J. Alfred Prufrock

-I got clarity of the lines about Michelangelo. They talk about the ladies and how their staus is so unattaible and their standards of men are high compared to those around them. They are too high in culture that they don't stay around for long and leave once their educated speech has surpassed the knowledge of them around. 

-It is a love song of himself and the world he wanted to create

- he is old and is accepting of it rather than suicidal

-contemplating/ reviewing what he has done in life and frankly that isn't very much so he is a little sad

- his nama has three parts to it which makes it seem like he should be famous or of high class and surmount to something so he might have fallen short of the expectation so became depressed and sad and make a world where he did achieve what he wanted. 

-he wants to be more than what he is and that is the tragic love song of his life. he wants what he cant have 

Literature Analysis #3

Oedipus Rex

1. The exposition, rising action are when Oedipus is introduced with his brother Creon and wife Jocosta. It explains the background behind how Oedipus got to be king and how he saved the city of Thebes from the Sphinx after their king died. He needs to save the city again and this leads him to try and find the murder of the first king. The first climax is when he is talking to the prophet who tells him that Oedipus was the murderer after Oedipus gets mad at the prophet for not initially telling him. This leads to Oedipus being ousted by Creon and being paranoid that he is trying to over throw him. The second climax is when Oedipus finds out everything; he killed his father who was the king of Thebes and he married his mother. This was the prophecy he was told in his home town so he was suppose to be killed by the messenger but the messenger never killed him and he grew up to fulfill the prophecy even after he did not want to. The resolution is Oedipus gouging his eyes out and Jocosta killing herself. Creon banishes Oedipus and he went from king to exiled.
2. The theme is ironic fate and how somethings are out of our control. Oedipus knew he didn't want to be a man who married his mother and killed his father so he took precautions to avoid it. Even with the precautions of moving away, the imminent future of himself was something he could not control and was bound to happen. It was ironic that the thing he was running away from was with him the whole time; himself.
3. The tone is anxious and angry. Oedipus was first anxious about helping his people but that soon turned into greed and anger. He always had this idea and anxiety about his past and if his fate was dooming towards him and this leads to his decisions that he makes. He chooses to not help his people and focus on saving his own self when he was accused of murder because he is scared that he actually was the one to do it and his past his catching up to him. He accused Creon which leads to his fate being uncovered and again Oedipus is anxious about what had happened and wants to leave to see where his life will take him.
"Tell me then, what has brought you all here?  Is there something you are afraid of?  Is there something you need from me? Tell me and it will certainly be granted!  Otherwise what sort of a man would I be if I had not enough compassion to help you, you, my very own folk, with all my heart?"

"Well then, I utter these words: In your ignorance, you conduct the vilest acts with those closest to you.  Vile acts of which you are ignorant and which you cannot see."

"He took out the golden brooches that held her dress and plunged them deep into the sockets of his own eyes so that they’ll never again see what evil things he’s done nor any of those deeds he might do in the future. In darkness they’d always be and therein they’d receive those things he’d want to receive and not receive those he wouldn’t want to receive.

4. 1. irony

"he won’t remain here while he’s fallen in the grips of his own curses."

2. parralelism
"What pain!  What loathsome Fate!  What appalling Fate!"
3. aphorism
'Better to be dead, I should think, than to be alive and blind."
4. anaphora
"Such circumstances bring about double suffering, double pain and double burdens!"
5. foreshadow
"dreadful prophesies, prophesies like, one day I would become my mother’s husband, or that I would give birth to a generation hated by all mankind, or that I would murder my father!"
6. monologue
"Since...malignant shame!"
7. both protagonist and antagonist 
"Oedipus:"
8. personification
"Arrogance overfed with vanity and bloated with unearned riches, will turn a man into a tyrant"
9. setting
"King of our Thebes,"
10. imagery
"A despicable pestilence, my lord, has taken our Thebes within its murderous grip!"

Characterization
1. "Look at us! We are all here, gathered around your altars, praying. See? All the ages of men are here: the youth, whose wings have yet to spread wide enough for flying far and the old men whose head and back are bent with years" Direct because literally saying that there are a multitude of men and women of all ages. Indirect because this shows how dedicated the people are to helping the cause and how much they trust oedipus in fixing the problem This also shows Oedipus as a man who is trustworthy and had gained the liking of the people he rules.
"Yes, I can speak of it.  Apollo told me once that I would be my mother’s husband and my father’s murderer, so I left Corinth a long time ago. " Indirect because it shows Oedipus as being a man who is fearful and runs away form his problems rather than faces them. The names of the characters like Shepard or King give social status to the men and women and tell the readers of their significance in society. 
2. No the author uses the same syntax and diction for all the characters generally except fro when the Chorus speaks. The chorus is more direct and has the summary of what is going to happen or of what people think that were not directly involved in the ocurances. They explained how people hated Oedipus after he accused wrongfully people of the murder of the old king. They told Oedipus that he was wrong for what he did and they are the voice of reason in the play, but they are not actually involved in the story but more of an over voice while the events play out. 
3.Main character is dynamic but flat. He has the innate qualities of greed and anxiety that do not come out until he is directly in trouble. He was first seen as a man of high royalty and power and every one looked at him with respect. As the play continues he loses that respect from self destruction and getting involved in things he could not control. This led his downfall and his true character came out which was selfish and fearful. He changed from confident and powerful to exiled and blind with imperfections. He always had these characteristics which makes him flat. 
4.I felt as if I was in a movie and was detached. I didn't the emotions as I though I would have in a play but that might have been because I couldn't put pictures to the words. I felt as if I was hovering over the situations and was an actual reader rather than someone in the moment with them, feeling their pain. "O, how gruesomely clearly it has all unravelled!  O light! Let me enjoy you for one last time.  One last time from the time I was born, for I was born from the wrong parents, I was bonded with the wrong people and I have killed those I should have never killed!" I don't feel his pain and although it is a sad part in the play when he finds out his fate has come true, the climax does not add anything else to the play. It is dramatic and I read it fast because I was intrigued but not "fully there." I felt his words were hollow maybe because I had a perception of him as not a good man or a man trying to change his fate which could have clouded my judgement. 

