Josie Ho

In section 13 of Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality, he presents his audience with a metaphor, “That the lambs feel anger toward the great birds of prey does not strike us as odd: but that is no reason for holding it against the great birds of prey that they snatch up the little lambs for themselves.” (Section 13, 25). In this passage, Nietzsche details the complex relationship between the birds of prey and the lambs. Firstly, I argue that the birds of prey represent the noble class

Betrayal is a common thing today it is cruel and should not be as common as it is. This story Lamb to the slaughter is a bout the ultimate Betrayal, Murder. One night when Mary Maloney's husband came home it was betrayal he brought with him. Coming in quietly and making a very strong drink he said something so awful to her that not any wife would want to here the author did not make clear what he said to her it is up to the reader to decide that " And he told her. It didn't

“Genotype rather Than Non-Genetic Behavioural Transmission Determines the Temperament of Merino Lambs,” is an article that poses the question of whether the genotype of a mother ewe, or the environment of a lamb plays a larger part in the overall temperament the lamb develops. To find the answer to this hypothesis, six experiments were conducted on the different lamb to ewe demeanors. The four possible lamb to ewe combinations, include calm to calm (C-C), calm to nervous (C-N), nervous to calm (N-C)

Lambs and tigers, the weak and the strong. A lamb is considered to be weak and defenseless as the tiger is strong and ruthless. Both of these animals are on opposite sides of the food chain, and in that place they will forever exist, but is it possible that the tiger and lamb can coexist within a different species, in mankind? Can humans be like lambs, or like tigers, or even a mixture of the two opposing animals? If so, if humans can, or already are like the meek lamb or the powerful tiger, which

“Attention everyone,” a creaky voice scratched out on the old speaker, “Attention, judging for showmanship is about to begin, everyone please round up your animal and come to the ring.” My nerves instantly hit me, my hands instantly became frigid, unwilling to move even one centimeter. Everywhere around there was nothing but faded denim jeans, cowboy boots, old t-shirts, plaid shirts, and the occasional stetson. The screeching and bleating of surrounding animals bounced around in my head, making

The motif of the lamb leg within “Lamb to the Slaughter”, by Roald Dahl, contributes to the development of the story by embolizing Mrs. Maloney’s facade of innocence, which in turn strengthen the moral dilemma of either turning herself in as a criminal risking her child’s life or to continue living as a metaphoric lamb leg with the benefit of allowing her to raise her child without fear. Starting with why the lamb leg emblemizes Mrs. Maloney’s facade of innocence, one must first look at what a lamb

Blakes Archetypes William Blake is one of the most famous poets in the Romantics period. A unique thing about Blake is his ability to not only write poems but to be able to combine that with his artistic ability. Every poem that Blake writes is not printed, but is handwritten with a piece of his artwork. Blake is also very well known for his two opposite Archetypes. An Archetype is when something symbolizes something else. In addition to the symbols an archetype can also have background or a story

One evening in late fall a young innocent girl named Mary was walking along the road when she saw a poor defenseless lamb. She started to approach the lamb, and as she got closer… and closer… and closer, mary notices something around the lamb's neck. It was a collar of some sort but did not have a name tag on it. She decided to take it home and put signs up for a missing lamb. When they got back to Mary’s house the lamb noticed that the house was kind of mysterious looking, two gargoyles were placed

“The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being from another,” is the basic definition for murder. Unlawfully killing someone and having no reason of killing him/her is murder, there just isn’t any argument for it. In ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ by Roald Dahl, Mary Maloney is a housewife married to Patrick Maloney in the 1950s. He tells her something she doesn’t want to hear, more than likely it’s a divorce, and she still decides to cook dinner for him. She takes a frozen leg lamb they were going

My hometown is a lonely little island that floats in the middle of the East China Sea. It is a fairly small island where the weather is sunny year long. There is no official language since it is such a small island, rather the islanders speak a mix of Chinese, Korean and Japanese. It is such a small island that we have a population of barely over 1,000 people. Everyone lives a peaceful life, until one day… … It all starts in the morning, where I am watching the morning news with my sister, Eun-Ji