How do the connections between the two texts enrich the meaning of each text? When considered on their own, texts are constructed to create meaning and impart that meaning on a responder. However when two linked texts a considered together, their meanings are enriched as the responder can compare both texts, and take extra meaning from how the two texts differ and agree with each other, by evaluating which is more effective. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice when read in isolation can be a simple bildungsroman narrative about the maturation of a young woman. However if the responder were to read Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen, the connections between the two would shape and then reshape the responder’s understanding of both texts.
Elizabeth in the Paper Bag Princess deals with character vs. nature when she faces a strong and powerful dragon. In character against natural type conflict the protagonist is fighting against the natural environment (the antagonist)”. (Literary Elements 4) The protagonist Elizabeth saves her fiancé from dragon that kidnaps the prince and burn the castle. Conflict begins when “Elizabeth decided to chase the dragon and get Ronald back” (Munsch 5) which is an example of conflict type of character against nature because dragon is a naturally strong and Elizabeth an ordinary woman character. The story becomes interesting for readers when she tries different tricks with the dragon to make him toothless so that she can rescue and meet her fiancé.
She is cunning, resourceful, and brave. She definitely does not fit into the passive role that has been given to the more popular heroines. As in many fairy tales, the beautiful daughter is basically given away as if she is an object to a man who wants to marry her. Of course the girl’s father approves of the suitor because he appears rich, but the girl is not as impressed. She, “did not like him as much as a bride should like her bridegroom,” (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm).
Not only does he conquer the two most hated villains in the history of Herot, but he also stands up for himself in situations such as those with Hrothgar and Unferth. Many people look up to the brave conqueror even more than before. On the contrary, he still needs to defeat the strongest and most difficult of the villains; the dragon. The vaguely ominous plot at this point in the epic is foreshadows the conclusion of the poem. As he fights with the dragon, he is now aware that he is going to die.
At the beginning of the poem the Earl is presented to us using the adjective "grim" to create a negative figure within the story. Tennyson portrays how Godiva breaks free from the Earls control as she "unclasp'd the wedded eagles of her belt" and she frees herself from the stereotypical contrast. Tennyson contrasts the boldness of Godiva's actions as she "rode forth" with her weakness as the beginning of the poem, shown by Tennyson's reference to the Earl as "her Lord". Therefore she defies the odds and takes charge of what she had to do in order to get rid of the taxation for her people, which “built herself an everlasting name.” Godiva is presented as the property of the Earl who is powerless without him however Tennyson portrays a shift in the balance of authority. Tennyson also tells the story in Godiva through his use of time and form to highlight the greatness of Godiva as she “builds herself an everlasting name”.
The physical description which follows underlines how out of touch she is with the male world of the ranch. She is “heavily made up” whilst the “little bouquets of red ostrich feathers” seem almost laughably inappropriate. The repetition of red – which is a colour associated with passion and danger – is an early indication of Curley’s wife flirtatious character. This is an impression underlined by her body language as she leans against the door “so that her body was thrown forward” and by the fact that she speaks “playfully” in response to George who has just “brusquely” retorted: “Well he ain’t
Mood-The mood of Delotra is emotional it brings new adventure and education about the land but is very sad and gloomy tough out the story where told that the land is in danger because of the shadow and his attack on the land also we see that dragons are dieing off. Setting-The setting take place on the mystical land of Deltora but its not all sun shine and rainbows Deltora is in a cold war and is being put in hands of the Shadow Lords wrath the story is token though out this land as we see the effects of Shadow Lord and his alone wrath The Main
Meanwhile, Alanna and Roger have a vicious encounter where they renew their old hatred, and Alanna suspects that Lady Delia and others, including her old rival Alex of Tirragen, are plotting to overthrow Jonathan and put Roger in his place. On the eve of the Coronation, Alanna meets the Great Mother Goddess, who warns her that the Coronation will be a "crossroad in time." Sure enough, during the ceremony, insurgents wearing Tirragen and Eldorne colors storm the palace and Alanna and her friends fight to protect Jonathan. Thom dies, drained of his life-force energy by Roger's dark spell, and Alanna's magical cat Faithful is also killed. In a sheer rage, Alanna kills Alex when he tries to detain her from reaching Roger, and she confronts her archenemy, who uses her magical mystical sword - part Lightning, part the Bazhir shaman's sword - to bring her to him.
Beowulf goes into battle on his own. Evil is a beautiful thing or in this case person Beowulf learns. Grendel’s mother looks nothing like a monster she is irresistible, convincing, and attractive. She promises him power, wealth, and a nice life. Beowulf can’t resist her or her substantial promises so he lays with her giving up the dragon cup.
One of her quotes read that “Grendel escaped, but wounded as he could flee to his den, his miserable hole at the bottom of the mnarsh, only to die, to wait for the end”. Her revenge for the murder of her son is first observed when she invades Heorot. Grendel’s mother is not just a monster, she is a mother who has human-like characteristics due to the fact that she is sad that her son was killed by the men. “Roared out a battle cry, a cry so loud and clear that it reached through the.....hung in the dragon’s ear. The beast rose, angry knowing that a man had come”.