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

1. Time is the keeper of dwelling. It keeps stating that there is time, bit contradicts it with all the things there "is" time for, which is just added responsibility. Time keeps the regret and the voice in your head saying do something. Time is the constant reminder to not do something or of all the reasons to not perform or act. It is the birth and death of someone. As literal time passes as you read the poem, the progression of the poem is down tunring. It starts out confident but as it continues to speak the words turn into a fantasy that the character doesn't want to wake up from. Time makes the character despise his life and love the fantasy he creates. In the end time is the thing that kills him
2. the allusion to Hamlet is saying that Prufrock is no prince. He doesn't have the royalty that Hamlet does or the crisis that he does. Hamlet was fortunate to choose between killing people and getting away with it whereas Prufrock is condemned by his social status and himself. He listens to others rather than Hamlet who makes his own life and calls the shots. He is not the main scene but something just in the background. The significance of the eternal footman is death or god. Some entity that makes him afraid of what it is. It could be himself and his future because he sees his present and how destroyed it is and that foreshadows his future to where he is afraid to live it. Prufrock sounds like he doesn't have a nice life and so he wastes it away and that might be the footman who takes his coat because he is just wasting away and doesn't know what to do to stop it.
3. When he describes the yellow fog. The yellow gives the idea of sickness but as he explains it, it reminds me of a dog. How the fog is always there and comforts him in a way. The unconditional love that protects him that he longs for but doesn't know is there. He takes advantage of it and its hidden from it.

Poem remix

Working together with the things that seem impossible. We are shaped by the world just as the world is shaped by us.

Working Together Vs. Everything is Going to be Alright

The poetry we see today is just words. We rarely take the time to look and evaluate what we see everyday. Things seem too obvious to be mentioned, but that is what poetry does. It creates emotions and ideas and action that words in an essay cannot. In Working Together the obvious is stated and it shows the contradiction in everyday life and how it works; something so obvious but is never mentioned. In Everything is Going to be Alright it shows the world in one dimension as if everything everywhere is always going to be alright; something stated too much. 

The balance between creating a piece of poetry that "moves" people and creating a piece of paper that someone reads for corrections is delicately mentioned in Working Together. "Working together in common cause to produce the miraculous," states that the things we see everyday and take no notice of work together to create something we cherish. We cherish the planes we fly on, we cherish the clothes we wear, we cherish the water we drink. Yet we don't see the contradicttion. We don't see the massive body floating in the sky, we don't see the clothes we use to hide ourselves, we don't see the water we give up to stay alive. Everything is the opposite of itself. 

We see life as something that is black or white. Yes or no. Wrong or right. Credit or no credit. Once we get involved with the details, it all falls apart. Everything is Going to be Alright touches on the idea of how even when we focus too much on the details, there is a bigger picture involved. "There will be dying, there will be dying, but there is no need to get into that," there is no need to focus on the one aspect that makes us fall apart. There are so many other things in life that contribute to the beauty we see everyday that keeps us going. We need to focus on what keeps us together rather than what makes us fall part. 

Working Together and Everything is Going to be Alright are two poetic pieces that make readers optimistic. "The sun rises in spite of everything," "So may we in this life trust," give he impression of a future that keeps going. Trust the present to lead the future. Although Everything is Going to be Alright  has an insular point of view whereas Working Together has different point of views of ordinary occurrences, the two poems coincide. We take advantage of what we see and sometimes lose the concept of trust. The constant heart beat of the poems from negative to positive helps readers establish a connection between what poetry is and how it relates to what we are; things that seem impossible in the present but persist for the future. 

Hamlet Essay

Death by your own plan, that is the story of Hamlet. The unwavering questioning of motives and action build to create a sense of uncertainty. Thinking to know what comes next, but having no idea how to act. Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a play about uncertainty. The juxtaposition of knowing what is wanted and being caught in complete stillness is a theme for the character Hamlet. He knows what he wants but questions himself so much that he begins to question his own motives. "To be or not to be," something so cliche it lost its meaning; the meaning of the expectation you build inside and the reality of what you see. Hamlet is a character that builds the theme of the whole play. He embodies the course the play takes, from frustration to questioning to action of no action back to frustration and again. It is a cycle that repeats until it comes to an end in the final scene when "to be or not to be" becomes only one option; to be. As in the Performative Utterance, a cycle was made, but this one was made from no connection of the three forces. Hamlet could not connect the ability of thought with the ability of language with the ability of achievement contributing to his continual questioning. The theme of Hamlet is the difference between who you want to be and who you are; the ambiguous past to present to future.

"To be or not to be, that is the question whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them." Who I want vs who I am. Should I be ignorant of the unjust around me or should I act against all that is unjust. These are the thoughts of Hamlet as he finds himself alone after so long of extending his revenge. Throughout his soliloquy, Hamlet reveals is distrust with himself and his urge to be something he is not. He beats himself up for being the kid that everyone pitied instead of the man everyone would fear. This reveals to the audience his uncertain nature and journey of self discovery. As a reader, the various emotions of Hamlet are shown in his diverse character. Sadness, anger, passion, commitment, self-loathing. His tone is characterized by change. First, passive. Second, aggravated. Third, outraged. Fourth, ashamed. Fifth, wrathful. Sixth, confident. Seventh, amused. Eighth, sorrowful. Ninth, grateful. Hamlet evolves throughout the story as an individual with no path to an individual with a purpose. Hamlet is the central tone of the play, it is unique in that it changes.

The definition of theme is the main idea or an underlying meaning of literary work. Hamlet embodies the theme of Hamlet through his constant uncertainty of action until the end. He is the change between who he wants to be and who he is. The definition of tone is an attitude the writer takes toward a subject. Hamlet embodies the tone of Hamlet through his constant changing. He is shaped from a boy to a man throughout the play and the audience can see the evolution from innocence to confidence. "To be or not to be," the uncertain action of change.

