House of Mystery Essays

Cain and Abel are the sons of Adam and Eve. Cain, as a farmer, sacrifices some of his crops to God; however, he finds that God is far more interested in his brother Abel, offering him the best of his herd. In his anger and jealousy, Cain decides to kill his own brother. This story can resonate with readers and, therefore, is used as an allusion in other works. It also shows themes of anger, violence, and jealousy. In Demian, the main character is conflicted in seeing Cain as a cowardice or as a symbol

Spiritual Eagle A struggle occurring inside your own mind with yourself, that is the type of internal conflict Abel is going through. Abel’s internal conflict is person versus self. He didn’t want or see himself being an eagle hunter, then he not only does, yet killing the eagle himself. That same decision changes his whole character; making questions about this character from many angles. Abel’s person versus self conflict over the eagle is very complex. In particular when Abel himself

fictional character from the novel, Captain Aardvark, who rapes and kills a maid in Rome. When he tells the story to Yossarian, he makes it sounds as though it was a right thing to do. Without guilt, he says “boy, we used to have fun in that fraternity house” (Heller, 1994: 478). Though what he did sounds horrible, Heller’s tone of writing makes it as if it was not that bad, and we get that from the Aardvark’s confidence when he speaks. This issue reinforces how Heller uses sensitive things as a form of

According to Abelard, the servant killing his master was a sin. Does the fact that a servant killed his master make the situation even worse? In those times, servants were the ones who were supposed to listen to their masters. Even though the master was enraged with anger, does that still give any leverage to the servant to run, then kill him? I feel as if the servant is already in the wrong before he runs away. Would Abelard consider it a sin for the servant to not listen to his master? For example

Sibling rivalries in stories go back as far as humans have been telling stories, from the feud between Atreus and Thyestes in Greek mythology, to the Romulus and Remus of Roman descent, to the story of Cain and Abel in the Bible. Anyone with siblings can understand just how deep a feud can get when family is thrown into the scrap, and the stories of Cain and Abel, Atreus and Thyestes, and Romulus and Remus do not seem too far off base. Luckily for both brothers of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing

The Winchester Mystery House has a very interesting background. The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, 525 South Winchester Boulevard, was built by Sarah Winchester ( Winchester Mystery House). The Winchester House was known for many things, including, the ghosts, the way it was built, and the famous, crazy, lady that owned and built the house (The Bizarre History of California’s Winchester Mystery House). The owner was Sarah Winchester, and she inherited 20.5 million dollars when

During a tour of the infamous Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, two adventurous teens get separated from the group and find themselves locked in the house overnight. “Joey! Joey!!! Where are you, I’m scared,” I said as I search through the dark haunted house that Joey and I are now locked in. I run in circles scared out of my mind, wondering where Joey is. So I stop and think for a minute, I will never find Joey just hiding in this room. So I take a giant breath and walk out of

Imagine being in a house on an isolated island with nine strangers; slowly, one by one, the strangers around you begin to die, are you next? In the novel And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, the plot revolves around a group of strangers all accused of murder who will soon meet their death. The story is filled with suspense, a progressive mission to discover who the murderer is, and an interactive plot for readers. Christie’s style of writing is such that it breaks all the conventional rules

together through the twisted kidnapping. Visiting Bat Lady, raiding the school's surveillance cameras and visiting Plan B, all in hope to save Ashley before it's too late.Shelter meets the guidelines for a quality mystery. The reader shares in the detectives discoveries,

Crime/Punishment: In the mystery And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie, Dr. Armstrong was one of the victims of Justice Wargrave. In the Swan Song, he was charged with being the cause of the death of Louisa Mary Clees. Dr. Armstrong had operated on Louisa Mary Clees while he was drunk. The operation that he was called should have been a simple procedure with not much risk, but he thought he could handle it even though he was drunk. Louisa Mary Clees died during the operation. Although he was

Conflicts are the central issue that makes the story move in a literature. Conflicts in literature consists of internal and external conflicts. The internal conflict is one which exist inside the character and must be resolved by the character alone while the external conflict deals with the problems of the world. The external conflict manifests as man versus man or man versus the society. In, “good people”, the story had an internal and external conflicts. The story is centered typically around

Hollywood V.S. Bollywood is a documentary that shows the differences of some film styles of Bollywood and some film styles of Hollywood. These differences will be followed and supported by the differences between the American and Indian culture. The two films that will be examined are an American film “The Fault in Our Stars” and an Indian film “Masala Garam”. The documentary will show the differences with the help of examples from, mostly, the two films mentioned above. Video Audio Fade through

determining a Christ figure. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim is a Christ figure. As a Christ figure, Jim sacrifices himself for others’ welfare. Jim sacrificed his fidelity to protect Huck’s innocence. When Jim and Huck boarded the floating house, Jim entered first and he noticed a dead man with a gunshot in his back. Jim quickly recognized the face of Huck’s Pap, covered it up,

As a damsel in distress, or almost frantic matter, containing high emotions with obvious suffering and abandonment (Burke, Gothic Lesson 2). She is alone in this mysterious mansion on an island with no electricity. With the servants recent exit the house is ran down, and empty from all workers. As well as her husband who has disappeared at war, with no word back for years, with no record of his well-being (Amenábar, The Others.) As the film progresses, we start to see the Male Archetype emerge in her

She likes reading, predominantly gothic fiction of the time such as, The mysteries of Udulpho, by Ann Radcliffe. Consequently, the immature Catherine becomes absorbed by the events that occur in this fiction, which fuel her fertile imagination. Subsequently, Catherine finds it difficult to differentiate between the fictitious gothic

They're a lot of mysteries around the world, there have been horrible ones and ones that don't make sense at all. This story is about a mystery called The Dog Suicide Bridge of Dunbartonshire. It's about a bridge and dogs mysteriously jumping off the bridge for no apparent reason. The Dog suicide bridge of Dunbartonshire has a horrible background for dogs. There was once a 32-year-old man threw his 2-week-old son from the bridge because he believed him to be possessed by the devil. He then tried

Hellenic And Hellenistic Greek Theatre Architecture In ancient Greek theatre was an important aspect of their lives, they spent hours and even days planning and preparing for numerous plays to be performed in the festival of Dionysus and many other occasions. They took great care into evolving their theatre to improve its various aspects such as costumes, playwriting and architecture, trying to make the theatrical experience more enjoyable for the audience. Greek theatre architecture is the base

Secondly, as Cawelti argues, they are emotionally and morally involved with the person or crime. In Bitter Medicine V.I. becomes romantically involved with Peter. Although at first she does not know the role Peter played in the crime and it seems that when she does find out she is able to detach herself from him. However, it is unclear to what extent she could have detached herself. On the one hand, as she realises his involvement she does create a situation in where he can be exposed. Nevertheless

mum came by when he was younger to see him. He lived in a Pollok housing estate. He was accused of torturing animals when he was young which he denied. Ian Brady attended Shawlands Academy in Glasgow. His behaviour had deteriorated and broke into houses for which he

The Lesser Mysteries were closely related to Persephone, but Demeter was still viewed as an honored guest (240). From the limited information on the Lesser Mysteries, the process of purification was extremely important as it was the reason the cult was open to anyone. The purification process allowed for the possibility of foreigners or non-citizens of Eleusis or Athens (240). The Greater Mysteries was held annually in the month of Boedromion, which parallels