William Golding forebodes fear in the early chapters of the book through his descriptive language choices and his own experiences. He wanted to convey that humans could go from being civilised and socially acceptable to destructive savages. Using words such as littluns emphasises to the reader that children should not always be looked over as innocent and similar, but that everyone, including children, have an “evil” side. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the theme of human nature to show how easily society can collapse, and how self-destructive human nature is. At the beginning, the boys have a sense of humour and excitement to be on the island.
Due to the fact that Beowulf is telling the story, were only able to see what he and the other humans see about Grendel and thus can only find a way to relate to those characters and only know what they and the author tell us. In Grendel you see the heroic tale from the monster's point of view, allowing the reader to see a softer, more cowardice side of Grendel, "I was about to sob. I wanted to smash things, bring down the night with my howl of rage. But I kept still. She was beautiful, as innocent as dawn on winter hills.
A particular example of this can be seen in Act 3, Scene 1, in which Puck transforms Bottom's head into that of an Ass, comical because it is a basic example of visual, almost slapstick, humour. Following this, Puck gleefully declares that his 'mistress with a monster is in love', potentially also making him a clever, cynical wit. During the character's time in the forest, or what Frye describes as the 'Green World', the hierarchies are very much distorted, resulting in Puck seeing himself much higher up in the hierarchy than usual, 'what fools these mortal be', and thus we see the slaves becoming the masters. In festival typically, we all become maters and the subversion of
Within this theme we see the reoccurring element of gothic villains where “the exaggeration of just one aspect of the beautiful can produce the hideous,” (Bayer 80) in this case it is literal and can be applied to the monster where this is achieved with “combinations of the normal or even beautiful through an unexpected fusion of different realms. “ (Bayer 80) When victor builds the monster, he wants to make the perfect creation. Driven by his goal of fame from the fellow scientists, whatever he is able to create will be judged by all. This is why he obsesses over finding the perfect ingredients and parts day and night neglecting his own health for that of his perfect monster. He finds only the best parts Senechal 2 of the best bodies and sews them together and the gothic element is added.
“Snowball and Napoleon butted the door open with their shoulders and the animals entered in single file…Snowball and Napoleon called them together.” The words “entered” and “single file” shows and tells the reader that Snowball and Napoleon were in charge. The word “butted” tells the reader that it was abrupt and sudden. It also tells you that there was no signal and the fact that they “butted” in tells the reader that they are at a higher status than all the other animals. Because Orwell has described Napoleon as “fierce” it tells the reader that he is ruthless in competition. Orwell successfully makes the reader think and let them know how Napoleon “plays his cards” and how all the animals have so much respect for Napoleon even though he doesn’t speak as much as Snowball.
This green fat ogre with Mike Myers’ voice is actually the typical antihero, the one that at first is reluctant to take his place as the hero but eventually does something heroic, gets the girl and finds his place in society (oh well, the swamp). But Shrek is not the only interesting character. Princess Fiona is the modern, independent woman who ends up not caring about her looks but about finding someone who actually loves her for who she truly is. Even if at the beginning of the film she plays the traditional fairy tale princess who is wating for Prince Charming, her role changes drastically. And Eddie Murphy plays Donkey, the funny sidekick who makes the audience laugh every time he appears on the screen.
Othello Imagery Journal Animal Imagery 1. a) Iago: And though he in a fertile climate dwell / Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy, /Yet throw such chances of vexation on’t / As may lose some colour. (1.1. 71-74) b) Do your best in creating rage and commotion within Desdemona’s family, and destroy all tranquility there might be in Brabantio’s life. Iago is ordering Roderigo to go and make a commotion in front of Brabantio’s house, telling Brabantio that he’s been “robbed” his daughter by Othello, using the most primitive, vulgar description in order to make Brabantio angry and take action against Othello. c) Poison, incense, plague, lose some colour.
No matter where you are, no matter who you are, you can always find a fool, but why are they that way? Puck, the character one may refer to as the half-man, half-goat, he is quite the fool and he needs to learn how to use those love potions. Bottom the one who is full of himself and ready for all the parts. When we put them together, we get a foolish duet with the things they do together. In the end, wherever you put these two, something funny will happen, or someone will screw something up; together or not.
A ‘glamorous’ skunk. The poem takes to other themes also. The reader feels amused by Heaney comparison of his wife to a skunk. It seems an unlikely comparison. The juxtaposition of Heaney wife to a street roaming skunk is full of wonder.
But what if the big bad wolf really wasn’t so bad? This idea is explored in The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, where the wolf just has a bad cold and was looking for some sugar from his very rude pig neighbors. As a child, I remember loving how funny this book was, but I appreciate it even more as an adult. It’s funny to hear things from the poor wolf’s perspective, like that he didn’t mean to sneeze and blow the first two pigs houses down, and that he was just trying to make a cake for his grandmother. I really enjoyed the story.