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301: How Does Shakespeare Use Hamle: ... in so many of the soliloquies, and the gloomy feelings which on the whole affect them. The use of classical imagery is used not to create atmosphere, but rather to amplify it. The use of mythology, for example; that was to this Hyperion a satyr Hamlet s father is compared to the father of the sun , whilst Claudius is, somewhat appropriately, compared to a satyr, a half man, half goat which ...

302: Hera: ... his wife and children. Then Hercules had twelve tasks of labor to complete, when he accomplished that he married Deianira. After his death the gods brought him to Olympus, there he married Hebe. In Roman mythology Hera is known as Juno. Juno was worshipped under several different names, under Juno Pronuba she s the goddess of marriage. Hera and Juno both married their brothers, and they re also both the queens ...

303: Romeo And Juliet - Mercutio: ... you!" he plunges into a forty-two line speech which is actually composed of only two sentences, giving him barely enough breath to pause between phrases. The gist of the speech concerns Mab, whom Celtic mythology considered to be the midwife of the fairies, and who also is held to be responsible for human beings' dreams. The Queen Mab speech is totally fanciful, describing, as if to a child, this tiny ...

304: Othello - Values And Attitudes: ... of women's insatiable lustfulness and women were seen as voracious monsters. It was thought that female sexuality was a threat to the patriarchal society, and must be safely contained. In the Encyclopaedia of World Mythology it says "Women in male eyes, are supposed to be contrary and mysterious creatures, bewilderingly combining all sorts of characteristics, as changeable as chameleons, and yet somehow vexingly in touch with reality through intuition." Brabantio ...

305: The Black Cat: ... most common a symbol of bad luck (Womack 6). The cat’s name itself can be interpreted as a symbol. Pluto, the name of the cat, can symbolize what we know from Greek and Roman mythology, which is that Pluto was the god of the dead and ruler of the underworld. The symbolism of the cats name can be used to show how the cat will somehow cause some type of ...

306: The Black Cat: ... bad luck, evil, witches, and the devil, so this foreshadows that something bad will happen in the story. The cat’s name, Pluto, increases the assumption that the narrator will have bad luck. In Greek mythology, Pluto was the god of the dead and ruler of the underground. The symbolism of the cat’s name can be used to show that in some way the cat will be involved with death ...

307: The Bistro Styx: ... The Bistro Styx, which is a small excerpt from a works entitled Mother Love, Dove does make references to home. This poem is a recasting of the story of Demeter and Persephone from ancient Greek mythology. In short, Hades kidnaps Persephone from her home, and Demeter, her mother goes insane trying to get her back. Demeter is able to go after Persephone only to find that too late Persephone has already ...

308: Song Of Solomon: ... style of ending a novel with no finalization, only enhances the content and tickles the imagination. Evidence of the influence of Zora Neale Hurston is sprinkled liberally throughout the story. In addition to folklore and mythology, Song of Solomon is also rife with the cold, hard facts of reality. Did Milkman actually become airborne or was he merely a man, consistently trying to escape reality? Toni Morrison's, Song of Solomon ...

309: Our Grandmothers: ... of women's insatiable lustfulness and women were seen as voracious monsters. It was thought that female sexuality was a threat to the patriarchal society, and must be safely contained. In the Encyclopaedia of World Mythology it says "Women in male eyes, are supposed to be contrary and mysterious creatures, bewilderingly combining all sorts of characteristics, as changeable as chameleons, and yet somehow vexingly in touch with reality through intuition." Brabantio ...

310: Old Neighborhood: ... The Bistro Styx, which is a small excerpt from a works entitled Mother Love, Dove does make references to home. This poem is a recasting of the story of Demeter and Persephone from ancient Greek mythology. In short, Hades kidnaps Persephone from her home, and Demeter, her mother goes insane trying to get her back. Demeter is able to go after Persephone only to find that too late Persephone has already ...

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