Winnebago Trickster Cycle

The tale begins with the Trickster hearing someone or something say “He who chews me will defecate; he will defecate!” (Radin36). He heard this multiple times and decided to look into it because it was a strange thing for someone to say. He immediately tells himself that he won’t defecate if he eats it. The Trickster went on to find that the source of the voice was a bulb. This bewildered the Trickster and before the bulb could say another word, Trickster grabbed the bulb and ate it. The Trickster thought he proved the bulb wrong and started coming up with excuses for the symptoms he was experiencing. As he goes on, the symptoms get worse until he can no longer stop defecating. The trickster ends up falling in a pile of his waste and cannot see so he goes around to trees and asks them to guide him to water. He cleans himself up and at the end of the tale it is said that he would have died if he didn’t find water. Native American Trickster tales are told to children of the tribes orally and have morals and lessons within the tales to help teach its listeners how to behave and right from

The use of deception is very prevalent throughout the play Macbeth written by Shakespeare. Deception is the act of deceiving. You can compare it to fraud or a scam. Many of the characters in Macbeth use deception to persuade others to do things they want done. Most times these deeds are bad and in the end come back to haunt the characters. Throughout the whole play, Shakespeare uses the theme of deception to create tension, and scandals. These acts of deception will be the falling of many characters and also one of the main themes of the play. In acts one and two, the use of deception is demonstrated.

Erving Goffman is a twentieth century micro-sociologists. His dramaturgical approach is tied to symbol interactionism; a framework that states people develop symbolic meaning and rely on them for interaction. He looked at how face-to-face interactions build up to the human experience (Kivisto and Pittman). Goffman’s main argument in the dramaturgical approach is that we are all actors and we can change and manipulate how we are perceived through ‘sign vehicles’, just as actors in a theatre do. In supporting both Goffman’s and my own points, I will refer closely to the specific example of a Dunnes Stores worker’s daily interactions and presentation, although it could be applied to any social situation.

In Shakespeare’s Othello and George Orwell’s Animal Farm, characters ability to manipulate others with ease is the flaw in societies structure, consequently, leading both works into tragic outcomes. This is done by blurring the perception of appearance versus reality, limitlessly committing to one’s desires, and taking advantage of others flaws.

In our world, manipulation takes place in everyday life as a natural impulse for both men and women. In Macbeth, manipulation is centralized around the mask of ambition displaying dominance over humanity. Certainly the witch’s, Lady Macbeth, and our fallen hero Macbeth become puppets of Manipulation it self. Consequently the witch’s power to influence decision-making causes the initial deterioration of Macbeth, along with Lady Macbeth’s influential desire for the throne, and thus Macbeth use of manipulation to create a new embodiment of a mask suffused in ambition for his own cruel deeds.

The Rough Face Girl is a great book to use for a unit about bullying. This book connects to The Sign of the Beaver because it is an Algonquin tale which would be orally passed down in villages like the one Attean lived in. Oral traditions were an important factor of Native American cultures. Through the illustrations of David Shannon, the readers are able to reflect on native culture. This gives the reader insight on the customs and traditions of Native Americans while keeping their cultures and lifestyle intact. This book beautifully reveals Native American beliefs. For my lesson, I want my students to compare the classic Cinderella story to the story of the Rough Face Girl. While they are using the Venn diagram to organize their ideas, I want my students to keep in mind the four major literary elements (plot, setting, theme, and characterization) they have recently learned

Often in works of literature, a character deceives or tricks other people. In the play “Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare, Petruchio does just that, he tricks and deceives his wife Katherine. To deceive someone is to cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, typically in order to gain some personal advantage. He deceives Katherine after they get married, he uses it as a part of his taming plan. Petruchio deceives Katherine by denying her food and sleep through intimidation and power control to tame her and give the play its title.

