Essays about: "supernatural"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 37 essays containing the word supernatural.
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16. “Pale her cheeks they ought to be, it was only yesterday that she had been a tree.” : Gender, Power, and Hybridity in the Swedish Medieval Supernatural Ballads
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis analyzes eight specific Swedish medieval ballads that contain supernatural transformation and hybridity for how they depict gender in late medieval and early modern contexts. Using literature as a historical resource and a micro-historical approach, this thesis applies gender theory, intersectional approaches, and monster theory to its reading of these ballads. READ MORE
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17. Make a man out of a monkey: Psychosexual development of Sun Wukong
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/KinesiskaAbstract : 西游记是明代吴承恩所攥写的。西游记的主角是孙悟空。孙悟空出生时,具有超自然力量,但是一直很叛逆。因为孙悟空对天堂犯了大错,所以他受到惩罚,他必须帮助玄奘去印度取经回中国。整个旅程中,孙悟空和朝圣者经历八十一场灾难,也让孙悟空变成了一个更好的人。这篇论文应用西格蒙德·弗洛伊德的性心理發展分析为什么孙悟空在朝圣中,行为和性格变的更好。孙悟空在生命的早期阶段发展了固着,通过一直吃达到自我享乐。之后,孙悟空找到了他的阳具,如意金箍棒,孙悟空一直用如意金箍棒试图征服。孙悟空也开始仿效他的父亲形象,玉皇大帝。因为孙悟空违反玉皇大帝的法律,玉皇大帝试图处决孙悟空,但是失败了。所以,孙悟空认为强的人是高于法律的。然而只有佛陀能给孙悟空惩罚,把孙悟空放在五阶山下。孙悟空在五阶山下五百年以后,观音委任孙悟空保护玄奘去印度取经。孙悟空在玄奘身上找到了一位父亲形象,在观音身上找到了一位母亲形象。孙悟空模仿玄奘不使用他的阳具,如意金箍棒试图征服。反而,孙悟空用如意金箍棒做好事,不伤人。 .. READ MORE
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18. Consciousness as a Bridge between Worlds : The Fantastic Effects of The Third Policeman
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Abstract This essay explores Tzvetan Todorov’s theories on the fantastic and aims to give an analytical description of the cognitive processes of the reader of Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman upon encountering story elements that appear to defy natural laws. According to Todorov, the genre of the fantastic hinges on the reader’s “hesitation” when he tries to make sense of the supernatural element(s) in context of the novel; he hesitates while trying to decide whether there is a natural explanation for these events or whether the world of the narrative has entered what may be called the realm of the imaginary, the world of the marvelous, or a(n im)possible world. READ MORE
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19. Amid otherworld stages
University essay from Konstfack/ÄdellabAbstract : Where does the soul go after death? This question is based on my ‘fear of ghosts’ and became the starting point of my degree project, which most obviously stems from our fear of the unknown. In the age of technology, many people claim that they are atheists and think that everything has or will have a physical explanation. READ MORE
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20. Up against Good, Evil, Destiny, and God himself
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/BildproduktionAbstract : Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur religiösa teman manifesterar sig i TV-serien Supernatural (2005 ff.), och i vad mån dessa teman motsvarar en "banal religion". READ MORE