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…Cupid and Psyche Edith Hamilton takes the love story of Cupid and Psyche, Love and Soul, from a Latin writer of the second century A.D., Apuleius, who, similar to Ovid, creates beautiful, entertaining tales. Consequently, the author uses the Latin…

…in the rankings. Well in the story it really shows and Beowulf does not like it unferth tries to embarrass the prince by telling everybody that the tale of Beowulf is a joke and that he really did not swim the sea. Beowulf tells him that the reason is that some sea…

…into the film and all important scenes are danced. The second of the trilogy is the remake of William Shakespeare's classic play Romeo + Juliet. This tells the tale of two star crossed lovers. This film is at another level than SB. It is more advanced in red curtain…

…only to repeat Jim's tale to anyone who will listen. Marlow's interpretation of Jim shifts dramatically during this section. As he is leaving Patusan, he sees Jim, standing on the beach, as "the heart of a vast enigma." In the letter to his friend, however…

…magazine a story called “The Purloined Letter” is included, and in another a story named “The Tale-Tell Heart” is featured. Needless to say these stories are very reminiscent of Poe’s stories by the same names. The influence of Edgar Allan Poe goes far…

…the gripping tale of a courageous, kind and dynamic young Woman who "listens with her heart" to help her choose which path to follow in life. Disney's version of the Pocahontas story takes a romantic and entertaining view of her interaction with the English sea…

…Papillon Henri Charriére Papillon is an extraordinary tale of hope, survival, endurance and most of all the continuos desire for freedom of an innocent man. Henri Charriére or Papillon as he is known was condemned for a murder he did not commit…

…of the central character in the tale (a God). Arjuna asks him why he must fight against his own blood, his friends, and Krishna answers him telling him “Thou grieves no grievest where no grief should be! Thou speak’st words lacking wisdom! For the wise in heart mourn…

…found his individual style. Poe led in his methods of analysis in his detective stories. No one has outdone him in creating an atmosphere of morbid horror in such tales as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Tell-Tale Heart. The best of his poetry is pure magic…

…possibly no other American in our time that has cried aloud publicly so many private details. In additional to focusing upon her emotional life, Sexton’s later work includes frequent allusions to mythology, fairy tales, and Christian motifs, and explores…