THE FISHER VALLEY COLLEGE

MASTERPIECES OF WORLD LITERATURE

STORY ANALYSIS # ____

NAME: Albert Malabad Jr COURSE & SCHEDULE: Bsit – Tuesday 4-7:00 RATING: ___

I. TITLE OF THE STORY: Orpheus

AUTHOR: Alice Low
II. SETTING:
Thrace and the Underworld

III. CHARACTERS: (Describe each)

PROTAGONIST:
Orpheus- A mortal because here father was one and son of calliope who gave
Orpheus a remarkable talent for music

ANTAGONIST:
Hades and Persephone- The king and The queen of the Under world

MINOR CHARATERS:
Eurydice- beloved wife of Orpheus who died because of a poisonous snake
Caliope- Mother of Orpheus one of the nine muses born out of zeus and a Titaness
name Mnemosyne
Cerberus- the fierce three headed dog who guarded the gate of the underworld
Charon- the ferry captain who charged dead souls to cross the River Styx

IV. PLOT: ( Write in 10 important events)

1. Orpheus played his lyre so sweetly the he can charmed all things on earth
2. Orpheus love a young woman Eurydice
3. Eurydice is bitten by the poisonous snake and died
4. He longed for Eurydice so deeply that he decided to follow her to the Underworld
5. He plucked his lyre and Charon the ferryman was charm and he rowed him
6. He plucked his lyre again tenderly as he made his way through the gloomy
underworld
7. He began his gentle song pleading for Eurydice
8. Hades and Persephone let Eurydice be united with Orpheus
9. Hades has one condition Orpheus must not look back at her until they are on earth
again
10. Orpheus turned to make sure that she was still following him but then she
disappeared swallowed up by the darknerss
 V. CLIMAX:
The climax of the story occurs when Orpheus travels to the Underworld to look for
Eurydice and loses her before the couple can make it to the Upperworld. In the story,
Orpheus is in love with the beautiful Eurydice. ... In the end, Hades gives his permission
for Orpheus to take Eurydice back to the Upperworld
VI. CONFLICT:
Eurydice dies and Orpheus goes to the Underworld to get her. This story's purpose is to
show you that when you do not follow the rules, there are consequences.

VII. RESOLUTION:

 The resolution of Orpheus and Eurydice is Orpheus cannot do anything anymore . So he

plays and plays his lyre and sing sad melodies and wait until he die so that they will
reunited with her beloved Eurydice .

VIII. LESSON LEARNED FROM EACH CHARACTER:

1. PROTAGONIST
Orpheus- The moral lesson from the story of Orpheus is that trust, both in the
gods and in love

2. ANTAGONIST
Hades and Persephone- The lesson I learn even they are the king and queen of the
underworld they give a chance to Orpheus and Eurydice to be together again
3. MINOR CHARACTERS
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IX. Pick out 10 unfamiliar words that you encountered from the story, get their meanings and
use them in a sentence.

1. WORD: Titaness
MEANING: A female person of very great strength, intellect, or importance.
SENTENCE: MNEMOSYNE was the Titaness of memory and remembrance and the
inventress of language and words. 

2. WORD: Grief
 MEANING: A natural response to loss.
SENTENCE: She exhibited great grief at his death

3. WORD: Under World

MEANING: The mythical abode of the dead, imagined as being under the earth.
SENTENCE: She was a shady figure in the Dublin underworld. 

4. WORD: Quench
MEANING: Satisfy (one's thirst) by drinking.
SENTENCE: He drinks to quench his thirst, and that is all. .

5. WORD: Stern
MEANING: Serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise
of discipline.
SENTENCE: The past year has been a stern test of the ability of local industry

6. WORD: Weep
MEANING: shed tears.
SENTENCE: Grieving mother weep over the body of her daughter

7. WORD: Clasped
MEANING: fasten with a small device, typically a metal one.
SENTENCE: one modest emerald clasped her robe

I. TITLE OF THE STORY: Arachne

 AUTHOR: Olivia Coolidge
II. SETTING:
Kingdom of Lydia
III. CHARACTERS: (Describe each)
PROTAGONIST:

Athena is the protagonist because the def is the person that is not the main character.

ANTAGONIST:
Arachne- was a gifted weaver. Arachne was no ordinary weaver and the very act of
her weaving was sheer magic and a sight to behold. But she is so stubborn and arrogant

