The Merchant Of Death Story Arc

“ The force will be with you, always.” This is advice given to Luke Skywalker by his mentor Obi Wan Kenobi. In the archetypal hero’s journey a wise and experienced mentor such as Obi Wan will often help guide or offer advice to the youthful and budding hero. Throughout time and across different cultures there are certain symbols, events and characters which can be found in literature and Star Wars IV: A New Hope follows this trend step by step. During the film Star Wars IV: A New Hope, the main protagonist Luke undergoes a stereotypical, or in literary terms an archetypal hero’s journey. Luke starts from humble beginnings and when he is called upon to save the galaxy; he then faces various tests which help him hone skills that he will need for the final life or death battle.

Luke can be described as a man that is undoubtfully determined. After being sentenced to two years, it can be immediately seen he does not fit in with the other

While in the Dagobah system he goes to meet yoda, a teacher, to help Luke understand and use the force in a correct way to defeat the forces of the dark side. Here Luke is informed about Darth Vader that leads The Empire, and how he is the overseer of the darkside. Luke perceives this as a force that he must defeat in order to save the galaxy. He soon starts training with yoda to grow stronger physically and mentally. He is taught how to use a lightsaber and how to use the force. Though he can perform some of these tasks well, he still can’t use the force quite well because he hasn’t learned the lesson that he needed to know, which is to concentrate and not give up. Luke doubts himself and starts to not believe in yoda’s words but soon recovers as his mentor gives up on him. The ability to learn and not give up even when others do is a quality of a hero that Luke Skywalker learned. This also further proves Luke’s will to change his life because he knew he was something more, the event when he realized that he could be a better version of himself changed him as a person. From the time he thought of this to when he was sent to the Dagobah system to meet

Luke Skywalker chooses to join Obi Wan Kenobi, and through their journey Luke was changed from a parentless boy to a Jedi in training (Star Wars IV). One of the biggest parts in a Hero’s Journey is the life changing event that causes the hero to leave his home in the first place. When Luke’s aunt and uncle are killed, he is alone and has no reason to stay on his home planet of Tatooine so goes with Obi Wan. He changes his whole life around in a very short period of time, like his master, all he has left is his training. Both Romeo and Juliet changed their lives around for each other, even though it resulted in death (Shakespeare). The feuding families could never know about their children’s relationship because they hadn’t adjusted to the idea of ending their fighting and still hated each other. Romeo went first and Juliet followed behind and the death toll went up, if the families had changed their views toward each other , no one would have lost their lives. Those who are open to change, will be introduced to many life altering

In just the course of A New Hope, Luke’s character changes immensely. The critical incident that sparks a change of his

Episode IV was set during a time of war between the Rebellion, the good side, and the Empire, which is considered the evil side. The science fiction story is about a young man, Luke Skywalker, who travels into space to fight against the Empire. Luke is from the planet Tatooine, a desert, where he farms water with his uncle. Luke’s uncle buys two droids, R2D2 and C3PO, who happen to have been involved in the war and worked for the rebellion. Luke discovers a recording in one of the droids of Princess Leia saying she needed help, and that sparks the beginning of his journey. He meets Ben, also known as Obi-Wan Kenobi, who becomes his mentor, and teaches him how to use “the force”. In Star Wars, “the force” is a magical way for people to control things using their unconscious minds. Luke sets out on a journey into space to rescue the princess and join the Rebellion in the war effort. Luke and Obi-Wan meet Han solo, a pilot, and ask him to take them into space. They plan to go to Alderaan, Princess Leia’s home planet; however, they are unintentionally sucked into the Death Star, the spacecraft and weapon of the Empire. They find out that Princess Leia is being held in the Death Star, and they plan to help her escape. While Han and Luke try to help Leia, Obi-Wan is fighting Darth Vader, the evil leader of the Empire. Unfortunately, Obi-Wan is killed by Darth Vader; although, Luke, Han and Leia escape the Death Star. They go to a Rebellion headquarter and find the weak spot of the Death Star.