Hamlet act 5

Act 5

Scene 1

- Shakespeare introduces sacrifice in nonchalant way 

- clown done this so much that he is detached to burying people

- hamlet 30 years old

- "alas poor yorick! I knew him horatio: a fellow of infinite jest , of most excellent fancy"

- grandest among us be humble 

- hamlet lived Ophelia

- thinks laertes thinks he didn't and now he is talking out loud

- "the dog will have his day"

Scene 2 

- found guild and rose. Fear opened commission. Found scheme that guild and rose were going to him

- hamlet forging new commission

- Kill guild and rose

- hamlet says that their death is just karma since they would do the same thing to him

- hamlet feels bad for laertes because both lost father and sympathisizss with him

- hamlets assassin is ostric who is comedic so why out him as hamlets death maker?

- talks about hat and what to do with it. Gives himself away to hamlet pretty much

- hamlet mimicking ostric and makes horatio comment about it

- hamlet agrees to fencing match

- horatio is worried about hamlet and wants to tell the others that hamlet is sick but hamlet has short speech which acknowledges the fact that he knows he is going to die? And tells horatio to just let it be

- hamlet tells laertes he is victim to his own madness and keeps up the charade if being mad

- queen drinks poisoned wine

- hamlet gets scratched with postponed sword and has 30 min to live 

- hamlet takes laertes sword and fights laertes killing him

- queen falls and yells that she knows it was the poisoned cup that got her

- hamlet plunges sword in king and shoves poisoned wine down throat and kills king

- hamlet wants his story to be told and stops horatio from killing himself with hamlet. He doesn't want to be known as a murderer

- fortinbras becomes king and horatio gives speech in honor of hamlet and fallen men. Doesn't tell story with anyone as a hero but as in hamlets first soliloquy

- end with cannons that irritated Hamlet

- hamlet last words "so tell him, with the occurents more and less which have solicited the rest is silence"

Hamlet Act 4

Act 4

Scene 1

- what's wrong?

- Gertrude says that hamlet is nuts and Claudius plans to send hamlet away and going to excuse his wrong doing

- scared on hamlet spilling the beans about the murder 

Scene 2 

- hamlet actin. Like a round for the first time with guild and rose

Scene 3

- Claudius needs this sending away to seem normal and appropriate so people don't question him

-wordy, imperial, and bringing many characteristics into one

- Hamlet tells Claudius he is like everyone else

- goif to have hamlet killed in England 

- hamlet changed and is now a man. Confident 

Scene 4

- 5th soliloquy 

- going to fight over something worthless

- soldiers show courage, honor, obedience 

- no outward cause it's about inward commitment for hamlet 

- compare to captain and how he can't do what he does

- circumstances make him no able to  do what he wants?

- hawt talks about how man has brain to use to carry out action and if we don't then we are just another animal all the same

- chiding himself for over thinking 

- blaming himself and making excuses for procrastinating 

- has army at his command because he is a prince 

- making himself miserable

- double sided blade: piece of all of us how we have mental capabilities for reflection and learning but at the same time there is a benefit to not thinking so much and just taking action like in battle

- resolve into tapping into inner soldier and not think about what he is doing and just be a soldier with no emotion and just do action

Scene 5

- hamlet says Ophelia is crazy

- talking about dead father, love, rejection has made someone mad, 

- Claudius is starting to see the more issues and weeds of his problem

- Ophelia saying how is polonuis death is just excised she will call lasrtes and he won't have it

- Claudius speech?

- laertes saying any part of me this is not angry is not the son to my father

- who shall stay you: who shall hold you back

- saying Ophelia has lost her mind. Ophelia loved hamlet and she lost him

- laertes is twice angry at hamlet 

- Claudius plan is falling apart and hamlet is not on way to England and rose and guil are and hamlet has own plan

Scene 6

- know you the hand: do you recognize the hand writing

- laertes will listen to Claudius as long as he doesn't tell her to kill anyone

- hamlet ship attacked by pirates so came home because he said he would do a good deed for them later

Scene 7

- king convinces laertes to be on his side

- stated that he didn't convict hamlet for Gertrude and that everyone loves hamlet 

- king reiterating his power 

- sociological test on laertes before tell him plan to kill hamlet. Laertes wants to be the one to do it so he is in on plan but king doesn't know his will power

- king tells laertes that hamlet envies him because this man lamond likes laertes over hamlet

- king is adamant about acting right away because he says the longer you wait the more likely you are to not accomplish it. Foreshadow hamlet? Show difference between king and hamlet

- exchanges in this convo reflect back on what play had been about so far 

- king has plan to have laertes kill hamlet while fencing and king will give hamlet a compliment so hamlet will be distracted and then laertes wil go in and kill him

- why does laertes just have poison lying around

- chalice of poisoned wine

- Ophelia drowned and she was a women who was driven mad by lost love

- laertes trying to fight back tears and calls them womanly: "I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, but that this folly drowns it"

- Claudius tells queen that they need to follow laertes because of his state of mind and king is afraid of laertes and what he might do 

Hamlet: Just Your Average Teenager?

Hamlet is a play that reveals the mind behind the words. There is an array of characters who display different emotions of the human. Claudius is greed, Ophelia is innocence, Gertrude is sin, and Polonius is two-faced. All the different characteristics in the play combine into one human who has the needs and wants of anyone else, but the difference between them and others is their extreme nature. The character Hamlet is, yet again, the one who stands out. All on his own he embodies the characteristics of just one human who contemplates his wants, needs, and actions. He is a teenager who is put into a situation that most no one would encounter today. That is why he cannot be compared to teenagers of the modern society. Hamlet lived in a time of revenge where killing your uncle would restore the family name, but today that is something that would tarnish the family name. This leads to the idea of Hamlet as a young boy who cannot make up his mind, is depressed, or "mad". In context, Hamlet is all of those things and that is what people see him as and that is who he is. Who we are is bound by the way we make ourselves appear to others and how they perceive us. Hamlet let others influence who he was resulting in his obsession with revenge and giving himself something to distract the pain of loss. Therefore, Hamlet is a young boy who was everything people saw him as but with a twist: a young boy who was "mad", but the twist is that Hamlet's madness was his dying passion to do something for once.

