We'll go no more a-roving by George Gordon bryon

Will stop going out at night even though it was made for having fun and seeing the light if the moon and it's beauty. All these abstract things limit is and keep us back from want we want to be doing but we need our bodies to rest so we can do the things we love with our best effort. Even though the night was made for adventures and having fun you need to rest and won't go out. Simple diction and short sentences with medium length sentences. Metaphor to sword and sheath? Second stanza is giving examples as to why we need to rest our bodies and tied to the theme of having limits that stop us from what we want to do. Shift at "yet" in second to last lie that reiterates the idea if stopping which congrats with the lines above that explain the reason why we should go out and adventure in night. 

Life by Charlotte Brontë

This poem reminds me a lot of Hope by Dickinson because it talks I the forgiving nature of things. It resembles the Shakespearean sober we read in class because it also congrats the good with the bad but with the over arching theme that those bad make the good. The diction is informal and it reads as if you are talking to someone describing a day they had or just a self revelation. The syntac is shirt sentences with single worded sentences to express action or a feeling/expression. It's telling readers to be grateful for what they have and to not take advantage of the time they spend and to forget about what the present bad brings. But focus in what the future brings. Poem has a shift at "yet" that transitions the poem from the contradictory things of life to the personified triumphant spirit of hope and life that reiterates the theme of encouragement. 

Shakespeare sonnet notes

14 lines in sonnet

- Petrarchan: classical, before Shakespeare, shift after 8 lines, 

- couplet at end. Two lines at end that have change in tone =Shakespearean poem

- shift, 

- look at tone 

- support text with whatever tone you choose 

- Shakespeare realist 

- make fun of love poems and deeper meaning when insult because the truth 

- indirect characterization and narrator for tone questions 

- attitude questions 

- figurative language things that make things more relatable to reader 

- ask about language use diction and syntax 

- style: diction, syntax, figurative language, 

- differentiates : compare and contrast 

- title paraphrase connotation/diction attitude tone shift theme 

- intending on us to be moved authors diction is simple 

- yet however nevertheless but are shifters 

- experience from hope and last part is hope experience from other people And establish as a relationship 

- relate shift to theme of poem 

- see not just abstract idea, characterize as relationship and solid 

Act 5 study questions

5.1 

1. Gentlewomen has seen lady Macbeth sleepwalk. She doesn't want to lie and wants the speech to be justified so the engle woman doesn't get in trouble for saying something wrong that lady Macbeth didn't say.

2. Lady Macbeth reveals her guilty actions of murders she has done. Subconscious will let out the guilt she feels when she cannot let it out consciously. He thinks he knows what she has done but he will not speak of it because it is based in assumption. 

Act 4 Study Questions

4.2

1.  There are 3 witches in this scene.

2.  The first apparition says to be wary of Macduff and careful of him.  The second tells Macbeth he should be a strong willed ruler- bold and brace.  In other words he should not accept defeat.  The third warns of attacking armies coming, and tells Macbeth he won't be defeated until the kingdom of Norway attacks.
     Macbeth doesn't feel safe after the apparitions.  He has worries about Macduff's intentions and the possibility of an oncoming attacking army.  Yes he should feel unsafe because he is in a very precarious position.
     After the fourth, the line of kings, Macbeth is terrified.  He saw the ghost of Banquo at the end, whom he killed.  This frightened him as well as drawing out his guilt.

3.  In line 158 Macbeth learns from Lennox that Macduff is running away to England.  In response Macbeth decides to send someone try to kill as many of Macduff's family members as he can.

4.2

1) Lady McDuff seems to feel betrayed and angry at McDuff because he left them (her and her son) to die. She was advising her son to dislike his father because he fled when he discovered that Macbeth is planning to kill him.
2) The purpose of the scene between Lady McDuff and her son is to have his son have false impression about his dad. Also, the scene assists in the growth of the theme : fair is foul and foul is fair. This is because Macbeth is willing to kill McDuff in order to achieve what is"rightfully" his and McDuff fled, afraid of Macbeth's actions towards him. It also shows how McDuff's son refused to believe that his father left them to die, showing devotion, faith, and trust.
3) The entire McDuff family ends up being killed by Macbeth.

