Character Study: Celestia Aerias

When Odysseus and his men come to their island Calypso, first, uses her beauty to captivate him and keep him with her. She wanted him to stay with him and be an immortal husband to her. She was ordered to release him and she eventually did. However, Circe wanted Odysseus for herself. She lured Odysseus and his men with her beauty, she then poisoned them and kept Odysseus for herself. He gave in to the temptation. “So she spoke to them, and the rest gave voice, and called her and at once she opened the shining doors, and came out, and invited them in, and all in their innocence entered; only Eurylochos waited outside, for he suspected treachery. She brought them inside and seated them on chairs and benches, and mixed them a potion, with barley and cheese and pale honey added to Pramneian wine, but put into the mixture malignant drugs, to make them forgetful of their own country. When she had given them this and they had drunk it down, next thing she struck them with her wand and drove them into her pig pens, and they took on the look of pigs, with the heads and voices and bristles of pigs, but the minds within them stayed as they had been before.” (Homer, 1994-2009)

Celie: Celie starts out as a scared young kid, who is abused and raped by her stepfather. She does whatever anyone tells her and barely ever speaks up for what is right. In the beginning she feels so alone and thinks it's better not to stand out for it will only hurt her. When Mr. ______ begins to act violent towards her, she still acts in a passive manner. Celie gets more and more afraid until she meets Shug. Shug is a female friend whom is much stronger than her. She learns more about a sexual relationship, and how to be her own person. Celie learns to fight back and reinvent herself. Celie changes her perspective on religion to. God may not be the person she always thought he was. The letters from Nettie also change Celie, in fact now she knows she has family. She gains self worth in the fact that her kids, and sister are fine. In the very end of the book Celie becomes a new person, working and sewing as a job. She doesn't rely on men nor does she feel worthless.

In her story “Cecelia”, the author Laura Loomis develops character to prove that it is not mankind’s place to decide if another should live or die. To begin, she demonstrates this theme through the development of Cecelia as a character. After Cecelia discovers that she has the ability to heal others when they touch her, she is very frustrated with her gift. She hates the idea that she is able to help others heal, while not being able to heal herself. However, after reflecting on her ability, her character evolves into a more selfless one. After her struggle with Carlos, she explains that “I might never be healed, but healing would come for him, finally, no matter how hard he fought it.” (Loomis 5). After this event, she realizes that it is not under her control to decide who should or shouldn’t be healed, and that she should at least be selfless enough for everyone to attempt to receive her gift.

You are social and expressive. You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. You are confident: you are hard to embarrass and are self-confident most of the time. And you are self-controlled: you have control over your desires, which are not particularly intense. Your choices are driven by a desire for connectedness. You consider helping others to guide a large part of what you do: you think it is important to take care of the people around you. You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done.

Manipulative, Sassy, Easily annoyed. Curious in nature. Easily Jealous of others. Center of attention. Grumpy morning mess. Diva Queen. Secretly likes company.

Celie is friendly and loving even though she has been through many obstacles in her life and she is able to emerge from her self-preserving stoicism. To Celie marriage is very important and she presents that in many of her letters. “Mr._ marry me to take care of his children. I marry him cause my daddy made me. I don’t love Mr._ and he don’t love me. But you his wife, he say, just like Sofia mine. The wife spose to mine. Do Shug Avery mind Mr._? I ast. She the woman he wanted to mary.” Celie wants Harpo to be able to see that love plays a big role in marragie. She wants him to undertand that marraige is more than just having your wife obey what you ask of her. Celie wants Harpo to realize that love in a marriage is to they key, simce Celie finds marragie to be imporant she wants eveyone else to undertand that as

When she married her husband Albert a life of mistreat and abuse only got worse. Albert only wanted a servant to clean the house, raise his kids and cook for him; on the other hand, Celie wanted somebody to love and care for her. Throughout the whole film she does nothing but to try to survive by adapting to the circumstances and letting Albert get away with everything even to the point of let him bring another women into the house. Her resilience

So, when Celie is beaten, instead of defending herself, she does not do anything unlike other characters in the novel. Celie tends to act submissive and accept everything that comes to

Thales and Heraclitus, two Pre-Socratic philosophers, proposed two notable, but very different, belief systems to explain the world around them. Thales, the first Western philosopher, introduced a non-mythological way of viewing the world. Prior to Thales, the Greeks believed their gods controlled all natural forces. However, Thales philosophized that everything originated from some fundamental substance. He reasoned that this substance must be water. He based his belief on the idea that this fundamental substance needed to be both flexible and appear in different forms. Although, Thales' s water theory proved incorrect, his belief that the world could be explained in a simpler, non-divine manner opened the door for metaphysics and science.

She suffers constant abuse from her stepfather Alfonso. Restricted from living an independent lifestyle, she is confined to do whatever he wants due to the imbalance of rights in the setting of the novel. In the latter stages, Celie eventually discovers her inner self as she recovers her own sexuality, beliefs, and voice. From the novel, the way Celie continuously perseveres through the hardships thrown at her, shows that she has faith that one day, everything will be alright. TThis is a clear indication that she doesn’t feel love for anyone in her life now but regardless, she is dealing with her misfortune. Without faith that one day things will change, the plot of the novel could have been drastically changed. She is obviously very depressed with her life; she may have even committed suicide had she not had strong faith in what she believed in. Research studies have shown that depression is the leading cause for suicide but she expresses no suicidal thoughts since her strong faith prevents her from taking drastic

Cheerful, organized, creative, with good sense of humor, approachable and effective communicator are some of the virtues which I could describe myself.

To achieve freedom Celie needs to find who she wants to be and how she wants to live her life. Right now in the story Celie is just watching what everyone is doing. She isn’t taking a stand of who she really

Celie Johnson is forced to endure enough physical and mental abuse to break anyone’s spirits, but this strong willed individual refuses to allow her tragic life to consume her. Miss Celie, which is what she is called by the few who do respect her, somehow learns to live through her father and her husband’s denouncing cruelty and continues to be a sweet and an understanding woman. The most obvious characteristics of Celie are her continuous strength, her ability to deal with hardships, and her instinct to keep fighting. Her undeniable strength comes with protecting those she loves. She teaches herself to take all that is forced upon her because she has never known the feeling of living an easy life. Celie has had to fight for her happiness, alone, from her younger years into adulthood.

In the book, page 121, she noticed that Mr.____ kept hiding her letters from Nettie who is Celie’s sister. She was really angry with this, and abhor him with homicidal hatred. Before Celie met Shug, Celie does not have any friends near her, but there was one that she loves more than anyone else in the

She misses out on the education that Nettie receives and this is apparent when comparing their styles of writing. Celie writes in the vernacular. This adds some authenticity to her character, makes it easier to sympathise with her.