Hamlet was just a teenager who experienced the death of essentially two parents. After his father died, his mother was "dead to him". He chose to shut everyone out along with his speech to hide his feelings. In reality, hiding his feelings wasn't going to make his situation better. When he stopped talking, he started listening; listening to his head, to his mother, to Claudius, and to Horatio. He forgot his own voice and let others tell him what to do. When his father appeared, Hamlet allowed someone who had already lived and made mistakes make his life and his duty. He lost sight of what he really wanted and by doing so he made himself insane. Constantly talking to yourself and contemplating killing someone is not the duty of a mourning teenager; it is that of someone who had nothing to live for. Hamlet's father was a man that was described as great and omnipotent, but as readers we only know of what the biased characters tell us. The indirect characterization of Hamlet's father is a man who wanted to finish what he started and if he couldn't he would destroy his son's life to do so. The unresolved family conflicts lead to Hamlet yet again being the target and the one that everyone leaves behind. Hamlet went mad with guilt, power, revenge, and the need to fulfill his lack-luster life. All the self analyzing and self doubt is the result of someone who is so determined to complete a goal that they become stiff and believe everything has to be perfect. Hamlet has nothing better to do than sit around and ponder his plan. That is not the life of a normal teenager who is just put in a bad situation. As Hamlet's journey progresses, readers see his transformation from a mortified teenager to that of an angry and dangerous soul.

In Deboer's paper, he comments on how Hamlet could not make real what was in his head and what was actual reality. He was so involved in his mind of his own reality of what he wanted to happen, that he couldn't compose himself. Hamlet uses his words and actions to deceive those around him as seen when he speaks to Ophelia before the play. He announces the play's summary and when Ophelia didn't react the way intended, Hamlet made inappropriate comments that didn't reflect the way he was. This further supports the concept that we are the people that others see us as. We soon start to believe what we get told and in Hamlet's case, he was told he was crazy and insane and that everyone was watching him; he then became those things. He was paranoid and always watching over his shoulder which contributed to his change in manners. Hamlet's passion for his plan developed into something that he couldn't control, himself. As the play progresses, Hamlet is becoming the person that he is trying to kill; a murderer who is killing for his own reasons and benefits. The habit of fulfillment is a path that others rain on us and it is up to those who are victimized to stop it.

To that fallen cake

            

This is the story of a cake. It was a beautiful Heath bar that would have made your eyes water and mouth cry. 'Twas the light in a dark alley, the hope in hopeless, and the smile on a dog's face, but all is forgotten when that dreaded foot hit the stair. The cake has fallen and with it the many hopes and dreams of some pretty lucky 5th period AP Lit students! My apologizes and I take full responsibility for the disaster of this fine cake day! Hope the cookies weren't too bad:) and again my apologies to miss Kestler for destroying her delicacy of cake art that is famous along the central santa maria/orcutt area. It was a great loss :( but all is still well and we can look forward to next week when yet again this arduous task is taken again, and hopefully this time not dropped! 

Hamlet act3

Act 3

 scene 1

- polonuis knows hamlet has crafty madness

- doesn't sense that hamlet is genuine 

- by looking like we are doing the right thing polonuis and Claudius figured it out and know that people will look good at them

- Claudius feels guilty 

- Ophelia rosencrantz guildenstern (on Claudius sides) set up to spy on hamlet

- hamlet doesn't trust Ophelia. Mom issues affect Ophelia and how he sees her

- easier to be seduced by beauty than honesty 

- doesn't love Ophelia anymore

- take out anger on Ophelia and beats everyone up and says everyone is actin like a fool 

- women corrupt men

- madness: insanity, and also being angry 

- Claudius and polonuis spied on hamlet and have idea that hamlet isn't insane and knows that there is something else so Claudius wants to remove the threat to stay safe

- polonuis has big ego and proposes that Gertrude talk to hamlet and try to get something out if him and polonuis will listen but if he is mad then send him off but if not then keep him

Scene 2 

- hamlet director

- act natural but act genuine 

- hamlet knows what he wants which shows that he is not crazy but clever

- Shakespeare comments on play within play(post modernism)

- first time we are seeing hamlet  giving thanks to horatio and their friendship. Horatio doesn't have ulterior motive 

- tells of how strong horatio is. Something hamlet believes himself not to be

- hamlet acts crazy to the guests to encourage his madness

- hart is making puns and is "merry" and says another dig to the queen about her short grieving

- the play suggests that Gertrude had the affair after the kings death and this give a little class to queen?

- the play has moral of how we make promises to ourselves that we can never carry out. We should embrace failure as part of life because when we change so does the world. Once we see that we can't carry through with the promise we should forgive ourselves. This is the opposite of what hamlet thinks and how he thinks himself a coward for not following through with his fathers avengance 

- "the lady protests too much me thinks" 

- the king calls off the play when the poison is poured down the kings ear and hamlet is successful in his plan

- rose and guil try to get hamlet to confess his guilt but hamlet doesn't cave and gloats and is happy for what he has done

- hamlet gets angry and shows guild and rose that he knows they are not on his side and are just using him

- hamlet blames others for his actions as the fool because the pity him

- hamlet wants to kill mother now

Scene 3 

- "I like him not"

- wants hamlet to go to england because dangerous

- king needs to keep country safe and encourage respect which hamlet was giving none of

- polonuis still adamant about hamlet being crazy from rejected love and wants to see him punished by queen why? 

- kings soliloquy is just as powerful as hamlets. Shows that he is rattled by the play( the murder of gonzago) and he knows hamlet knows of what he has done but no one else does. He feels exposed and knows god knows his secret and won't let him into heaven. To be forgiven for his sins he must repent them but he can't because he is still living in the glory of them( crown, queen, ambition). Asks for angels help and die everything to be well. 

- hamlet had chance to kill king but wouldn't be effective because king was praying and would go to heaven 

- kings attempt at praying failed so if hamlet had actually killed the king revenge would have been successful but hamlets saved his enemy due to his own thinking and caution. 