4.3

1. Macduff's family has been killed. 

2. Malcolm doesn't want to go home because he's afraid of judgement since he ran away. Malcolm is suspicious of Macduff bc Macduff has his own personal agenda. He might be secretly working for Macbeth since he left his family. Malcolm tests Macduff's loyalty to him and he passes. When Macduff starts to leave Malcolm takes back the lies he's told and trusts Macduff now- they're now allies. 

3. Malcolm says he's a bad king but Macduff says Macbeth is a way worse king and that he needs to return to restore peace and justice. Avarice bothers Macduff more in a king, it sticks deeper with kings in the terms of greed and lust. 

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5 coming soon...

6. Ross tells Macduff that his family is dead, it takes him a while to tell him. Macduff says they must save their grief for later and Malcom says to turn their revenge into a medicine for their grief. Macduff says "he has no children" and he is referring to Malcom because he says he needs to mourn and "feel like a man" when Malcom tells him to dispute it like a man. To be a "man" in this play means to have feelings and don't hide but don't let them cloud your judgement.
7. Malcom, Macduff and Ross are ready to attack Macbeth's castle, they just need to go there.

Macbeth as King

Macbeth will be a greedy, selfish, and fearful and yet fearless leader because of his past actions of through indirect characteriation. Malcolm and Macduff talk of Macbeth and say how they are afraid to return because they think their wrong doings will make Macbeth look better than he is which shows the power of macbeth's persona. But when Ross comes and talks to them he says that Scotland is in rubbles and they need a true king who is not greedy or self minded to rule the kingdom which suggests that Macbeth is ruling poorly. As Ross continues to speak he hints at Macbeth's ruthlessness through his actions of slaughtering Macduff's family. Also, Macbeth will be too willing to please those around him and give in to persuasion as seen with his constant caving to Lady Macbeth and her conniving ways which is bad for the people because she has her own self interests of power in mind rather than the good for the people.

Macbeth act 4

- thunder with witches again

- witches out important body parts of animals in spell

- "a deed without a name"

- what does Macbeth want to know from the witches? Something about how even though things go bad they go good? Wants to know future?

- first apparition is head and warn Macbeth of thane of fife

- second is a bloody child who says no one can hurt Macbeth

- third is child crowned who says Macbeth won't be challenged and should be strong until great birnam comes

- Macbeth wants to know if banquo sins will ever rule

- 8 ghosts of banquo appear

- Macbeth starting to show cracks in sanity and ask Lennox if saw the witches and be says no so Macbeth questioning events 

- lady says Macduff driven by fear to run

- lady tells son father is dead and son is accepting 

- says that those who lie and sweat are treason and should be hanged by honest men 

- son dies 

- since Malcolm did bad makes Macbeth seem good even though he is bad

- Malcolm fearful of returning home 

- rumor that Macbeth killed macduffs family and Malcolm says use this to yiur advantage and let's get back at Macbeth 

If Macbeth was Good

If Macbeth did good things in life and actually earned his title and things he strived for then there wouldn't be a sense of questioning and struggle between good and bad. The readers feel for Macbeth and his tortured soul because we have all been down the path of choosing between what we want to do and taking the easy way to get it and the route of working hard. It is such a relatable subject matter, not the killing, but the idea of questioning yourself and what you really want and what you are willing to do to get it. The plot would revolve around Macbeth and him being this good guy who does the right things all the time and he would always triumph over the bad because that's how life works but really thats boring and not a tragedy. Macbeth wouldn't have died in the end from his bad deeds and no killing or action would have happened and everyone would have lived happily ever after and that wouldn't have been a historical play to last to where we are now. If he earned his title than there wouldn't be paranoia to take it away and justice would not have ever been served.

