The Pale

Coby Koehler Professor Ned Williams English 251 3 October, 2017 Achenbach’s Guide to the Underworld Hermes, the guide of newly dead souls to the underworld, has long been a prominent figure in mythology and a powerful archetype. In Thomas Mann’s book, “Death in Venice”, the author uses the young boy Tadzio as an archetype of Hermes as expressed through his actions and what he means to Gustav von Aschenbach, as well as how Aschenbach sees him. Tadzio effectively leads Gustav from his life at…

Probably, he held the notion that seeing the painting was not a substitute for the real thing. Yet, observing the real thing is not a substitute for the outstanding painting. Tavernier’s paint depicts Kilauea Caldera with a bold red with touch of pale yellow details at the background, and with touch of black in the foreground that creates an impression of a glow from a ring of candent bright red lava in the crater. Indeed, Tavernier suggest a likelihood of an enormous eruption on the Sandwich…

Dracula – Lucy’s case An old saying goes like this: Opposites attract each other. Often it refers to two completely different people finding each other falling in love. In this context, it refers to the main theme of the Bram Stokers novel Dracula from the late 19th century. Love, lust and horror frame the world-known book Dracula, which is about the evil Count Dracula travelling his way to London, England, turning young, beautiful women into vampires and allure them back to Transylvania in the…

"Nithan! Come over here. The arms guard has picked out a sword for you!" Entan Stanner called out, waving his friend and personal guard over. Nithan laughed, jogging over, "Yes, my prince." He rolled his eyes, slowing his jog to a walk as he approached him. Entan Stanner lived in the city of Cadena, in the kingdom of Pontys, the largest of the 9 kingdoms in Plumoya. His residence was in the Palace of Justice- the stronghold of Cadena and in the place from which the country of Plumoya was ruled…

The Juicy Fruit magazine advertisement is very bright and noticeable with just one glance. The background is the signature Juicy Fruit yellow and features four male, clay characters. All of them are standing on a raised platform facing a microphone in the center of the page. Each of them is wearing a blue blazer, white collared shirt, blue and white striped tie, blue shorts, and brown shoes. Three of the figures are singing, while the fourth is happily chewing gum, with a Juicy Fruit package in…

getting late and he fell asleep in the middle of the episode. I was spooked and excited so I stayed awake because I was curious as to how the episode would play out. Then, a pale alien with an emotionless face, wholly dark eyes, and no ears; shot his tongue at a man’s head and killed him. I got extremely scared and that image of the pale alien stayed with me. It got later and darker into the night, and I was too scared to get up and turn on the lights. I started crying and I tried to wake up my…

first few moments of consciousness. The smell of something sweet and welcoming then fills my senses. I set up slowly, force my eyes open, and glimpse the most vibrant array of forest colors. The numbness in my arms and legs drains as I gape up at the pale purple sky and orange tinted clouds. My eyes drift around my surroundings and take in the new environment. I realize that I don’t know this place. I’ve never seen this forest before! Panic forces my brain into overdrive and I frantically…

think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it” (Poe). Narrator says how good the old man was to him and had never done anything bad to him. He had no interest in old man’s money or property, but he could not see old man’s eye every day. He was so mad after seeing old man’s eye every day that he could not think of any other way besides killing an old man to get rid of the pale, blue eye. One week before the murder, narrator explains how…

Q: Compare and contrast the personalities of Dr Henry Jekyll and Mr Hyde- how do they develop throughout the novel? Introduction: In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, two men embody the polar opposites of good and evil and attempt to keep the two sides completely separate to the eyes of Victorian society and the Victorian reader; however the constant battle of sides is eventually won by evil. Evil is embodied in the form of Mr Hyde and good in the form…

Insane people often cannot be trusted for a multitude of reasons. In the stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe, both narrators are out to kill, but for different reasons. One of them wants to kill over an eye, and the other over insults he has received. However, compared to Montresor, the narrator of “The Cask of Amontillado,” the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is significantly less trustworthy because of his extremely irrational and insane motive for…