Binary Opposition In Narnia

She’s telling Macbeth to act like he’s innocent and appear like he always has, kind, brave and fair, but actually be a cunning, cruel, ambitious person in order to become king. This is where her manipulative persona comes in to play. She is mistaking his goodness for weakness, and her ultimate goal is to create a two-faced murderer. Even though Macbeth is a generally decent character, he still has the capability to influence people and tell them what to do using fair is foul. Once Lady Macbeth convinces him to kill Duncan, he says that her "false face must hide what the false heart doth know," (1.7.95-96).

He is characterized as valiant, handsome. There might also be some play on the double meanings of “fair”—as beautiful, and as balanced and true. In Claudio’s eyes, Hero is not only no longer “fair,” meaning beautiful (she is “foul”), but she is also no longer “fair,” meaning truthful, but is its opposite, false or dissembling. Both the combination of “fair” and “foul” in the same line and “pure impiety and impious purity” in the following line demonstrate a rhetorical technique Shakespeare is famous for using in his plays: antithesis, or the combining of paradoxical opposites in one line for emphasis. Moments in which characters spout antitheses usually occur at the height of passion.

Question 4: How does Madeleine L 'Engle CONTRAST the natural beauty of Ixchel and Uriel to the rigid orderliness of Camazotz? A Wrinkle in Time is a book about good and evil. Every character is either good or evil. Camazotz, Uriel and Ixchel were the three planets the main characters ventured to on their way to save Meg’s father, Mr. Murry. The author uses the natural beauty of Ixchel and Uriel to represent good and contrasts that with the rigidity and orderliness in Camazotz, which is depicted to be evil.

As his name suggests, Lord Ruthven is of a noble birth, which already contrasts with the original idea that vampirism only affected the lowborn. Furthermore, Polidori states that the antagonist was “more remarkable for his singularities, than his rank” (The Vampyre and Other Tales of Macabre, p3), thus surrounding the character with mystery and providing it with more depth. Ruthven’s dangerous nature is also clearly stated at the beginning, as “the light laughter of the fair only attracted his attention, that he might by a look quell it, and throw fear into those breasts where thoughtlessness reigned” (p3). This single sentence tells us numerous things about the antagonist. Firstly, it shows Ruthven’s destructive influence on his surroundings,

Just by reading the title of Philip Levine’s poem, “They Feed They Lion”, the reader is already given the implication that the poem may be somewhat cryptic to the non-analytic eye. After analyzing the title carefully, it becomes clear that the author was implying that the lion is a symbol for something bad. Just by deciphering this, one can deduce that the title is a metaphor for a group of people feeding into the said thing that is bad. Once the reader reads the poem several times though, it becomes painstakingly clear that the lion that Levine is talking about is the unprecedented hate that is so ingrained into human nature. A part of human nature that most members of the human race constantly feed into without fail.

Christie plays the stereotype of the femme fatale which was a more common stereotype in the late nineteenth century when attractive women represented as murderers or reasons for destruction. But in Evil Under the Sun Arlena is a beautiful, a flirtatious, seductive and attractive best stage actress but not a deadly woman and Rosamund Darnley is a smart and successful and London’s best known dressmaker but Patrick Redfern, a young man handsome, attractive, but a deadly, immoral or beastly man. The novel presents personification of evil as Patrick Redfern who is real homme fatale but not a woman. Arlena Marshall is well- known actress and knows how to use famine charm.

The goddesses in the Hindu mythology are seen as immensely beautiful forms who are also the epitome of serenity. They are considered the divine feminine form. However, that is just the tip of the iceberg. There are numerous goddesses who are not serene. There are those who are peaceful but there are also the angry ones.

“A fiend-like queen” is the portrayal of an evil and demon-like individual, in this instance addressed to Lady Macbeth. The portrayal of a ‘fiend-like queen’ seems more accurate when focused on Lady Macbeth, as she introduces the evil and fuels the ambition that leads Macbeth to his downfall. The personalities of the characters are complex and ever changing hence why giving a definite response requires subjective analysis and objective facts. In the initial scenes, Macbeth is depicted as courageous, faithful and patriotic.

Whereas in the text of Macbeth, the setting is first presented as evil, stated by Macbeth “no foul and fair a day I have not seen“. On the contrary Macbeth is presented as ‘brave’ and ‘courageous’, ‘the savior of the day’, this implies that the writers chose the great difference in setting and character for the reader to

1.3.394) in his soliloquy shows duality in a sense of the apparent moral Iago contrasting with the actual immoral Iago. It further reinstates the idea of a façade which implies that Iago is the opposite of what he appears to be. Another example of this is his use of night and light at the end of his soliloquy. This adds to the idea of the duality of his character as he continues to show images of juxtaposing ideas to imply that his two moral characters are the complete opposite of each other. ‘Hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the light’ (Shakespeare, Othello , 1802, pp.

The Chapter quote that I chose is from Chapter 7 “Harry Gets A Girlfriend”. The quote is “Domestic races of the same species…often have a somewhat monstrous character... They often differ in an extreme degree in some one part…”. I picked this quote because it is a good quote and a good chapter to go with it.

Certainly, her bold statements and makeup line rip that idea into shreds. Doe Deere is more than just another pretty face. She is a very savvy business person and successful entrepreneur. Breaking the Rules Makeup should be fun. Doe Deere is one woman that likes to bring fun to her makeup line.

The heroines are usually beautiful, and ugliness is seen as a sign of evil in 17 percent of the stories. (Hanafy) Thus, as stated by Grauerholz there becomes an “ association between beauty and goodness and then conversely between ugliness and evil..” (qtd. in Hanafy). When a villainess acts out against the heroine, as seen in the characters of Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty, and the Evil Queen in Snow White, they do not act from any intelligible source of anger but rather from jealousy (mostly stemming from beauty) and pure malice, therefore furthering the reader and/or listeners negative connotation of powerful women, and instead reinstating one’s compassion, and relatability for the distressed heroine.

A Turkish delight might attract many people by its pleasant taste, but in the story of Narnia, Edmund got in big trouble for desiring the Turkish delight. In C.S. Lewis’s the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the archetype “devil figure” played by the White Witch depicts a cold-hearted sovereign and created a significant contrast between good and evil; the author also revealed the theme of avarice through her temptations. The archetype “devil figure” is a character who represents evil incarnate. The character may offer worldly goods, fame, or knowledge to the protagonist in exchange for possession of the soul or integrity.

Evaluating artwork, I am discovering, is an art in itself. Properly applied appraisal includes objective as well as subjective criteria. Francis Schaeffer (1973) offers Four Standards of Judgement, “(1) technical excellence, (2) validity, (3) intellectual content, the world view which comes through and (4) the integration of content and vehicle” (p. 62). Additionally, great art may evoke intuitive and emotional responses. By all measures, the writings of C. S. Lewis are masterpieces of literature.