Macbeth act 3 reading notes

- Macbeth king and banquo saying prophecy right

- Macbeth trying to woe banquo by saying most valuable guest

- Macbeth fear banquo and his knowledge and good heart

- Macbeth order to kill banquo and son

- Macbeth paranoid from the murder and thinks people know it was him

- why does he go to wife for consoling and show his paranoid self and show weakness? 

- banquo dead but son escapes

- foreshadow that since son ran away he will come back and reveal Macbeth to everyone or attempted murder and increase macbeths paranoia 

- ghost of banquo shows up and this represents macbeths guilt 

- ghost increases macbeths craziness and Macbeth shows his distraught to his party members 

- Macbeth looks insane and this shows his evolution and change from confident man in eye if public to an individual who talks to nothing and hysterical

- thunder signify witches and dark magic?

- Macbeth done bad and not followed project right? 

- people starting to turn on Macbeth and think of him as bad and not deserving 

Act 2 Study Questions

Act 2

2.1

1.The opening gives a sense of forboding, things are not as they should be. The discussion serves to have Banquo acknowledge the weird sisters rather than claim they are a hallucination.
2. Macbeth is extremely stressed about having to Duncan and he is attempting to talk himself into committing the deed. He talks about it as if he is in a haze, a dream and he continues by making it a reality and committing the deed.

2.2

Coming soon...

2.3

2.3 1) The porter, in the third scene of act ii, is drunk and is pretending to be the Porter of the gate to hell. In the play, Macbeth has the trait of equivocation, where he manipulates his listener by circumlocution and the expectations of the other person without actually committing. For example, he does this when Lady Macbeth asks him to kill King Duncan.
2) The thematic function of Lennox describing the night as unruly was because that night was when King Duncan was killed by Macbeth. It was "unruly" not only for King Duncan but also for Macbeth because the guilt and fear of getting caught will always make him say and do things that might be suspicious, dark, and unruly. The scene is necessary to show Macbeth's transformation from the character before the murder vs. the character after the murder. This also connects back to what the witches had said earlier in the play: Fair is foul and foul is fair.
3) Macduff reports that the king has been murdered. Lady Macbeth appears to be horrified that this act could take place on his household. Macbeth is in encaged and kills the chamberlains. Malcolm and Donalbain decide to flee Malcolm and will go to England and Donalbain will go to Ireland. They're fleeing because they fear they will be murdered.

2.4

1. The function of the dialogue between Old Man and Ross is to discuss the strange happenings that have been occurring such as how an owl killed a falcon, the horses went wild and are one another, and several other things.  This wicked behavior symbolizes and foreshadows the promotion of Macbeth to the thrown. 

2. Macduff tells us from the castle that Macbeth has been made king by his fellow lords and that he will travel to Scone to receive the promotion and get crowned. He tells us that Malcolm and Donalbain are suspected of the murder of Duncan. They are suspected because they fled the scene. 

Macbeth character map

Macbeth – Lady Macbeth's husband and a Scottish nobleman, the Thane of Glamis. He is made Thane of Cawdor for his bravery in battle, and becomes King of Scotland by murdering the previous King, Duncan. As Macbeth opens, Macbeth is one of the great noblemen in Scotland: valiant, loyal, and honorable. He's also ambitious, and while this ambition helps to make him the great lord he is, once he hears the weird sisters' prophecy Macbeth becomes so consumed by his desire for power that he becomes a tyrannical and violent monster who ultimately destroys himself. What's perhaps most interesting about Macbeth is that he senses the murder will lead to his own destruction even before he murders Duncan, yet his ambition is so great that he still goes through with it.

Lady Macbeth – Macbeth's wife. Unlike her husband, she has no reservations about murdering Duncan in order to make Macbeth King of Scotland. She believes that a true man takes what he wants, and whenever Macbeth objects to murdering Duncan on moral grounds, she questions his courage. Lady Macbeth assumes that she'll be able to murder Duncan and then quickly forget it once she's Queen of Scotland. But she discovers that guilt is not so easily avoided, and falls into madness and despair.

