Essay about And He Shall Smite the Wicked

Even though he didn’t grow up around his father, Cronos, Zeus inherited a lot of the same instincts and anxiety. As generations continued, Zeus had learned from mistakes of the previous generations. Therefore, he began to get smarter with his power. When Gaia told her grandson Zeus of this mischievous plan he was eager to do it in order for history not to repeat itself. Zeus believed that if Metis, his wife gave birth, his offspring would be “first the gray-eyed girl, Tritogeneia, equal to her father in strength and wisdom, but then a son with an arrogant heart who would one day be king of gods and men, but Zeus stuffed the goddess into his stomach first so she would devise with him good and evil” (156). Zeus had heard about all the misfortunes of wives deceiving their husbands and children overthrowing their fathers and decided if he stopped a plan before it even got a chance to begin then he wouldn’t have to worry about being

After a long time, when Zeus gained the trust of Kronos. The god fed the Titan nectar mixed with mustard and salt, creating a concoction that did not agree with Kronos’s stomach. The effect worked and the siblings of zeus finally emerged ready to fight the king. The battle went on for ten years, when the god sought advice from his grandmother, Gaia, she told him to go to Tartarus and free Kyklopes and the Hekatoncheires, who would then help defeat the titans.

According to Greek mythology, Cronus was intimidated by his children. So in attempt to keep reign, he ate his children as they were born. However, Rhea saved Zeus. She hid the baby and gave Cronus a rock wrapped in cloth instead. Cronus fell for the trick and ate the rock. Zeus grew up and became powerful enough to battle his father to free his siblings. (Britannica.com)

In Jack Zipes’s paper The Cultural Evolution of Storytelling and Fairy Tales: Human Communication and Memetics, Zipes explores the origins of fairy tales, and how they evolved to be what they are today. Through linking biology and literature, Zipes has been able to solidify fairy tales as not just stories, but as a psychological gene that gets passed on. Zipes then took this alongside a set of criteria derived from historical analyses of literature to clarify what a fairy tale is and isn’t. In the context of the literary work A Tiny Feast by Chris Adrian, the usage of Zipes’s criteria clarify that this story is in fact a fairy tale.

The tradition of telling fairy tales to children effects not only the listener but also the reader. Maria Tatar, in her book Off with Their Heads!, analyzes how fairy tales instill and reaffirm cultural values and expectations in their audience . Tatar proposes that fairy tales fall into three different tale-types: cautionary tales, exemplary stories, and reward- and- punishment tales. These three types portray different character traits as desirable and undesirable. Due to the tale’s varying literary methods it can change the effectiveness of the tale’s pedagogical value. In Tatar’s opinion, all of these tales are similar in the way they attempt to use punishment, reward, and fear to encourage or discourage certain behaviors. In the cautionary fairy tale “The Virgin Mary’s Child”, the use of punishment and fear to discourage certain behaviors is enhanced by the Christian motifs and values employed by the tale. These literary devices encourage the audience to reflect on and internalize the lessons that are presented in the fairy tale.

The story of Cronos, king of the Titans, was that he had four children with his wife Rhea. These Children are Hestia, Demeter, Poseidon, and Hades, all of whom he swallowed because his parents had warned that he would be overthrown by his child. When Zeus was born, Rhea hid him in Crete and tricked Cronos into swallowing a stone instead. Zeus grew up with nymphs and a goat named Amalthae. When Zeus heard what had happened to his siblings he gave Cronos poison, which forced Cronos to throw-up his brothers and sisters. A war was then fought between the two groups, and the Olympians won, and ruled over the

There is nothing more precious and heartwarming than the innocence of a child. The majority of parents in society want to shield children from the bad in life which is appreciated. Within human nature exists desires of inappropriate behavior; envy, deceit, selfishness, revenge, violence, assault and murder. The most well-known fairy tales depict virtue and the evil in life. Even more important, the form and structure of fairy tales suggest images to the child by which he can structure his daydreams and with them give a better direction to his life. (Bettelheim).

They have many children that turn out to be hideous monsters with numerous arms and eyes. Uranus turns cold towards his children, and hides them in the Underworld, which becomes a major theme for godly parents. Gaia has many more children who are Titans, and the strongest is Kronos. He kills his father while avenging his mother’s loss, and takes over his position. While in power, Kronos creates the first race of men, who were made of gold. This was called the Golden Age, and mankind didn’t have to work. Around the same time, Kronos and his wife Rhea have multiple children. Kronos was afraid that one of his kids would rise up against him, just as he did with his father, so he swallows each child as they are born. Rhea was very upset, and Gaia aided her in giving birth to the youngest, Zeus, and giving Kronos a rock to swallow. Zeus grew to become the strongest of men, and killed his father Kronos, and retrieved his siblings. He married his sister Hera, but started to have affairs with many other gods and mortals, resulting in numerous minor gods and demigods. During this conflict, the Golden Men were killed, so Zeus replaced them with the Silver Men the Bronze Men, and the Heroes. Each race was either killed by the god’s negligence, or hidden due to their shortcomings. The final race of men is the one alive today, which is the Iron Age. This race has to suffer the most, but it said to last far beyond the gods.

