At Camp Half-Blood, Chiron allows Percy to hear his “Great Prophecy.” Afterwards, he informs the Camp of a spy for Kronos, but they put that aside as they have much bigger problems such as the impeding war against the Titans. Soon, Percy once again leaves camp with Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades, to find out Nico’s battle strategy. Percy agrees with his plan and procures a blessing from his mother, which allowed him to descend in the Underworld. Here, Nico betrays Percy to find out more information about his mother, while Hades betrays them both and locks Percy in a cell. Nico however, helps Percy escape and they went back to the original plan, which was to bathe Percy in the River Styx and gain Achilles’ power, invulnerability.
The book 1984 is written by George Orwell and was published in 1949 as a prediction of what would happen if Britain was run by totalitarian government. Specifically, the SparkNote’s 1984: Themes, Motifs, & Symbols, “1984 is a political novel written with the purpose of warning readers in the West of the dangers of totalitarian government.” Signifies the point. The story of this book is one man, Winston, against the whole government. Winston is rebelling against the party on his own and trying to survive. Then he meets Julia, fellow co-worker, who is also against the party.
She writes, “A bomb drops. All the windows rattle” (937). The use of syntax, and short sentences, Woolf tries to bring the audience into the story. These short phrases depict the destruction and sudden death to the victims, but also the sudden realization to the women at home that they truly need help. Furthermore, Woolf uses more rhetorical questions when se says, “Why not bury the head in the pillow, plug the ears, and cease the futile activity of idea-making?
This is literally interpreted into the room where the light is always on. The dream has foreshadowed Winston’s future of getting to be in the place without darkness with O’Brien. The rats in this book carry a significant value of this story. Rats are what Winston is scared of, and causes the downfall of Winston. Because he was threatened with a box of rats, Winston later gives up his last aspect of humanity and individuality by betraying Julia to save his own life, which shows background information about
Mr. Charrington, the owner of the antique shop, was an undercover Thought Police agent who caught Julia and Winston in their secret room they rented out above his shop. The Spies encourage children to report thoughtcrime if they have witnessed it as well. Parsons’ daughter reports him to the Thought Police when he unknowingly talked ill of the Party in his sleep. Surprisingly, Parsons was proud of his daughter since she was so loyal to the Party and, to him, it shows how well he raised her (Orwell 233). These ways of surveillance should never take place.
He tells this story to Becca and her guide Magda. Josef holds the key to Gemma’s past. Josef gives Becca all the information that unravels the secrets of Gemma’s origin. Gemma is a survivor of the Holocaust and she tells her story of the horrific events she went through by telling it as if it is the story of sleeping beauty, Briar Rose is a metaphor for Gemma’s life. “I was the princess in the castle in the sleeping woods… we all fell asleep, but the prince kissed me awake.
And last, the language of different scenarios, i.e. battles vs. joyous occasions, lends itself to glorifying deadly and gruesome struggles. Homer has a unique way of devising the plot, giving mixed signals and paradoxes, but it all just gives to the realism of this amazing piece of literature. Odysseus’ faithfulness for his wife is questionable. In the first book, you find that he is sleeping with a woman named Kalypso, a sea nymph.
In the song, “I Have A Dream,” Common sings “In search of brighter days, I ride through the maze of madness.” The same thing can be said by Gatsby as he pursues his own American dream. Gatsby’s dream is to be with Daisy, who is married to Tom. Gatsby gets so caught up in getting Daisy, he lets her take advantage of him, which eventually leads to Gatsby’s murder. Gatsby’s American dream faintly exists, however Gatsby’s corrupted views on his social standings diminishes any chance he has with Daisy. Gatsby’s American dream, which was almost impossible to achieve, faintly existed.
His claim that the singing woman “had no mind”, insinuates that Winston’s estimation of the proles remains mired in his Party ingrained elitism. However, as Winston expands on this notion it becomes clear he has evolved. Winston philosophizes, “Out of those mighty loins a race of conscious beings must one day come. You were the dead; theirs was the future. But you could share in that future if you kept alive the mind as they kept alive the body... ” (227).
Graham’s Night Journey tells of Jocasta’s destiny, the triumphal entry of Oedipus, their meeting, new love and intimacy and then their devastating discovery that their relationship is not of husband and wife, but actually of mother and son. Movement and non-movement components, motifs and symbols will be analysed in order to outline the emotions of devastation, love and hope of Jocasta’s inner core. Motif 1: Devolope In the beginning of the piece, Graham has used certain movement techniques in ways to communicate Jocasta’s lost and desperate need of help and guidance after the loss of her beloved husband. In particular, she performs very sharp, rigid and strong movements to suit and connect with the powerful music. A way to show that she feels lost and heartbroken is through rigid isolations of the chest and wrapping her hands tightly around her body and then releasing them with intense power.