Scene 4 

- polonuis tells the queen to chew hamlet out and queen does so but acknowledges Claudius and hamlets father and that enrages hamlet. The queen gets up to leave but hamlet scares her and she thinks he is going to murder her but polonuis yells help and hamlet says rat and kills polonuis in the heart. Last words " o. I am slain." Why those many? 

- I think hamlet thinks e killed the king. "Nay I know not of, is it the king?"

- hamlet accuses queen of vein apart of king hamlet murder. Don't know if she knew beforehand or not

- hamlet is just ripping mother apart with words and shows her comparison if noble king hamlet and limp king Claudius

- ghost shows up and hart is interrupted and shows that he is more involved in unloading on mother than avenging his father 

- ghost tells hamlet to comfort his Mother and hamlet does so by describing himself to her. She thinks he is mad because she can't see the ghost and hamlets hairs are standing up

- hamlets losing sense of reality and duty from emotion

- hamlet asks mother to not sleep with Claudius at night to keep her virtue. Maybe he knows he is going to kill Claudius in bed and doesn't want to hurt mom?

- hamlet knows he will be punished for killing polonuis 

- hamlet wants his mother to say goodnight and she replies "what shall I do?"

- hamlet wants her mother to keep his secret and threatens her?(ape comparison)

- queen promises not to tell and never says goodnight

- hamlet carries polonuis body out and makes puns to him

The performative utterance

-hamlet couldn't make real of the scenarios in his head and of what was going on around him

- utterance means to express

- is troubled with physical not mental aspect of his duty

- like how the author uses cognitive paralysis as if he has no control over what he wants and cannot do

- what does author mean by performative language?( language that speaks for itself or doesn't need action to convey meaning?)

- locutionary force(ability of language to deliver a message), force of mutual intelligibility, illocutionary force(what is done is being said), perlicutionary force(what is achieved by being said) ( consequences of ones utterances)

- like acknowledge then cause and effect?

- self overhearing is key to self

- comes to see that language not only describes but does and this is an agent of chane in the world

- oath demonstrates how the illocutionary influences the perlocutionary 

- haet never stars that he will avenge his after so no connection between illocutionary and perlocutionary forced and thus no obligation

- false performative in hamlet?

- is self loathing the reaction of no action?(illocutionary force is not acting and perlocutionary force is self loathing?)

- what is difference between hamlet and the first player? First player has emotion or no emotion?

- effective acting is act of mimicking 

- to pretend you must not do

- polonuis and hamlet foils?

- shadows of conventional roles but hamlet is many roles and not just one 

- Claudius is man between extreme if polonuis and hamlet

- is guilt selfish?

- hamlet evolves toward faith, closure, and acceptance. Was this due to the fact that hamlet never said he would get revenge and this never connected the perfirmative forces?

- through this journey does hanlet have self realization through self overhearing or looking at others and is powered by them and their wrong doings to finally see that what he is doing is right and wrong?

Just something

When you listen to music try listening for the breaths that the artist takes. Once you hear them you can't unhear them. 

"To Be Or Not To Be"

Hamlet Presentation Act 1 and 2

Hamlet Remix of the Remix

Hamlet notes

I, II

A little more than kin, and less than kind. 

- an aside and hamlet said this

- situational irony

- audience knows something audience doesn't

- hamlet doesn't like Claudius 

- hamlet doesn't show his feelings and savy decision maker. Knows what he wants

- blowing Claudia off

- grief is just on outside. Hamlet doesn't show on his face that he is grieving. Just tradition

- you can do grievance tradition but that doesn't mean you are unhappy. Yiu don't know me is what hamlet is trying to say. Calling people out but hamlet is actually going through something real rather than showing 

- Claudius just criticizes hamlet grievances. Making hamlet seem unfit for king and Claudius wants hamlet to stay close. Contradictory

- first monologue: mortified of his situation, wishes suicide wasn't sin, doesn't want to see or experience what's going on, directing anger at mom, just saying how much this sucks and wants to leave, points out what's sinful and what's not to make himself moral to audience 

- investigating when asking questions about dad ghost

- fact based questions. All about the details. Contradicts monologue tone which shows how matter of fact attitude and mental health. Hamlet is respectful guy. 

- hamlet is said to stay back and not study abroad compared to other guy who was allowed to just leave

- based on hamlets mothers wishes but really wants to keep an eye on him

- polonuis is a ouppet master inthe court 

-moms allegiance is to power

- tone of author is important of how we interpret characters. Multiple meanings and do you know text well enough to analyze techniques 

III

Laertes degrades sister by telling her she isn't good enough for hamlet an that she needs to be careful around him

Ophelia “snaps her fingers” and gives sas right back to Laertes and tells him to pretty much not be a hypocrite 

Polonuis tells Laertes before he leaves for paris(have him looking at a pic of the Eiffel tower or something) on how to be a man and have integrity: keep to himself, don't act on impulse, treat others kindly, embrace new friends, slow to fight, listen, dress to impress, don’t borrow or lend money, stay true to self ( do little actions for all of these)

Polonuis gives same advice to ophelia as Laertes did and she says that she sees through hamlets pronounced love and will obey her father

something about spying?

IV

-" something is rotten in the state of Denmark "

-metaphor that Claudius is the "snake" that killed hamlets father 

- mom knows that Claudius killed father and Claudius seduced mom and she left her husband 

- dad in purgatory because he couldn't repent his sins 

- instant death 

- dad tells hamlet not to punish mom and just leave her but punish Claudius

- dad tells hamlet to take revenge 

- "I have sworn it" hamlet states after talking to dad. Conflict in hamlet is whether or not to actually kill someone. He knows he wants to avenge father 

- finally has clarification and is happy

- "there are more things in heaven and earth horatio than are dreamt in your philosophy"

-  hamlet is very adamant of horatio and Marcellus swear on his sword that NOTHING will pry the secret from them

- " the time is out of joint: O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right" meaning to life is to avenge father. 

