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Disney's Frozen "Let It Go" Sequence Performed by Idina Menzel

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Foreshadowing: Prophecy of Odyssey delivered by Circe

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Foreshadowing: Prophecy of Odyssey delivered by Circe

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Pg 231-232, Circe tells Odysseus about the tough things he'll face on his trip home, like dangerous sirens, a sea monster Scylla and many more to get him ready for all the challenges so he can safely return to Ithaca. The song "Rasputin" describes Rasputin's ability to charm and influence people which reminds me of the leader personality of the Odyssey. The history of the Odyssey can be mentioned with this disco anthem kind of song.

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I chose "Debt Collector" by Jhariah. This song would represents what Circe has done to Scylla and how she's paying for it, especially in their fight. Even when the Bridge comes up in the song:

"Please don't think I have no empathy for you
What you've been through, but
There's nothing I can do now but stand here and watch
It all catch up to you."

It may feel as though I'm framing Circe as the "Debt Collector" but she is not. Both of the characters are reaping what they sew; however, I feel as though Circe is really feeling the impact of her actions.

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Jhariah - DEBT COLLECTOR [Official Audio]

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This relates to Circe because she has a lot of power. People she her as a threat or a source for help to undone their wrongs.

(pg. 166-167)

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Pg. 152 speaks about the grief Daedalus was feeling because Icarus died because he did not listen to Daedalus when he told him not to get to close to the sun. The song describes the feelings when someone does not listen and she explains how she is "on her own" and I believe that is how Daedalus felt once Icarus died.

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This song represents how Circe hoped that Glaucus would love her one day and how she would wait for him to love her. She even tries to use a spell to change him, hoping he would fall in love with her after that but he still does not. This represents the hope Circe has in humanity and for love. Page 55 through chapter six speaks about how Circe fell in love with Glaucus but he liked Scylla and that led Circe to wait for him because she was getting ready to change Scylla's appearance.

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Future - WAIT FOR U (Official Audio) ft. Drake, Tems

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I think this matches well with Circe since she is so often alone but then there's people that pop up in her life and give her comradery and then go away again, leaving her alone yet again.

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Character Anthem: Prometheus (sacrifice life for human)

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Character Anthem: Prometheus (sacrifice life for human)

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The background music involves strong emotion of bravery, selflessness, and tragedy which reminds me of Prometheus who sacrificed his life by giving fire to mankind and later, tormented due to his act of going against Zeus.(pg.17)

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Naruto Shippuden Soundtrack - Senya ||  Original Itachi's Theme song ||

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This is about how the evil bird from Rio was pretty but now he is so ugly to look at. To me it relates to Pasiphae because she is so beautiful but is so evil at the same time. Basically full hatred and wicked ways.

(pg. 104)

When going to get Circe, Pasiphae made the sailors go through Scylla straits even though she knew that some sailors would die.

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Circe has a soft corner for Medea to fulfil her wish for children through Medea. She is convincing Medea to stay with her. She wants her to learn witchcraft and become the best in it.(pg171)

Lyrics:

Like the sky at night

There in the dark

You can hide your fear

Can lie my dear

Kono mama yume wo mite

Chidarake no tsubasa Hirogete

What’s the lie?

What’s the truth?

What to believe?

Like fallen angel

The lyrics relate when Circe try to tell the truth to Medea that Iolcos is not the safe place for her.

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▶ Attack on Titan / Shingeki no Kyojin Season 3 OP •「Red Swan」 YOSHIKI feat. HYDE ᴴᴰ

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This matches surprisingly well with Circe and Glaucos, and this would probably fit well with relationships, but I imagined this matching well with foreshadowing around the time when she first changes him into a god or perhaps when they first meet, since this song practically spells out exactly what happens with them saying, “Tell me how's it feel sittin' up there? Feeling so high but too far away to hold me You know I'm the one who put you up there Name in the sky,” which I think could easily be used as powerful foreshadowing, since she deifies him and then he discards Circe.