Banquo – A Scottish nobleman, general, and friend of Macbeth. He is also the father ofFleance. The weird sisters prophesies that while Banquo will never be King of Scotland, his descendants will one day sit on the throne. Banquo is as ambitious as Macbeth, but unlike Macbeth he resists putting his selfish ambition above his honor or the good of Scotland. Because he both knows the prophecy and is honorable, Banquo is both a threat to Macbeth and a living example of the noble path that Macbeth chose not to take. After Macbeth has Banquo murdered he is haunted by Banquo's ghost, which symbolizes Macbeth's terrible guilt at what he has become.

Macduff – A Scottish nobleman, and the Thane of Fife. His wife is Lady Macduff, and the two have babies and a young son. Macduff offers a contrast to Macbeth: a Scottish lord who, far from being ambitious, puts the welfare of Scotland even ahead of the welfare of his own family. Macduff suspects Macbeth from the beginning, and becomes one of the leaders of the rebellion. After Macbeth has Macduff's family murdered, Macduff's desire for vengeance becomes more personal and powerful.

King Duncan – The King of Scotland, and the father of Malcolm and Donalbain.Macbeth murders him to get the crown. Duncan is the model of a good, virtuous king who puts the welfare of the country above his own and seeks, like a gardener, to nurture and grow the kingdom that is his responsibility. Duncan is the living embodiment of the political and social order that Macbeth destroys.

Malcolm – The older of King Duncan's two sons, and Duncan's designated heir to the throne of Scotland. Early in the play, Malcolm is a weak and inexperienced leader, and he actually flees Scotland in fear after his father is murdered. But Malcolm matures, and with the help of Macduff and an English army, Malcolm eventually overthrows Macbethand retakes the throne, restoring the order that was destroyed when Duncan was murdered.

Weird Sisters – Three witches, whose prophecy helps push Macbeth's ambition over the edge, and convinces him to murder Duncan in order to become King. The witches' knowledge of future events clearly indicates that they have supernatural powers, and they also clearly enjoy using those powers to cause havoc and mayhem among mankind. But it is important to realize that the witches never compel anyone to do anything. Instead, they tell half-truths to lure men into giving into their own dark desires. It's left vague in Macbeth whether Macbeth would have become King of Scotland if he just sat back and did nothing. This vagueness seems to suggest that while the broad outlines of a person's fate might be predetermined, how the fate plays out is up to him.

Fleance – Banquo's teenage son. Macbeth sees him as a threat because of the weird sisters' prophecy that Banquo's descendants will one day rule Scotland.

Lady Macduff – The wife of Macduff and the mother of Macduff's children (and the only female character of note in the play besides Lady Macbeth). She questions her husband's decision to leave his family behind when he goes to England to help Malcolmsave Scotland from Macbeth.

Lennox – A Scottish nobleman.

Ross – A Scottish nobleman.

Angus – A Scottish nobleman.

Donalbain – King Duncan's younger son and Malcolm's brother.

Hecate – The goddess of witchcraft.

http://www.litcharts.com/lit/macbeth/characters

What about my masterpiece

IM DONE! I just ned to work on how I'm going to present everything and how I want to explain my experience to the class and Imanie said she would help me with it so I am in good standings.

Love is Blind

The audience sees Lady Mac to be this snake and evil conniving witch who is in disguise. She is manipulative and selfish and doesn't care about others. They see her as mean and heartless and power hungry whereas Macbeth sees her as powerful and driven. He wants to impress her and in some way looks up to her because of the fact that he thinks she has his best interest in mind which she doesn't. Mac is a lost puppy and found a home, whether it be right or not, and he is weirdly comfortable in it and doesn't want to change.

