Explorer/Seeker/Wander‚ The Jester‚ The Creator. Who: Ariel Role: is the youngest of the seven daughters of king Triton(mermaid king). Ariel defies her father by falling in love with a human‚ named Prince Eric. Later in the movie she becomes human herself and marries the prince. Archetype: The Lover‚ The Warrior/Hero Who: Prince Eric Role: Eric is a human prince who is rescued by Ariel when he almost drowns in a storm at sea. But then later returns the favor by saving Ariel from the evil Ursula. Archetype:
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In the Disney film “The Little Mermaid” we first meet Ariel as an independent‚ 16 year old looking for an adventure. Ariel has grand feminist goals to explore the world and has talent as well as beauty. However‚ she has a stubborn and aggressive attitude that always gets her into trouble; resulting in constant supervision. This is the reason why she disobeys her father and ends up falling in love with a human – which is strictly forbidden. Ariel changes herself for a partner of the opposite sex and
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ruination.” The reference to “Caliban” is rooted from an earlier time when Caribbean intellectuals struggled with issues of identity due to the process of cultural and racial admixture that shaped Caribbean societies. The “Caliban” is the island’s original inhabitant- “more beast than human… more savagery originates in the forest‚ on the island‚ transfused through the bloodiness of her savage mother… the witch-wild woman.” To twentieth-century Caribbean writers‚ “Caliban” epitomized the history of colonial
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The descriptive essay‚ "On Being A Cripple‚" by Nancy Mairs demonstrates a purpose to postulate the way society has brainwashed people to judge others incorrectly in order to expose the true thoughts of a person living beneath the glamorized world. Mairs strongly feels that "[she has not] lost anything in the course of this calamitous disease" (37)‚ known as Multiple Sclerosis‚ a disease that deteriorates the nerves and interferes with brain and body communication because the immune system has eaten
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enclosed in her gardens‚ she “ loved not woods nor rivers but a plot of ground.” Ariel also has a special place under the sea that is a grotto filled with the things she loves the human artifacts. Another similarity between the two is the fact that in both stories the girls are aided by an old possibly considered “haggered” old lady. In Ariel it is Ursula that gives Ariel that means to go onto land without Ursula Ariel would not of been able to go find Eric and fall in love with him. In Pomona it is
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The Bucket List This is a 2007 American drama-comedy directed by Rob Reiner and starring Morgan Freeman as Carter Chambers and Jack Nicholson as Edward Cole. The movie shows Freeman as a blue collar mechanic meets Nicholson‚ a billionaire in a hospital after both of them have been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. At first Nicholson’s character does not take too well to Freeman‚ being unwilling to share a room with him‚ but soon they both become friends as they undergo treatments. While Carter
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“I lost her once‚ I’m not going to lose her again‚” cried prince Eric as he realizes Ariel is his one true love. One of the most memorable Disney love stories originated from a fairy-tale which didn’t include the typical happily ever after ending. So how did the romantic love story of Ariel and Prince Eric come to be? Ultimately the writer and co-director‚ Ron Clements for Disney‚ was disheartened by the ending of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid.” These two stories differ thematically
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on “The Clan of One-Breasted Women” In the essay “The Clan of One-Breasted Women‚” Terry Tempest William’s purpose is to reveal her experience with respect to nuclear testing. By using her family history‚ statistics‚ personal memory‚ historical facts‚ and court cases to elegantly and adequately portray her personal experience in the nightmare of cancer due to above ground nuclear testing in 1957. Ms. Tempest Williams opens the essay with her and her family’s history of suffering with breast cancer
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due to the messages it sends. Ariel appears to be a beautiful‚ curious and ambitious young mermaid in the opening scenes. With her fiery red hair and the attitude to match she is dissatisfied with her life at sea. After an argument with her father King Triton‚ king of the “merpeople”‚ she wanders off into the sea at night. Her attention is caught by sudden bursts of light that are identified as fireworks by her talking crustacean babysitter named Sebastian. Ariel is just in time to witness a storm
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seeing otherwise was recognizing the similarities between Ariel‚ the mermaid‚ and Sophia from the Apocryphon of John. Then I recognized a similar world structure: one above and one below but perhaps not exactly as the Apocryphon suggests. Then‚ there is the never-ending battle between good and evil‚ their representatives and their interactions. One other character from the Apocryphon seems to appear in the film as the human with which Ariel falls in love‚ Prince Eric. These parallels come together
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