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This song represents the hope that Circe has in humanity, and the hope that her father still cares for her and will come to her in her time of need. (pages. 185 - 187) - ah

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Lyrics:

Something wicked this way comes
And as I set to face it, I'm unsure
Should I embrace it, should I run?
What motivates me? Hatred? Is it love?
What's more wrong; that I too wish to be great
Or my mother wished she'd had a son?
And even if I can't be the one
Maybe I could at least help make way for him
Until the day that he comes
Maybe my name could also be known
That I helped return good to the people
And restored greatness to Rome.

I chose the song Brutus for Circe's character anthem. In Circe by Madeline Miller Circe is portrayed as a complex and powerful character. Throughout this book we are seeing a transformation undergo. The song Brutus tells a story but the way I can best interpret it in short is that the song is a a story telling of how Brutus, a roman general rises

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Buttress - Brutus (Official Music Video)

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This song reminds me of the relationship Circe and Hermes have in chapter 8. This is when they began to fall in love with each other, and after they fell in love, Hermes started going to see Circe a lot more. Circe is very happy when she is around him, and that reminds me of these lyrics:" If life is a movie, then you're the best part". This is a great comparison to Circe's feelings because Hermes brings her joy while she is lonely on the island. I also believe this song is a great fit because there is a female and a male that sings this song so we can hear both perspectives on how they view each other.

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H.E.R. - Best Part (Lyrics) Ft. Daniel Caesar

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Lyrics:

Something wicked this way comes
And as I set to face it, I'm unsure
Should I embrace it, should I run?
What motivates me? Hatred? Is it love?
What's more wrong; that I too wish to be great
Or my mother wished she'd had a son?
And even if I can't be the one
Maybe I could at least help make way for him
Until the day that he comes
Maybe my name could also be known
That I helped return good to the people
And restored greatness to Rome.

I chose the song Brutus for Circe's character anthem. In Circe by Madeline Miller Circe is portrayed as a complex and powerful character. Throughout this book we are seeing a transformation undergo. The song Brutus tells a story but the way I can best interpret it in short is that the song is a a story telling of how Brutus, a roman general rises

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Buttress - Brutus (Official Music Video)

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Lyrics:

Well now, this could be the last of all the rides we take

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We don't care about the message or the rules they make

I'll find you when the sun goes black

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Here we are and we won't stop breathing (today, today)

Yell it out 'til your heart stops beating (today)

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This song for the time that Glaucos is entranced with Scylla to the moment that everyone hears and is talking about her transformation to me is ironic- at the beginning, she is a figurative maneater, and then transforms (thanks to Circe) to a literal maneater.

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For the theme of relationships, I chose "Hidden in the Sand" by Tally Hall. While I feel that this song can be applied to Circe and Glaucus, I feel as though this song represents most of Circe's relationships where she was left by the other person. I think that this song closely resembles how this person found a meaning and life beyond Circe, leaving her, and how she feels about it.

Lyrics:

"We were playing in the sand
And you found a little band
You told me you fell in love with it
Hadn't gone as I planned

When you had to bid adieu
Said you'd never love anew
I wondered if I could hold it
And fall in love with it too

You told me to buy a pony
But all I wanted was you."

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Lyrics:

I don't even have my own attention

You say, "Please don't ever change"

But you don't like me the way I am

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The world tried to burn all the mercy outta me

But you know I wouldn't let it

It tried to teach me the hard way, I can't forget it

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'Cause I'm stuck in the sunshine riptide

Dancin' all alone in the mornin' light

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Take all your possibilities, then take away the limits

Take your ideas and throw away all the gimmicks

I do the best with what I have

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This matches well around Chapter 14 and I interpret the song as someone trying but falling short, which is a struggle Circe faces often. In the chapters leading up to ch 14 Circe experiences a shift in her view of her siblings and on pg 157 she wards off her sister a bit by saying “I am not weak. And I will never be sorry not to be like you. Do you hear?” which I think matches with the lyric “Just leave the shadows in the past If I let it go Can I shake this feelin'?”

