Setting the Shakespearean Stage

One of My favorite scenes in the play is the one acted out in class when Kate and Petruccio are arguing over the sun and moon. This is one of the pivotal moments in the story when we see that Kate has now been tamed. She and Petruccio are arguing over it being the sun or it being the moon. We know that the sun is out because Kate is shocked when Petruccio says "Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon" and she says its the sun that shines so bright. We now know its the middle of the day until Petruccio says "good marrow" meaning its the morning. Because it would be hard to play with lighting on the stage in Shakespeare time, the audience would have to pay attention to the word usage. The props would be on stage so they can see Baptistas house and the horses, but as for the day and locations and weather, that is up to the actors to say it and let the audience know

Optional Blog; Petruccio

Petruccio is one of the protagonist in Taming of the Shrew. He is asked to marry Kate to give three other suitors the chance at winning Bianca, Kates sister, over. The deal was that if he marrys Kate, the three suitors would pay for all the expenses for everything leading up to the wedding and the wedding itself. Petruccio does just that. He marry's Kate and then begins the unshrewing. Petruccio happens to be my favorite character. I enjoy his witty-ness. HE is selfish, flamboyant, and difficult. He starves Kate, argues with her when its really sunny outside telling her the moon is beautiful, he shows her clothing that she may want but doesn't want her to wear it. And in all of this the reader gets the general impression that Petruccio is a jerk, but he shows the signs of a young boy in second grade poking the girl that he likes. Through all of this Petruccio truly falls in love with Kate. She becomes his equal on the level of intellect. Petrucio does want a submissive wife, but he would get bored of an unopinionated woman. He enjoys dialogue, he likes to push the buttons of people, and who better then his wife. Pettruccio goes from a selfish man with an alternative, to a man in love with a woman.

Final Narrative Post

Eveline had it hard growing up. Her mother died, she has an abusive father, and she’s in love with a man she is forbidden to see. All this pain takes a toll on Eveline. To be without the ones you love (in love, or having love for). Her father is violent with her and tells her he would go farther if it wasn’t for her mother’s death, she is in constant reminder of the pain of death and loneliness. Eveline decided to run off with Frank but at the last minute changes her mind.
No matter the circumstance, family will always be there for you, although you may have differences and go through difficulties, blood is thicker than water, and unless you lived a torturous life, which Eveline is not living, then you will constantly find love for your family. Eveline made a promise to her mother saying she will keep the family together as long as she can. She becomes the primary caregiver of the family and gets to a certain point where she’s just tired of everything. Frank is seen as her savior, the man who will take her away from all the responsibility. As much as she wanted to run off with him, she still had the responsibility of the family, promise to her mother and a self realization on her back. She does not leave with Frank, nor does she return to her family (it does not clearly state weather she went back or not)
Eveline’s epiphany is that even if she does go off with Frank, she will not live the life she wanted, because she only causes one more burden on her back, guilt, which can be a terrible burden to bear. She realizes that moving off with Frank can make her happy for a limited amount of time. Refusing Frank means that change will happen, that if she does eventually make it back to her father house, she will be a little happier and tae charge of her life. The constant reference to her child hood gives me hope that she might relive that happiness one day.

Sympathy for a monstrous vermin?

We should be sympathetic towards Gregor. If I worked hard, day in and day out and one day I turn into a bug and my family does nothing but lock me up in a room I would be upset! Poor Gregor is taking over his father’s debts, and yet all the family does is throw apples at him and starve him to death. It is understandable that the family reacts this way, yet we must think of it through Gregor’s eyes. One morning you wake up as a bug and you’re late for work! Thoughts start running through your head. “Oh no I’m going to be fired...I missed my train!!...Oh my goodness I’m a bug!” Your superior comes to the door and your own family doesn’t know what’s happened to you, then you come out as a giant roach. It’s a horrible feeling to be stared at. Gregor is unable to move around normally, he now has to adapt to this new life of 6 to 8 legs, blurry vision, and sticky guck coming out of his leg. His new life seems so cruel. Gregor was nothing but a good son, he worked off the debt of his father, rarely leaving the house unless he had to, and always on time to work, doing everything asked of him. It is unfair that he should be turned into a bug so that his family can change. Why should bad things happen to good people? I don’t think we were created on this earth to die for someone else’s change of lifestyle. We should be sympathetic towards Gregor

thesis statement

Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado”, the narrator shows that pride and will always lead to ruin, whether it be your life, the others, or both parties.