IV. PLOT: ( Write in 10 important events)

1. Arachne was very proud and did not like people to think she learned her skill from
anyone else, even from a goddess.
2. One day a poor old woman warned Arachne that it was not wise to say that she was better
than one of the gods.
3. The old woman told Arachne that she should be satisfied to be the best human spinner
and weaver.
4. They were terribly afraid as they realized that they stood in the presence of Athena.
Arachne herself flushed red for a moment, for she had never really believed that the
goddess would hear her.
5. But Arachne was also proud and stubborn, so she led Athena to a loom where they began
their spinning and weaving contest. Both of them created beautiful cloth, but the goddess
moved faster.
6. When the goddess saw this insult glowing in bright colors on Arachne’s loom, she did not
wait while the cloth was judged, but stepped forward, her gray eyes blazing with anger,
and tore Arachne’s work across
7. The goddess touched the rope and touched the maiden. “Live on, wicked girl,” she said.
“Live on and spin, both you and your descendants. When men look at you they may
remember that it is not wise to strive with Athena
8. Arachne’s body began to change. The people soon saw a small dusty brown spider
hanging on a thin thread. All spiders come from Arachne. When Greeks saw spiders, they
remembered that it was not wise for humans to say they are equal to the gods.
 V. CLIMAX:
The climax of the story, Arachne, is  when the girl was murdered by Athena. Around the
moment,  Athena was feeling guilty.  So she made it happen to make  a girl in a different
kind of spider.  Because people are close to each other, it's so easy to talk to each other.
Issues, not only about them, but about other people as well. And for this reason, the
stories have  spread more and more to more people.  And most of the time,  it may not be
true.  Arachne was small and pale  because of a lot of effort.  At last, the fame of Arachne
had become so great that  People have come from far and wide to watch her work.

VI. CONFLICT:
The story of Arachne presents a man versus self conflict. Arachne was a very talented
weaver who could weave the most beautiful cloth anyone had ever seen. She was always
praised for her beautiful work and this made her haughty, boastful, ungrateful and
complacent.

VII. RESOLUTION:
Arachne lost to the Goddess and therefore declared the loser of the contest. And ths, Arachne
wasn’t allowed to touch any spindle ever again. Resolution: By the Goddess’ pity she turned
Arachne into a creature that’ll have the ability to weave without a spindle.

VIII. LESSON LEARNED FROM EACH CHARACTER:

1. PROTAGONIST
Athena teach Arachne a lesson about respect for the gods and their works
2. ANTAGONIST
Arachne is so stubborn and arrogant so Athena gave her a lesson

IX. Pick out 10 unfamiliar words that you encountered from the story, get their meanings and
use them in a sentence.

1. WORD: Tapestries
MEANING: a piece of thick textile fabric with pictures or designs formed by
weaving colored weft threads or by embroidering on canvas, used as a wall
hanging or furniture covering
SENTENCE: a tapestry of cultures, races, and customs

2. WORD: Wove
 MEANING: form by interlacing long threads passing in one direction with others
at a right angle to them.
SENTENCE: His eyes spotted the form he sought, and he wove his way through
the crowd, trailing her down a quiet side street. ...
 I. TITLE OF THE STORY: How odi lost his eye
AUTHOR: Catharine F. Sellew
II. SETTING:
Skandinavian Odin, King of the Gods, wants to protect human beings from evil frost
giants. In order to gain knowledge of the future, Odin has to sip the water of a special
well. The water will then reflect images of the past and the future. The guardian of the
well, Mimir, demands a great price for water: he asks for one of Odin 's eyes. Odin
hastens to pluck the eye.

III. CHARACTERS: (Describe each)

PROTAGONIST:
Odin- King of the gods

ANTAGONIST:
Frost giants- Evil people who brought trouble to the world. The ones who hates Odin

and all the works of the Gods .

MINOR CHARATERS:

Mimir- An old man who has the only power to give the magic drink. The one
who asked for Odin’s eye.

IV. PLOT: ( Write in 10 important events)

1. How Odin Lost His Eye is about sacrifice and love for others.
2. The great god did not flinch and gouged out his own eye his cry of pain was so
loud that it echoed throughout the universe
3. Odin sacrifices his own happiness as his eye, even his son for the sake of his
people
4. Odin began to see the world much more clearly with only one eye he could see
better than when he had to

V. CLIMAX:
The climax of the story is Odin being told that he must sacrifice his eye to drink from
the well and then his decision to do so.

VI. CONFLICT:
The conflict about Odin's duty to his family in the story of how he lost his eye is
when Mimir asked him to pay a high price for a drink from the well and Odin thought
of his handsome son, Balder. He felt conflicted as exchanging his own son for a drink
from the Well of Mimir is too high of a price.
VII. RESOLUTION:
HE SACRIFICED HIS EYE TO KNOW ENOUGH TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE
FROM ENEMIES BUT HE SEE THE SORROW AND DEATH OF PEOPLE.

VIII. LESSON LEARNED FROM EACH CHARACTER:

PROTAGONIST
Odin promptly plucks out the eye. After Odin drinks the water, he sees
that the future holds sorrow and death for humans

IX. Pick out 10 unfamiliar words that you encountered from the story, get their meanings and
use them in a sentence.

1. WORD: Wanderer
MEANING: a person who travels aimlessly; a traveler.
SENTENCE: he is a longtime seaman, a rootless wanderer

2. WORD: Realm
MEANING: a kingdom.
SENTENCE: The peers of the realm

3. WORD: Hollerhorn
MEANING: it was really about the duality of the horn. An instrument used to
amplify sound by the user or receiver.
SENTENCE: Job's cattle wuz slain by murrain and holler horn and sich, and, not
livin near Noo York, the flesh thereof he cood not sell

4. WORD: Kinsmen
MEANING: a man who is one of a person's blood relations
SENTENCE: His face contorted in fury at the murder of his kinsmen

5. WORD: Gouged
MEANING: make with or as with a sharp tool or blade.
SENTENCE: the channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water