First, Beowulf crosses the sea to help king Hrothgar during an incredibly powerful storm. Many common men and even many other great men would have succumbed to Mother Nature’s fury, yet Beowulf makes it to his destination unharmed. Also, again one looks to Beowulf’s struggle against the monster Grendel. Not only does Beowulf fight and beat the monster, but he does so on his own and without any weapons, shields, or armor. This truly exemplary feat is pictured to us when the book says, “[Beowulf] stopped those claws/ In his fists till they cracked, clutched Grendel/ Closer.”(50) In addition Beowulf also swims for hours to find, battle, and kill his enemy that was Grendel’s mother.
Although this crafty hero has many other great qualities, these qualities are the highlights of his character. Odysseus’s best quality, in my opinion, is his sneaky cleverness. Odysseus is always thinking, and he shows it numerous times throughout his adventures. One of his most crafty plans, on page 225, was when he tied himself and all of his men to the Cyclops’s ram’s bellies and escaped from the Cyclops into their ship. Polyphemus, the Cyclops, didn’t sense that the Odysseus and the men were hiding, and when he let is rams free, the crew escaped.
Blatantly, Alfred Hitchcock introduces his movie with a shot of cawing birds, establishing suspense, and then drops the audience on their rears, stranded with a few shots of squawking birds. There is lack of a pertinent element in the film that runs amuck in the story, and this element is foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is one of the various strengths in Du Maurier’s The Birds and it is by far the most effective, and so one can elaborate to the conclusion that without a plethora of clues, the reader is numb to arising suspense. Another opportunity given to Hitchcock was the option of paralleling his movie to the genius of the story, because without taking some material from the author, his version is almost a different species and thus the lack of suspense. Furthermore, Daphne Du Maurier stresses important details so the suspense is evident.
Dillard related every performance of Rahm’s to the Tour De France exuberating an immense display of will. An Olympic gymnast at peak performance was not even enduring merely the same amount of pressure and demands as Rahm when flying the plane. A Tour De France cyclist and an Olympic Gymnast are prestigious titles to which only the talented elite can achieve. For Dillard to place Rahm above such respected artists of their trade is an understatement. This truly shows how grueling of a task driving a stunt plane is and the pressure they are under.
A hero in the sea The open boat In the story “the open boat” (Crane 185-187) Billie is one of the guys on the boat that showed a lot of strength and courageous of the boat and the people that’s on it. Other guys on the boat including the captain show carelessness most of the time by sleeping around and being exhausting form sailing. Billie Was the hero that took the correspondence’s place more than enough, even when he knew the correspondence just wanted to sleep. He kept sailing towards the beach. It was a great end for Billie showing his heroic skills, although he didn’t knew about it.
His skill illuminates his willingness and desire to truly live. He does not take for granted the skills that he has been given, rather he takes life with all full use of the throttle. The oddest, most exhilarating and exhausting thing was this: he never quit. The music had no periods no rests or endings, the poetry’s beautiful sentence never ended; the line had no finish, the sculpted forms piled overhead, one into another without surcease.” Dillard showcases the beauty of life that the stunt pilot has. His skill is an embodiment of living life to the fullest
Jack was played by Alex Rothfield. Alex was the perfect person to be Jack because in the musical he needed to be energetic, and he did. Alex did a very good job with projecting his voice and speaking clearly. My favorite part in the musical was when Jack stole the chicken that lays golden eggs from the Giant. I thought Alex played that part very well, because he interacted with the chicken and brought character into it as well.
By showing that he is loyal to his people, Beowulf in return achieves fame, which will help him achieve a good fate. All the people of Herot also look up to him which would make him a hero in their eyes. Beowulf is usually very loyal towards everyone he encounters, even when they are not always there for him. An example of this would be when he is fighting the dragon and all of his men abandon him, even Wiglaf. This however, does not affect Beowulf a whole lot, considering his brute strength.
There is a relatively strong connection to God in this book and many people during this time period believed in God. I bring this up because it was believed that God is the supreme creator of all things including the human race. It would therefore be horrendously inconceivable to challenge God and attempt to do something that would show that a mortal can have power equal to that of God. Next, regardless of how an individual comes into being it the duty of the creator to be there to nurture and care for the creature they have brought into the world. The world is a cruel place, even to those who are normal, but to someone who is different, as we see in the book, there
Their art workmanship is an intimate understanding and respect for the natural gifts the world has given them. The Iroquois believed that everything on earth and in the sky had its own spirit. There were good and bad spirits, the good spirit lived off in a beautiful place in the sky. They believed in the afterlife that your good spirit will end up in the beautiful place but the bad spirit tries to stop it from happening. In American culture this religion is similar to Christian because they also believe that there are good and bad spirits, the good spirits go to Heaven a beautiful place in the sky and the bad spirits go to Hell.