Macbeth Soliloquy

Macbeth Character Map

http://www.anoisewithin.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2014/01/ANW_Macbeth_Character_Map.pdf

I really liked this character map and it isn't too hard to understand or as confusing as other ones that I found

What about My Masterpiece?

I realized how I wanted to change my masterpiece, it still would have to do with dance, but I feel now it's going to be more focused towards what I possibly want to pursue in life. I'm really excited about it right now, but what I'm hoping on doing is a workshop for kids on the beginnings steps of ballet folklorico. I would be kind of like a 2 day boot camp and I'm hoping on reaching out to not only our schools but other schools and hopefully have other students participate as teachers and with more volunteers we would hopefully get more kids to come from all over Santa Maria. Currently I'm trying to fix times, I feel that right now I need to focus on publicizing it, while also making some phone calls and seeing who might be interested in teaching kids some new dance moves that will hopefully inspiring them to learn more about their culture.

Love is Blind

Macbeth starts off blind for the love of his wife he doesn't see all her flaws like the audience but that's because they don't feel anything special for her. Macbeth seeks to impress her and not be looked down on as a coward by his wife. Everybody seems to look at him differently than his wife which I think just makes his wife's views wrong because she is the only one thinks badly of him and its not because she knows him in a different way but its because she has different morals than him. 

Meet Macbeth

1. Macbeth was  introduced through indirect characterization by this quote, " for brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name-- disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, which smoked with bloody execution."
2. "Fair is foul and foul is fair"- the quote sets the story in a dark and evil mood and foreshadows something bad to happen
3. Shakespeare gives hints through exposition of who the the characters are, he uses indirect characterization to give an idea of how to expect a character. Along with that idea that Macbeth will have a rise to power.
4. In the beginning Macbeth was praised by those around him so we get this idea of how our protagonist is going to be, yet with lady Macbeth  always seems to be downcasting. Shift in power and maybe some disappointment because Macbeth doesn't protect himself from last Macbeth.
5. I feel that a theme that will be carried out throughout the story will be the struggle for power, and not only am I referring to Macbeth becoming king, but also with the relationship between lady Macbeth and Macbeth.

Macbeth resources

• http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/macbeth/
• http://www.webenglishteacher.com/macbeth.html
• http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/macbeth-play/
• http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/macbeth/
• http://thisismacbeth.com/bm.assets/PDF/ThisIsMacbeth_LessonPlans.pdf

Young Goodman Brown Essay

Goodman was deceived by the appearances of those around him and even though I am saying this he wasn't the only one, it took me a while to realize what was going on and to this point I'm still not sure if I read/interpreted the story well enough. Yet the story brought out a really good point; which is that all humans have a dark side to themselves and although we try to prevent that side from making an appearance it causes problems and even destruction within us or to those we love. I feel that everyone tries to accommodate or at least make themselves seem really good or at least present themselves as best as they could, so would it mean “that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.” Personally I have asked myself if that dark side of myself is truly me and even though I don't want to admit it, it is a part of me that I still try to improve on it but it's only an extension of who I am, they're my imperfections.

We have a tendency to put those that we admire or believe to be amazing on pedestals we always compare ourselves to one another and become blind to what can be right in front of us. I felt that Goodman Brown had too high of regard for these people that the shock of seeing them do such evil turned his whole world around and practically made him question everything in his world. Even waking up the next morning and not knowing if it were a dream or not brought him into further madness. Probably because while he tried to put together his thoughts he realized or at least believed that he was the one to sin for after that night he was "a stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man."

He was unsure on how to react after that because he felt his community was lieing to him about who they were, it's practically like waking up one day and realizing that your family isn't your family. Everything was different form then on and he no longer seemed to trust, "they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom."

Jiro & Mr.G

Mr. Gabaldon like Jiro are two really successful men that have completely emerged themselves in their work in order to create something great. Through all the years they have worked they always seek improvement in their work because they are so passionate in what they do. Yes, they can be hard at times on their employees, sons, and students, but only because they hope to push people to a point where they are passionate about their work/performance as they are. They are very dedicated to what they do and even when they have days off all they do is think of work or ways of improving it. Mr.G along with Jiro have passed on their legacy to their children in order to continue it and fill the hole that they will be leaving. I was lucky enough to work with both Mr. G and his son Senor G and I’m glad to say that they have done very well in what they do; they have inspired me to go on and do something similar; I want to be as passionate about my work as they are.

Spring Break Poem

I choose the poem by Maya Angelou, "Woman Work", and I decided that it would go well with the 1971 prompt that reads- " In a brief essay, identify at least two of the implications implicit in the society reflected in the poem. Support your statements by specific references to the

poem." 

Angelou seems to be wanting to bring attention to a large group of people that have been over looked and not appreciated for the work they have done; yes and staying at home and taking care of everything in the house is a job and can also be an extension if you have another on the side. Angelou captivated my attention just by her title as I read I saw how passionate she was to make others realize that women don't have it easy. " I've got the children to tend"- Angelou, in that part of her poem she was specific to say "I've", meaning that she has to take care of the children, because she has no other choice. It is always assumed that the women have to stay home and take care of the children, and be the care givers. I'm not saying that we don't love or children but why is it expected of us to always tend to the children. I am also not close minded enough to say that no man takes care of his child because that is not true either. We have grown up thinking that certain jobs are for males and others for females. My teacher once gave me a riddle and the answer was that the doctor was the mom but it took us a while to figure out that the doctor wasn't a male. If I were to read a portion of Angulou's poem for example, "The floor to mop, the food to shop" we would most likely assume that the person speaking was a women. Angelou not only brought into attention that women DO work, but also, what society thinks a woman's role should be within the household. 

Literary Analysis #1 for 2nd semester Great Expectations

1. Pip  was orphaned at a very young age and had to live with his sister and her husband. One day after he goes to visit his parents an criminal surprises him and make Pip steal from the house food and a file. Eventually the convict is captured but doesn't rat out Pip. Afterwards Pip is taken to Miss Havisham's house by his uncle Pumblechook and he meets a girl that he falls in love with even though she treats him bad. Miss Havisham is a a weird and almost witch type character that wears an old wedding gown and has he clocks all set up at the same time.......

2. Throughout the story you could tell that Pip really wanted to do what would be best fo rhimself and even though his motif was to become a rich gentlemen to win over Estella, he was working on improving himself and always seeked guidance from those around him and tried to rap his head around what type of person they are and what type of person he wants to be.

3. He seems to have a triumphant and understanding tone in voice.

• “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
• “We need never be ashamed of our tears.” 
• “There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”

4.

•  “In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” - simile
• “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”- pathos
• “So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.” - irony
• “Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”- aphorism
• Pip and Estella ended up together in the end. -resolution
• Magwitch and Joe would be an example of- foil
• "In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.” - figurative language
• “So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” -incongruity
• “All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.”- Hyperbole
• “So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...” -tone

Characterization                                                 

1. Indirect: "I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too"."I took the opportunity of being alone in the court-yard, to look at my coarse hands and my common boots." 

Direct: A young orphan boy being raised by his sister and brother-in-law in. He is also a romantic, passionate, and ambitious. Pip is very impressionable and seems to care about appearances.

2. He does but to show the amount of education and what type of class they are in. For example Magwitch and Miss Havisham.

3. Pip is a dynamic round character because he does overcome an important change and grows into a different person as time passes by even though it takes time to finally have a change in mindset.

4. I feel I met a character because Pip could literally be a portrayal of today's youth and the journey that it is to try to find yourself.  “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”