus’ closeness to death is the Dread One who came to Turnus disguised as an owl, beating on his shield and terrifying him: “A strange, numbing dread washed through Turnus’ body; his hair bristled with fear; his voice stuck in his…

his past wrongdoings and accepts his own repercussions. He controls his life, or so he believes he does and argues so fervently. When talking about the Sphinx, Oedipus remarks how, “ [he] silenced her, [he] destroyed her, using [his] wits, not [his] omens” (538). He takes pride in his accomplishments making them his own and not saying he was aided by an upper power. He owns up to his crimes in an attempt to gain some control over his life but those choices still lead him to his horrific…