Evil in "Young Goodman Brown"

Young Goodman Brown is a tale about a man named Goodman Brown who decided to go on a "journey" one night. His wife warns him off saying Pray tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year.” It is obvious later that Faith knows that something is going on and she does not want her husband out in it. Goodman Brown doesn’t listen to his wife saying that he loves her but he has to go and he will be back by sunrise. She tells him go and prays for him.
Goodman Brown leaves off on his journey. He meets a man, who ends up being the Devil, deep in the woods where they end up at a worship service. At one point on their walk through the woods, Brown's guide says, "Evil is the nature of mankind." He is referring to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Adam wanted the forbidden knowledge, as does Brown who wants the knowledge of what will be going on that night. The staff reminds the reader of Moses turning the staff into a snake. The serpent is almost always used in reference to the devil. The Devil in the woods is enticing brown to come out join him in the communion. Faith is Eve, since she too falls under the temptation for knowledge.
I don’t think the story is saying that it is, but more like defending the story of Adam and Eve in a modern context. He talks of the Salem witch trials, a fact in our American history. It was so easy for Brown to fall under the temptation of the devil, as it was for Adam. At one point in the woods, Brown stops and says he doesn’t want to go farther in straying away from heaven and into hell. This shows that he knew what might be happening is wrong and would like to stop before the damage stops, but of course the devil is cunning and convinces him to move forward. He comes back as a sad man, never living a normal life again. Adam lived a life of bliss in Eden, then a hard/sad life on earth.

Kafka-esque Citations

The hero of "The Metamorphosis" is Gregor Samsa (pronounced Zamza), who is the son of middle-class parents in Prague, Flaubertian philistines, people interested only in the material side of life and vulgarians in their tastes. Some five years before, old Samsa lost most of his money, whereupon his son Gregor took a job with one of his father's creditors and became a traveling salesman in cloth. His father then stopped working altogether, his sister Grete was too young to work, his mother was ill with asthma; thus young Gregor not only supported the whole family but also found for them the apartment they are now living in. One morning he wakes up to discover that during the night he has been transformed into a "monstrous vermin" or insect. At first he is preoccupied with practical, everyday concerns: How to get out of bed and walk with his numerous legs? Can he still make it to the office on time? Gregor’s bizarre new state is not the central transformation in the novel. Instead, Kafka uses Gregor’s surreal change as a catalyst for an almost more shocking metamorphosis: that of Gregor’s family, as they move from helplessness and sympathetic fear to emancipation and hostile rejection.Gregor's family see his predicament as an affront to them (after all, they expect Gregor to support the family). They withdraw from him, try to contain the damage, but in the process begin to change their own life stories as well--Gregor's father, who had been disabled, mobilizes and goes back to work; he changes from being an "old man" to a bank official "holding himself very erect." Gregor's sister also gets a job and seems on the verge of a new life.
Gregor’s change is superficial, since he resists adapting to his new physical identity. Kafka’s choice to portray Gregor as a “vermin” (in some editions, this is translated as “cockroach”) implies a useless and parasitic nature that clashes with his personality. On the other hand, Gregor’s “disappearance” forces his parents and sister out of their own parasitic existence, leading them to a much deeper transformation at the end. Even the dying Gregor recognizes this, as he realizes that “[h]is conviction that he had to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister’sIn a psychoanalytic interpretation, The Metamorphosis prevents the imminent rebellion of the son against the father. Gregor had become strong as a result of his father's failure. He crippled his father's self-esteem and took over the father's position in the family. After the catastrophe, the same sequence takes place in reverse: son becomes weak, and father kills him.












http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/metamorphosis/

Miss Emily facebook

Miss Emily’s facebook would most likely not have many friends. But if it did, if we were lucky enough to be able to see her world, this is what would be in it.

Her default picture would probably be of her and Homer. Her display name would be Emily G. Because she likes to keep information to herself, I wouldn't be surprised if she has her last name shortened to just the single letter G. In her favorite quotes we would see "For rats."

BASIC INFORMATION:

Networks: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi

Sex: Female

Birthday: The day I was born

Hometown: Yoknapatawpha

Relationship Status: Married-To the corpse of Homer B.

MISS EMILY'S WALL:

Her wall would be private. She did not want people knowing who she speaks with. Most people would probably just write "Hey miss Emily, how've you been its been a while," the standard comment people get when they rarely see/speak with anyone.

Emily G's Wall-to-Wall with Colonel Sartoris.

Emily G wrote on colonel Sartoris wall at 9:43am:
"Excuse me Colonel Sartoris but your men keep coming over and asking me to pay taxes, when you yourself have waved them, I’m not paying them!!"

Colonel Sartoris Wrote on Emily G's Wall at 10:23am:
" Good morning Miss Emily, I don’t think I can be of help, you see, I’ve been dead for a number of years and it’s under new management now. Tell them that I said it has been waved due to your father's (May he rest in peace) service to the town."

Emily G wrote on colonel Sartoris wall at 11:03am:
"YOU’RE NOT DEAD!! MY FATHERS NOT DEAD!!! I’m not paying the taxes, that it!!!!!"



