The Shadow

The boat drifted out to the lake. The occupants threw millions of dollars of golden treasures into the waters. Then their beloved leader, the new king, made an appearance on deck. He dived into the water, with gold dust covering his entire body. This legend supposedly dates back thousands of years. The event, called El Dorado, has evolved into a “city of gold” that many have searched for. From exploration, to descriptions, to the history of this mysterious story comes , are all things that…

depression, and the idea of nothingness in a man’s life and how this has a monumental impact on the way he lives it, invading every crevice and taking over. Although the story seems quite mundane, it is an ode to those who live in a world of darkness and shadow and struggle to find worth in life. It introduces the reader to the world when you’re depressed and emotionally vacant, crushed by all the nothingness. In the first few lines of the…

novel’s heros and villans are. Certain characters in the novel, represent different archetypes in The Hero’s Journey. In the page of The Hobbit, Gandalf represent the Threshold Guardian, Thorin represents the Shapeshifter, and the goblins represent the shadow, due to how their personalities…

of them is the back wall of the cave. Behind them is a sort of curtain wall, and further behind there is fire burning. The curtain wall enables the projection of shadows onto the wall that the prisoners…

who seek and possess power and the individuals who seek and possess knowledge is evident in the allegory of the cave. Socrates goes on to explain how the prisoners begin to create names for the shadows; some of the prisoners then guess which shadows will appear next. The prisoners who can guess the next shadow correctly are given the title of expert or master by the other prisoners (Plato, 2012). The guessing game represents how individuals believe that one can become an expert when they have…

childhood with their legs and necks in bonds so that they are fixed, seeing only in front of them…. They’re like us… For in the first place, do you suppose such men [the prisoners] would have seen anything of themselves and one another other than the shadows cast by the fire on the side of the cave facing them?” (Bloom 193). Socrates compares human beings in the “free world” to the prisoners in the cave. We, human beings, tend to believe what we are told and what we observe in front of our…

seen in Stone Tower Temple’s foyer. Majora’s Mask is, like the name implies, a mask. One possessed by a powerful demon. Long ago, the mask was used by an ancient tribe for their hexing rituals. Fearing its dark powers, sages sealed the mask away in shadow. By the game’s timeframe, an imp named Skull Kid steals the mask and wears it. Skull Kid uses the mask to wreak havoc across Termina and try to make the moon fall. With the Majora’s Mask depictions in the temple, perhaps the ancient tribe built…

locked them. In the corner, she saw a creeping, dark shadow. The shadow looked familiar. She immediately started screaming and then the shadow disappeared. The lady was completely confused. She had so many questions. Am I seeing things? Why did the shadow look like grandma? What kind of pills am I eating? Why did no one believe me? The girl went back to sleep but woke up again because of the nightmare. She looked around but there was no shadow. Was her mind playing games with her or was there…

The people who are blissfully ignorant choose to see things as they think they are; they mistake appearance for reality. These are the people who remain shackled to the wall, are unable to move their legs or heads, and, “see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another” (Plato 587). These people remain in the darkness, refuse to suffer by becoming knowledgeable, and enjoy their blissful state. Conversely, those people who are painfully enlightened see things as they are; they do not…

England, and a young native woman. Unnamed throughout the film and novel much we know about the central character is that she is an orphan who steps into the world of servitude and eventually wealth and scrutiny. The young women must live now in the shadows of Maxim’s former wife Rebecca, who died several years earlier. The new wife played by Joan Fontaine, must also learn how to come to grip with the jealous housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, who will not accept the young lady as the new wife in the…