- hamlet believes that he will be a failure if he doesn't go through with act

actII, scene II

-" what a piece if work is a man". Cliche line. Theme of play and how we are contradictory and are able to creat beauty and destroy it with at the sane time. Powerful 

- hamlet is saying that he is kinda mad and testing g and r

- hamlet tells player 1 to tell story if king who was in scandal and then dies because not righteous

- hamlet is changing play and writing in lines and starting to hatch a plan

-make play resemble fathers murder and watch how Claudius reacts 

-" the plays the thing wherein I will catch the conscience of the king". Starting to beat himself up. Like when you take a test and know you did bad. Compare himself to actor and how actor can cry and feel emotion fir fictional but hamlet can't feel anything. Feels about coward because keeping everything to himself. Alone with no one to give him tough love and has to motivate himself. Compare himself to whore and how words have no meaning like a whores because they always lie. He judges on action. Mentions "the play within the play". Trying to make himself look weak so no one will see him coming

Literature Analysis #2

1. Exposition-
The primary characters: Amir (protagonist and main character/ narrator)Rahim Kahn( Baba's friend and confident and a father image and support for Amir)  Baba (Amir's father and a wealthy and well respected man in Afghanastan) Ali (Baba's servant and friend and the man whose wife he slept with and with whom he created Hassan)  Hassan (Amir's half brother/friend/servant) Sohrab (Hassan's son) Assef (the bully) and Soraya (Amir's wife).
setting: Kabul, Afghanistan during 1970s when there was trouble with power in Afghan and when the Taliban came into power and destroyed the country 
Give background to class differences and how Hazaras are treated as dirt and servants and have no power. Focuses in Amir when he was a child and he was practically brothers with Hassan who was his servant. They went everywhere together but Amir was always jealous of Hassan and how his father treated Hassan better than him. Hassan was brave and stood up for Amir and Amir turned his back on Hassan one day after a kite flying tournament that Amir won(finally made dad proud) and Amir watched Hassan get sexually assaulted and this guilt lived inside Amir until adult hood. Him and his father left to America before the politics got bad in Afghan and Amir drove off Hassan and his dad Ali who was like a brother to Baba(AMir's dad). In adult life AMir gets married and travels back to visit Rahim, who was always nice to Amir as a child and encouraged his writing, because he was very sick. He gets sent on mission to save Hassan's son after Amir find out Hassan died. The climax is when Amir finds Sohrab who is being held by Assef, the childhood bully, and Sohrab saves Amir from death and they escape. Amir found out that Hassan and him were half brothers and he realized the gravity of what he had done when he was a child; he split up the family and knew why his father cared so much for Hassan and Amir had broken his heart. Initially Sohrab is reserved because he was badly abused but he warms up to Amir who breaks his trust and Sohrab tries to kill himself but Amir saves him and brings him back to America where Sohrab never forgave Amir and became mute until a year later when Amir and Sohrab where flying kites and Amir saw Sohrab smile and this brings the story ending back where it started.
2. The theme is breaking tradition and forgiveness. In the Afghan culture tradition was everything to them. Their image and how they were unified as people. Amir was different than everyone. He wasn't like his father and he felt alone and by himself because he broke thinstradition. He was selfish unlike those around him and this led to disappointment and he even left his country for a better one. When he went back he adopted a Hassan and was friends with one when he was little and that was strnage. He went against his own family instead of uniting with them. When he was a child he witnessed something that haunted him forever and he could never give Hassan what Hassan had given to him, kindness. Hassan died before Amir cold talk to him again and this broke AMir's heart and really exemplified the moral of forgiveness and kindess. Sohrab had to forgive those around him who had hurt him and Amir had to forgive himself and Hassan had to forgive Amir and find the good in him. 
3. The authors tone was remorseful and elf depricating. The narrator and point of view is through the eyes of Amir who is dealing with the troubles of his actions throughout the whole book. Every action he made had a consequence and those hovered over him throughout the book. 
"Hassan had loved me once, loved me in a way that no one ever had or ever would again. He was gone now, but a little part of him lived on."
"I ran because I was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me. I was afraid of getting hurt. That's what I told myself as I turned my back to the alley, to Hassan."
"I wished he would. I wished he'd give me the punishment I craved, so maybe I'd finally sleep at night."
4. -metaphors and similes to give extra info and image of situation and mental state/ mind of Amir.
"Baba had wrestled bears his whole life. Losing his wife. Raising a son by himself. Leaving is beloved homeland. Poverty. Indignity."(pg 174)
-Foreshadow especially with setting to give incite on something bad and preparing the readers of a change of events.
"The sky darkened as a crowd gathered around us."(pg 158)
- irony contradicts what the narrator and reader believe to be true and give depth to characters and their situation
"Strangely, I was glad that someone knew me for who I really was; I was tired of pretending." "I'll never forget the way Baba, being unbreakable, said that, the pain in his plea, the fear."(106,107)
- foil is with Amir his father and Hassan. Father is strong part of Amir and Hassan is kind and forgiving part.
"Do you always have to be a hero? Can't you just let it go for once? But I knew he couldn't- it wasn't in his nature." "That was another thing about Hassan. He always knew when to say the right thing."(pg37)
- stream of consciousness gives insight to Amir has a person and how he chooses to do what he does. The logic behind his actions
"I would have to explain and I would be revealed for what I really was. Baba would never forgive me... I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate."(105)
- motif instills specific idea to readers
"Hassan held the slingshot pointed directly at Assef's face. His hand trembled with the strain of the pulled elastic band and beads of sweat had erupted on his brow."(pg 42) "His hand was cocked above his shoulder, holding the cup of the slingshot at the end od the elstic band which was pulled all the way back. Sohrab had the slingshot pointed at Assef's face." (pg290)
-symbolism gives deeper meaning to text and message
"It was only a smile, nothing more. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight."(371)
-breaking the fourth wall engage the reader and put them in exact situation characters are in
"You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. You want to scream. You would if you could. But you have to breathe to scream. Panic" (pg 121)
- diction sets better image of situation and mood
"'Successful,' Soraya hissed."(182)
- personification helps create sense of reality and feeling
"And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. I'd feel it rising from Soraya and settling between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child."(pg 189)

