Joan Aikens fantasy short story‚ “Third Wish” takes place by his house near the forest. A man named Mr. Peters one day saved a swan from garbage that could have killed him ‚ the swan in return granted him 3 wishes that will change his life. Mr. Peters used his first wish for a wife as beautiful as the forest. As a result he gets a swan that was turned into a human as his “Beautiful Wife.” Soon he has to make a decision that will show how much he loves her and that he will do whats right for her
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Portrait of a Priestess By: Joan Breton Connelly The historical figure referred to as the “Oracle of Delphi‚” in ancient writings by Aeschylus‚ Aristotle‚ Diogenes‚ Euripides‚ Herodotus‚ Plato‚ Plutarch‚ and Sophocles‚ was the “Pythia‚” or “Priestess” of the temple of Apollo at Delphi; located in a cave on mount Parnassus‚ beneath the caspian Spring. The Pythia was a respectable position for a women among the ancient greeks. Several women were selected to succeed the position of Pythia over the
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The Way of the World By William Congreve Play Summary Before the action of the play begins‚ the following events are assumed to have taken place. Mirabell‚ a young man-about-town‚ apparently not a man of great wealth‚ has had an affair with Mrs. Fainall‚ the widowed daughter of Lady Wishfort. To protect her from scandal in the event of pregnancy‚ he has helped engineer her marriage to Mr. Fainall‚ a man whom he feels to be of sufficiently good reputation to constitute a respectable match‚ but
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As the Jewish woman who experienced the World War II and confronted the Fascism ideology in Italy‚ Ginzburg utilizes the understandings of her identity and experiences in her story by introducing Judaism and Fascism‚ and elaborately illustrating the conflicts between them. Therefore‚ the characters in The Mother are either typical Jews or Fascists‚ and their behaviors are judged by either the Judaism or Fascism moral standards. The character of the mother of the two boys in the story coincides with
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Joan Didion’s book‚ Slouching Toward Bethlehem‚ takes place in California during the 1960s. She opens the book with a different feel from what most people would have imagined California to be like today. People picture California as a beautiful place full of sunshine and happiness and make it out to be the ideal life. However‚ Didion describes how terribly wrong that visualization of California is. During the 1960s‚ it was a place of “love and death in the golden land‚” and it held “seasons of suicide
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referencing Bibliography Titles of texts Quotations Paragraphing Comments: Grade: 1-Discuss the role of geography and place in any film adaptation and its source text from weeks 6-10. Peter Weir‚ adapted to film the novel Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay in 1975. I will explore how this adaptation portrays the clash between colonizers and the aborigine. This postcolonial gothic clearly contrasts the attitude of the settlers and colonizers with the myths and traditions of the
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consistently throughout literature. To study the relationship between these ideas in more depth I have selected a range of texts over an extensive time period‚ these include Romeo and Juliet by Sir William Shakespeare‚ Titanic by James Cameron‚ Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw and Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. The different eras that these texts explore will be instrumental in establishing the type of connection the two concepts hold in literature. The type of love and sacrifice varies however
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Christine de Pizan (1365-1431) Italian Renaissance Figure Venice and Bologna‚ Italy; France As a child‚ I lived in Venice‚ Italy only a short time‚ where I was born in 1365. People often believe that I was born in Bologna‚ but that is a mistake (Christine de Pizan‚ Pinn.net). But due to my father’s occupation‚ (he was an astrologer who worked for the king in France) I spent the majority of my childhood in the French court (Christine de Pizan‚ Role Card 2.3A). My father and I spent many hours
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Baby Jane? When Henry Farrell’s novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? falls into director Robert Aldrich’s hands for the first time‚ Aldrich knows instantly that he can create a hit. However‚ the success of the screenplay starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford goes far beyond what Aldrich could ever predict. The film grosses almost ten times its estimated budget‚ a success partly credited to the enormous effort that went into promoting What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. The promotions for What
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survival and Superstitions • Texts : Hellequin’s hunt (La Maisnie Hellequin) p. 7-11 • Film : Sorceress 2nd part 3. February 5 Quiz nº 1 (15 mn) * The Inquisition - Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais • Texts : Bernard Gui : Questions p. 50 The Trial of Gilles de Rais p. 14-16 • Film : The Passion of Joan of Arc (excerpts) 4. February 12 * The Renaissance and The Reformation: Witch-mania • Texts : Jacques du Clercq : Mémoires p. 27-29 º PPP: Witch-hunters • Film: The
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