Elixir

sense, involves a hero leaving their ordinary world to embark on an adventure that is filled with trials and complications. After enduring the bumps in the road, the hero is rewarded with a prize or elixir that benefits the people from their original homeland. Screenwriter Chrisopher Volger states, “The Elixir may even have the power to restore life in the Ordinary World” (Volger 220) which indicates the journey essentially has a purpose to it. This typical framework of the hero’s journey does not fit

reality. However, reality can be deceiving and you can create your own illusion. In our “World Myhtology The Illustrated Guide,” the author Willis related the popular myth in which narrates the story of the Gods trying to acquired the Amrita or the elixir of immortality. The Churning of the ocean begins with the Gods reunion at the Mount Meru to suggested best to obtain the Amrita. One of the most well-know gods Vishu proposed to let the Devas and Asuras stir the ocean with the snake Vasuki been used

ancient China around 900 AD”-(http://www.sacu.org/greatinventions.html). The most popular believed story is that a group of Daoist monks who frequently developed elixirs were making a brand new elixir, and ended up making the destructive tool gunpowder.. “One day when they were trying to find another elixir they accidentally created an elixir with entirely new properties they have never seen before.” -(http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/song/tech/gunpowder.htm). When they mixed saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal

of a Lost Generation; men who lost their lives, limbs, or the ability to live a normal life. Paul Baumer, the young German protagonist of All Quiet on the Western Front becomes a member of this sad generation through his sad journey to the ultimate elixir, death. In Erich Remarque’s magnum opus All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Baumer is faced by various emotionally jarring tests that

journey to get back home and faces many hardships. This text illustrates the genre expectations of the monomyth. Two archetypes in the book are Odysseus as hero and Poseidon as the shadow. Two stages in the book are Ordinary World and Return With The Elixir. One theme in the book is to think before you act. The hero archetype is the character who is trying to accomplish something, and the shadow is the character who tries to stop him. “When it was just about to burst into flames. They lifted it out and

to earn the cult's trust and learn more about the immunity, I decide to assist the survivors. Eventually, one of the Faceless, the high-ranking members of the cult, approached me and privately admits that their immunity is gained through a special elixir they had discovered, but like Antizin, it only suppresses the infection and does not fully cure it. The Faceless also reveal that they are working on a permanent cure, and promise that

1)Why does Coelho open with the modified myth of Narcissus? How does the new version differ from the original one? How does it change the myth’s meaning? What might the author be suggesting about how we perceive ourselves and the world? Paulo Coelho began with the tale of Narcissus to show the reader that when you are so caught up in your own life you do not realize the greater things like nature and friends. It differs because it leaves out how the lake was also too caught up in its own beauty

where the person is confronted with a problem that they must overcome; a fulfillment, where the person finally overcomes the problem; and a return, where the person passes on what they gain and learn from the experiences in the form of a "life-giving elixir"(Campbell). This “life-giving

They did not usually prescribe tonics or elixirs” (“Tonics and Elixirs for Neurasthenia”). This contradicts itself, yet presents proof as it turns out “opiates were popular in the U. S. during the 1800s, primarily as an elixir for the relief of neurasthenia (a general term referring to melancholia) among young women” (“History of Heroin in America”). It is possible to find a lack

Originating in ancient Egypt, Alchemy is one of the two oldest sciences that are known in the world, besides astrology. It can be described as a process in which we shift from our essential state of unconsciousness, go through plenty alchemical stages portrayed by our most elemental experiences, to the understanding of full awakening, or enlightenment. Alchemy is a an operation that goes around from cycle to cycle, repeating over and over again to transform and alter us through the experiences of