The book The Devil And Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho and the movie Hero starring Jet Li even though in different languages, share a plethora of similarities. The Devil And Miss Prym tells the story of a young woman from the village of Visco, Chantal Prym. Her life was very simple and seemed so innocent, until the devil walked into Visco and offered her something she so strongly felt she deserved-- a way out of Visco. Of course there was a small price to pay, somebody had to die. After this day Chantal lived with a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other, constantly fighting to win her over. In the end God's light shined brighter and Chantal was able to make the right decisions. The movie, saving herself and her village. Hero by Jet Li was about an orphaned, nameless, assassin who blamed the King for the death of his family, and wanted revenge. He was able to get within 10 paces of the restless King making him believe he killed the 3 assassins that had been after him. The king soon realized that Nameless’s story did not add up and he had to be an assassin. Even so, he chose a different fate, because of what broken sword had taught to him. This was his highest ideal, and with that knowledge the desire to kill no longer existed, only peace, not revenge. When not blinded by hate he was able to see the King's mission to unite all of China, and Spared, his life only after passing on these wise words. Both stories main characters dealt a with a Person Versus Self battle, both Stories had common archetypes with some playing the innocent and others the Sage, and both stories share a philosophy and that is utilitarianism.
In both of these stories the biggest battle of all was fought within the mind of the main character. Chantal faced this throughout much of the story as she questioned should she steal the gold? Should she tell the villagers of the message the devil shared with her? Should she help Berta? It was a tough battle between her morals, her ego and what she felt she deserved after living her whole life in Visco, even though she was different than everyone else there. In the end she ended up realizing she wasn’t so different from them after all. She was able to fight the temptation, even though she
In these stories there were many types of conflict. There were internal and external conflicts. For example one was when Tarquine and Lancelot had to fight to the death because Sir Lancelot killed Tarquine’s brother. Another example was the love that Lancelot and Lady Guinevere had but, they could not be together because Lady Guinevere is married to King Arthur. Lastly in this story there were a lot of conflicts and problem. In the end all of them were solved, maybe not the they wanted but they were solved.
The biggest similarity between the book, and the movie is the theme. The theme in both the book, and the
Battles and fights are some examples of conflict in most fictional stories. They can be many different fights, like the epic battle between good and evil, or a kingdom defending their land from enemies. When people think of the word ‘battle’, they may think of climatic sword fights and war. But sometimes, battles can take place inside of a person. Perhaps a character may have conflicting aspirations and desires that may cause an internal battle and maybe result in something catastrophic. Or perhaps a character has opposing personalities that might clash and cause something important to happen. In many works of literature, the writer
The short stories “The Devil and Tom Walker” and “The Devil and Daniel Webster” were written at very different times but can be seen as similar stories. The depictions of the devil, the role of religion, and the resolution of each story were very different.
The similarities of the book are very simple and easy to point out. In both works, they cover the same events in
Although both The Devil and Tom Walker and Young Goodman Brown address the idea of sinning, Irving uses allusions and Biblical references and Hawthorne uses Foreshadowing and Imagery to express their theme of, no one is perfect, and that it is in human nature to sin.
You shouldn’t trust everyone. This is shown in “Young Goodman Brown” by Washington Irving, and “ The Devil and Tom Walker”by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This idea is developed through the characterization, plot and setting. People should not always trust everyone they are around because they sometimes cannot be trustworthy.
The devil's arithmetic book by Jane Yolen and the movie by Dustin Hoffman are very similar to each other. They both tell the story of a young girl who is transported through time to the 1940’s to learn what it’s like to live through the era of the holocaust after she ignores her family heritage. She then dies in that time at the hands of the Nazis and learns why she must remember and tell the future generation about the holocaust. These stories are the same but told in different ways and in different forms.
A Faustian legend is a story in which a character trades something of great personal value to the devil in order to receive personal gain. Since this type of literature originated in the Fourth Century it has spread throughout the world. Two relatively recent versions of this legend are “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving and “The Devil and Daniel Webster” by Vincent Benét. These stories show many similarities as well as a few differences. While both Benét and Irving present similar themes in setting of the tales and motivation in the Faustian character, they do differ in the nature of that character and their visual presentation of the Devil.
Another conflict that shares a common interest in both stories is “Man vs. Man”. Of course when adultery happens, someone is going to get
“The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, and “Prey” by Richard Matheson all utilize grotesque or bizarre occurrences and a mysterious nature as their two themes. These authors used these themes for individual purposes that were not the same but all to give a lesson. Washington Irving wrote about how money can’t buy you happiness, Edgar Allan Poe wrote about how you cannot hold on to the past, and Richard Matheson wrote about how you cannot take control of your loved one’s life.
Another similarity would be the characters in both stories. They are faced with the hard reality as they come to find out they weren't living in
After reading and analyzing this tale, one might argue that the main conflict had more effect on the characters, than the plot of the story. Throughout the tale, the characters are affected by the conflict, however, this ties into the effect that the conflict had on the story overall. The characters didn’t necessarily change, but the sequence of events did. The conflict made up the plot, however it didn’t make up the characters. The characters carried themselves, it’s the way they went about things whenever certain events occurred in the story. The plot
In both of these stories the biggest battle of all was fought within the mind of the main character. Chantal faced this throughout much of the story as she questioned whether should she steal the gold? Should she tell the villagers of the message the devil shared with her? Should she help Berta? It was a tough battle between her morals, her ego and what she felt she deserved after living her whole life in Visco, even though she was different than everyone else there. In the end she ended up realizing she wasn’t so different from them after all. She was able
In both stories the main types of conflict are between people versus society. Some would argue this is the worst type of conflict because it is a single person against a democratic government or societal group where everyone is opposed to your point of view. Even if the wrong decisions are being made, little or nothing can be done since everyone voted upon it. In The Devil and Miss Prym, Chantal is opposed to killing anyone for money. She saw these actions inhuman, especially when killing an old lady who did not deserve to die in that way. Chantal goes against Viscos and uses fear as a way to stop them from executing the murder. She states that getting the money after the murder wasn’t going to be as easy as it seemed, and that authorities will get involved once they go and cash in the gold bricks. Meaning they would get caught sooner or later for committing a murder and the consequences were going to be much severe than expected. Little by little, the views of the town people started to change and one by one everyone started to leave back home. (Coelho, 190-197). Coelho also demonstrates person versus society when Chantal is held responsible for