Macbeth Study Questions

I-1

1) Beginning the play with a dialogue between the witches sets the mood to be dark, evil, and mysterious. This foreshadows the plot, theme, and mood for the future of the story in the same manner. In comparison of Shakespeare's other plays, Macbeth requires more ambiguity and the syntax and diction used needs to be more bleak. For example, Hamlet highlighted the themes of betrayal and complexity of relationships and power. Even though, the theme falls in the same ballpark with Macbeth, the gloominess of the plot of Macbeth overpowers that of Hamlet. In the beginning of the play, the witches were going to meet Macbeth at the "ere of sunset." Line 10 was "Paddock calls" and line 11 was "Anon." The phrase paddock class means a toad, which symbolizes transformation. The word anon means soon or shortly. The "toad" and it's transformation could metaphorically be compared to Macbeth and his evolving and transforming to be a completely different person or even having a transformation in his status and power. The witch's response as anon signifies how Macbeth will shortly have a transformation - to be declared a thane. 

I-2

1. The bloody seargent indirectly characterizes Macbeth by glorifying his actions towards Macdonwald. Macdonwald is a rebel who was executed. He tried to attack them. Macbeth executed macdonwald with his sword. This did not end the fight with the rebels, the Norwegians are still attacking.
2. The traitor was the Thane of Cawdor, as we learn from Ross. Duncan says that its a relief the thane of cawdor was executed and that Macbeth now owns his previous title.

I-3

1. The witches speech gives a first look at Macbeth and his wife without saying who they are. Indirect characterization of the two. Similar to Hamlet where he gives a mini synopsis early in the story. "Weird" in Shakespeare's day meant future seers not weird as we know it, prophecy and destiny. Shakespeare means that Macbeth's wife has him by the balls. They  cast a spell to control his destiny.
2. Macbeth says something very similar to what the witches said at the beginning of the play. This could be him falling into the destiny the witches set up. Dried, chapped fingers, gender ambiguity, hairy, old, they have literal beards. The witches tell Macbeth that he will thane of Candor and eventually King, right then he finds out he is thane of Cawdor. Banquo asked the witch why they had nothing for him, they told him he is lesser but greater than Macbeth. We knew he was thane before he was thane.
3. Banquo says the witches were a figment of their imagination that they lie or that they are hallucinating. Macbeth learns that he is thane of Cawdor from Ross and Angus. During lines 114-156 he was going over his plan in his head and how everything had just happened to him. He acts very happy and shows no incredulity at being thane. Macbeth's aside shows him rationalizing what happened to him and he begins to think that he is going to be King soon. Macbeth tells Banquo that he is happy and excited and nothing more he explains his behavior by saying he is confused.

I-4

1.Cawdor was executed after openly confessing his treason and pleading for mercy. Malcolm tried to stick up for the thane, but the king responds by basically saying that you can't trust a man according to his face. He doesn't believe the thane was truly repentant.

2.The king greets them by saying that he can never repay them enough for their good deeds, but announces he will leave all his estate and names his son, Malcolm, prince of Cumberland. He then proposes that they go to Macbeth's castle at Inverness. Macbeth tells himself that the only way to be king is to get rid of Malcolm, and even though he'll be appalled at his action, he must do it.

I-5

1. Macbeth was honest with his wife when he informs her of his new title as "Thane of Cawdor." He refers to the witches as "weird sisters" probably because he doesn't want her know that he is associated with the "evil servants."

Lady Macbeth responds by saying that she thinks Macbeth is playng things off as if everything is fine. By saying "but be the serpent under't", she describes him as someone that lies to make everything appear under control. This doesn't really match the characterization of Macbeth so far in the story which implies that there is something the audience doesn't know about him. 

2. The wife was confident about the guests visit. She also seemed prepared and a little cocky about the way her and her husband would handle it.

3. Lady Macbeth. Yes she wants to kill Duncan. No, he isn't sure whether he wants to follow through with Lady Macbeths orders or not. She tells him not to let Duncan see tomorrow. 

4. The question appears to answer itself. 

I-6

1. The opening speeches (1.6.1-10) describe how the surroundings of the castle are "pleasant" and the air is sweet-maybe even too sweet. From the outside, the castle appears to be paradise.
Lady Macbeth's welcome is formal. Her language is totally different from her language in the previous scene which shows how fake and dishonest her welcome was.