  In the Book of Genesis, Adam and Eve eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which gives them greater powers of perception but also causes their expulsion from Paradise. The story creates a link between clear vision and the ability to perceive the truth‹which, in this case, causes mankind to fall from a state of blissful ignorance to one of miserable knowledge. In the Merchant's Tale, vision and truth do not enjoy such an easy relationship. Vision is obstructed at both the metaphorical and the literal level, and the subversion of the fabliau genre challenges the idea of truthful representation. The Merchant's Tale destabilizes the notion of representation itself,

Knowledge is the information in which we perceive to be the truth of the world around us. However, all knowledge is susceptible to change depending of the bias of the character. Gabriel García Márquez demonstrates this issue in the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold by exploiting the understanding of knowledge through fabula and syuzhet.

really wants sequels and remakes to raise their employees' income. He does some things that the Dark Side does but on a smaller scale, such as blowing up a huge spherical object, but unlike what the Dark Side did, the object fired a laser, but they both killed everyone living there. Even though Luke did that, he is still a hero, since he helps the universal economy, he helps the Rebellion and also helps people's livelihoods. He is the good guy, and he will be, until the seventh movie where he is an

Since Death, the narrator said that Hans Hubermann had escaped him twice in a row, then does this mean Hans would die when he meets death again? I predict that because Death is foreshadowing by saying that "not many men are lucky enough to cheat [him] twice" (Zusak 178). Also, this leads me into predicting that he might meet death when he is in his senior years because Death mentions that he met him "Once young" and "Once middle-aged" (Zusak

Whether to entertain or to educate the listener, every tale or story has a unique narrator that structures the plot to his or her taste. Through the molding and shaping of fictional characters, their actions and behaviors can end up defining the outcome of the story and the morality or virtue that is intended to influence the reader or listener. How then does a narrator interweave the themes? What elements become significant in the structure of a story? The eight recurring executions that occur in The Arabian Nights convey a thematic pattern of forgiveness and mercy that reflect back to the original story frame and emphasize the message the narrator, Shahrazad, hopes to communicate to King Shahrayr.

First, we will begin by exploring the psyche and quest of the series' main protagonist, Luke Skywalker. In a profound sense throughout the series, but particularly in the first film, A New Hope, Luke undergoes the male coming of age journey that is a staple of literature and an analogue of a man's development in real life. When the film first picks up, we are introduced to Luke as an adolescent living and working on his aunt and uncles moisture farm on Tatooine, a desert planet with very little going for it in terms of natural resources, material wealth, or human contact. It is

He races home to find his family dead and nothing left but becoming a jedi (A New Hope Scene-by-scene. Web. 2010). In an effort to get to the Princesses planet they go to the Cantina, a bar filled with scam artist, where the find Han Solo and his co-pilot Chewbacca. Once they’ve settled on a payment their journey begins. What Obi-Wan and Luke don’t know is that in an effort to get Leia to talk Darth threatens and then follow through with blowing up her home planet.(Web. SparkNotes.com. Star Wars Episodes iv-vi. 2014) Eventually Han’s ship is pulled up by Darth’s and then they are forced to fight their way out. Obi-Wan encounters and allows Darth to defeat him, meanwhile Leia is rescued by Han, Luke, and the others. Without Obi-Wan but the rescue of the Princess the only thing left to do is defeat Darth’s ship, the Death Star. Against all odds and the discovery of the force Luke blows it up and is later awarded for heroic nature, as is Han and Chewbacca, ending the first of the epic series.

Love is amazing. It is difficult to find but once it is found, love can be the most amazing thing to have. In the 1400’s it was rare to find a noble wedding that was filled with love. People that were unhappy or uncomfortable in their relationships were more likely to have cheated on their spouse or deceive them to get what they want. In the Merchant's Tale of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, an older knight named January order’s to find a very young wife. January finds a beautiful young woman named May, who soon becomes his wife, despite her not being in love with him. May then falls in love with one of the knight’s squires, Damian. They send notes to each other and keep their love a secret as best as they can. Damian and May finally

"My personal impression is that he died without understanding his death" (Marquez 101). The above statement is stated by the narrator in Marquez's text. The novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold tells the story of the narrator's return in a small Colombian town in the 1950's to resolve the details of the murder of his close friend, Santiago Nasar, who is a handsome and wealthy man, who is dead due to Anglea’s lies. Angela Viscario is a beautiful girl, who is not a virgin. She lies about Santiago taking her virginity, due to this false statement, her twin brothers Pedro and Pablo Viscario decide to kill him to restore the family's honor. In the book Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Santiago Nasar is a victim of murder