Identify a minimum of three allusions to your topic in literature. You may paraphrase the allusion, or provide a quote from an exact reference in a text.
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AP Lit 2013-2014 
Pygmalion and Galatea
Allusion 1: Pinocchio
– Pinocchio was a wooden puppet that was turned into a real boy by a fairy lady because Geppetto wanted to have a son.
Allusion 2: Pygmalion
– The book Pygmalion written by George Bernard Shaw is based on the story of Pygmalion and Galatea. In the book Professor Higgins tries to refine a crude, cockney speaking girl named Eliza Doolittle. Professor Higgins gives her new, clean clothes and teaches her how to properly speak English. This makes Professor Higgins’s son Freddy become attracted to her. This is an allusion to the Greek myth because of the references to love and perfection. Professor Higgins makes Eliza something she is not but instead a perfect lady of society.
Allusion 3: “Mannequin”
– The movie is about a struggling artist who works a series of weird jobs one of which was a mannequin factory in which he makes a mannequin that comes to life. He ends up falling in love with the mannequin.
Big Brother
Like Rumpelstilskin, Big Brother from 1984 trick everyone into thinking and acting in a certain way.
Cinderella
The fairy godmother from Cinderella is in comparison to Rumplestilskjn, as she grants Cinderella wishes and saves her from the queen just like Rumpelstilskin saves the daughter from the queen
Rumplesstilskin also makes an appearance in shrek happily ever after. The rumplestilskin in shrek greatly resembles the original rumplestilskin.
Perseus
Allusion 1: The 1981 fantasy/adventure film Clash of the Titans includes Perseus with other Greek mythology figures.
Allusion 2: The 2010 Percy Jackson & the Olympians includes the story of a teenage Demi God named after Perseus.
Allusion 3: In Hermann Melville’s Moby-Dick, the narrator asserts that Perseus was the first whaleman, when he killed Cetus to save Andromeda.
Allusion 1 “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales”
– The prince decides to slip a bowling ball underneath one hundred mattresses. In the morning the princess comes down stairs and tells the queen and king that she might need another mattress because she felt that she had been sleeping on a lump as big as a bowling ball. The princess and the prince get married and live happily, , though maybe not completely honestly, ever after.
Allusion 2 “The Princess Test”
-King Humphrey decided its time for his son, Prince Nicholas, to marry, but he must make sure the bride is a real princess. The king devises a series of princess tests, designed to weed out the phonies and the fakes. Meanwhile, Nicholas has fallen in love with Lorelei, a mere blacksmith’s daughter. She’s no princess, but she is so picky and can notice every detail she is the only one to pass the test and she marries Prince Nicholas.
Allusion one : Shakespears play “The Merchant of Venice” refers to Daniel in a line when shylock believes that Portia is honest and fair with a judgement in the play just like daniel was in the beginning of his story.
Allusion two : F ederick Douglas an American slave in the 19th century alludes to daniel. Federick douglas was prosecuted by slavery and Daniel was prosecuted by king Dariuss and when Federick had escaped he said he felt like he escaped a den with hungry lions , successful just like Daniel.
Alussion three : In the book Adah the daughter of the African missionaries realizes she is followed by a lion and is faced to death just like Daniel was.They both have no control over that situation.
Allusion #1: A poem by Milton
Milton writes the poem “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity “ in 1629. The poem does not discuss Christmas; it examines the cosmic significance of the incarnation. Incarnation: Baby Jesus is the symbol of love that god sent in a human form.
Allusion #2: The lion king
Baby Zimba is raised in the air and all the animals come to see him and praise him just like all the people came to visit and praise baby Jesus.
Allusion #3: Babylonian celebration
Babylonians celebrated the feast of the Son of Isis with gluttonous eating and drinking, and gift giving and the goddess of fertility, love, and war. Noble celebrated the birth of Jesus( their savior) by giving gifts and making big celebrations.
1)
Ode to Psyche
By John Keats
“O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung
By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear,
And pardon that thy secrets should be sung
Even into thine own soft-conched ear:
Surely I dreamt to-day, or did I see
The winged Psyche with awaken’d eyes?
I wander’d in a forest thoughtlessly,
And, on the sudden, fainting with surprise,
Saw two fair creatures, couched side by side
In deepest grass, beneath the whisp’ring roof
Of leaves and trembled blossoms, where there ran
A brooklet, scarce espied:
Mid hush’d, cool-rooted flowers, fragrant-eyed,
Blue, silver-white, and budded Tyrian,
They lay calm-breathing, on the bedded grass;
Their arms embraced, and their pinions too;
Their lips touch’d not, but had not bade adieu,
As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber,
And ready still past kisses to outnumber
At tender eye-dawn of aurorean love:
The winged boy I knew;
But who wast thou, O happy, happy dove?
His Psyche true!”…
2)
Cupid and his arrows represent true inner thoughts and expressions, feelings, and love (Valentines Day)
Psyche represents the soul which awakens the human awareness of someone’s life and mind in love (Psycholgy, psyche is the humand mind and concious)
3)
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Act 1, Scene 4:
“You are a lover; borrow Cupid’s wings,
And soar with them above a common bound.”
Allusion 1: Once Upon A Time
Amara, Jafars’s mentor and lover, has a resemblance and dresses like Nasira, when she appears during her meet with Jafar, then a child.
