widespread of females within their plays Macbeth and The Witch. The addition of female characters sets such plays apart from other modern playwrights. Creativily, it is an interesting writing technique for male writers’ to use social sterotypes of women in their plays, to aid with the barren aspect of women reap sympathy. By using the female creates a corrupt and conniving woman to tell a story to reveal the most powerful weapon of a witch, their word. (Stavreva 311) Through the creation of…
the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Introduction: Shouts of fear are heard. Cries of injury are heard. The army falls back in retreat, for they are outnumbered. This may sound terrible, but it is a battle. A battle for the fight of who may rule. The story being spoken of is the battle of Narnia in The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The battle in this story, however, results in a new rulers for Narnia, and an end to the evil reign of the white witch. There are…
Spoilers ahead. Be spoiled. Be wicked. Live deliciously. For the past year I’ve seen trailers and tidbits on a new movie “The Witch” that apparently was a film festival hit and would soon be reaching our screens. At first I was pretty flippant about the whole thing, I assumed it was simply another puritan witch hunt movie and I’ve had my fill of films like that. While this is essentially that type of movie, it does take things in a new direction, especially towards the end. The scariest thing…
stories had on Lewis’s work in later life, especially in ‘The Chronicles of ‘Narnia’. It focuses mainly on ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ and ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’. It examines the similarities between Queen Jadis in ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ and the legendary Queen Medbh of Connacht, compares Tír na nÓg with the land of Narnia in ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, analyses the influences of other Irish mythology on these…
an unholy menace and heretic to be hunted. Hex: Heretic Starting at 3rd level, whenever your spellcasting feature would allow you learn a witch spell of 1st level or higher, you can choose the new spell from the cleric spell list, in addition to the witch spell list. You must otherwise obey all other restrictions for selecting the spell, and it becomes a witch spell for you. This hex is always active and you can cast other hexes while it is in effect. Touch of the Moerae Starting at 6th…
The Night Witches where a group of all female bomber pilots. They ranged in age from late teens to early twenties. This group made the Soviet Union the first nation to allow women to fly combat missions for the war efforts. The name “Night Witches” is a nickname that was given to them by the Nazi soldiers. This nickname was due to the fact that when they went near their target they would cut off their plane engines, the only sound heard was the “swooshing” of the planes; similar to that of a…
guardians another. Books major may praise a few viewpoints while dream fans will love it from different angles. Prince Caspian incorporates the landing to Narnia of the four Pevensie posterity of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The novel is set about a year later than The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in English time, yet following 1,300 years in Narnian time. The Pevensie kids are astounding Kings and Queens of Narnia and are mysteriously checked on in reality as adolescents…
So, I had said to her, “So let me get this straight. She (Abellona) sells her soul to the Devil, and he makes her a witch. Then, she curses the village, which she really can't do until after she's dead. She then dies when she gets thrown into the river here. The villagers then take her body and bury her up in these woods high atop Mt. Harrison somewhere. The Devil keeps…
The first novel that opened the door into the world of fantasy and true imagination through literature for me was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis. The pages transported me to another world, as though I was stepping through Narnia alongside the characters. The storyline was magical and entertaining for a young girl, creating a place for my mind to wander and explore. Narnia and the characters became a sense of comfort and curiosity through each chapter, as I was beginning to…
The Wardrobe In the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe there is a portal to a whole other place, unlike which anyone has ever seen. College is just like that. First you come up to this big scary door that you're not quite sure you should open, because something big lies ahead and there is no way to tell if it is something good or something bad. When you are about start to college you have a big process to complete, there is a point where someone thinks about whether they should quit while they…