Trickster

1. Ordinary World The protagonist’s world before the story proper begins. The hero is shown against a background of home environment, family background, and personal history. This anchors the protagonist as a sympathetic person. Some kind of divide or schism in their life is pulling them in different directions and causing stress. 2. Call To Adventure The protagonist's adventure begins when they receive the call to action. This may present itself as a direct threat to personal safety, family…

13. Pandora’s Box Pandora’s Box was a box given to Pandora, which contained all the evils in the world. 14. Prometheus and the gift of fire Prometheus, a titan who was known to be a trickster, had given mankind the gift of fire and the skill of metalwork. As a result, he was punished by Zeus, who chained Prometheus to a rock while he had his liver eaten by an eagle every day. 15. Sisyphus’ curse Sisyphus was a smart, but evil man. He tried to trick the Gods especially Zeus. As a result of this,…

Shakespeare provides each one of his plays with a conflict that is out of our world, one being a magical love potion and the other being the verdict of the stars. For Hermia and Lysander, complications arose when a notorious trickster, Puck, decided to intervene in the affairs of love with a little help from magic. While mistakenly distributing his potion to Lysander with intentions to give it to Demetrius, Lysander ironically awakes to not his true love, but Helena, a girl who…

Commonly in a comedic play it is said that “all’s well that ends well” in the case of the resolution of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” this is certainly true, the disorder and manipulation caused predominately by is resolved through both Oberon’s guiding wisdom and Puck’s manipulation. There are many happy endings; some of them are more convincing than others, for example Lysander and Hermia’s relationship, would be seen by all audiences as plausible while Demetrius and Helena’s relationship is…

The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic written by Mark Twain, the narrator is young Huckleberry Finn “Huck” he is about 12 or 13 during pre-civil war time in Missouri. Huck is uneducated, immature, superstitious and is being taught by Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas, later his father “Pap” Finn the town drunkard returns and takes Huck to a secluded rundown cabin in the woods, the young narrator runs away from his abusive father to “Jackson’s Island”, where one…

There really isn’t a definitive protagonist/antagonist that is a main character in the play. Hermia noted for her beauty, the headstrong daughter of Egeus, is sought after by both Lysander and Demetrius through the play. She’s in love with Lysander yet her father does not approve of him instead approving Demetrius. Her father asks Theseus to approve an old Athenian law that states she must either obey her father 's wishes by marrying Demetrius, join a nunnery or die. She of course objects and…

The aim of this paper is to posit that Soyinka’s adaptation of The Bacchae reveals that the allure to and support favoring Dionysos and the Dionysian religion has far less to do with an attraction towards the God Dionysos and the beliefs and rituals that go along with practicing bacchanalia, and far more to do with the aversion and rejection of the tyrannical King Pentheus, his oppressive ideology, and his inability to rule Thebes. In the very first line of the scene description on page one,…

Apart from humans, who are predominantly present in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights; animal imagery is brilliantly used by Emily Bronte in this magnum opus with deep symbolic and metaphorical meanings attached to it, and having psychological underpinning. In this study, Psychoanalysis of novel, Wuthering Heights is undertaken, which has further explained Primitivism in Healthcliff’s personality, and the regression of dog into wolf, hence going from partial…

Q. In his poetry, Ted Hughes re-casts human and nonhuman relations in a manner which makes man re-think anthropocentrism and its impact on the environment. How can the re-thinking of the category of the human be important in today's world? Elaborate in the light of any 6 poems by Ted Hughes. These poems should include at least four poems that you have not studied in your course. The given statement engages us is to explore the relations of non-human creatures like plants, animals and natural…

“Tarantino is the baddest black filmmaker working today”. “Django is able to talk himself out of most situations, as he does with the LeQuint Dickey Mining Company employees” Deggans states in his article showing how persuasive and how a fast talking trickster Django in which is impressive considering Django is an African-American slave in the 19th century. Deggans sums up how black characters in Tarantino films are portrayed; “Tarantino’s black characters may be flawed, but they are also…