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…When people think of myths, the images, concepts, and beliefs that emerge are usually that of old wives tales, mystical stories of gods and heroes, fables, fairy tales, and superstitions. We normally see them as colorful works of literature by people…

…Once upon a time... The classic opener for any fairy tale, which is no different in the case of Beauty and the Beast. Fairy tales were meant to teach our children life lessons that society, at the time, deems important to learn. They teach us…

…!" And now - tonight ... the rending of her coffin, and the grating of the iron hinges of her prison, and her struggles within the copper archway of the vault! The heavy and horrible beating of her heart .... Madman! I tell you that she stands without the door…

…. So deep that in order to protect and comfort him in his final days on earth due to heart damage; she must create a world based on deception. Lizzie must lie to everyone in order to fortify her clever tale. At home from the hotel fire she lies to her…

…in the same district with me tell a similar tale: they must step into such dark alleys, into the arms of alcohol-drenched men for their dying mother, for an incapacitated father, for a son needing surgery, a brother struggling to pay college tuition.... What does…

…William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, a play written for the Elizabethan Theater circa 1606, tells the story of an esteemed Scottish nobleman who rises to the throne by murder and subterfuge, only to descend again into madness and damnation. Critics through…

…a child (Pearl). Throughout the novel Dimmesdale hurts from the pain of secrecy and tells the community that he is Pearls father. After confessing he dies. Nathaniel Hawthorne writes this novel to show the readers that hidden sin is a burden…

…a tone and a mood shown by his or her style of writing. Although romance literature contains the elements mentioned above, they are very different than those in short stories and are somewhat static from one tale to the next. Romance literature is about…

…tragedy. Poetics states that a tragedy must be complete, _"the plot ought to be so constructed that, even without the aid of the eye, he who hears the tale told will thrill with horror..."(242). In order for a perfect tragedy to be complete, it must have…

…Blindness versus Sight Oedipus the King was written by Sophocles, and performed for the first time between 430 and 425 B.C. The play unfolds the tale of a king’s battle for justice and knowledge in seeking the killer of his father, the previous king…