White Witch

Macbeth vs. White Witch The strive of ambition for power can seem to be true perfection, but one should be careful what they wish for, because that power might be exactly what caused their downfall. This is true in William Shakespeare's story of a man named Macbeth. And C.J. Lewis’s novel about a White Witch, Jadis. Merciless, cruel, and power-hungry, both Macbeth and the White Witch portray an image of pure evil. Although the White Witch & Macbeth are named royalty--King or Queen---,they never

possibly even a symbolic figure of satan himself. The White Witch—Jadis is a power-hungry, sadistic person who claimed the throne of Narnia by brute force. When she first appears in the novel, it's through the distressed conversation between Lucy and Tumnus. This immediately gives the White Witch a vile and villainous image. However, it's not until the Witch runs into Edmund, when the reader can truly start to see the connections between the witch and her biblical counterparts. In Genesis, Adam and

The White *itch “And back behind those smiling lips, / And down within those laughing eyes,.../ The shadow of the panther lurks, / The spirit of the vampire lies” (25, 26, 29, 30). The supernatural poem “The White Witch” by James Weldon Johnson gives us an insight to what lay behind the curtains during the Harlem Renaissance. The poem takes a real life situation of the era, white women luring black men to their death via false blame, and portrays it as a fairy tale. Using symbolism, white women

Amanda Payne Compare the White Witch to Cronus from Greek Mythology. Both had their kingdom taken away from them by tricking. Cronus zapped people and the Witch turned them to stone. They both had a way of getting rid of their adversaries that was successful until their enemy came along. Both the witch and Cronus were misunderstood. What would you do in their shoes? Ask yourself what you personally would do if someone challenged your authority. Cronus kept eating his children because he did not

The White Witch is back for her Throne One lovely snowy morning Remi had just woken up and looked very blissful on this great planned Saturday. Remi put her pink slippers on and opened the closet door very quietly and got her blue dress out and layed on her bed Remi turned around and jumped on Olivia , Olivia jerked up and screamed. Ethan and Eli ran into the room because they heard the scream. Remi said that ¨she jumped on Olivia and she go scared ¨. Remi had a little smile on her face and

The Wicked Witch and Snow White Edith Wharton presents two memorable characters in her novel, Ethan Frome. The reader is presented with Mattie Silver who is young, and good-natured, and Zeena Frome, who is a bitter hypochondriac seven years her husband’s senior. Upon a first inspection, Zeena Frome and Mattie Silver of Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome seem to be extreme opposites in every respect, but upon closer scrutiny, one finds though they are indeed different in character, though they eventually

Religious Symbolism in ?The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe? The act of resurrecting from the dead, breathing life in those that were recently trapped in the eternal imprisonment of death, and expressing redemptive love through giving up one?s life to save another are only some of the similarities that are present between characters in ?The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe? and religious figures such as Jesus Christ, the Son of Man. In the book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, written by C

the unshakeable truth. In a sense, all books become historical texts. Why would an adult, a knowledgeable and trustworthy source, ever write anything but fact? For C.S. Lewis, this childish outlook on the world ensured that his novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, would take root in the minds of children like an unkillable weed, affecting an entire generation, and well beyond. The Catholic themes within the novel, while rather obvious to an adult, were hidden well enough to be altogether invisible

In Ms. McDonald’s classroom, one learns that what you have does not define who you are. Even though you have more or less than someone does not mean they are any better or worse than you. When it comes to Linda’s English 11 course you are put in the role of everything from a king to a little boy in Africa. In the story of Macbeth William Shakespeare reviews a story of a man named Macbeth who wanted to become King, he wanted so bad to be king that he went to the extremes of killing his cousin to get

In 1950, eager readers approaching the children’s fantasy section of the bookstore were met with an unusual new title: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. To children, the combination of those three things was intriguing enough. To adults, the name of the author would have piqued more interest: C. S. Lewis, the renowned Christian writer. His name appears on such other titles as The Screwtape Letters, The Problem of Pain, The Weight of Glory, Miracles, and later Mere Christianity, a hallmark of