The Lioness

Literature pieces by William Shakespeare have been known to connect works completed throughout the centuries and across many cultures. Shakespeare’s piece The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is no different. Ovid’s “Pyramus and Thisbe” exhibits many features that are apparent in Shakespeare’s tragedy which can only be explained by Shakespeare gaining inspiration for his play from the ancient Roman myth. William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Ovid's "Pyramus and Thisbe" share similar

•The fullest and most important source of myths and the origins of the gods is the Theogony of Hesiod  (c. 700 BCE). (Morford, textbook website “Hesiod”) •By most estimates, classical mythology stories are approximately 4000 years old.   (“Classical Mythology: Its Origins and Impact.” Films Media Group) •Greek religion and myths influenced Roman culture for centuries. •Romans merged religious institutions and practices of the people they conquered into their own. Among the earliest notable were the

Tamora Pierce is a young adult fantasy fiction author who is quite well known for the young, strong and rebellious heroines in all of her novels. She was born December 13th, 1954 in Fayette Country, Pennsylvania. During her childhood, her family moved a great deal and books became her solace. Her uncle gave her a set of books including several from A.A Milne, who wrote all of the “Winnie the Pooh” books, and Dr. Seuss’ “Cat in the Hat.” What really got her into writing was when one day, her father

to meet up outside the city gates to be married, but things do not go as planned. Thisbe arrives first at their meeting point beneath a gleaming white mulberry tree. As she waits, a lioness approaches and Thisbe hides in a nearby cave to avoid an altercation. While fleeing, she leaves behind her veil, which the lioness marks up with blood from her gory paws. Pyramus arrives shortly after, and seeing the

people and life isn’t being fair. In Year of no rain by Alice Mead I think Peter has changed to be more rude and more selfish. “We think old man garang tore a hole in the thorn fence and let his cows wander off on purpose. And one died, killed by lioness. Now he’ll tell mama that this was my fault. And you’ll have to accept

15. The flower myths were meant to explain where different types of wildflowers that are native to Greece came from. For example, after Narcissus died, the myth states that a flower that they called Narcissus grew where he died. This also occurred when Hyacinth and Adonis died. The flower myths attempted to explain how and why things in nature came to be. 16. The common theme of all of the flower myths is relationships or love. All of the people that turned into flowers had someone that truly cared

“She who is powerful”, fitting for the goddess of war. She is depicted as a woman with the head of a lion. Something that the the Egyptian people noticed was that it was not he male lion that usually hunts, but rather the lioness. The depiction of her having the head of a lioness would aid in communicating the aggressive nature of

the book one of which being when Pyramus see Thisbe’s cloth drenched of blood in the dank grass in the night by the tree. “The lioness came upon it on her way back to her lair and she mouthed it and tore it before disappearing into the woods” ( Hamilton 488). He made the choice to kill himself right then and there instead of naturally following the tracks that the Lioness left for him to his beloved, who was still very much conscious. In fact since Pyramus made the decision to remove himself from

have been used. A few years later, Pumba, Simba caregiver, and Simba were going for a stroll when suddenly Pumba got distracted by a big beetle. In efforts to catch this beetle he stumbles upon a lioness who chases him. Pumba runs to simba where he is protected by simba when Simba realized that the lioness is his long lost friend nala. Who tries to convince Simba to take his rightful place as king, but simba doesn't want to. Raikafi Realized that Simba is still alive, and wants to pay him a visit.

tied to The Lion King as the aforementioned topics. Using that lense, countless examples of sexism come into focus. Sarabi, the queen, did not succeed Mufasa, nor did she succeed Simba. Her brother-in-law, Scar, did instead. Surely an experienced lioness would have been better suited for the throne than her young, rash, and naive son. Sarabi would have most definitely made more logical sense to succeed Simba than Scar. She was closer in relation to both Mufasa and Simba, she ruled alongside Mufasa