World Literature 2721 Section 1 The Fisherman’s Return I paced about anxiously as I waited for his return. How am I going to tell him the news? How would he react? What would he have to say? These thoughts ran through my mind as I tried to figure out a way to break the news gently to him. My husband was not known for being the most complacent person in our village. His terrible fits of anger had the tendency to bring a few of our neighbors to our doorstep a few times too many. Yet
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activity schedules made finding practice time very difficult and I am truly in awe of how community theatre is able to produce such wonderful performances with so many varied schedules of volunteers. This project taught me the story of The Fisherman and His Wife‚ a story that I was surprised to have had never heard before. Discussing the story with the group was very helpful and insightful in the understanding of the driving concept of the story. I really enjoyed our interpretation of it through the
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MERMAID STORY: THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL by OSCAR WILDE This classic mermaid story was written as a reaction to Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Little Mermaid". In Andersen’s mermaid story the mermaid longs for a soul‚ here a fisherman longs to rid himself of his soul for the love of a mermaid. Andersen’s mermaid story is strongly Christian in it’s outlook and philosophy‚ Wilde’s is delightfully pagan. Here is a brief synopsis: A young fisherman fell in love with a mermaid and wanted to join her
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* A poor fisherman casts his net four times‚ out of custom * First cast: caught a dead ass * Second cast: jar full of sand * Third cast: found potsherds‚ bones‚ and broken bottles * Forth cast: found a silver box‚ containing‚ Afrits‚ the genie * The fisherman is portrayed as a god fearing individual. Out of respect for his god‚ he bestows a form of blessing before and after he casts his net. * The moral of the story is what you do upon others‚ others will do upon you. ("Spare me‚ so god may
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In the poem ‘The Fisherman’ W.B Yeats presents his frustrations on how the Irish people have become‚ materialistic‚ greedy and one-dimensional‚ and how Ireland was full of creativity and culture‚ but is now being polluted by the lack of attention towards the art and creativity‚ leading towards this damaged Irish society. Yeats begins by using a symbolic image of a fisherman‚ and writes the poem for his own personal ideal audience. He opens the poem using a first person narrative‚ mixed with a simple
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and jealous. His wife is a flirt and definitely lacks the attention (the right kind of attention) she should receive from her husband. She’s a trophy‚ and he treats her as such. They had a short engagement (they married the night they met)‚ and Curly’s wife‚ from the little we really know about her married Curly for little more than to get away from her mother. Curly and his wife have a very unstable marriage‚ lacking in communication‚ love and respect. Curly believes that his wife is a possession
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Pat Murphy: His Vegetable wife The power of the harasser‚ the abuser‚ the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. Ursula K. Le Guin His Vegetable Wife is a short science fiction story‚ written in late eighties by Pat Murphy. It describes a relationship between male human and female plant‚ which is sort of a human too‚ or some of us would say‚ she is some kind of alien creature. At the beginning the story is relatively realistic; the man has planted the seed and is waiting for the results
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Fernando de Medina Confesses to Killing His Wife In the introduction of this chapter‚ we learn that on November 28th‚ 1595 Gaspar de Peralta‚ a judge for the Royal Audiencia of Charcas‚ answered a call from his next-door neighbor’s house. Once he entered the house‚ he found a domestic horror scene. Having entered the bedroom‚ Peralta found his chief scribe and the secretary of the audiencia (Fernando de Medina) standing over the bloody bodies of his wife and her lover‚ Beatriz Gonzalez. Fernando
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Charles Chestnutt’s "The Wife of His Youth‚" Mr. Ryder is forced to make a decision about two women that he loves. As a member of the Blue Veins Society‚ Mr. Ryder has a very high social status in his community and the people look up to him. Liza Jane‚ an old slave is determined to find her old husband who is Mr. Ryder. Unaware that she has found her husband and that he has found someone else‚ Liza Jane causes Mr. Ryder to loose his pride in order to rekindle the love from his youth. Mr. Ryder’s qualities
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James Taylor September the 29 The Wife of His Youth Question: Discuss the theme of race in Chesnutt ‘The Wife of His Youth’? After the civil war‚ racial issues affect society and Charles Chesnutt a regional realist writer tackles the subject. The difference between black and white‚ which should logically disappear‚ increases‚ and the African American community is experiencing exclusion in some societies. Chesnutt through his text "The Wife of his youth" refers to the problem by showing
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