This chapter discusses the influence and importance of myths in culture and storytelling. It identifies three main types of myths - Biblical, Shakespearean, and fairy/folk tales - and explores how myths shape culture and how culture is shaped by myths through examples of allusions across works of literature and film. Specific connections are drawn between the myths of Icarus and the Song of Solomon, the Iliad and the film O Brother Where Art Thou, and Percy Jackson and the Olympian gods.
This chapter discusses the influence and importance of myths in culture and storytelling. It identifies three main types of myths - Biblical, Shakespearean, and fairy/folk tales - and explores how myths shape culture and how culture is shaped by myths through examples of allusions across works of literature and film. Specific connections are drawn between the myths of Icarus and the Song of Solomon, the Iliad and the film O Brother Where Art Thou, and Percy Jackson and the Olympian gods.
This chapter discusses the influence and importance of myths in culture and storytelling. It identifies three main types of myths - Biblical, Shakespearean, and fairy/folk tales - and explores how myths shape culture and how culture is shaped by myths through examples of allusions across works of literature and film. Specific connections are drawn between the myths of Icarus and the Song of Solomon, the Iliad and the film O Brother Where Art Thou, and Percy Jackson and the Olympian gods.