Colonialism and Morality in The Moonstone and The Man Who Would Be King

The archetypes that are prevalent in many different stories all have have common origin in Joseph Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces. More specifically, in the medieval story, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, there are distinct archetypes that are especially necessary to the theme of the story.An understanding of three key archetypes—the temptress the magic weapon, and the task—reveal the essence of Gawain’s role within the archetypal quest motif.

W. W. Jacobs wrote the short story “The Monkey’s Paw” in 1902. A great number of adaptations of the story have since been created using different forms of media. The two which are being compared here are the play adaptation The Monkey’s Paw dramatized by Mara Rockliff and the 2011 film version The Monkey’s Paw by Ricky Lewis Jr. Both the play and film feature the White family receiving a monkey’s paw by which three wishes may be granted. The paw had a spell put on it by a holy man who wanted to show that fate rules people’s lives and that if people try to interfere, they will be sorry. The main differences between the play and the film are that film gives more background information about how and why the paw was obtained, uses more

In King’s short story, the museum workers are continually trying to remove the totem pole from the museum as Walter, one of these workers, states, “” the totem pole is not part of the show, and we need to move it someplace else”” (King 14). This quote demonstrates the controlling nature of the museum workers in their ongoing pursuit to remove the totem pole from the museum, but each attempt is as successful as their last. The totem pole’s ongoing struggle to survive in the museum is paralleled to the Indigenous people’s ongoing struggle to survive under the oppression of Canadian settlers and governments trying to eliminate them. Another example, from the story, that shows the controlling nature of the museum workers is when Walter attempts to find the owner of the totem pole instead of just leaving it in the show. The simple notion of ownership is different in the Indigenous and non–Indigenous cultures. Indigenous cultures believe that everything is to be shared and no one is an owner of anything, while the non-Indigenous cultures believe that every object seemingly belongs to someone.

While literature is can be for entertainment, it is also used to teach a lesson or get a point across. Throughout a literary work, an author will include many possible topics, themes, theories, archetypes, symbols, and ideas to teach their lesson or make their point. As one reads through “The Old Man Slave and the Mastiff,” written by Patrick Chamoiseau, it is important to know that the author is not only highlighting the life of a slave, but also expressing everyday struggles through the parallels of the story. While the story focuses on the life of slavery, the Master of the plantation, and a mastiff, it is imperative to analyze the different archetypes in the story. The archetypes are “recurrent as a symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology” (Archetypal). “The Old Man Slave and the Mastiff” is comprised of the following literary archetypes: a hero, a dog, a master, and slaves.

Ignorance is worn like tattered battle armor—left threadbare by reality and its truths. Ignorance is a battle cry against an ever changing world; a cry declaring that they will not change with it. In The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver clads Rachel Price in this frayed ignorance, once fashioned by the age of colonialism. Rachel wears it proudly, hanging onto every thread of her ignorance until the very end. Through world interactions and inner monologues, Kingsolver establishes how Rachel’s overbearing ignorance dwarfs her evolution as a character in order to illustrate how colonialism and segregation wield a lasting destructive influence over the Western Mind.

Archetypes are universal symbols used in literature to represent fundamental human motifs. In the medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the hero must undergo archetypal situations to succeed in his quest to redeem the honor of Camelot. Gawain embodies the transcendent hero as he further goes into “The Zone of Magnified Power” (Campbell 71) then faces conflict resulting from the threat placed on the society. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight dramatically demonstrates how a single character can play many archetypal roles.

When we want to look for New Historicism in a novel or in a movie it is important to first have a look at the author’s biography as well as the social background and it is lastly important to look at the ideas that was circulating the cultural era of that time as well.

The aggregation of mankind’s history is littered with tales of conquest over various living and nonliving elements; the fellow man being one of them. Imperialization is an example of such an endeavor. It is an act in which a territory, country, or entire nation can be consumed by a larger, stronger oppressor. Historically, a lasting impression has been made on the fruitful land of Africa through European and American conquest. The destruction of a bountiful country has been recorded and expressed in various ways. In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, The Poisonwood Bible, the negative aspects of imperialization in the African Congo is shown through the interactions between the Price family and African inhabitants; both Africans and Belgian conquerors.

