Elixir

resemble the threshold of adventure in “The Hero’s Journey” where a hero crosses into an unknown world and carries out a challenging adventure in order to live freely by carrying out steps such as The Supreme Ordeal, The Road Back, and Returning with the Elixir. First, the eighth stage of The Hero’s Journey is known as The Supreme Ordeal. It is the moment where the hero is touches bottom and is faced with death. In The Odyssey this is the moment when Odysseus is describing his bed to his wife Penelope

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 serve as a catalyst for his inner decline and eventual elixir. Paul is faced with a fearsome French bombardment and offensive, a hand-to-hand killing of a Frenchman, Gerard Duval, and the death of his mentor and

combines this aspect of the sublime being unachievable on earth in “The Birthmark”. Aylmer, a scientist and philosopher, is appalled by his wife, Georgiana’s birthmark and strives to create an “elixir vitae” to remove it (Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” 1027). Hawthorne describes Aylmer’s ambition to create the elixir of life, but evidently Aylmer knows “that it would produce a discord in Nature which all the world, and chiefly the quaffer of the immortal nostrum, would find a cause to curse” (1027). Hawthorne

The stages of the Hero’s Journey givens insight on how stories are structured in 12 stages. Every story is unique in its own way. To begin with, The Ordinary World helps the reader experience what the hero is seeing, feeling and doing described in words. Every story has a problem to solve that disrupts the Ordinary World. The Ordinary World is known as the safe place for the hero. Next, the hero enters the stage known at “The Call to Adventure”. The Call to Adventure is what disrupts the Ordinary

A hero’s journey begins with the ordinary world. This is where the setting is established and the audience learns the characteristics of the hero. Later, a problem or a central dramatic question disrupts the easy-going nature of the ordinary world. Next is the hero’s call to adventure. This is when a challenge is presented to the hero and disrupts the usual comfort of the ordinary world. The call to action forces the hero to choose between two conflicting calls. Sometimes, the hero needs multiple

volume, their exuberance, the outlandishness of their humor; the way they invented wild, improbable scenarios in their heads and then speculated about them.” (P 209) She acquires her own thinking and moral values from the artificial intelligence Elixir, values that go beyond human thinking that usually come from traditions and

entitled, “There’s Bad News for Hipsters Who Swear by Kombucha,” by Tove Danovich, multiple studies on the role of microbiota in the gut, and kombucha are combined to determine whether Kombucha is an elixir of health, or if it is another health fad. Danovich writes on why Kombucha is not an elixir of good health, and really has no researched benefits, all benefits are anecdotal. Although this article is not in the style of research or scientific writing, it combines scientific studies to discuss

The gothic monstrous doors slammed shut, and almost immediately after, Prince Prospero’s servants welded the doors shut, entrapping the thousand guest inside with no way out. With the Red Death happening, the veil of reality outside the castle penetrated everyone’s minds and hearts. To lighten the mood, Prince Prospero arranged a masquerade ball for all of the thousand guest. Being the Prince’s ball, it was to be the most elegant and expensive masquerade the kingdom has ever seen. As the day of

In the early Eastern Han dynasty in the first century A.D. ruled by Emperor Ming, Buddhism and Taoism appeared in China as religions for the first time. In first century A.D. China, when Buddhism and Taoism were introduced as religions, Taoism and Buddhism shared many similar characteristics. As a result, it was difficult to differentiate between the religions in China during their first years. In Taoism, the believers follow the Tao or the Way, in which they live their life following nature. In

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is from the 10th century. It's Japan's oldest surviving narrative. It's also considered one of the World's earliest science fiction stories. There was once a poor bamboo cutter, cutting away. As he is cutting he sees a small child the size of his thumb inside the bamboo. He was awed by her beauty and took her home to his wife. They decided that they would raise her together, just as if she were their own child. But what they don’t know is that she is actually Princess