I-7

1. "If it were done when 'tis done then 'twere well." If it were done when it was done it was done well. (Meaning if he completed the death quickly and efficiently and with no complications then he did the job well.) Macbeth is determined to kill the king and be done with him but in lines 1-12 he is fearful of how the "inventor" will judge his actions. He's violating the hospitality of his kinship and responsibilities as a host towards his guest by trying to kill his guest instead of protecting them. The motivation that Macbeth attributes to himself in lines 25-28 is the attribute of an Arabic heaven-like God. He will be seen as a "God" and that is his source of motivation to get the job done. 

2. In lines 28-30 she is complaining about him leaving the chamber because it was  almost time for dinner. Macbeth responds to her complaining by saying did he ask for me? And lady Macbeth says don't you know he did? The positions are lady Macbeth is ready for the King to be killed while Macbeth is still hesitant and on the fence about it. Macbeth convinced Lady Macbeth by explaining that he is an respected person and doesn't want to lose his honor while Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth by convincing him to gain the power and kill the king. The stronger person in the scene is Lady Macbeth because  she's more verbally confident in her argument while convincing Macbeth to kill the King. 

My Macbeth Resources

http://www.classicstage.org/downloads/macbeth_studyguide.pdf
- this has references to a play and historical background but it still has good info on summarization and visual images
http://www4.nac-cna.ca/pdf/eth/0708/macbeth_guide.pdf
- again a play prewrite bit good info on character list and analysis and summary
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth/macbethresources.html
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbeth/sketchofmacbeth.html
- this specifically focuses on progression of Macbeth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYbLL6ccaIw (the video is below)

Meet Macbeth

Macbeth is introduced from the witches and they mention him as a strong individual who is brave. This connotates that Macbeth is a man who will do anything and usually bravery is tied to heroism and has positive connotations so from this interpretation readers get a sense that Macbeth is someone who will do what is not popular but what id right. When he is introduced into the story he seems power hungry and clueless because he doesn't know that he is thane of cawdor but he is respectful because he realizes that the previous thane had the thrown and he questions why he should be given it and not Banquo, but Macbeth accepts it. The witches foreshadow that Macbeth will be great and Banquo shows his jealousy of having to attention. This foreshadows that Banquo will always be in the backlight and Macbeth will always surpass him. Shakespeare starts every scene with a setting and it allows the reader to picture where the act is taking place and the context of he words said. He uses the language and magic of the witches to hint at what they think is to come and their attitudes towards the different characters and even the attitudes of the characters toward the witches. Shakespeare uses indirect characterization to foreshadow and lay out the plot of the play without explicitly saying anything. Chaos and not organized with one description of him. Macbeth is seen as brave and strong but naive in a sense and power hungry. Shakespeare's tone is authoritative and pretentious. Macbeth seems like the individual who is better than everyone else and throughout the play that will get him in trouble because he wants to be the top dog.

Masterpiece Complete!

So this past Mon, Tues, and Wed Sierra, Judith, and I completed our masterpieces! Well I completed mine at least. We went to the Boys and Girls Club and put on a three day event where we played with the kids and it was really fun so the next step for me is to start to put together a presentation for the class.

This is one photo from Monday when we played sports with some of the kids.

"There's a Funeral in my Brain"

This prompt relates to my poem because it was based from a poem Emily Dickinson wrote and she has similar writing styles in most of her poems so I think this would relate to any poem she would have written.

Self-pity can be mistaken for depression or sorrow. The subtle difference between the three is who the speaker is. Self-pity is how an individual feel about themselves and depression and sorrow are how an individual feels about a subject. In Emily Dickinson’s poem “There’s a Funeral in my Brain,” Dickinson portrays self-pity in a light that is first hopeful then indifferent.

