Female monsters are commonly used to reflect male anxiety towards female sexuality and the fear of displacement of power in both pre-modern Korean literature and contemporary films. These narratives express the motif of revenge because the disgruntled emotions of pre-modern women cannot be released ...
Female monsters and beautiful mythical creatures are popular in mythologies. Explore different female mythical creatures from around the world.
It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you. I like seeing strong female characters and somebody who doesn't run away screaming when scared, but confronts the monsters. —Katie Holmes 18 What makes a strong female ...
You’d think this clear animosity would spell the end of any chance of the two getting together, but that isn’t quite the case inEvangelion.Despite this apparent unfriendliness between them, romantic implications are equally present within the two pilots’ relationship. The dynamic between them b...
But being an adult shouldn’t stop us from dressing up in equally creative costumes. Here are just 30 ideas from literature (sometimes adapted on the big and small screen) that would make some great adult costumes of beloved book characters!
The witch of Tophet County has three primary preoccupations: Kentucky bourbon, Amish romance novels . . . and protecting her true identity from the chthonic monsters who rule humanity with an iron tentacle. Despite her best efforts to get fired, the witch is trapped in a draconian, century-...
In fact, I would even go as far as to proclaim her the best and most interesting of the Trinity in the Gods and Monsters universe, because of her extremely tragic story but also how she's still got a sense of humor and easygoing nature to her when she's in the thick of the action...
Introduction Fantasy literature has traditionally split the roles of its characters "between [the] active/male and passive/female" (Mulvey 62). Conversely, modern-day fantasy, established in the 1950s, depicts women in active roles. J.R.R.Tolkien, who published his three-volume The Lord of ...
This is, in fact, the central narrative aim of a vast array of contemporary fictional texts that, like Mary Reilly and Kiraly/Bergstrom’s books, “resurrect” Victorian literary monsters (Domsch 2012, p. 102). Peter Widdowson (2006) refers to such texts as “re-visionary fiction”—texts ...
244). When talking about Taoist female worship, this article not only takes the small-portioned female Taoists presented in classical Taoist literature as the worshiped icons but also takes the whole Taoist population, both the female and the male, as worshiped objects because each Taoist has ...