(2) Tropes and 4 mythoi

The tree is the metaphor for growth and change and this also translates very easily. Trees are constantly in a state of change due to natural causes. In the winter many trees lose all of their leaves and appear very bare and open. When the season begins to change to spr

The last trope that I would like to discuss is in the Stanley Kubrick film, “A Clockwork Orange”. The main character is a crazed sex addict and does many strange things throughout the movie and ends up getting arrested. The trope is very blatant. The main character breaks into the home of a woman and proceeds to kill her with a large statue in the shape of a penis. He is a crazed sex addict and his life quickly heads downhill after killing a woman with a giant penis. This trope needs very little explanation; it is an obvious sexual reference and showed that the downfall of the main character could be directly related to his sexual perversions.

I believe that the easiest of these metaphors is the pathway being a metaphor for the ‘possible’. Anything is possible if you are willing to walk the path to get there. Your physical experience, your life, sometimes seems to come to a stop on the path and you may become very comfortable in your spot on the path but change seems to occur even less. The more times you run through your everyday habits, the more you get stuck in them and then life seems to be just a habit. There needs to be spontaneity in life and “if you lose your ability to be spontaneous, you lose your ability to dance with the universe.” You need to be able to move from your spot on the path and head in a new direction and when you’re headed in a new direction anything is possible.

ing, the trees begin to blossom or ‘spring into full bloom’. During the summer the tress are generally full of green leaves and bear fruit. In the fall the leaves begin to change colors and fall off of the limbs. This whole process seems very similar to the “four mythoi” diagram from Northrup Frye. In the winter is irony and it seems ironic that beautiful green trees would be bare and leafless and not as beautiful in the winter. In the spring is a comedy and I can relate that to happiness and new comings. The new blossoms are waiting to come out and it is a time of joy. Here in the United States more babies are born in the summer than any other time of year. Most fruit-bearing trees also bear fruit in the summer, this seems to be no coincidence that Frye would put romance in the summer because there is nothing more romantic than the fruits of love. Then Fall comes and the trees begin to lose their leaves and prepare for the winter, as beautiful as the dying leaves may be, they are still dying and thus a tragedy is occurring.

Some topics in this essay:
Tropes Yorker, Northrup Frye, George Jung, Ed Norton’s, Clockwork Orange”, Richard Gere, Ed Norton, Redman Method, Richard Gere’s, Kevin Smith, kiss lips, main character, ed norton, ed norton’s character, romantic movie movie, trope movie, rock day, robert’s character, julia robert’s, crazed sex addict, romantic movie, “american history x”, “american history, julia robert’s character, history x”,