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French medieval memories- Living in Dragontown (for real)
I live in Northern France for my studies, but my parents and the rest of my family still live in the South. My family comes from a town in which I spent most of my secondary school years: DRAGONTOWN.
...Ok in French it's actually called "DRAGUIGNAN". In Draguignan, you find dragons everywhere: on the streetlamps, on the fontains, on the walls, on the town's coat of arms... everywhere. The dragon is the n°1 symbol in the area!... But why?
Now,get ready to hear some French medieval story!
A long time ago, in Early Middle Ages,during the Vth century* under the Merovigian dynasty** , lived a bishop named Hermentaire. He was then following the way of pilgrims walking through Draguignan trying to meet a monastery in the southern Alps. But for some reason, pilgrims and inhabitants could not enjoy a quiet life and the city had become avoided because of a terrible creature. A dragon was hiding in the foggy marshes surrounding the hill on which was built the city, keeping a treasure and waiting for human flesh. The inhabitants were terrified and rarely dared to leave the city for they feared the beast too much. The city was then controlled by some powerful lords and knights, but none of them managed to kill the monster, and those who tried did not try for long! One of these warriors met Hermentaire, and asked him his help.
Fortunately, Hermentaire was braver and had God on his side, he came to cross the marshes and met the dragon. Thanks to his prayers, He killed the beast and saved Draguignan and its inhabitants!
Hermentaire got canonised for his bravery and became Saint Hermentaire, the patron saint of Draguignan. A chapel of the same name was built close from the place where hermentaire killed the dragon, one century later.
*The first written versions of this legend didn't appear before the XIth century.
** We know Hermentaire really lived at this period.
Here is my town's medieval legend :)
I'll try to post more legends soon!
What do you think about this legend, is there any legend related to your place?
2017년 3월 26일
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How do you see animation?
Hello, My name is Lea and I study 2d animation.
When I say I study animation, and when I go to the cinema to watch animation, some people assume I only watch and work in a kid-like world. Because in many people minds' animation= kid movies.
Fortunately, more and more adults are watching animation in Europe nowadays, even though it's still is considered to be made for a young audience.
My mother herself is struggling with the idea of watching animated movies. I have to force her so that she admits is can be made for an adult audience.
I don't judge people who think animation is only for children, i just think they didn't get the chance to watch other type of animated movies, but sometimes they don't even want to try because of their prejudices.
How do you see animation? And why do people struggle so much sometimes about watching animated movie when they are grown ups? What do you do and how is it seen in you country?
At last, how is animation in your country?
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What do you think of graphic arts?
What is your opinion about graphic arts and in what way is it seen in your country or family? Is it something important for you (even if you don't do it yourself, I mean : has it an impact on you life in any way?) ? Do you see it more like a hardwork or a relaxing hobby (or something else?)? Would you do it as a job?
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Corríjame por favor :) -La ultima parte sobre los mitos y héroes
III) ¿Es el héroe un bueno justiciero?
Podríamos preguntar ¿si el héroe puede hacer la justicia? En posible pensar que si, porque el héroe salva a los personas en peligro. El héroe lucha contra el crimen. Pero, de hecho, ¡el héroe es un criminal también! Es necesario comprender que la justicia del héroe podría no estar justa. El héroe está proscrito, mientras que la justicia es decidida por leyes regulares. El héroe es a menudo buscado por la policía. También, es imposible controlar el héroe. Este problema es en relación con el problema de identidad: nadie ve el héroe como una persona capaz de fallar, pero más como un personaje público. Entonces, nadie puede ver que el héroe tiene su voluntad propia que puede ser peligrosa porque es solamente su visión de la justicia, que es a menudo más próxima de la venganza. La justicia es construya por muchas personas, mientras que el héroe decide solo. También, el héroe tiene todo el poder, mientras que en la justicia, los poderes son divididos (en el poder ejecutivo, legislativo y judicial…). ¡Tengo que decir, que en una dictadura tampoco los poderes no son divididos! ¡Es porque el poder del héroe puede ser muy peligroso, no puede ser controlado! Entonces, sur forma de justicia no puede ser muy justa, porque es una justicia personal que solamente tiene la apariencia de una justicia general.
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Corríjame por favor :) -Conclusión sobre los mitos y héroes
Conclusión:
En conclusión, hemos comprendido que el héroe podría sufrir de una falta de identidad y también podría ser un mal modelo de justicia. Entonces, no es una buena idea hacer todo lo que podemos para parecer a estos héroes, porque es imposible ser perfectamente al servicio del resto del mundo con solamente una consciencia propia, también podríamos ser muy triste de ser solamente capaz de estar amado como una calidad pero no como una persona propia… Mientras que convertirse en un mito es posible, aquí también es necesario trabajar sobre su reputación, entonces el elemento común entre una persona mítica y un héroe es la celebridad. Pero la gente es muy consciente que un cantador o un político famoso es también un ser humano. El mito no tiene los mismos poderes: el héroe es conocido por su capacidad de supervivencia, ¡mientras que muchas personas son “míticas” porque murieron en increíbles condiciones! Están conocidos porque sabemos que son normales humanos, tan vulnerables que nosotros pero que tienen un talento.
(No estoy muy a gusto con el Español) :/ Ayúdeme por favor.