And I think the lyrics “Tomorrow's one day that I'm never getting back I can feel you, though Wake me from this dreamin' Flip the switch You're keepin' me in the dark My vision's clear, I see ya left a mark,” matches well with her relationship with Daedalus. In the context of where this song came from, the character was feeling inferior and hating the choices he's made, and feeling the true weight of all of the messed up things he had done to his family, which I think matches well with Circe, especially in the chapters we just read, since she feels guilt for what she had done to Scylla and how she is just now really feeling the weight of her exile.

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Don't Look Back (feat. Kotomi & Ryan Elder) (From Rick and Morty: Season 4)

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This song really encapsulates how Circe feels about her father, Helios, especially around the time she gets exiled and after. She knows she's all alone- her father, who she idolized and wanted to be close to as a child, exiles her and tosses her aside.

"For I'm starting to learn I may never be free
But though I may never be free
Fuck you and your money
I'm tired of your money"

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This to me is specifically Aeëtes when he is coming to Aiaia. (p.174-176)

It gives the effect of fear and I feel like that's what Aeëtes is trying to accomplish.

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This song reminded me of Medea and Jason because this song talks about how she's nothing without her husband. Medea constantly called Jason her husband and is revolving her whole survival on him.

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Mitski - Me and My Husband (Lyric Video)

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Circe wanted to be with Glaucos so bad because she thought they had a good connection. She really loved him but he didn't love her back she was upset because he wanted to be with Scylla. (pg. 52-55)

Lyrics :

We could've been

Though Im holding it in

Cause I know in the end

You dream about, I think about what

We could've been

We could've been

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H.E.R. - Could've Been (Official Audio) ft. Bryson Tiller

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Lyrics:

It's a bad idea and I'm all about it

Give it one more chance and then I finally had it

When you wake up, I'll be gone again

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You're doing what you can, just makin' it run

(There's only so much I can)

(Take a break, make your escape)

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Wait on me, I'm not ready

I still have to change, have to change, have to change

Wait on me, I'm not ready

I still have to change, have to change, have to

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I chose this song to be used to speak of all the emotions Circe was feeling when she was dropped off to the island. The songs explains about being the " perfect daughter", but also how no one knows how far she can get in life. Circe has always been belittled but she knows deep down that she has a purpose just like her family. Circe learned to do many things on the island and that just shows how determined she is, so I believe this song is a great representation of this.

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Moana How Far I'll Go Lyrics Auli'i Cravalho

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Foreshadowing: The Sailors (Pages 184-189)

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Foreshadowing: The Sailors (Pages 184-189)

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This song starts off very sweet- to me it very much reflects the nature of Circe's ideas of these sailor men- and then I imagine the first dark refrain being the men entering her house, but with her still none the wiser about the danger they bring.

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Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act 2: No. 10, Scene. Moderato

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Character Anthem: Scylla (Pages 114-116)

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Character Anthem: Scylla (Pages 114-116)

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This performance of Dies Irae feels like a very fitting soundtrack for the scene in which Daedalus and Circe must cross the straits in which Scylla lives, and the trick that Circe had to contrive in order to survive such journey.

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This song reminds me a lot of Circe when she's kind of finding the lengths that her magic can go to. I imagine this song playing when she's on her way to Pasiphae and she's attempting to defeat Scylla. I think the build of this song fits in really well with the build of that scene, and the music gets louder and more powerful as Circe displays her power to Daedalus and the sailors on the ship.

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Hozier - Nina Cried Power ft. Mavis Staples

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Icarus by Bastille

Lyrics:

Icarus is flying too close to the sun

And Icarus' life, it has only just begun

Tells his death in song while he is about to die.

"Two sets of wings, they made. He tied one to his own arms, and one to his son's. They stood atop the highest cliff of Knossos' shore and leapt."

"He did not notice the melting wax." Page 152

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Look who's digging their own grave
That is what they all say
You'll drink yourself to death

Look who makes their own bed
Lies right down within it
And what will you have left?

