Beatrix Kiddo's Heroic Journey

The main character’s courage to break the gender roles of her time first reveals itself when she kills a vagrant attacker. After her kill, Mariko recalls how she has used one of the seven principles of bushidō: “She’d fought off her assailant. And in doing so, she’d displayed one of the seven virtues of bushidō: Courage. The way of the warrior” (Ahdieh 38). The kill itself is a large step

As in the real world, after killing their victims, they keep the body and treasure it in their own way as a remembrance of the murder. Clearly, there is a connection between the landlady and actual serial killers because the lady

So although Macbeth was killed by rebels, Lady Macbeth has ultimate responsibility for his death. Lady Macbeth is responsible for killing her husband because she pressured him into the killing of others, which ended up getting him killed. As soon as Lady Macbeth found out she was becoming wife to the Thane of Cawdor, all she wanted was more power. Lady Macbeth applied pressure on Macbeth In Act 1 Scene 7 Lines 38-41 by saying, “. .

“But in Rasheed’s eyes she saw murder for them both. And so Mariam raised the shovel high, raised it as high as she could, arching it so it touched the small of her back.” (349). This quote was the moment before Mariam’s life would end, she killed Rasheed to save the people she loved which was Laila, Aziza, and Zalmai. But, Mariam’s action would have conscious she knew that she would have to admit to the police.

However, the rest of her family was all killed, except for her father Mr. Olamina left the house one night and never returned. The tragedy of losing her entire family was devastating to Lauren and she often utilized writing to calm her mind. One of the first entries in her journal reads “All that you touch, you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change.

Rachel’s reaction to the death of her sister says a lot about the character she developed into here in the Congos. When her sister passed, she thought about what would happen when she got home. The only thing that really got her feelings in a twist is how she believes she will be seen as the “girl they’d duck their eyes from and whisper about as tragic.” (Kingsolver 367) She was sad at first but just cared about what others back home thought of home.

She also stole her sons arm from the hall. Grendel’s mother also took Hrothgar’s friend and killed him. After Beowulf found this out he was ready to go to war with her. Beowulf tracks down Grendel’s mother and they go to war. This was a tough battle.

However, in Hogan’s novel Power this idea comes most to life. After Ama, a strong traditional woman, has killed a panther, she tells the younger Omishto that she must tell the truth about her crime, except for a description of the cat’s appearance. Not until later in the novel does the reader discover the reason for this omission. Omishto realizes that to describe the run down and sickly appearance of the panther to the elders, “would cut their world in half. It would break their hearts and lives.

She has been condemned to death ever since Milkman “used her imminent arrival and feeble attempt at murder as an exercise of his will against hers – an ultimatum to the universe. ‘Die, Hagar, Die’” (301). The only piece of humanity left in her after Milkman’s stunt is to question why Milkman does not find her hair attractive (315). Hagar, unknowingly, sacrifices herself in order to regain her humanity even though, as Pilate states at her funeral, “she was loved” (319).

Grendel’s mother kills Beowulf men to avenge the death of her son. She takes the form of a shape-swifter, meaning she can take the form of any human being. She appears as a very attractive

ABIGAIL, pulling her away from the window: I told him everything; he knows now, he knows everything we—BETTY: You drank blood, Abby!You didn 't tell him that! ABIGAIL: Betty, you never say that again! You will never—BETTY: You did, you did! You drank a charm to kill John Proctor 's wife!

Killing Miles, Ani and other workers in the building. Gloria then went onto shooting herself in the head, sparing Dean’s life because he was always nice to Gloria. As for Kendra, she survived since she was outside at Starbucks. Now eight months later, Kendra and Dean decide to meet up at Starbuck to talk about the so called Gloria incident and their current aspirations. Dean overheard that Kendra was going to write about him in a book she is planning to write based off the incident.

During dark times their is hope when people stick together. The characters in the movie, Monsters on Maple, have many character traits, but two that I thought were the most common were violence and suspicion. In the movie the character started suspecting that some of the other character’s were the terrorists. Also in the movie some characters started to get violent. The suspicion and the violence the character show causes them turn on each other and attack the new neighbors.

Horror films are undeniably an interesting form of art that surprisingly, most males like to experience. In popular culture, as a male, gaining unquestionable masculinity is very essential. But there are always exceptions, what are these exceptions? Slasher films, in Carol Clover’s words, are “the immensely generative story of a psychokiller who slashes to death a string of mostly female victims...until he is subdued or killed, by the one girl who has survived” (Clover 193). Slasher Films portray a noticeably emerging pattern in horror films where killer, normally male, is ultimately eliminated by the female protagonist that was left to fend for herself.

“The Bloody Chamber” is Angela Carter`s retelling of the classic grim fairy tale “Bluebeard”. The passage analyzed in this essay is used in the story to identify the strange dynamic between the Marquis and his soon-to-be bride. In it the young heroine recounts the Marquis`s visage, his past wives and their wedding night. In order to establish the heroine and the Marquis`s abnormal relationship, Carter uses key literary devise such as theme to establish the idea of the Marquis`s dominance over the heroine, imagery to show an owner versus object exchange and foreshadowing to allude to the tale`s bloody end. Theme is used to portray the Marquis`s complete control over the heroine akin to an adult child dynamic.