HTRLLAP

elements of a quest (5)

quester, place to go, stated reason for going, challenges/trials, real reason for going (always self-knowledge)

communion (definition)

eating together with someone

Failed communion

something is going to go wrong!! (can be someone else enters, 1 of the participants leaves, traitorous intentions at dinner)

vampires

exploitation, selfishness, puts their desires over others' needs, feeding off of someone else (don't have to be literal vampires!)

ghosts

teach lessons

doppelgangers/werewolves

duality of man

zombies

consumerism, racism, mindless drones

Cane and Abel

brothers; one is jealous of the other(who is favored by God), kills him out of jealousy.

David and Goliath

the underdog winning (biblical allusion)

Garden of Eden

paradise, perfection

Adam and Eve

innocence, purity

apple

temptation

eating an apple

fall from grace, loss of innocence

serpent/snake

temptor, the Devil

The Faustian Bargain

deal with the Devil (Devil usually in the disguise)

intertextuality

blending of old and new texts

What authors allude to frequently

Shakespeare, the Bible, mythology

rain

wash something away, clean, can transform, restorative (can backfire), emotional release

rainbow

promise with God

fog

mystery, ambiguity

politics

in almost all pieces of work!!

democratic factor

rains on everyone

lightning

creation of life

violence

in lit, always a metaphor; can make action happen, cause or end plot complications, put characters under stress

Christ figures

self-sacrificing, carpenter, arms outstretched (cross), lost in wilderness (especially alone), forgiving, often tempted (conversation with Devil), age 33

flight

freedom

baptism

cleansing, rebirth, new life (does not have to be water! can be fire, wind, earth), crossing a river

requirements for baptism

submersion and reimmersion, participant needs to be willing, death then rebirth (can be literal or symbolic), usually a change in name, change in identity

head shaved

symbol for baptism

south

chaos, negative, Hell, running amok

north

enlightenment, spirituality, knowledge

east

sun rises, new beginnings, dawn, renewal, the past

west

sun sets, death of character/story/idea, new beginning, discovery (future!)

Geography (can be/is)

a setting, a character, define and develop characters, plot device

marks of greatness

sets a character apart (ex: HP's lightning bolt)

blindness

knowledge, second sight

heart attack

related to passion, more than an illness

tuberculosis

consumption/eating away

low places

swamps, crowd, fog, darkness, fields, heat, unpleasantness, people, life, death

high places

snow, ice, purity, thin air, clear views, isolation, life, death

spring

youth, beginning, renewal, rebirth, childhood (March, April, May)

summer

coming of age, adulthood, romance, passion (June, July, August)

fall

harvest, declining, middle age, tiredness (September, October, November)

winter

death, resentment, old age, end (December, January, February)

irony

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