Out on the front doorstep
Drinking from a paper cup
You won't remember this

Living beyond your years
Acting out all their fears
You feel it in your chest

Your hands protect the flames
From the wild winds around you

Icarus is flying too close to the sun
And Icarus's life, it has only just begun
It's just begun

Standing on the cliff face
Highest foe you'll ever grace
It scares me half to death

Look out to the future
But it tells you nothing
So take another breath

Your hands protect the flames
From the wild winds around you

Icarus is flying too close to the sun
And Icarus's life, it has only just begun
This is how it feels to take a fall
Icarus is flying towards an early grave

You put up your defenses when you leave
You leave because you're certain
Of who you want to be

You're putting up your armor when you leave
And you leave because you're certain
Of who you want to be, oh

Icarus is flying too close to the sun
And Icarus's life, it has only just begun
This is how it feels to take a fall
Icarus is flying towards an early grave

Lyrics submitted by sourwolf

Icarus Lyrics as written by Geoff Smith Alessandro Rizzo

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Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display Look who's digging their own grave That is what they all say You'll drink yourself to death Look who makes their own bed Lies right down within it And what will you have left?

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Relationships: Glaucos and Circe (rejection)

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Relationships: Glaucos and Circe (rejection)

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Footnote by Conan Gray

Lyrics:

You taught me a lesson: that love isn't precious

It's not like the novels, no Pride and Prejudice at all

So I'll just take a footnote in your life

And you could take my body

ever line I would write for you

But a footnote will do

Circe accepts her role in Glaucos life as only being his creator and nothing more.

"Is she not the most perfect creature you have ever seen?..."

"she is beautiful, yes, but she does not deserve you. She is cruel, and she does not love you as you might be loved." Page 54

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Conan Gray - Footnote (Official Lyric Video)

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Start a War by Klergy & Valerie Broussard

Lyrics:

So you wanna start a war

In the age of Icons

So you wanna be immortal

With a loaded gun

This is the full turning point for Circe. She will no longer be kind to those who have potential to hurt her.

"He screamed, and his men screamed with him. It went on for a long time.

As it turned out, I did kill pigs that night after all." pg. 189

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Klergy with Valerie Broussard - Start A War (Riverdale Soundtrack)

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Literally Circe's inner dialogue when Glaucos tells her about marrying Scylla and rejects her (p. 54) - ah

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Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (Official Video)

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Pierce The Veil - "King For A Day" ft. Kellin Quinn (Lyric Video)

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Our Flag Means Death | The Chain - 1x08 ending scene

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Lyrics

It's calling on me
If what I see is true
To me you're just a girl (oh yeah)
And it's starting baby

Julia
I don't know a thing about you
Soon enough
You'll be all I ever need

Too easy
All I ever need
Too cold
You'll be all I ever need
Are you mad about me? (All I ever need)
Or do you see a fool?
To me you're just the girl (you know that I)
Tell me (all I ever)
If it's starting baby
All I ever need

Julia
I don't know a thing about you
Soon enough
You'll be all I ever need

All I ever need
Too cold
You'll be all I ever need
It's calling on me (all I ever need)
If what I see is true
To me you're just a girl (oh yeah)
All I ever need
To get through
All I ever need

Julia (yeah all I ever need)
I don't know a thing about you (yeah all I ever need)
Soon enough (you know that I could be the)
You'll be all I ever need

Julia (yeah all I ever need)
I can't do a thing without you (yeah all I ever need)
Soon enough (you know that I could be the one)
You'll be all I ever need

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youtube opening guardians of the galaxy 2 - Google Search

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This song, especially the cover, reminds me a lot of Circe and her reoccurring themes and bouts of loneliness. The song's name is translated to "Without You" and the soft notes in the piano being in the forefront, along with the name, feed into her feelings of isolation. I chose to omit the lyrics for this song because, while I love the singer's voice, I feel as though Circe, being in exile, cannot be heard unless she was searched for or found. It reminds me of the question, "If a tree falls in the forest when nobody else is around, does it truly make a sound?"