The world is a big place; it is so diverse, and differences are celebrated. In that case, does it really matter that two things are alike? When in fact the differences found in the two things are the details that make them unique. Uniqueness is what makes something beautiful in this exotic world. So, there are the characters, Anansi and Iktomi, who are two uniquely different tricksters. Now, tricksters are characters that engage in deceitfulness or magic, in order to get what they want. The character Anansi is a spider from West African folklore. Meanwhile, Iktomi is half -human and half-spider, known to be a cultural hero in the Native American tribe of Lakota. Each of the cultures associated these two characters in tales called trickster tales. Anansi and Iktomi have differences; thus, they are not the same character.

The Salem Witch Trials began during the spring of 1692 in February and ended a year later in May, and took place in Massachusetts. Over 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 20 people were executed.

The Windigo in indigenous mythology is a human who has turned cannibalistic with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Although the spirit was once human, all sense of morality disappeared within the first bite of their own kind. However, if killing a human being - by any means - is immoral, then the Windigo killers must also become “Windigos” in a psychological sense of the word with their first Windigo kill. In Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, the two narratives of Niska and Xavier are written as reflections of one another to portray the thin line of morality between the need for survival and the subsequent shift in identity due to individuals’ beliefs not aligning with their reality. This is explored when the question of survival and addiction

The Cherokee people, like all Native American tribes, possess an extensive, ancient oral history. Before European contact and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, the only way the Cherokees could pass on the legends within their history was by word of mouth or in other words through storytelling. Their stories included justifications for the origin of Earth and mankind, good human morals and values, and Cherokee culture rituals. Diane Glancy, author of Pushing The Bear, does a great job in conveying the importance of storytelling in Cherokee culture. Glancy creates a story about cultural fragmentation and how the procession of the novel goes from being a disaster to being a success for the

In his article, Living Sideways: Social Themes and Relationships in Native American Trickster Tales, Franchot Ballinger discusses the evolving definition of a trickster in Native American tales. This essay will examine the character Det. Alonzo Harris, and his relationship with his student Jake Hoyt using the social themes and social relationships identified by Franchot Ballinger in his article, Living Sideways: Social Themes and Social Relationships in Native American Trickster Tale. Ballinger believes that tricksters may be ‘bad’ or ‘good’, and the principle for tricksters is to upset the balance of individual and community needs. In the film Training Day, officer Jake Hoyt can be seen as a trickster character himself, but he is a ‘good’

Tricksters, much like wise old men, dragons, and knights are common story characters; however, characters like tricksters are not just for story books or tales, they are also widely found in religious writings. Gods like Loki in the Norse mythology, or Set in the Egyptian mythology used trickery or underhanded tactics to gain power or cause damage in their own stories. Hunahpu and Xbalanque are described as tricksters in the story, in one literal sense, when Seven Macaw is talking about them, on page 2497 Macaw refers to them as tricksters. Aside from this, the tactics the boys use also suggest that they are trickster archetypal characters. The two examples that best show this are how Hunahpu attacks Macaw with a blow-dart when he is eating,

A trickster is often seen as a wicked character; however they gain trust only to give back to characters that are in need of something. In the second trickster tale, “CBD”, it clearly states, “"What 's wrong, child?" asked the chief. "Tell him you want to play outside,” whispered Crow. The child did so, and the chief and his daughter took him out into the snow. As soon as they left the snow lodge, the speck of dust turned back into Crow again.” The statement from the evidence provided above tells us in depth that the crow was basically mind controlling the grandson to manipulate the chief into thinking that the little boy wanted to play outside and from there plan his next move to achieve his goal. It shows us how the crow is a wicked character

The protagonist from “The Turn of the Screw”, is perceived to be despearate as she tries to achieve her dream but her personal pride leads her to an unstable condition. The author depicts the Governess believing that to attain her goal of gaining attentionby her employer, she must be a hero. Therefore, she invents lies about seeing her predessors haunting her pupils. Nonetheless, the more times James makes the Governess mention the ghosts the more she believes they are real and they, “want to get them (the children)” (82). The Governess is blinded by making it appear she sees the ghosts that she looses herself in her own lies leading her to an unstable condition of not knowing what is real or not. As found in “Jane Eyre” and “The Turn of the