Everyone has or had parents at one point. Zeus’s parents were Cronus and Rhea. Rhea was a direct descendant of the first Olympians. Cronus was the son of Uranus, and was the lead Titan. A story was told to Cronus that one of his sons would overthrow him. So as each son was born, he ate them. Because Rhea was angry that

Fairy tales provide a means for children to work through their inner struggles and find solutions. A consistent message from fairy tales that confronts children is that a struggle against difficulties is unavoidable, but if one steadfastly meets unexpected hardships and obstacles, then they will be victorious in the end. Briar Rose is a classic fairy tale about a princess who pricks her finger on a spindle and falls asleep for a hundred years. This curse was put upon her when her father decided to celebrate her birth with a feast, but forgot to invite the twelfth wise woman. The twelfth wise woman enters the feast full of anger and cast a horrible spell on Briar Rose. This story of Briar Rose has evolved over time into two stories by different authors, the Grimm brothers and Anne Sexton. They each have different perspectives on the author’s past and the role of the father making. These differences make the fairy tale propose two different struggles of both social level and a broken family.

Maria Tatar begins her chapter, “Just Desserts: Reward-and-Punishment Tales”, with a testimony of the manner in which parents were encouraged to instruct their children through the breaking of their will in which to save their souls. These instructions carry forward into the weaving of fairy tales in the eighteenth and nineteenth century in a way that Tatar describes as having “stretched the limits of the parental and pedagogical imagination of those times” (53). It is this imagination that drove the punishments of children within fairy tales to the extreme, not to be carried out in rage towards the child, but what a child represents in contrast to the strict and seemingly tame adult civilization.

In Margaret Atwood’s poem “There Was Once”, Atwood uses irony to point out the societal problems within the genre of fairy tales. Charles Perrault, the author of the short story “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”, writes about fantastic creatures, magic, and love, following the generic conventions of fairy tales. When compared to Perrault’s short story “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”, Atwood’s poem both compliments and contrasts Perrault’s. These two texts, although similar, offer different views on the genre of fairy tales.

Zeus contemplates interrupting the fate of Hector being killed by Achilles. Zeus’s daughter Athena, is angered at the thought of her own father trying to interrupt the death of Hector as his fate has already been decided to be killed at the hand of Achilles. Athena angrily reminds her father that Hector’s fate is out of his control, after Athena dissuades her father from disrupting Hector’s fate, he relents on changing the fate that has already been

When imaging the ideal audience of fairytales, children are quick to come to mind, although, our perception of Little Red Riding Hood as an innocent fable is far from the truth. Alternatively, the origins of this story are derived from Italo Calvino’s “The False Grandmother”, a story immersed in symbolism and metaphorical symbols intended strictly for a mature audience. The preceding tale was “Little Red Cap “written by Charles Perrault and then later the “Little Red Riding” written by the Brothers Grimm. Although the details of these tales vary, they all maintain similar storylines. The stories revolve around the young female character Little Red Riding Hood who is sent off on a mission to bring her grandmother a basket of goods. During her adventure she encounters a wolf who engages in a hot pursuit to eat both the Grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood, only to succeed in the earlier rendition of the story. In this essay I will prove that when the Grimm’s Brothers and Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood stories are critically analyzed, it becomes evident that they are inappropriate tales for children as they exemplify the consequences of a minor transgression by Little Red Riding Hood as being the misleading cause of the violence and seduction that occurs thereafter.

Rhea can only watch in horror as Cronus grabs her newborn son’s arm, lifting him high in the air, and then forcing him down his throat. With a crunching gulp her first child is gone, left to digest in her husband’s stomach. Months ago, Uranus and Gaia had come to Cronus, warning him that his children would succeed his throne. Because of their prophecy, Cronus decided to devour his six children whole before they could take control of his throne. After five exhausting days of giving birth, after having five children ripped from her arms and crushed down , Rhea could no longer stand to watch her children’s slaughter. Before she lost her last shred of hope and sanity, she laced Cronus’s cup with sedatives, fed him a rock wrapped in cloth and hid her final son. She then gave Zeus a dagger and instructed him to cut his father’s stomach open, from throat to spleen. From his stomach, his siblings broke free from their father’s carcass, and together they became the gods of Olympus. Through mythology, women have always held the ear of those ruling. In the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, it was Hatshepsut, ruling behind the child king Thutmose III. In the Yuan dynasty, it was Chabi, steering her Kublai Khan to conquer China. But no historical record quite demonstrates the ruthlessness and ferocity of a woman as Lady Macbeth, in Shakespeare’s fictional Macbeth. Determining that her husband should rule over the kingdom, she decides the king must die.With emotional manipulation, Lady Macbeth