Review: The Happy Ending

1970 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-58
Author(s):  
Stephen Farber
Keyword(s):  
Happy Ending

The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander C. Loney
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
Epic Poem ◽  
Multiple Meanings

This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey. The principal revenge plot of the Odyssey—Odysseus’ surprise return to Ithaca after twenty years away and his vengeance on Penelope’s suitors—is the act for which he is most celebrated. This story forms the backbone of the Odyssey. But is Odysseus’ triumph over the suitors as univocally celebratory as is often assumed? Does the poem contain and even suggest other, darker interpretations of Odysseus’ greatest achievement? This book offers a careful analysis of several other revenge plots in the Odyssey—those of Orestes, Poseidon, Zeus, and the suitors’ relatives. It shows how these revenge stories color one another with allusions (explicit and implicit) that connect them and invite audiences to interpret them in light of one another. These stories—especially Odysseus’ revenge upon the suitors—inevitably turn out to have multiple meanings. One plot of revenge slips into another as the offender in one story becomes a victim to be avenged in the next. As a result, Odysseus turns out to be a much more ambivalent hero than has been commonly accepted. And in the Odyssey’s portrayal, revenge is an unstable foundation for a community. Revenge also ends up being a tenuous narrative structure for an epic poem, as a natural end to cycles of vengeance proves elusive. This book offers a radical new reading of the seemingly happy ending of the poem.

“Careful the Spell You Cast”

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Francis
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Moral Maturity ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
The World ◽  
Children's Stories

WithInto the Woodswe enter an enchanted landscape that is beset, however, by lengthening shadows. The show, which starts as an ingenious retelling of some familiar children’s stories, darkens in tone as the characters face up to difficult decisions and sudden death. In this show Sondheim and Lapine do not just retell fairy tales; instead they examine why we tell stories and how they can be used to bring the listener to moral maturity, which means—and this is a recurring theme in Sondheim’s work—accepting the necessity of choice and learning not to rely on the world to provide you with a happy ending.

Can knowledge have a happy ending?

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Happy Ending

Analisis Intertekstual Timun Mas dan Buto Ijo pada Iklan Marjan dan Cerita Rakyat Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ade Anggraini Kartika Devi ◽  
Ade Husnul Mawadah
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Great Strength ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This study aims to analyze the intertextuality of Timun Mas and Buto Ijo in the Marjan advertisement with Indonesian folklore. The advertisement is considered as a text derived from the previous text because it uses the characters of Buto Ijo and Timun Mas, namely the legendary figures of folklore entitled Timun Mas and Buto Ijo. The data sources are the Timun Mas and Buto Ijo versions of Marjan advertisements and the Timun Mas and Buto Ijo folk tales. Descriptive analysis was carried out using an intertextuality approach to see the relationship between the two texts. The results showed that the character of Buto Ijo in the Marjan advertisement and Indonesian folklore had some similarities and differences. The similarity is Buto Ijo is tall, big, and green. Buto Ijo, as his name implies, is told as a giant green figure who has great strength. The difference lies at the end of the story. In the advertisement, Buto Ijo has a happy ending by joining the Timun Mas family to celebrate Eid. While in folklore, Buto Ijo has a tragic ending. Buto Ijo died from drowning in a sea of ​​shrimp paste that turned into embers in the ocean.

ONLY STAYING THE COURSE REALLY MATTERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Tatiana Yurchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
New Novel ◽  
Adventure Fiction ◽  
Associative Connection ◽  
First Time ◽  
Positive Character ◽  
Critical Reviews

This article addresses the peculiarities of genre, style and personages of V. Sorokin’s new novel «Doctor Garin» (2021) with the reference to the latest critical reviews. It is stressed that «Doctor Garin» is the first writer’s experience in the adventure fiction and that because of this fact his novel for the first time has both the happy ending and a protagonist with positive character traits. Also the genres of romance, fairy tale, menippea and even stealth are mentioned as having some features in common with Sorokin’s novel. A special attention is paid to the associative connection with Russian literature.

scholarly journals The paediatric rheumatologist and orphan disease – a story without happy ending

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 141-145
Author(s):  
Justyna Roszkiewicz ◽  
Małgorzata Biernacka-Zielińska ◽  
Elżbieta Smolewska
Keyword(s):  
Orphan Disease ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
Paediatric Rheumatologist
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