FAVORITE TV SHOWS/ MUSIC/ BOOKS:

Her favorite show would be anything of Disney, Nick Jr. She sees herself as a small child, and these are the channels that most kids watch (and even some adults). Her favorite movie would be Avenger, a movie about a psycho killer who chops off people's heads and mails them to Scotland Yard. Her favorite book is Dr. Seuss the Cat in the Hat, because after a long day of poisoning your ex-lover, it’s kind of nice to read a nice book with short words that tell a funny story of a cat who wears the most interesting hat.

this is just to say

This is Just to Say
I didn’t mean
to crash
the new Toyota camry
But it was
so fast
and I was ghost riding
with the guys
If only you’d switched to Geico
you could have
saved a lot of money on your car insurance.

My parody is about the time my older brother took my dad’s car and ghost rode through Oakland. Ghost riding is when a person puts the car in drive or allows it to idle and then the driver and passengers of a vehicle exit while it is still rolling and dance beside it or on the hood or roof. After E-40 came out with that song “tell me when to go” everyone in the bay area would be seen doing this. I used the same form as the original poem. The below is a sketch of how the original poem was formatted. My new poem differs in how may lines per stanza. My poem is three lines then four then three, the original was 5-4-4. The last stanza can be referenced to the fact that my mother and I wait for the new Geico commercials to come on all the time and would try to make some up of our own, I think I did a good job on this one. =)

This is just to say
I have [verb, past tense]
the [noun]
that were
[prepositional phrase]
and which
you were probably
[verb]
for [noun]
Forgive me
they were [adjective]
so [adjective]
and so [adjective] (Carolyn)

Digging

Being responsible refers to our ability to make decisions that serve our own interests and the interests of others. We first need to be responsible for ourselves before we can be responsible for others. In learning to be more responsible it is important that we know our limitations. It is also important to remember that we are not responsible for things that are out of our control, for example, how well a person can farm or how not so well. In this poem Heaney is exploring his ancestry and the roots from where he was brought up. He expresses the ideas of his constant regret that he is no longer able to follow his ancestor’s occupation as potato farmers and reflects back on the glorious days when his father and grandfather were in their prime.
In the first stanza of Digging Heaney introduces his pen. He’s saying that he is happy to be holding a pen, “It rests; snug as a gun” The quote “snug as a gun” gives the impression that the pen fits naturally in his hand. This is also a simile. (Remember similes compare things using like or as) Through that last phrase Heaney expresses his happiness in holding a pen and his comfort and contentment. Heaney compares his father’s and his grandfather’s digging into the ground to his writing and development of his poetry. Heaney’s father and grandfather use their shovels to work with the land, while Heaney uses his poem to work on his ideas to write poetry.
The second and third stanza’s are written in present day tense and switches to past tense in the last two lines. He is writing about what he sees just outside his window. Heaney’s is witnessing his “father, digging” through flowerbeds. “His straining rump among the flowerbeds,” obviously Heaney father is experiencing some hardship.
Heaney plays with the language throughout his poem by using images that appeal to our senses like sounds, sight, touch and smell. Such as ’rasping’ and ’gravelly’, this is images of the act of digging. ’Snug as a gun’ is also a paradox, it refers to how he picks up the pen and gently rests it in his hand, waiting to write. It is creating the beginning of the memories being told by the poet. Focuses our attention to the fact that this is set in present time.
In the last stanza, last line; ’ I’ll dig with it.’ The message to the reader to be skilled in what we do, and not try to be someone were not. Heaney is becoming emotional, and thinks about that the times when he was little and sometimes helped his grandfather out in the fields, this were good times. He shows great respect for them, but knows he can never be like them.

Post Form
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire
Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.


Shakespeare’s 73 sonnet is broken up in 3 quatrains and a couplet. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme. (Wikipedia) In sonnet 73 it is in an abab/cdcd/efef/gg scheme. He also uses 5 foot lines, that is to say, 10 syllables per line. This is a good method when writing poetry. It makes it easier to read understand. When the words rhyme, it has a nice flow. After you break down the poem in this way, a person can start the analyzing process. It is much easier to understand what the narrator is trying to say when you look at it quatrain by quatrain.
In the first quatrain the speaker is telling someone that aging is like the seasons.
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
The yellow leaves or none or few in the line can mean its autumn the end of the year, the end of a life, where not much is left. The shaking of the boughs can be the rattling of the old person frail bones. In the second quatrain age is like late twilight, death.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Night and darkness is always linked with death. We end the day with darkness. When we die, or when the end of something comes it ends in darkness. Deaths second self that seals up all IN REST. At night we sleep, we are in slumber until the morning. In the third quatrain, the speaker compares himself to fire, or at least what’s left of it.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by
The speaker is saying the he was a glowing fire, and a way a fire does out is when the debris become ashes’s and stop all oxygen from coming in. Consumed with what it’s nourished by. Junk food is not good for us, yet everyone eats it. We become diabetics, obese, and malnourished. It is our end, consumed by what we nourished ourselves with. In the couplet, the speaker tells the reader/listener that he will no longer be here on this earth and that one day neither will the reader. It’s as if he is warning him not to take life for granted. To love and to live.

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