Immortals Movie Summary Theseus and his mother live in a village. Theseus is being mentored by an old man who is actually Zeus in disguise. Theseus was the product of his mother being raped and was considered a social outcast. Hyperion's family dies from a sickness who's prays to the Gods were never answered, so he decides to seek revenge and declares war on Olympus. He begins looking for the Epirus Bow, which he wants to use to free the titans to destroy the gods and attacks several places.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu decide to fight a terrifying demon named Humbaba, because he was standing on their way to meet gods. The two heroes managed to kill Humbaba. “ Gilgamesh swiftly cut the breast, splattering blood upon his cloak and sandals.” (page 34). On their way they met with Ishtar, the goddess of love, is overcome with lust for Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh rejects her.
“The raven himself is hoarse/ That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan” (Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 41-42.) This foreshadows Duncan’s death because the raven was believed to be the messenger of evil tidings. Lady Macbeth had just received word that Macbeth was Thane of Cawdor and would become king of Scotland. She believes Macbeth is not capable of direct action and was determined to convince her husband to murder Duncan who was the present king. Shakespeare foreshadows the downfall of Scotland by including the unusual actions by animals.
Waking up to dead men hanging above you after a great night of celebration, probably not a situation you want to be in. Grendel’s mother’s way of getting revenge for killing her son Grendel was this. Beowulf leaps up fuming, no one ever told him about a mother. Beowulf being the hero that he is agrees to kill the mother. Beowulf goes into battle on his own.
The reflection story I choose is called Why I Hunt: A Predators Meditation by Rick Bass. The short story tells of Bass’s love of hunting for both elk and deer. However, the significance of the story goes far beyond merely killing an animal for its meat, as it tells mostly of the emotional struggle he feels as a hunter. Bass acknowledges the fact that he is a predator but wonders if his insatiable need for meat will somehow affect him in a later life. He questions whether or not he will have to pay for all of the innocent animals’ deaths that he has caused.
Hercules has a mother but she is the one that tried to kill him when he was a baby, and beowulfs mother is not mentioned in the epic which leads to believe that in order to be great hero a mother figure musn't be in the picture. in Hercules story he falls in love with a girl, almost kills himself for her by going into the lake of death where all the dead souls are. And Beowulf dosent have a girl he is is love with or any girl that he falls in love with he has no distractions, Hercules dosent really know how to control his massive streghth as a teenager shown by knocking over all the beams in his village and no one wanting to play with him because he causes so much damage, Beowulf does know how to use and control his power using it when necacary hes not known as a cluts, Hercules for the most part fights everything one on one, Beowulf has a group of tweleve men to help him fight Grendel in Harot. Partying and getting drunk is a theme in beowulf and in Hercules those arn't a theme. Hercules has a childhood that is told and shown, Beowulf does not have one that is mentioned in the epic.
In Sophocles “Oedipus the king”, Oedipus was sent to mount Cithaeron as a new born baby to die after his father (King Laius) was cursed by the gods and heard of a prophecy that his son is to kill his father and marry his mother (Queen Jocasta). The Shepard in charge of this could not kill the baby so instead Oedipus is adopted. Later Oedipus hears about the prophecy, and leaves, afraid that the prophecy would come true. Along the way he gets in a fight with a man and kills him, unknowingly his father. He then solves a riddle from the Sphinx, which has been terrorizing a kingdom, and in return, the kingdom gives him their queen's hand in marriage, which is his biological mother.
Up until this point of the story, we can assume that this hunter is possibly a normal man. It is not until he is described chewing the raw meat of his catch that we think differently of him. Soon after we learn he is really a vile creature of the forest, he reveals his hairy body to the grandmother and then eats her up. In “The Werewolf,” Red Riding Hood is instructed
She found a narcissus flower and out from the earth came Hades in a golden chariot to carry off a screaming Persephone. Unbeknown to her, Zeus had made a deal with Hades for him to take away Persephone. Demeter, Persephone’s mother went through a period of fasting and carried a torch until Helios told her of the deal. In anger she cast off her godly robes and took on the façade of an old woman to roam the earth. She was found by the four daughters of Keleos by a fountain in Eleusis.
Satan seized an oppurtunity to raze mankind in order to glorify himself over God, the Queen attempts to kill Snow White so she will become the fairest on the land. The Queen knows that there is only one way to kill Snow White and thats to appeal to her desires and trick her, thus just as Satan did, by disguising herself and tricking her, against her better judgement. She takes a bite of the detrimental apple. All throughout the movie Snow White "wishes for the one she loves" and in one scene she begins to pray to God for her many needs just as Adam and Eve did before they ate an apple off the tree of knowledge. The Queen offers her one more way to make her dreams come true and that was by taking a bite