It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes ( notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group ).

Pervo sees Luke ’ s work as a “ legitimizing narrative ” because it makes “ a case by telling a story ( or stories )” and serves to legitimate either “ Pauline Christianity ( possibly in rivalry to other interpretations ) or generally as the claim of the Jesus-movement to possess the Israelite heritage .” On the other hand, some scholars greatly disagree with the view of legitimation because they believe that it “ mirror-reads ” Luke ’ s work attempting to uncover the circumstances surrounding Luke ’ s work by over-arguing something that may not be that valid.

What makes this story worth telling is the development of one idea: the blitzkrieg.

Usually in the beginning of the story there is an emotional loss which makes the protagonist leave on his journey.

Although his name and history were taken from his early life with his adoptive Earth parents, everything about Clark was staged for the benefit of his alternate identity: as a reporter for the Daily Planet, he receives late-breaking news before the general public, has a plausible reason to be present at crime scenes, and need not strictly account for his whereabouts as long as he makes his story deadlines.

Runyon almost totally avoids the past tense ( it is thought to be used once, in the short story " The Lily of St Pierre ", and once in " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " ), and makes little use of the future tense, using the present for both.

A disclaimer before the 1996 film Fargo makes the claim that it is based on a true story, but this was repudiated by its creators, the Coen brothers, saying that people would more readily believe something outlandish if told that it actually happened, per the " truth is stranger than fiction " idiom.

Ed Godziszewski of Monster Zero said, " Rushed into production but a few months after Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, this film is unable to hide its hurried nature effects-wise, the film makes up for the story ’ s shortcomings and then some.

The evangelist almost certainly knew the story of John's baptism of Jesus and he makes a vital theological use of it.

:" A wild story of a journalist who becomes manager of a station in the interior and makes himself worshipped by a tribe of savages.

:" I call your own kind self to witness [...] the last pages of Heart of Darkness where the interview of the man and the girl locks in — as it were — the whole 30000 words of narrative description into one suggestive view of a whole phase of life and makes of that story something quite on another plane than an anecdote of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa.

Chretien's story attracted many continuators, translators and interpreters in the later 12th and early 13th centuries, including Wolfram von Eschenbach, who makes the grail a great precious stone that fell from the sky.

Johnstone states that this game makes it seem like some other force is telling the story.

The narrator makes an extended reference to the story of a corrupt Spartan ’ s consultation of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi from Herodotus ( 6. 86 ).

The story is about a supernatural and ominous board game which makes animals and other jungle hazards appear upon each roll of the dice.

" The most recent academic work, Punch & Judy: History, Tradition and Meaning by Robert Leach ( 1985 ), makes it clear that " the story is a conceptual entity, not a set text: the means of telling it, therefore, are always variable.

Whereas a viewer of a television show is a passive observer, a player in a role-playing game makes choices that affect the story.

Other possible plans for the season included: an episode showing the construction of the first starbase ; a Borg Queen origins story with Alice Krige as a Starfleet medical technician who makes contact with the Borg from Season 2's " Regeneration " and becomes the Borg Queen, and a Mirror Universe arc spanning four or five episodes.

The humor in the punch line may be due to the sudden, unexpected recognition of a familiar saying, since the story has nothing to do with the usual context in which the phrase is normally found, yet the listener is surprised to discover it makes sense in both situations.

Conversely, most modern role-playing games encourage gamemasters to ignore their gaming systems if it makes for a more enjoyable story, even though they may not describe themselves as " storytelling " games.

Lovecraft's short story " The Rats in the Walls " makes reference to Trimalchio, reading, " There was a vision of a Roman feast like that of Trimalchio, with a horror in a covered platter.

Poe makes no attempt to describe accurately the operations of the Spanish Inquisition, and takes considerable dramatic license with the broader history premised in this story.

What makes the story particularly effective at evoking terror is in its lack of supernatural elements ; the action taking place is real and not imagined.

" Peter Heather agrees with Wood's implication in this instance: " I doubt that this is the full story, but the effects of Frankish intervention are clear enough.

The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.

Subsequent attempts to prove Salisbury's involvement, such as Francis Edwards's 1969 work Guy Fawkes: the real story of the gunpowder plot ?, have similarly foundered on the lack of any clear evidence.

More generally, it described the notion that all forms of writing could only " offer particular versions of reality rather than actual descriptions of it ," and that a story need not offer a clear resolution at its end.

While it is hard to assess the significance of military archery in pre-Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxon warfare, it is clear that archery played a prominent role under the Normans, as the story of the Battle of Hastings shows.

' Duncan Barrett, one of the co-authors of The Sugar Girls describes some of the perils of relying on oral history accounts: " On two occasions, it became clear that a subject was trying to mislead us about what happened – telling a self-deprecating story in one interview, and then presenting a different, and more flattering, version of events when we tried to follow it up.

It is not clear whether this is a true story, but it may have been found amusing at the time.

The first clear reference to " rhymes of Robin Hood " is from the late-14th-century poem Piers Plowman, but the earliest surviving copies of the narrative ballads that tell his story date to the 15th century, or the first decade of the 16th century.

As made clear in the earlier story of Absalom's rebellion, to possess the royal harem was in this society tantamount to claiming the throne ; this applied even to a woman who had shared the bed of a king advanced in age, though she had no intimate relations with King David.

Lauretta gives this story, for which there is no clear surviving source.

But even without adding this element to the story, the vagueness of the account prohibits one from being objectively clear about which formalization truly captures its essence.

" Balzac's story Une Heure de ma Vie ( An Hour of my Life, 1822 ), in which minute details are followed by deep personal reflections, is a clear ancestor of the style which Proust used in À la recherche du temps perdu.

The above theme is present in almost all of Bertolucci's works, starting with his second film, Prima della rivoluzione ( 1964 ), where this theme is very clear in the story of a young upper-middle agrarian class boy from Parma ( Francesco Barilli ), who, incapable of dealing with his best friend's suicide, throws himself into a relationship with a much older distant relative from Milan ( played by Adriana Asti ).

In contrast to the Biblical account, it became clear by the 1920s that the idea of an Israelite conquest of Canaan-the story of the book of Joshua-was not supported by the archaeological record.

Like Podkayne, I Will Fear No Evil ends by moralizing about the fundamental purpose of human life, which is to take care of children, and in both novels the moral has no clear relationship to the main events of the story.

If too many jobs must be done by hand and there is a shortage of labour compared with independent resources that free labour could take up (" land ", although this condition is not clear in the story ), a market for slavery develops.

:" It seems especially disarming now in its genius for keeping its story indirect yet its meaning perfectly clear.

As the story begins, Dolores Claiborne is in a police interrogation and wants to make clear to the police that she did not kill her wealthy employer, an elderly woman named Vera Donovan whom she has looked after for years.

The use of stock characters is a means of conveying the moral of the story by eliminating complexity of personality and so spelling out the issues arising in the interplay between the characters, enables the writer to generate a clear message.

The difference is that an entire story can be discussed according to Quiller-Couch's mode of analysis, while Freytag is talking about the second act in a five-act play, at a time when all of the major characters have been introduced, their motives and allegiances have been made clear ( at least for the most part ), and they now begin to struggle against one another.

It is possible, therefore, to have tragedies that do not contain " characters " in Aristotle's sense of the word, since character makes the ethical dispositions of those performing the action of the story clear.

: Each piece of the story should be enriching, but not vital to the understanding of the story ( so that a customer can still have a clear idea of the bigger picture even though he has missed a part of it )

However, it is clear that the Greeks added much to the Adonis-Myrrha story, before it was first recorded by classical scholars.