The attitude of the author is accepting because she knows she is tired and fed up with life and she acknowledges that it is her time to leave because she has done all that she can in this world. She has hope but she lost it. She was regretful. She literally was depressed she thought she was just done with life and everything and she missed out because she stood out. She felt the weight of all those who bring her down and it made her think of reality and how short life is. We get pounded with all this information constantly like the beating of a drum and it's hard to retain all of it and even care about it and at some point we reach our breaking point which is why she went numb. She didn't care. She can only absorb involuntarily the actions around her and she feels alone. Her sanity broke and she fell to her death and stopped caring. "Plank in reason," a plank is thin board above water and when you fall you die. So her plank was the slim truth and reason she had in like and when her reason wasn't valid anymore she fell. "Heavens a bell and I but an ear," she was made to hear the things she Donets want to hear. She is made to go to heaven and was inevitably going to go there. Ears can't not hear, it was an involuntarily action. The word wrecked has connotations of a mistake or something not meant to happen. She didn't mean or plan to be alone or an outsider, it just happened. The authors attitude shifts in the last stanza when she describes falling off her plank because before that it was more optimistic like she had a chance but was just sad. The poem mentions something broken and in the beginning if the poem it was talking about her potential or the things that made her. The shift was from no action to action. 

“I felt a Funeral in my Brain” is a poem that portrays the self-pity of both optimism and pessimism. Dickinson showed the raw emotion of being an outsider and she felt the pain of being something that didn’t work.  She became just something in the wind and was indifferent when she woke up from her reality. This was a poem about someone who was but never became. 

Young Goodman Brown

Waking up from a nightmare creates vivid images that instill real fear. It is hard to decipher reality from what was imagined and the actions that follow are a result of those fictitious images. The ideas create reality. In “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne portrays a man who is questioning what he sees in front of him. The notions created in his mind tricked his actions to betray himself and those around him. Goodman’s reality was his nightmare and his inward questioning led to his outward conformity and resulted in his self-destruction.

Young Goodman Brown was a naïve individual who had a comfortable life. He lived in an ironic town of Salem. He was someone who was religious and believed in the good heartedness of the people in his village and yet he lived in the village of the Salem witch trails. His wife was the symbol of youth and happiness with her pink ribbon. Her ribbon was the essence of her purity and complemented Brown’s persona.  She is good and has not been touched by the evil she believes lives in loneliness. Brown had a life that was contradictory to his rich town and this leads to the reader foreshadowing the future events. Young Goodman Brown was young, pure, and good intentioned as influenced by his conformity to his nurtured life

Young Goodman Brown began to question his life as he dived further into the darkness of his mind. The old man was the inception of the idea that Young Goodman Brown wasn’t whom he saw himself and his life as. Goodman saw those around him as pure, but as the Old Man and Goody Cloyse began to show him the other side of human nature. He saw the evil and secrets of those around him and felt the paranoia of his comfortable life. The woods that Goodman enters symbolize his twisted and confusing life and it changes the plot of the story of one that was known to something that was not. The woods are where all the inward questioning occurs. Goodman is forced to witness his reality slipping away. The ritual he witnesses is his pure soul vanishing before his eyes as seen with the loss of the pink ribbon from Faith’s hair. “ My Faith is gone,” this metaphor is representative of the loss of his old life. Young Goodman Brown was fed evil but the Old Man and he took the bait and caved to become what the society around him was.

Once Young Goodman Brown was introduced to the reality of his own mind, he let his constant paranoia and questioning of those around him change who he was. His nightmare became his life and he truly lost his faith. He became too involved in himself and became selfish and showed the evil side to himself. He saw the true nature of the town and people around him and this truth was too much for him to handle. He was not a strong individual and couldn’t handle what he was shown. Young Goodman Brown died like the men and women he was surrounded by.

Young Goodman Brown was a man who’s questioning of those around him led to his ultimate outward changing to the ideas he believed in his head. His story is a metaphor for the inevitable influence that the environment has on individuals. We can try so hard to stand out and be our own person but the power that we have on ourselves to believe what we tell ourselves is greater than how hard we try to make sense of everything. Young Goodman Brown changed himself from the truth he felt he saw and nothing could tell him otherwise which led to his ending.

Masterpiece: day 1

So yesterday Judith Sierra and I completed our first day of our masterpiece at the boys and girls club. We have two more days left and I am excited to see what the kids bring us today! 

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