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Melvin Udall starts a lonely antisocial writer. He is characterized as a bully because of the remarks to his homosexual neighbor and others around him .He is a bully to "weaker" characters that __seem__ to have more problems than he does. In the end you come to find out that maybe melvin is the one with the problems that only he can straighten out.



Rizzo is the cool chick from the " Pink Ladies". She is a bully mostly because of how unsure off herself she is. I think on some level she is jealous of Sandra D's pureness and beauty. Rizzo is a bully because of her lack of acceptance towards others such as Sandy, She doesnt like change. Rizzo is a girl bullly which is not something you see everyday.



Cercyon was the son of .posiedon. Also was king of Elusis. Cercyon was a very strong man and he took advantage of this. He would wrestle Greek by-passers to their deaths. Incentive for these people was that if they beat Cercyon they also won his kingdom. Nobody could beat him until theseus came, beat Cercyon, and won his kingdom.



Ceres was the Earth goddess and goddess of corn. Her daughter was Proserpine. pluto fell in love with Proserpine, and brought her to the Underworld. Ceres searched everywhere, but couldn't find her. Eventually Ceres refused to let the plants grow any more, and everyone begun to die of hunger. So Pluto admitted he had Proserpine, but said she could only go back home if she had eaten none of the food of the Dead. Proserpine had eaten almost nothing, as she was so sad at being kept underground, but she had eaten six seeds from a pomergranate. So she could go home for six months every year, but had to return to her husband for the rest of the time. Ceres stopped everything growing when this happened. This is Winter.

The bully archetype is depended upon to be the character that is overbearing or cruel to other the weaker characters. The aggressive behaviors of a bully can be stemmed from a number of factors. It may be different influences from the home or school environment that surround them everyday. It is a learned behavior.Bullying can be learned not only by parents but sometimes it is learned from getting picked on and than getting the embarrasement and frustration out on somebody else.Sometimes witnessing a parent bully the opposing parent or other family members enables a child to register aggression as a way to obtain results and get what they want. Bullies come in different sizes and shapes in different situations .The bully is usually the archetype that is intended to either join the good side or fail at the end of each story.The following examples illustrate the defintion of a bully.

A demonstrated bully in Roman mythological history would be Ceres. She is the goddess of earth and corn. Her daughter’s name is Prosperine. Pluto the God of the underworld fell in love with Prosperine and took her with him into the underworld. Ceres was devastated when her daughter couldn’t be found. Eventually she refused to grow plants until her daughter was found. After a while people on earth began to starve form the loss of their crops. Pluto admitted that he had her daughter but Ceres would only take her back if she didn’t eat any of the food of the dead. Prosperine ate six pomegranate seeds while she was away. It was because of this that she was only allowed to come home six months of the year. It was when she was gone that no plants would grow, and the season winter came about. Ceres is considered a bully because she mades others suffer because of her own pain she felt.

Cercyon was the son of Posiedon and was king of Elusis. Cercyon was a very strong man and he took advantage of this. He would wrestle Greek by-passers to their deaths. Incentive for these people was that if they beat Cercyon they also won his kingdom. Nobody could beat him until Theseus came, beat Cercyon, and won his kingdom.Theseus was much luckier than other reeks who passed by and lost their lives. Cercyon is an obvious bully because of his strength and body size that he used for his advantage. He could use it to help some pedastrians but instead he chooses to fight till death. Some bullies choose never to give up until this point also leading to the facet that most bullies are not very matured to their fullest extent and think that fighting and winning is more important than saving a life for the better.

Bullies originated in mythology as most archetypes did. It could be argued that all gods are bullies because of the punishment they would put upon mortals. Acharacter from film that could be categorized as a bully would be Melvin Udell. He is a classic bully because of the fact that he often in the beginning of the film had a habbit of putting his neighbors and waitresses down. It's because the characters " opposing " him are much weaker than him that he self consiously decides heis better than them in different ways.Although, Melvin could be considered a special case.By the end of his story it is impossible not to love him. it is because he is so wired and crazy that it makes him irrisistable. He adds much comic relief to many parts of the film when times feel troubled. Some bullies are fortunate enough to change thier ways.

Than there are cases such as Rizzo from the movie Grease.This is a good example because of the fact that she is a female. It proves that woman can be considered bullies just as much as the guys. Mostly it is towards the opposite sex. In this case her victum is another pure girl known as Sandra D. Sandra D's chracter is a beautiful warm-hearted girl who has nothing agaisnt anybody. which is exactly everything which rizzo is not. To make Sandy feel inferios Rizzo could be known for making smooth and rude remarks. The reason for htis is not completly sure. She has a lot of her own insecurities line dup in the film that it isnot that big of a surprise that anger needs to get out on somebody else. Rizzo like most teenage girls going through hormones starts to concentrate on her own problems as time passes onand she figures out what is more important than bullying and hurting others.

Altogether a bully is never a true friend or lover. It is not soembody you can count on or trust. You can only hope that whoever it is will eventually grow out of thier ways or change for the better.In the exmples given they prove that bullies and such have the ability to change although some dont always follow this. it is differentin every case and situation.

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