Lobsang Diki
Carolyn Ferrell
Stories and Transformations
Princess of Panchal
“Rajkumari…Rajkumari” the maid cried. Draupadi who had been awaiting news of any development in the grand court was alarmed hearing the trepidation in the voice calling her out. She rushed to the petrified maid who was gasping for breath and firmly placed a hand on her shoulder.
“Tell me” She said.
“Rajkumari, it is Yuvraj Arjuna” the maid replied. Draupadi’s heart sunk, she found herself stepping back, stumbling. After pausing for another breath, the maid continued, “Rajkumar Yudhisthira lost him as well.”
“Look, the son of a blind man is blind as well.”
These words that were ensued by a roar of laughter echo loudly in her head. She felt faint. She remembered Duryodhana drenched from head to toe, his red eyes swearing vengeance. Unsteadily she walked towards the balcony, her hands reaching for the railing. She gloomily looked beyond the borders, at her former kingdom. Indraprastha was wagered by Yudhisthira first, followed by his brothers her husbands Sahadev, then Nakul, then Bhima and now, her beloved Arjuna. The man who was known as the greatest archer in the world. The man who won her hand by hitting the eye of a moving fish up in the heavens while only looking at its reflection through the water placed below him. The man whose Mother unknowingly asked that she be shared amongst his brothers. The man for whom she accepted five men as husbands. Her gaze went beyond the sandstone houses that
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period. The book Celia a Slave is a factual interpretation of an isolated incident that depicted
The story “Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden,” is based on the obituary of Droctulft who was a warrior. The origin of the story is La Poesia, is an summarize Latin text, which the historian Paul the Deacon was able to preserved. In the first paragraph of the story, Droctulft is depicted as a glorify warrior who the people of Ravenna conveyed. Although Droctulft die defending the city he had been attacking, the people of Ravenna portrayed him as a man of kindness and ease.
Larissa Taylor takes her readers on a journey through the life of the infamous Joan of Arc. Joan can be easily recognized as a historical figure in the 15th century, a female warrior, and a woman that was fiercely independent and determined. Joan’s life has been told again and again, which has slowly taken away from the incredible woman that held so many triumphs. Instead of giving her readers a list of Joan’s accomplishments, Taylor enthralls the reader by detailing every step of Joan’s life, start to finish, so that one can really understand the life of the warrior.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, a slave narrative written by Harriet Ann Jacobs is highly commended for the portrayal of women during the excruciating times of slavery. Disregarding that the slave narrative was initially written for the audience of Caucasian women, “…, as white women constituted Jacobs’s primary audience at the time she wrote her narrative” (Larson,742) the struggles of being a female slave were emphasized throughout the narrative. Harriet Ann Jacobs elaborates on slave women’s worth being diminished. In the slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by Harriet Ann Jacobs, the theme of the perils of slavery for women was portrayed by women being viewed
The autobiography , Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl, was written by Harriet Ann Jacobs under the pseudonym name Linda Brendt. This book details the life of slavery and how Jacobs’ achieved freedom for her children and for herself. Jacobs’ detailed these painful, and intricate accounts through forty-one chapters. Harriet Jacobs unfortunate experiences as a slave were significantly shaped because of her gender. Jacobs did indeed endure struggles through her race, but her gender is of great significance during her time as a slave. Jacobs used herself as an example to show how enslaved women were manipulated by their masters, the difficulties of being a mother during slavery mother, and how the fight for freedom were all impacted by her gender.
The hero is one of the most commonly seen archetypes throughout literature and film. While there are many different types of heroes, there are particular characteristics that identify a character as a hero. These characteristics are largely not in regards to who the hero is: personality traits, beliefs, or values – rather, these attributes concern the hero’s journey and the actions the hero takes while on that journey. In Guillermo Del Toro’s film, Pan’s Labyrinth, Ofelia is an archetypal hero because she is born into royalty, leaves her family and land, goes on an adventure, receives supernatural help, proves herself many times, and is rewarded spiritually when she dies.