Allusion 2: Disney’s Aladdin
In the Middle East, a poverty stricken boy name Aladdin and his monkey, Abu, battle to save the love of his life Jasmine. His whole life begins to change with one rub of a magic lamp, an exciting and energized Genie appears and grants him 3 wishes. Throughout the journey he discovers himself emotionally and ready to become a prince.
Allusion 3: Arabian Nights
A son of a poor tailor named Aladdin deals with the death of his father and an evil magician who’s power driven poses as his uncle and leads him to get him this magic lamp. He disobeys his orders once he gets the lamp and he receives 3 wishes. He ultimately wishes for fame, riches, and the daughter of the sultan.
The Last Supper
Allusion 1: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. On his fishing trip, Jake is involved in many wine-drinking scenes where he forms a communion with the Basque people. The scene is filled with laughter and jokes as the Wine was passed around. Jake did not only bond with the Basque people but also his friend Bill. While fishing, Jake and Bill shared some more wine and ate together. Also, Bill seemed concerned about Jakes’s feelings towards a woman. Bill was so fond of Jake that he began to address him as “brother”. The fact that this conversation took place right after Jake and Bill shared a meal is symbolic of their communion.
Allusion 2: Today, before a prisoner is executed, he is given a last meal much Christ had the Last Supper before he was crucified. This allusion makes the government seem merciful, granting the prisoners grace despite all of the atrocities that they committed.
Allusion 3: Another allusion to The Last Supper would be in James Joyce’s “The Dead”. The centerpiece of the story is a meal: family and friends dining together on the twelfth night of Christmas (the number twelve only furthering the allusion) and leading to a final realization of peace and equality among all present.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock:
“I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”
Crime and punishment:
In the novel Crime and Punishment the author, Fyodor alludes to the resurrection of Lazarus and the general character and story of Jesus, using them to enhance the novel through foreshadowing and the subtle unfolding of its plot.
Lazarus Heart by Sting:
Using the symbol of a wound given by one close to him, “the sword that cut him open was the sword in his Mother’s hand” (Lazarus Heart), Sting weaves a complex metaphor of sacrifice and rebirth. The injury is given by his mother, and is clearly not a wound for vengeance or anger, but is “for his own good.” By receiving the deep wound, Sting’s character receives two blessings
3 Allusions-The moral of greed
The Dog and the Shadow by Aesop
“IT happened that a Dog had got a piece of meat and was carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace. Now on his way home he had to cross a plank lying across a running brook. As he crossed, he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the water beneath. Thinking it was another dog with another piece of meat, he made up his mind to have that also. So he made a snap at the shadow in the water, but as he opened his mouth the piece of meat fell out, dropped into the water and was never seen more.”
• The dog already had a large piece of meat in his mouth but also wanted the piece of meet his reflection in the water had and as a result, while barking at him his piece fell out of his into the water thus leaving him with no meat
The Stone Cutter : Japanese Folktale
Source: Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book (London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903), pp. 192-197. Lang’s source: Japanische Mährchen.
A man worked as a stonecutter cutting stone for houses and lived in a shabby wooden house with a hard wooden bed and scarce food. He cut for stones in a forest were a village rumor said a spirit grants wishes to men. The stonecutter never believed it till one day he realized he wanted a lavish home and bed like the house he had seen while delivering stone and the spirit granted his wish. He then was granting his wishes of being a prince a sun a cloud and finally a rock. While being a rock a stone cutter was cutting into him and then asked to me a man once again and so he was returned to his old lifestyle where he learned to love satisfied with what he has and his life.
• Like the Fisherman and his Wife a man wishes to be the superior of what he is at the moment and then is returned to his beginning life with what he has.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey could be Odysseus’ relationship with his crew. He will get them somewhere incredible, like the island where the Flock of the Sun are, and his men abuse the island and get everyone but him killed. Their greed took Odysseus back to nothing.
Source: http://bearsenglishpage2010-2011.wikispaces.com/The+Fisherman+and+His+Wife+Tyler,+Karl,+Conner
• Greed of the island and the result of killing led him to nothing
Morals at home
• Parents make children share with one another by saying “Don’t be greedy!”, and “if you don’t share you get nothing at all”
Holy Grail
Allusion 1: Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson in 1869, in which Sir Percivale describes the quest of the Holy Grail, and the differing degrees of failure of himself, Bors, Gawain, and Launcelot.
Allusion 2: Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film directed by Gilliam and Jones.
Allusion 3: Jay-Z ft Justin Timberlake – Holy Grail (2013)
Morgan Le Fay
Allusion 1: Morgan Le Fay(Marvel Comics)
– A half fairy half human who was sister of the mythic Arthur. She occasionally tries to take over the world. She is immortal and during all her time she practices and masters the mystic art.
Allusion 2: Modron
– Modron was a daughter of Afallach. She was the prototype of Morgan Le Fay. She was the mother of Mabon and was stolen away from her when he was three days-old and later rescued by King Arthur.
Allusion 3: Merlin(TV miniseries)
– A television miniseries which originally aired in 1998 that retells the legend of King Arthur from the perspective of the wizard Merin. The film deviates from more traditional versions of the legend, notably by including new characters such as Queen Mab and by keeping Merlin through the whole reign of King Arthur over Britain.
Allusions:
1: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
3: Knightriders