Characterization:
1. direct: "While Sanaubar's brilliant green eyes and impish face had, rumor has it, tempted countless men into sin, Ali had a congenital paralysis of his lower facial muscles that left him permanently grim-faced." "'Your boss could use some manners'... 'Poor Ray. He hasn't been the same since his daughter died.'"
indirect: "Midway though the speech the wind knocked his hat off and everyone laughed. He turned back to the microphone and said he hoped the building was sturdier than his hat, and everyone laughed again." " Baba and Rahim Khan built a wildly successful carpet-exporting business, two pharmacies, and a restaurant."
These are both examples of direct and indirect examples embedded as both within one. Each one gives a side of a character that is obvious and stated and known by all the other characters but if you think about what is actually being said there is a deeper meaning that enriches the text and depth of every character. Each character is enforced throughout the novel and Amir I think is the only character that truly changed, barely by the end. Most everyone were passionate characters that had strong personalities. 
2. No. The author is constant with his tone of voice. The narrator says things in  great detail and passion in thought. He always adds his opinion or thoughts at the end of explaining something to add the depth of character to the story. He tells in a "matter of fact" voice when explaining situations rather than people.  
"Baba slapped my hand away. 'Haven't I taught you anything?' he snapped. He turned to the grinning soldier." "Outside the walls of that house there was a war raging. But the three of us, in your fathers house, we made our own little haven from it."
3. The protagonist is round but static. Amir is a man that always refuted tradition and he continued to do so even in his adulthood and he was also still a coward and allowed others to dave himself. He was so focused on surviving that he forgot to live his life and love the people he as closest to. He betrayed those closet to him but he eventually forgave himself after he saw the change in Sohrab. 
4. I legit cried during this book. It is such a good and rich book that I felt like I lived the life of Amir and went through the whole experience as him. I felt for Hassan and Amir and Sohrab. I wanted everything to be happy in the end and be ok but it wasn't and that'd the difference between what society has made me and what real life is. I honestly am still sad and mad and happy and excited and nervous after reading the book and I read it 2 weeks ago so I think it did its job. 

Literary Fiction and Empathy

This article was interesting because it got me thinking about stereotypes of the ideal man or woman and how every pop fiction novel has them in it. In all the Disney movies there is this deprived, beautiful maiden who finds her true love and instantly gets married and lives happily ever after. What does that teach us? As a culture we are so inclined to focus on the perfect and ideal rather than what is actually real and I think that is why literary fiction is so influenctial. It teaches us about what is actually in life and the patterns of society rather than about the popular kid in school who didn't get what they wanted or the secretly pretty nerd who needs some popular guy to help her find herself. Life isn't apples and oranges and literary fiction dives into a deeper sense of the word "life" and how we as human beings act in it. Effectively using words is the best and worst thing that can happen. You can degrade someone with your words and push them to harm or you can compliment and nourish people with your words and influence them to shine. In novels there are no pictures that are drawn for people to make their own interpretation about, there are only words and letters on a page that have to get the same effect that a movie or picture does. Novels have no choice but to be influential and change perspectives and through extensive detail and relating to the audience, or not, novels stand out in this day and age and authors have to teach people about themselves rather than the people teaching themselves.

Hamlet Act I Scene I

- Horatio, Bernardo, Francisco, Marcellus,
- Guard watching the palace for unknown
- ghost comes and it is the old king which signifies a warning for some future event
- FInd out about the feud of Fortinbras of Norway and his revenge against Hamlet
- allusion to Julius Cesar and tone and diction changed in little excerpt
- want to tell young Hamlet of seeing father
- excerpts of exposition in Horatio's speech

Hamlet Act I Scene II

A little more than kin, and less than kind. 

- an aside and hamlet said this

- situational irony

- audience knows something characters don't doesn't

- hamlet doesn't like Claudius 

- hamlet doesn't show his feelings and savy decision maker. Knows what he wants

- blowing Claudia off

- grief is just on outside. Hamlet doesn't show on his face that he is grieving. Just tradition

- you can do grievance tradition but that doesn't mean you are unhappy. Yiu don't know me is what hamlet is trying to say. Calling people out but hamlet is actually going through something real rather than showing 

- Claudius just criticizes hamlet grievances. Making hamlet seem unfit for king and Claudius wants hamlet to stay close. Contradictory

- first monologue: mortified of his situation, wishes suicide wasn't sin, doesn't want to see or experience what's going on, directing anger at mom, just saying how much this sucks and wants to leave, points out what's sinful and what's not to make himself moral to audience 

- investigating when asking questions about dad ghost

- fact based questions. All about the details. Contradicts monologue tone which shows how matter of fact attitude and mental health. Hamlet is respectful guy. 

Hamlet Reaching Out

My plan is to talk to people in the community and get their ideas on Hamlet and how to tackle it or what they think about the play and how they studied it. I will ask teachers at Righetti, English or not, about their ideas on Hamlet and advice for me. I want to do it in person and this way by asking teachers of different subject matters and the same matter I can get different perspectives on the same subject from different biases.

