The Wanderer

O, Brother Where Art Thou vs The Odyssey by Homer The Odyssey by Homer is a Greek Epic based on its main character Odysseus and it took place in the classical Greece. The book was composed in the eight century B.C.E, centuries after the events it describes, and narrates several adventures with the objective of its main character to return home. Moreover, the movie O, Brother Where Art Thou was published in 2000 and also narrates the adventures of its main character Ulysses, a prisoner that…

Beautiful memories, full of joy and laughter, can be tainted by evils and dark creatures. In Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “A Haunted Palace” tells the story of a delightful palace that is seen described so beautifully by passer-bys, but sadly this does not last as the palace is now being seen as being taken over by these ugly creatures. In the poem “A Haunted Palace” by Edgar Allan Poe, emotions from delight to terror and the dimness of a once beautiful memory are expressed throughout the writing…

shallow, too insignificant for me, the vivacious intellectual, the dharma bum, the Zen lunatic wanderer. How could my teachers expect me to do homework when life around me was all so futile, so meaningless? I was sure that…

As early as the 1790s, then, Ann Radcliffe firmly set the Gothic in one of the ways it would go ever after: a novel in which the central figure is young woman who is simultaneously persecuted victim and courageous heroine. But what are we to make the next major turning of the Gothic tradition that a women brought about a generation later? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, in 1818, made over the Gothic novel into what today we call science fiction. Frankenstein brought a new sophistication to literary…

cypress too,/ and their birds roosted, folding their long wings” (70-73). This description shows that the island is an enormous trap that attracts wanderers due to its aesthetically pleasing qualities: many types of trees, distinct smells, and various species of wildlife. The presence of iridescent trees serves as a seductive mechanism that makes a wanderer who is struck with grief, like Odysseus, want to stay at the island. The cave on the island is the space where Calypso has sexual power…

in the same way that Cain literally kills Abel and injures his relationship with God. Charles also compares to Cain in the ways that they are both marked for their sins. Cain is marked so that no one will kill him because God damns him to being a wanderer for the rest of his days. Charles is branded with a scar on his forehead, and he is damned to never having a family and living alone. Even the small details relate to that of the story of Cain and Abel. For example, Adam knows that his mother…

darkness. Eventually, it became too difficult to travel by night, and so Maglor confined his movements to the hours of the sun. At first, he worried he might be spotted, but Maglor saw no others. If any saw him, they must have thought little of the wanderer. He was unimpressive in dress, with only a plain tunic and tattered brown robe to cover him. They were stolen, but Maglor did not think their former owner lost much sleep over the fact. He had left his sword and remaining wealth, save a few…

one mead hall to attack and take over another mead hall. In other Anglo-Saxon works like "The Seafarer" and "The Wanderer," this seems to be the central problem in Anglo-Saxon life. And, essentially, this is what happens in Beowulf. What is Grendel? He is every Anglo-Saxon's nightmare. He is the mead hall wrecker who displaces mead hall residents, and turns them into exiles and wanderers. He is the worst thing that could happen, and often did happen, to Anglo-Saxons. There was no central…

provides countless examples of her efforts in the community so that the reader can feel a sense of hope and optimism regarding Hester’s situation. The author appeals to the joyful emotions of the audience by stating that she had “brought back the poor wanderer to its path” (133) and is being treated as if the scarlet letter was not resting on her chest. In addition, the author uses long, complex sentences to express the long amount of time and extensive efforts…

In recent decades, a great deal of scholarship has emerged regarding the topic of mythological and fairy tale appropriation in Eudora Welty’s various works, especially in her short story collection The Golden Apples. Secondary to her utilization of myth and fairy tale is the accompanying gender role reversal evident in her re-structuration and characterization of the traditional tales that she chooses to interpret. However, the fact that scholars like Rebecca Mark, Joseph Millichap, and Lauren…