Maria, our former maid, came to see us. Sobbing she begged us to come with her to
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, depicts the story of Harriet Jacobs and her journey through a horrific life of slavery. She chooses to tell her story through the eyes of a character named Linda Brent. Harriet tells her life story nearly from start to finish, opening with the depiction of her life as a very young girl born into slavery. Continuing into her young adult years, and ultimately ending with hope for a future free from slavery in her later years. The experiences Linda faces are unimaginable and heartbreaking. As the readers, we not only get to see the culture of the time period that came with Linda 's life, but we also witness what Linda learns about herself though this story. These realizations provide reflection on the
The movie The Cinderella Man used boxer James J. Braddock as a representation of the many American people who experienced a prosperous life in the twenties that suddenly turned poverty-stricken during the Great Depression. As happy prosperous times quickly turned to those of stress and desperation, many Americans took risks in order to persevere through life. Before poverty struck, people took risks fueled by wealth and success, and during the Great Depression risks were influenced by desperate times. The struggles and choices people were forced to make during these times mirrored experiences James Braddock had himself. Braddock was a successful boxer who broke his hand and fought to find work while struggling to provide for his family during the Great Depression. From riches to rags, then back again, Braddock was a true figure of hope, as well as a reflection of the American people. The movie The Cinderella Man portrayed the wealth of the 1920s as well as the disparity of the Great Depression where people relied on risks and hope to survive.
Throughout the first few paragraphs of Maria Tatars introduction to fairytales, she explains how these influential stories help shape individuals from a young age. As Tatar points out in her introduction, fairytales take children on an adventure where they can explore their imagination, and uncover their own fears and desires. Fairytales also corrupt the innocent minds of adolescents as they demonstrate, that the world can be unfair, and people can be cruel. This imaginary world [similar to life] can be a roller coaster ride of emotions; which can substitute as either an escape from reality, or a model for everyday struggles. Tatar explains that even though people grow up reading the same classic stories, like for example Cinderella, each one
Harriet Jacob was the first African American women to have authored a slave narrative in the United States and was instinctive into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina. Living a good life with her skilled carpentered father and her mother, Jacob didn’t much of being a slave. However, when her mother had passed away, Jacob and her father were reassigned to a different slave owner were her life as a women slave began. Because of this change, she fled to New York where she started working in the Anti-Slavery movement. During this period, she focused more on her family then she did the issue of slavery. Family is an emotional anchor in the Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl because Linda was devoted to her children. She uses symbolism, imagery, and allegory because she wants to demonstrate what families should be like.
In the story Celia, A Slave, there are ethical problems that are important in slavery. Slaves were seen as objects with no rights, and consequently they were not treated the same as white people. In the book, Celia was charged with murdering her master. The way she was treated as a slave in the Newsom farm and throughout her trial implies how much corruption was seen in the United States. Several people do not realize that slavery is a very complicated and complex idea. Slavery has many distresses and fears that are associated to it that troubled both the slaves and their masters. There was a war between the control of the masters and resistance of the slaves. This war started from the beginning of slavery and did not end until slaves were set free. This essay will show the dark period in the United States history by examining the social, political, and sexual ramifications of slavery. As this essay will show, the story of Celia demonstrates the origin of racial problems the United States still faces today in our civilization.
The present study is based on the idea of displacement as the major theme of the selected short stories of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of maladies”. The book contains nine short stories and each one of them deals with the question of identity, alienation, and plight of those who are physically and psychologically displaced. But I would like to limit my studies to the three short stories from the collection viz. “When Mr. Pirzada came to dine”, Interpreter of Maladies”, and “Mrs. Sen’s”. The migration has become one of the most important issues of the contemporary world. Jhumpa Lahiri is also a diasporic writer like Salman Rushdie, V.S Naipaul and Bharati Mukherjee. The characters in the prescribed stories are citizens of more than one country
In “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior,” Elisabeth Panttaja makes a claim that the Grimms’ version of “Cinderella” provides reasons that Cinderella may not have been so fortunate due to her being “good and pious.” One main point that she discusses within the article is the mother/daughter relationship Cinderella shares with her deceased mother, in comparison to the mother/daughter relationship shared between the stepmother and stepsisters. Panttaja argues that the mothers in each relationship are both motivated by the same thing, “to ensure a future of power and prestige for their daughter” (Panttaja). Panttaja continues to identify how both mothers’ motives are similar, but her argument falters when she attempts to bring Cinderella’s