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    Symbolism In Beowulf

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    How many people have paid attention to the characters in the Epic “Beowulf”? Have you noticed the symbolism that each character poses in this Epic Story? Maybe you didn't really observed them enough to realize the have a lot of symbolism behind their character? Let's look at at the Three Monsters that Beowulf had to face and Defeat. One of them being a Strong Ogre/Demon with speed and bloodthirst? Beowulf did not Use a Weapon against Grendel? Well let's take a closer look to this. Every detail can

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    was the owner of a powerful trident. Then there was Hades first son of Rhea. The god of the underworld. After a long period of time things got pretty boring in the underworld for a Hades. Then he started to have unusual visitors so he created the hellhound.(Greek Mythology) (Cerberus) Then there was of group of people that called themselves the Twelve Olympians. The Twelve Olympians were Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes, Hestia and Dionysus

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    be, there were no feet. There were cloven hooves.” Setting ~ Near the Canoeing Lake at Camp Half-Blood Hill Near the canoeing lake at camp Half-Blood Hill, after capture the flag, Percy learns of who his father is. Percy was just attacked by a Hellhound when he was in the lake healing his wounds and a hologram of a trident appeared above his head, and his father was determined. “Poseidon,” Chriron said (126). “Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God

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    The Cursèd Body of Richard III Richard III is seen as a monster and a horrible person, but why? What if people saw him differently or if his family treated him equally like others? Also nobody wants to love an ugly hunchback. This is how Richard is treated in the play. He despises everybody, including God and all of is creations so he decides to conquer the land and become King of England. The house of Lancaster treats Richard very poorly, he grew up with a hateful mother and his family always

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    The one thing that Shakespeare has always mastered in his play productions is contrast. This may be between moods, characters, or even the idea of light and dark. This is no different in the play Macbeth. The contrast between light and dark in this play goes from moral and goodness down to progressively evil. This is all circling around Macbeth. Though this is shown by his actions, the world around him, and his character. In this play we see the this exact change of a person from good to evil this

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    The Hound of the Baskerville Crime fiction became popular in the 1840’s with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, however scientific crime fiction has been credited to Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur Conan Doyle is the author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. This fictional detective, made his first appearance in The Strand Magazine short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in 1891 and appeared in four novels and 56 short stories. One of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous novels is “The Hound of the Baskervilles”

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    In most modern movies, fantasy novels, and stories, the main character goes through a journey. In fact, we even see this journey so often, that we may not even recognize it. What may be familiar to you is the way the main character progresses through the story, and by looking at the Lightning Thief we can see that it embodies the archetypal pattern of “The Hero’s journey”. The Hero’s journey makes up the basic structure for most mythological or fantasy stories and it retains certain elements essential

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    Further develops this understanding of the time when he says "discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them". The quote can be related to Crooks and the discrimination he went through. The discrimination

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    battle. As a demi-god, Percy is very brave. “A strange fire burned in my stomach. The weirdest thing was: it wasn't fear. It was anticipation. The desire for revenge. Hades had tried to kill me three times so far, with the Fury, the Minotaur, and the hellhound. It was his fault my mother had disappeared in a flash of light. Now he was trying to frame me and my dad for a theft we hadn't committed.” This is an important part in the story because it shows that he doesn't fear the God of the Underworld. This

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    her sword. As Percy and Clarisse were fighting, Percy got a cut on his arm. Then Percy fell back into the lake, felt the pain of his cut disappear, and felt like he was more powerful. As Percy felt like he was more powerful, he had to fight off a hellhound who suddenly

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