Aspidochelone Essays

„I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind almost solely consists in this one phenomenon, especially when exhibited under any form at all approaching to muteness or universality.” ( Herman Melville, 184) The Whiteness of the Whale represents a chapter which brings

In Maria Dahvana Headley’s short story, Moveable Beast, in Neil Gaiman’s book, Unnatural Creatures, Headley tells the story of Bastardville’s Beast through the perspective of Angela. In the beginning of the story, Headley portrays Angela by having a sarcastic tone, being terse with others and barely caring about anything in Bastardville, including herself. Angela later has a coming of age story and realizes what the beast of her town represents and what she has to do to protect and maintain it. The

successful general and one of Rome's most beloved figures. But this was all an act—shortly, after six months of his reign, his savagery, sadism, and sexual perversity haunts the whole country. Killing has been his sporadic entertainment; at one time, he ordered all the cripples, the hunchbacks, the unwanted, and the outcasts to be thrown into the arena and are forced to kill each other using meat cleavers. He also adored slaughtering animals: he tortured lions, and speared giraffes; he even beheaded