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I think this matches well with Circe’s character around chapter seven when she is truly becoming confident in herself and her powers. I think the quote, “His pig-eyes said: I can break a hundred youths and send their bodies back to wailing mothers. I will tear your entrails and eat them for my lunch. I fixed my gaze on his. ‘Try,’ I said,” matches the level of confidence expressed in the song. I think the lyrics, “And I'm talkin' to myself at night Because I can't forget Back and forth through my mind Behind a cigarette And the message comin' from my eyes Says, ‘Leave it alone’” matches the guilt she feels from Scylla. I think the lyrics, “And if I catch it comin' back my way I'm gonna serve it to you And that ain't what you want to hear But that's what I'll do,” match well with the scene where she turns the sailors into pigs and says, “As it turned out, I did kill pigs that night after all,” (pg 189) which I think is such a powerful quote and definitely matches the lyrics.

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The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (Official Music Video)

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This song makes me think of how Circe started to realize later in her life that Helios was not that great of a person. She used to look up to her father, but eventually she saw how badly he treated others and realized how he used his power to force other people into compliance.

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Relationships: Circe and Glaucos (Pages 42-53)

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Relationships: Circe and Glaucos (Pages 42-53)

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This Phoebe Bridgers song reminds me of the unrequited love that Circe has for Glaucos, and how she has to watch him fall for Scylla and every other nymph before he notices her. The lyrics "I would give you the moon" give the same energy as Circe making Glaucos a god. In the song, Phoebe would give someone something as grand as the literal moon if they asked for it because she loves them so much, which feels very similar to Circe giving Glaucos the powers of a god because she loves him so much and wants him to be able to love her back.

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Forbidden Friendship by John Powell

Circe thinks she can turn Scylla back to her old self there is a moment of calm where we think everything is going to be alright and then Scylla attacks.

"I spoke the spell to change her back. For a moment, nothing happened. Then she shrieked, a sound to crack the world." Page 115

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Circe seeing Scylla for the first time in the form of monster with six heads gaped, black tongues and sword length teeth. (pg 114). Also, fighting Scylla with the strongest drug in the ocean yet, hard to defeat( pg 117). This background music is as ironic as this scene is.

Background Music: Arthdal Chronicles S2

Lyrics by Sean Kimm, Kapoo

Composed by Kapoo, M2U, Sean Kimm

Recorded by @ Forestella Studio

Mixed & Mastered by @ TONE Studio

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Arthdal Chronicles S2 - OST - Chosen One

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This classical piece really makes me think of the scene where Helios burns Circe for speaking out against him. It was written about the wrath of god and I think it would really be good if it was played towards the beginning of the book when Circe still admired Helios. I think it would have been perfect if it was played at the part where Prometheus was being tortured. This would show how horrible the gods' wrath can be, and it would foreshadow to Circe herself being punished.

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Foreshadowing: Circe and the sailors (Pages 184-189)

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Foreshadowing: Circe and the sailors (Pages 184-189)

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This instrumental song from the movie La La Land fits well for the Chapter 14 scene where the sailors come to Circe's island. The beginning of this song is sweet and melodic with a gentle piano playing. In the last couple of seconds of the song, the piano speeds up and gets discordant, with the notes becoming rushed and almost nonsensical. I imagine this part of the song playing when Circe's getting her revenge on the sailors - turning them into pigs and slaughtering them - while the beginning of the song is when she's being hospitable.

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This song, "Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby", is incredibly ironic to Ariadne's relationship with her half brother, the Minotaur. She goes to visit him often and speaks softly to him, wanting him to know that he has a sister who cares about him. Yet, all along, Ariadne is planning to support Theseus, the man she loves, when he kills the Minotaur. I imagine her insinuating that the Minotaur is safe and loved by her, like the lyrics in this song, and then giving Theseus the sword to end her half-brother's life.

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Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby - Cigarettes After Sex

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This song is a good representation on the irony in Circe. The lyrics remind me of how the gods in Circe are all complacent even when things go wrong. Helios can tell them anything he wants as long as it comes from his mouth and the other gods are happy to hear it. They also love watching destruction and torture even if it happens to other gods.

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LIL PEEP X LIL TRACY - Awful Things (Lyrics)