Date of Award
12-12-2019
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
English
First Advisor
Douglas Jones
Abstract
The sound of a narrator telling a story can be difficult to depict in written prose, and yet both Ovid and Twain capture the effect of an old man telling a story; Ovid through Nestor's Story in The Metamorphoses and Twain in "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." They both use this framework to discuss the theme of social transgressions. I maintain that both Twain and Ovid use a variation on the wise-mentor archetype as a frame to discuss, through the use of satire, social transgressions which neither of their narrators condemn. I aim to explore Ovid and Twain's treatment of their subjects thematically with the context of the wise-mentor archetype.
Recommended Citation
Bates, Jessica, "Where Was I Going? What Was the Point? Archetypes, Frame, and Social Transgressions in Ovid and Twain" (2019). Honors Theses. 227.
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/227/
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/227
Subject Area
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses; Twain, Mark, 18; Latin poetry35-1910. Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County ; Archetypes in literature. Short stories, American; Latin poetry
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.32597/honors/227/
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