... set a trap for Polyphemus so they can incapacitate him and ultimately escape. After Odysseus and his crew liquor Polyphemus up to dull his senses, they drive a wooden pike through his eye and blind him as a result. While he is injured, the men make a quick getaway. Luckily, Polyphemus could not summon his brothers' aid since Odysseus previously tricked him into believing that ... blazed and hissed- as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam and its temper hardens-that's the iron's strength- so the eye of the Cyclops sizzled round that ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . Harker confronted them as extremely appealing objects but who held an element of danger. Harker noted, "I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with their red lips (Ch.3)." Stoker went on to describe the three women as sensual predators and their bite as a kiss. One of the women anticipated the object of their desire [Jonathan Harker ... novel is shocking because of the time period in which it was written, The Victorian Age in England. During the Victorian period sex was not openly discussed in the public eye. It was a somewhat feared, private subject that n...

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• Grade Level: High School

... rising from the dead date back thousands of years. In China, it was said that after death, a spirit may return to the realm of the living in the body of a red-eyed monster with green or pink hair. Other blood-drinking demons of old include foxes in Japan and a severed head with entrails hanging down in Malaysia. The vampire of the ... beloved of all, Shall bless thee with a father's name- That word shall wrap thy heart in flame! Yet must thou end thy task, and mark Her cheek's last tinge, her eye's last spark, And the last glassy glance must view Which freezes o"er its lifeless blue; Th...

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• Grade Level: High School