)- Polydectes convinces Perseus to kill the Medusa, a horrifying beast with snakes for hair. But this feat seems impossible because whoever looks at the snakes will turn instantly to stone. 2. Athena, Hermes and Graeae- Athena and Hermes guide Perseus to the home of the Graeae and give the guy some advice. Perseus really commits to his adventure when he blackmails the Graeae into telling him how to find the Nymphai.
He stayed inside Cronus until his brother Zeus came up with a plan. Zeus gave Cronus herbs that caused him to throw up all five of his children. Cronus seeing all of his children going against him decided to flee. Now Zeus was the lord of the universe. But he didn’t wish to rule alone, so he decided to divide his powers among his siblings.
These claims are founded from the passage in which Kay and Wart arrive home after rescuing captives from Morgan, a suspected fairy queen (102). Before they return, Morgan’s griffin attacks the boys and is then killed by Kay's arrow to its eye (113). Although dead, the momentum of the griffin’s body continues onto Wart until there is “a cruel weight on top of him”, leaving him with a broken collarbone (113). The next day the boys and the recovered prisoners come home (115). Kay's reaction to their reception provides me with insight into young boy's character.
In the Lion King, Scar kills his brother Mufasa by throwing him into a wild stampede. He then tells everyone that the king was killed but the stampede which is only half the truth. This false statement of the truth is found in the play Hamlet when Claudius pours poison into Old Hamlet’s ear and kills him but then tells the people that it was a serpent that bit him and poisoned him. Both of these statements are only half true. Another way death is seem to parallel in both the Lion King and in Hamlet is that when Timone and Pumbaa find Simba, Simba wishes he was dead, and half-heartedly tries to kill himself.
Tolkien also shows heroism through external conflict when trolls capture the dwarves and Bilbo. In chapter 3, Bilbo tries to rob the trolls but gets captured by them. Soon after, the rest of the dwarves get captured also. Heroism is shown when Gandalf comes to the rescue by changing his voice to sound like the trolls and says rude remarks to anger the trolls, they fight until dawn and turn to stone. Gandalf’s heroism is shown when Tolkien states, “It was the wizard’s voice that had kept the trolls bickering and quarrelling, until the light came and made an end of them”(41).
Dragon and its symbols I had the pleasure of going to see The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug earlier this month where the movie was based on a group of dwarves who strived to recapture a mountain filled with treasure and slay a fearsome, greedy dragon who is now its guardian. Relating this back to J. C. Cooper and her writings, she explains how fabulous monsters such as the Dragon are symbolic and how their meanings vary across the globe. For example, in the West, the Dragon represents evil and has uncontrollable power that is used to wreak havoc, however, in the East; the Dragon is benevolent in nature, representing wisdom and true power. It is also fascinating to see how religions such as Christianity, plays a heavy role in influencing the symbolic meaning of the fabulous beasts such as the Dragon. J. C. Cooper notes how the Dragon (also known as the Serpent in the bible) is associated with the devil, signifying death and darkness from a western perspective.
“I held up the guard to taunt them, then held him still higher and leered into his face… As if casually… I bit his head off, crunched through the helmet and skull with my teeth and, sucked the blood that sprayed like a hot, thick geyser from his neck,” (Gardner 79). This quote shows how after getting the charm no weapon could hurt Grendel which allowed him to become even more monstrous with his killing. This last quote is from the very end of the book when he enters the mead hall right before he dies. “For pure, mad prank, I snatch up a cloth from the nearest table and tie it around my neck to make a napkin… I seize up a sleeping man, tear at him hungrily, bite through his bone-locks and suck hot, slippery blood. He goes down in huge morsels, head, chest, hips, legs, even the hands and feet.
Zeus is the King of all gods. He married his own sister. Zeus’ grandma, Gaia, gave Zeus a special sickle to help kill the dragons. Then Zeus set off for the underworld, the dreadful land beneath the earth where the dead lived. The dragon Gaia told him about was terrible.
The king forces Murtagh into servitude. The King then finds out that Murtagh is Eragon’s brother. Murtagh and Eragon were both shocked by this revelation. Later in the story Eragon then finds out that his father was a Dragon Rider and it was Bramn. Murtagh was a son of one of the Dragon Riders who turned evil with King Galbatorix.
‘You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you?’”(133). After the conversation with the Lord of the Flies, Simon goes unconscious, when Simon wakes up, he runs to the camp to tell everyone what he had just encountered. It was raining and there was thunder and lightning, thinking Simon is the beast, the boys deliriously murder him, “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (141).