Summer Assignment July 7th Deadline

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The two types of violence in literature are personal (and even intimate) acts between human beings, as well as cultural and societal in nature. Physical violence is probably the most abundant form of violence in literature, and one such example would be in Shakespeare's Macbeth when Macbeth murders the king, Duncan, in his sleep in order to ensure his spot on the throne in the future, as predicted by the witches. This act of violence has meaning other than Macbeth just killing the king for no reason, but instead him taking aggressive actions in order to gain personal status in the future, which adds drama to the plot of the story. Another example of violent situations in stories would be in Elie Wiesel's novel Night, in which there is a social pressure where fear is used as a form of psychological violence in order to cause a society, or in this case a cultural group, to submit to another group of people, similar to how slavery worked in the United States.



Chapter 12-





The Wizard of Oz is a novel (and movie) that is surprisingly overflowing with symbolism. The greenback (green is the representative color of emerald city) represents money and how its power is nothing more than an illusion, stemming from the lie that comes along with it that there's an all-powerful wizard there. The name Oz or Troy ounce, is the unit measurement of precious metals. The "Yellow brick road" is the Gold Standard, solid and sturdy, the golden road leads to power. Emerald city is representative of Washington D.C. and Kansas as an example of typical America. Then movie in its entirety is a metaphor for keeping the gold standard in the United States over paper money or silver-based currency (Dorothy's silver slippers as expressed in the novel are representative of the want to have silver-based currency).



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A family favorite, The Lion King, is laced with highly political content that not even the most educated child would pick up on or understand. It has references to things other than the monarchy expressed in the film. Mufasa represents the New Deal ideal of the free, tolerant, fair society that had been transpiring in this country since the 50's.Scar is representative of the days when social interests of the rich and greedy were all that mattered to the society. Scar conning Simba into believing his father's death was his fault, causing him to leave, allowing Scar to take over as king, a vicious dictator. By Scar becoming king, he resumes the fascist dictatorship he represents and brings the focus back onto his strong and greedy benefit over the slowly dying inhabitants of Pride Rock.



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Harry Potter from the Harry Potter series could be defined as being a Christ figure. He has unusual wounds, an interesting childhood, and he is ready to sacrifice himself to save others. Another parallel that could be drawn is that Harry survived the Cruciatus curse, which has a familiar ring to it (Crucifix). He is nothing less than the Harry Potter series's Christ figure.





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Disney's latest movie Maleficent is a perfect example of freedom flight. Maleficent has magnificent wings in which she uses to navigate through her homeland, the Moors, flying past wondrous waterfalls and elegant creatures who also inhabit the land. Maleficent, along with all the other creatures in the fairy kingdom are free from the king's rule. But, at one point in the movie, a boy that Maleficent loves and trusts cuts her wings off so that he might say he killed her so that he may become king. She cries in pain seeing that her airborne abilities she's had for 16 years of her life are stolen from her. After the rest of the movie with devastating events transpire, she eventually regains her wings at the end of the movie in a way that is very unexpected. The boy who cut her wings off, now king, kept them in a case for display in a room he commonly went to thing. Aurora, sleeping beauty, knocks it over and Maleficent's wings return to her and fuse back onto her body, once again granting her the ability of flight; in this case, she uses her flight to escape. The king dies in the process, but Maleficent once again takes to the skies and rises above the clouds of oppression.