Imperialism has been a strong and long lasting force, oppressing societies for generations on end. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, thoroughly presents how the Belgian Congo is continuously affected by this concept and ideology. Throughout this story, Kingsolver manipulates each family member and individual within the book to better show Western and European ideas and attitudes, to convey the large amount of hypocrisy, in the foreigner’s actions.

The spread and use of guns and horses, transformed relations of power between colonists and natives. On the other hand, it transformed relations of power between different native populations. Guns and horses allowed the Osages, Comanches and Sioux to become powerful native polities on the plains. Other native communities such as the Pawnees were weakened. In addition, the lives of the tribes had been changed after the introduction of horses to Plains Native Americans. The coming of horses boosted the development of local transport and economies because the horses allowed the Indians to transport larger amount of goods and crops. Also, the horses could pull much larger and heavier loads on travois than dogs or people could. On the other hands,

One of the many aspects of colonial times was life in the city. A key part of life in the city life was the variety of jobs that were offered. For instance, in Excerpt B, William Penn listed many of the jobs, including printer, shoemaker, butchers, and carpterners. In addition to being a center for jobs, the city provided other opportunities Visual B, there are many men gathered for a market in Philadelphia. Markets were one of many opportunities the city offered for trading goods. Furthermore, the city  had taverns, shapes, and churches that attracted

The traditions of storytelling have long been used as a means to impart wisdom and life lessons to others. One of the most effective ways in which this is done is through the use of archetypes. While it is possible to look at these images in a general way, one may also focus an analysis on a single tale. In this way it is possible to explore the particular images used and their significance in a given situation, (often a coming of age rite of

Taking place in a countryside home, W.W. Jacobs’s short story “The Monkey’s Paw” illustrates the White family’s two-day interaction with a seemingly innocent mummified monkey's paw. Each character presented in the short story represents natural human traits that can prove to be negative when greed and curiosity are involved. The use of symbolism throughout the story proves to be vital to the reader, as it allows him or her to understand the importance of every action done to the monkey’s paw has an opposite consequence. This correlates to everyone on Earth’s predetermined fate and the problems that an individual could face when greed overcomes their needs, even when it is for a better or worse life. When individuals are consumed by greed, like the White family, they must accept the consequences no matter how severe it is when it is something they truly seek in life.

Uganda is a country located in Africa that is surrounded by Kenya and the Republic of Congo. Uganda’s capital is Kampala and some other major cities would be Gulu, Lira, Mbarara, Jinja, Bwizibwera, Mbale, Mukono, Kasese and Masaka. The coordinates are 1 00 N, 32 00 E and the total area of Uganda is two hundred forty one thirty eight thousand. The land is one hundred ninety seven hundred thousand square kilometers and the water being forty three nine hundred thirty eight thousand square kilometers. When you are comparatively speaking about Uganda it is just slightly smaller than the state of Oregon.

Bildungsromane follow the journey of individuals who often seek both their self- and national identities. The story of Lucy revolves around the “intersections of colonialism, racism, sexism, and heterosexism” (Lima 130) in contexts that limit her individuality. In order to stop her her present that is defined by the violent history of her ancestors from becoming her future, Lucy migrates from her motherland, only to discover herself in a situation where she must contend with internal struggle, exploring “complexities and contradictions” (Lima 129) which are the result of the life she is born into. In her novel Lucy, Kincaid adeptly chooses the Caribbean as Lucy’s motherland—a place with a “history of foreign domination, slavery, imperialism, and neocolonialism”—to juxtapose the “revolt, resistance and struggle” (Lima 129) embodied by Lucy. Mariah serves as a provocative reminder of the very past that triggered Lucy to leave her mother and Antigua, through embodying colonialism as a mother figure. The eponymous protagonist’s futile attempt to elude the reigns of Mariah is a reflection of the inevitable intergenerational damage of not only gender oppression in a patriarchal society, but also colonial violence on a marginalized person like Lucy.