Mean girls/ Julius Caesar Comparative Essay In the movie Mean Girls by Tina Fey and the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare there are many motifs. I will be specifically looking at motifs of betrayal from both stories that illustrate the theme “you have to be careful who you trust”. In the movie Mean Girls the main character Cady becomes very good friends with Regina George. Later in the movie Regina lies to Cady by telling her that she is going to hook Cady up with a boy, when really, Regina is trying to get with that same boy. Another example of betrayal in the movie Mean Girls would be when Cady gets all of Regina’s good friends to turn against her.
The white settlers saw the Indians’ belief in the spirits as superstitious and pagan nonsense as they believed in God and that God created the world and ruled over it so some saw the Indians as people who ‘needed saving’ this led to some of the white settlers trying to convert the Indians to Christianity which the Indians did not like. The Indian dance rituals were also a reason that white settlers found it difficult to understand Indian culture. The Sun Dance is a deeply spiritual and gruelling ceremony that is held during the summer solstice and lasts 4-8 days and involves smoking of the pipe, drumming, singing, experiencing visions and fasting. All though the ceremony varies slightly from tribe to tribe, some tribes like the Sioux, practice self-torture by piercing the skin of their back or chest as a personal sacrifice. A purification ritual in a Sweat Lodge always precedes the Sun Dance for the Sioux people.
“the two older sisters were very vein and cruel…[they made the girl do all the house work and charred her face] pg.” The story really shocked me. I thought that the girl would become beautiful like in the other Cinderella stories but, I was wrong. I really liked this version better than the one I grew up with because of the magnificent theme that it had. The theme is that beauty is on the inside rather than just on the outside. Even though, the girl’s face was burnt the invisible man looked past that and saw her for her.
Samson fell madly in love with an enticing woman, Delilah. The rulers of the Philistines offered her eleven hundred shekels of silver if she could lure him into revealing his weakness to her so they could then attack him with guaranteed success. She fails three times before she says to Samson, “ How can you say ‘I love you’ when you won’t confide in me?” (Judges 16:4, 15). He finally tells her that the secret of his strength is his hair, and if it were to be cut, he would loose all power. Delilah used her beauty and manipulative ways to steal his thrown and gain silver shekels for herself.
A myth at its root level is a legend or story without any determinable basis in fact (Random House Dictionary). This is why a number of religions are quite muffled when we refer to the basis of their ideology as myth. The active beings in myths are generally gods and heroes. Myths often are said to take place before recorded history begins. To me a myth is a story or tale believed to be true it is a sacred narrative, what is meant is that a myth is believed to be true by people who attach religious or spiritual significance to it, without any physical evidence that it might be true.
Abigail and the girls pretend Mary is bewitching them again which make Mary breakdown and accuse john of being a witch. After being tried as a witch and told he was going to get hanged he has a chance to confess and live but he chooses to die and keep his name. As a result of the lies and the affair between john and Abigail there were a lot of innocent people killed and hurt even those who they claimed they loved. Abigail and Elizabeth are two very different characters but have some similarities. Both Abigail and Elizabeth show determination in order to get what they want, and they are both strong
Psyche was the major reason behind Orual’s actions because Orual was jealous that everyone noticed Psyche and never acknowledged her, and this would ultimately lead to the sacrificing of Psyche to the mountain god, Ungit. It is evident that Lewis portrays Psyche as a believably perfect person because she is very noble throughout Till We Have Faces(Abromaitis, 4246). These traits are shown when Psyche is referred to as a “goddess” by Redival, when she tries to nurse the Fox, a Greek slave purchased by the King to teach Redival, Orual, and Psyche various things, and when she met with Orual to plan the Fox’s escape. The first time Psyche shows her noble character was when Redival made fun of Psyche by saying, “Why don’t you honour the goddess?” to Orual. She said that quote in reference to Psyche’s action of kissing a woman’s baby when the woman claimed it would make her baby beautiful.
When the first of the promises is proven true, Macbeth also is thinking what the witches told Banquo which was that “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none” (act I, iii). Which I believe scares Macbeth because he knows when he is done Banquo’s kids will be next in line for the throne. So with these just 3 characters looking so minor but yet having such a great effect on the story and even the people is huge. As well this talk about people in everyday that get manipulated by other people and saying one thing but making is so broad and general which can mean it can happen any day like a
The Odyssey has made clear that the Greek gods have majority of power in the decisions that affect the lifestyles of the people. What is considered right and wrong that make up today’s moral framework would have little effect on the gods’ decision in The Odyssey. The Greek gods are known to lash out with what they feel is ‘just’ behavior on a rampaging impulse of current emotion. Because justice is demonstrated as the whim of the Greek gods, it is clear that justice does rule over the human society in The Odyssey. The gods in The Odyssey, though they are Greek gods, lash out with anger and make irrational decisions, their actions have life-threatening effects on civilizations.
Throughout acts I and II, Macbeth and his wife were successful in being the "innocent flower" and "serpent under". Macbeth first seemed like this when he found out that the heir to the throne of Scotland was Malcolm and eventually again when Duncan announced he was going to stay a night in Macbeth's castle. From that point on, seeming like the flower but being the serpent came naturally to Macbeth. Upon his decision of killing Duncan, his wife Lady Macbeth, told him to not make anyone suspicious of their plans, which they succeeded in doing. During Act II, both Macbeth and his wife put on their "poker faces" and acted clueless upon discovering Duncan’s death.