Vocabulary #6

1. abase- verb, to humble or belittle; to lower or reduce in status
ex) Georgie Kind was abased by his boss, Stewart Bossy 
2. abdicate- verb, renounce power or title
ex) His boss was bitter because he had been previously abdicated from his thrown
3. abomination- noun, anything greatly disliked; intense loathing
ex) He was a really bad boss and was the only one that thought this was an abomination
4. brusque- adj, blunt or abrupt in manner
ex) He had a brusque countenance and unpleasant breath and would always spit when he talked
5. saboteur- noun, someone who undermines a cause; to injure or attack in such a manner
ex) Stewart Bossy thought that Georgie Kind was the saboteur who got him released
6. debauchery- noun, excessiveness in pleasure; seduction from duty
ex) He believed that Kind performed debauchery on the higher ranking female officials to get his way
7. proliferate- verb, to increase in number; grow rapidly
ex) This accusation proliferated many rumors about Kind and if he really was what his name insinuated
8. anachronism- noun, something out of place or in wrong time context
ex) The anachronism of the scene looked like it came out of a 1950s movie and it did not fit in with the atmosphere around it
9. nomenclature- noun, set of names for terms used in a specific community
ex) Bossy was using nomenclatures that weren't relevant to the situation at all and many people then began to think he was a little crazy
10. expurgate- verb, to cleanse of moral wrong doings
ex) He then began to expurgate as if he was in a church 
11. bellicose- adj, inclines or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; pugnacious; belligerent
ex) After this he contradicted himself with a bellicose attitude while rolling up his sleeves
12. gauche- adj, lacking social grace; awkward
ex) This was just a gauche situation and everyone was utterly confused as to what to do and what was happening
13. rapacious- adj, predatory; greedy
ex) Kind was not a rapacious guy and he went to give Bossy his sympathy
14. paradox- noun, statement that is contradictory
ex) Kind standing and trying to help Bossy was a paradoxical moment because Bossy had just been trashing Kind and the calm in Kind's face was opposite the chaos in Bossy
15. conundrum- noun, anything that is puzzling
ex) Since this was a conundrum, many people pulled out their phones to get other perspectives on it and this became a viral hit
16. anomaly- noun, deviation from the normal; incongruent; peculiar
ex) It was so popular because it was an anomaly that no one had seen before 
17. ephemeral- adj, lasting a short time
ex) This fame that Kind and Bossy received was ephemeral though because another video was made that as bigger and better than theirs
18. rancorous- adj, bitter; malice; hatred
ex) Kind was content for the experience but the rancorous Bossy couldn't take defeat
19. churlish- adj, rude; difficult to work with
ex) Bossy wanted more but his churlish social skills helped him not get another job
20. precipitous- adj, extremely steep; situation of great peril
ex) Bossy's precipitous situation needed to be solved fast before he ran out of money; Kind offered him a home and they became friends finally. 

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B) Canterbury Tales Remix

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a tale told by many point of views. It shows the complex ideas of human nature and its tendency to be ironic and counteract the social "norms" that have been ingrained in society's manners. Through direct juxtaposition, Chaucer simultaneously creates a sense of unity through the common theme of differences that is apparent in all the tales told; everyone has flaws and that is the unifying trait.

We create something for out own use by destroying it and then we try to go back and save it. We use, abuse, apologize, and cycle back again. The irony is that we are trying to find something new but the essence of human nature is to recycle back around to what we had before.

Friendship and love is ironic. Humans search their whole lives to find that other person that they can share everything with, but when you find them you hide yourself even more. Your heart turns into a tear drop because you need sadness to know what happiness is and seen in the Canterbury Tales. All the tales revolve around some kind of sad irony and although humorous, they point to the reality of how things were; life was the opposite of what is expected of it.



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In the Canterbury Tales point of view is crucial in the "countenance" of the story. The story is told from only the narrator and how he perceives the others, but readers do not get how the readers perceive themselves or how other characters perceive each other. Readers have to trust the narrator and yet again that is the ironic part of human nature; we are expected to trust someone that we do not know and so we ask questions.

Throughout the prologue the characters were described in both direct and indirect characterization. The wealthier characters who were towards the top of the social pyramid were described more of what they were wearing because that is all they were in that time. The wealthy were just objects of admiration and money whereas the poorer citizens were considered for their character. The lower class was described with more of their profession and character rather than what they wore. Throughout the tales told more depth to the characters are shown and the irony that royals have personality that doesn't match their nice clothing and the lower class was more heavily weighed on their outer appearance that was a direct reflection of who they were which was the opposite of what was intended.

Okay, we are different it's true.
And I don't like to do all the things that you do.
But here's one thing to think through,
You're a lot like me and I'm a lot like you!
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

The moral is that all the classes are the same. They all have their flaws, shown through the technique of irony, and these flaws create the same person. All the characteristics of the different classes of people in the tales all can coalesce into one human being who is both moral and immoral, excessive and limited, licentious and probity. Life in Chaucer's time was black and white but Chaucer was trying to say that human nature is contradiction but that is in all of us and that is what brings us together no matter what title. 

Transmedia Canterbury Tales Style

The arrogant attitude is the one that can really get under your skin.  You see this attitude when kids say, Mom, you’re dumb.  Or, Dad, you can’t understand.  Man, makes your blood boil, doesn’t it?  But this cocky attitude is a sign of insecurity, a sense that a teen is not measuring up so they have to put on a false bravado to mask it.

We invited Melody Rhode to address this specific area of arrogance on this weekend’s Parenting Today’s Teensbroadcast.  As an expert in the field of counseling, she offers advice about dealing with overconfidence in our children.  I hope you’ll listen in as Melody explains the psychology of attitudes and how teens change their emotional state as a way of coping with their changing world.

If you’re living with a child in need of daily attitude adjustments, you are not alone!  It is difficult (and even maddening at times), but with God’s grace you can get through it.  We shouldn’t excuse a teen’s behavior or coddle their bad attitudes.  Instead, the most important thing to teach your teen is that they can choose their attitude.  They don’t have to be controlled by their emotions.  They have the power to think correctly and adjust their attitude.

And that’s a powerful lesson for us all.

Change is a challengeChange is a fear
Change is the change of mind
Change is a change of attitude
Change is a change of way of life
Change is the change of recognized
Change is the change of mysterious
Change is the change to solitude
Change is the change to perfection
Change is the change to unknown ethics
Change is the change to supremacy
Change is the change to divinity
A change to know the real self


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Apprentice - a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer; to learn Arrogant

- characterized by or proceeding from arrogance, ora sense of superiority, self-importance, orentitlement

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Indian Society presents many ironical situations

                                          

Ironic Innerconnection

I wish I could include something that was universal and that everyone would understand that would tie in my essay together. These ideas are so vague and a reader as to read in between the lines to find the overall message just like the readers in Canterbury Tales has to. I wish I could ass something humorous to this piece or add something that would make this whole essay the theme what I wrote about; make an ironic unified essay.