Gellie Ann O EstrellaDecember 12 2014201351119Sir
Gellie Ann O. Estrella December 12, 2014
2013-51119 Sir Efmer Agustin
Stardust: Mythical Elements
“They ruled for 80 years. But no man could leave forever, except he who possesses the heart of a star, and Yvaine had given hers to Tristan completely. When their children and grandchildren were grown, it was time to light the Babylon candle. And they still lived happily ever after.”
Narrator, Stardust
Neil Gaiman is an imaginative writer who works in a variety of formats, writing graphic novels, short stories, children’s books and scripts for television and films. One of his famous novels is Stardust. The novel revolves around a young man, Tristran Thorn, who promise to retrieve a falling star for his true love, Victoria Forester. This promise begins a magical adventure that sent Tristran on a journey of self-discovery, and finding one true love where he found more than he could possibly could have imagined with danger, spells, witches, and dead princes, flying pirates, a star, a unicorn and a lion involved. The novel was adapted into a film directed by Matthew Vaughn whom Gaiman picked by himself. Most of the elements of Stardust’s mythical world came from various parts of British, Celtic folklore and other myths from ancient civilization.
One of the mythical element observed in the book is the presence of the flower, snowdrop as a flower that brings luck. In myth, the snowdrop symbolizes a promise, to break winter’s spell and bring back spring. In Celtic mythology, this flower symbolizes Brigid, the Celtic goddess of poetry, healing, wisdom, divination, blacksmithing, the hearth, druidic knowledge, warfare, the Holy Well, and the Sacred Flame. In the Bible, the snowdrop is placed on earth in order to comfort Eve, who was crying for the warmth of Paradise during her first winter.
Another mythical element shown in the book is the existence of the evil witches. The three witches share their names with demonic creatures from Greek mythology. Lamia who
2013-51119 Sir Efmer Agustin
Stardust: Mythical Elements
“They ruled for 80 years. But no man could leave forever, except he who possesses the heart of a star, and Yvaine had given hers to Tristan completely. When their children and grandchildren were grown, it was time to light the Babylon candle. And they still lived happily ever after.”
Narrator, Stardust
Neil Gaiman is an imaginative writer who works in a variety of formats, writing graphic novels, short stories, children’s books and scripts for television and films. One of his famous novels is Stardust. The novel revolves around a young man, Tristran Thorn, who promise to retrieve a falling star for his true love, Victoria Forester. This promise begins a magical adventure that sent Tristran on a journey of self-discovery, and finding one true love where he found more than he could possibly could have imagined with danger, spells, witches, and dead princes, flying pirates, a star, a unicorn and a lion involved. The novel was adapted into a film directed by Matthew Vaughn whom Gaiman picked by himself. Most of the elements of Stardust’s mythical world came from various parts of British, Celtic folklore and other myths from ancient civilization.
One of the mythical element observed in the book is the presence of the flower, snowdrop as a flower that brings luck. In myth, the snowdrop symbolizes a promise, to break winter’s spell and bring back spring. In Celtic mythology, this flower symbolizes Brigid, the Celtic goddess of poetry, healing, wisdom, divination, blacksmithing, the hearth, druidic knowledge, warfare, the Holy Well, and the Sacred Flame. In the Bible, the snowdrop is placed on earth in order to comfort Eve, who was crying for the warmth of Paradise during her first winter.
Another mythical element shown in the book is the existence of the evil witches. The three witches share their names with demonic creatures from Greek mythology. Lamia who