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fantasy in literature second part, correct me please! :)
Finally, using fantasy can be a way to help the story to go forwards as in the “tempest” by William Shakespeare. It’s the story of Prospero, actual Duke of Milan who is sent by his evil brother Antonio on a desert island in order to take the throne of Milan, helped by Alonso, king of Naples. Thanks to his magic powers he got from the spirit Ariel, Prospero managed to make the ship on which Alonso and Antonio went back from Tunis, ship rack. So that everybody ended up on the desert island. Even if the story was meant to turn into a battlefield (according to the fact that each character had a different interest), breeding many conspiracies, it ended up in a reconciliation. I have to notice that all the adventures (most of them) tended to happen because of Ariel’s presence. The magic powers of Prospero were definitely the trigger of all reaction, allowing the character to interact in many different ways, and finally to a reconciliation Alonzo said “There are not natural events = they strengthen from strange to stranger.”
In conclusion, the use of fantasy in literature allows the writers to give their own definition of art showing in what way art is a kind of magic power in itself. But also to show their feeling out of bashfulness. And finally to help the story to evolve. Here I can even say that fantasy in also a way to express different forms of relationships between the artist and its audience, but also between characters.
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Fantasy in literature, correct me please! :)
Hello! Let us speak about the presence of fantasy in literature. In what way can we analyse the presence of the fantasy references or situations in literature? To answer, we could take "Where's the poet" written by John Keats, "The cat and the moon" written by William Butler Yeats in 1919, and "The tempest" written by William Shakespeare in 1611.
The muses are fantastic figures, by helping the poet they give him a hind of innate talent for art. I’d even say that by saying that the poet is “an equal” to the king as well as to the poorest beggar. Meaning that he’s got a kind of mental connection with the rest of the world due to his extreme sensibility. A little bit as a magic , divine gift. In fact when we think of it, there would be a simple way to define it = it’s the fact of bringing an object from an imaginary world, space (being the artist mind) into our material world as poem, a piece of music or a drawing so that everybody else can feel it too. Maybe that’s what the connection with the world is about. And doesn’t it remind you of some magic powers or magic tricks? Here, the only difference is that the poet or even each artist's mind is the hat while each piece of art is the rabbit. That’s probably thanks to this connection with everyone that we use to say that art is an universal language.
Again, I find this idea of connection in the cat and the moon speaking about a cat being connected to the moon thanks to some moonlight’s effect: “the pure cold light in the sky troubled his animal blood”. Also, the relationship between a cat and a moon in itself seems mystical as those two are opposed. The moon is white, the cat is black. Their link is made through the changing shape of the moon. And we must not forget that William Butler Yeats wrote “the cat and the moon” to speak about an unilateral love he felt towards a women whose the daughter had a black cat called Minnaloushe !
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Second part: text about literature
Secondly, the author uses his talent for writing to speak about his art. For example in “The cat and the moon” one of the main topics is the change (with the changing shape of the moon and of the cat’s eyes) but this topic reminds the romanticism in general: in fact the romantic poet is instable and full of doubts, that’s why he cannot stay in the same mood: he changes. Certain poets like Keats try even to give a definition of “a poet” in their texts (it’s the case in the Keats ‘poem “Where’s the poet” in which he describes the poet as a sensible being connected to the whole universe.)
Also we can even find a global definition of art within the Poe’s short stories: for instance in “The tell-tale heart”, the narrator is a man obsessed by his “perfect” crime. To express the crazy man’s obsession, Poe uses repetitions and a nervous punctuation. And we finally can link the character’s obsession with the art in general: the artist is an obsessive person, who always tries to draw his art towards perfection, that’s why he cannot stay in the same mood: he is never satisfied.
In conclusion, by putting themselves in their texts as an “I” and by using their eyes for writing, authors give us the definition of a poet, an artist, we can now guess what the word “art” means: An obsession about showing in a perfect way what the human being feels looking at the universe around him: an impossible and inaccessible goal, a madness which makes the art always evolve and reborn.
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First part: text about literature
Hello! Here is a text I wrote about literature! I hope there aren’t too many mistakes!
We have to wonder about the following question: why and how can we say that an author is present in his texts as an “I” and that he has an “eye” for writing?
First of all, the poet uses his writing skills to speak about himself and his story. He uses stylistic devices such as metaphors, meaning that he removes a thing from its first identity by using another name to speak about it, in order to create a picture. The author can use it to speak about himself without clearly saying that he is the character (by bashfulness maybe) or it’s even a way to give his text a poetic quality. In the case of William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Cat and the Moon” for example, the author tells the story of a cat connected to the moon, actually being the metaphor of his relationship with the women he loves. In that case, the metaphor is even a personification. This use of the stylistic devices allows him to speak about his feelings.
There’s something else about the author talking about himself: he actually tells us who he is in the way he tells the story: For example Arthur C. Clarke uses a very precise scientific vocabulary in his science fiction stories: he was himself very fond of sciences and was a part of a scientific review for example, also he helped some scientific projects such as the invention of the satellites and others...
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poor France!
As I told you, Doctor Who is pretty unpopular in France: only 719 000 people watched it last night. :( and 6 028 000 people watched dancing with the stars...oh sadness.
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