The importance of essential / central metaphors

In Scene 5 of Pericles, the central metaphor of the play is expressed during a portion of comic relief in the play. While out sailing, Pericles and his ship is overcome by a terrible tempest in which the audience can recognize the struggle between nature and man. In all his melancholy, Pericles humbles himself to the storm and states, "...remember, earthly man / Is but a substance that must yield to you; / And I, as fits my nature, do obey you." The strength and unpredictability of the storm has overcome Pericles so much that he pretty much admits defeat. And thus defeated, is washed up onto shore by the storm, where he will begin a new.

Upon landing on shore, Pericles is greeted by three fishermen who are in awe at what they have found- a washed up man. As nearly anyone would wonder, the fisherman joked and asked where Pericles, the stranger had come from. The ensuing conversation marks a rebirth of Pericles, him starting with nothing, not even telling the fishermen he is a prince. Pericles gleams with purity at this moment, and this foreshadows possible changes in the following scenes in the play. 

The Depiction of Evil in Form/Figure

In the first four scenes, evil manifests itself in the characters of Antiochus and his daughter. If Pericles wishes to court his daughter, Pericles must solve Antiochus’ riddle. If Pericles answers incorrectly, he dies. Once he solves the riddle however, Pericles keeps it to himself, and tells Antiochus he knows the answer to the riddle, but does not state it. Antiochus then vows to kill Pericles. So whether or not Pericles got the answer right, the riddle was fashioned to kill any who tried to marry his daughter.

Incest itself is an extremely foul practice. Especially between father and daughter, and the fact that it is consensual is striking. This incestuous relationship between Antiochus and his daughter is twisted and since they wish to keep the relationship a secret is obvious. Those who have tried to court Antiochus’s daughter before Pericles have fallen into an abyss where they have not known that they are doomed to die. However, before Antiochus can kill Pericles, he escapes, back to his city of Tyre.

Because Antiochus doesn’t want his dirty, sinful deed revealed, he hires an assassin named Thaliard to kill Pericles. The evil of this incest has evolved, pretty much causing a chain reaction of events, to the unease of Antiochus.  But, as we learn later in Scene 3 that Pericles escapes, thus leaving the possibility of Pericles revealing the evils of Antiochus and his daughter. 

If I were have to list my favorite epic, it would be the trilogy of the video game "Halo". Basically stating, the plot centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the "Covenant". The Covenant are led by their leaders, The Prophets, and worship an ancient civilization known as the "Forerunners" who perished in combat with the parasitic "Flood". The Flood are organic, infected, warper creatures, who can take the hosts of other bodies and spread the plague. The plot is obviously more complex than this, but what my favorite part is the main character / protagonist, named Master Chief, or Spartan-117. He is an elite super-soldier who is he last of his military breed. And he saves the world.

This youtube link basically sums it up, somewhat serious/humorous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIwnrIOqhO8&feature=related

If I were to plot a hierarchy of my family, I'd have to certainly start with my father's side because on my mom's side, she has all sisters, so there wouldn't be any lineage from that side. So on my father's side, I don't know my great-grandparents echelon, so I'll start with my grandfather. So my grandparents had 4 children, the two older children are male, and the two younger are female. My dad is the oldest of his siblings. So if my grandfather was King, my dad would be first in line for succession. My mom and dad had only one child, me, so thus, I would be second in line for succession. This is the line of succession for the Magsino family.

The soliloquy I've been working on for the past few days is nearly coming to its completion. It is about Oberon trying to sleep the night after accepting what has happened, and thinking about what he should do next. The writing portion of it was quite fun and intellectually challenging. I've been revising the iambic pentameter style to make is as accurate as I possible can, while still keeping the meaning. Next, more recently, we have had to assign speech methods to lines so that when we read our soliloquy, we can read it and voice it with emphasis and proper sound techniques.

Towards the end of Act IV in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare shows us just exactly the nature of romantic love. Take Oberon for example. In the beginning of Act II, we are introduced to Oberon who is entangled in an argument between him and his wife. he wants to changeling child to to bad and his wife, the queen doesn't want him to take it. Oberon decides to prank his wife, and his wife ends up unconditionally loving Bottom. This was all part of Oberon's plan, but he noticed just how his wife acts when she was truly in love. She brought Bottom gifts, petted him, etc. All along this situation was a power struggle of love, to get even with his wife. Oberon has become jealous, and now accepts how complex love is, how confusing it is, and most importantly, how it cannot be forced upon one another.