tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33723343385891767862024-03-19T05:50:24.061-07:00Kari Griego's AP Literature and Composition BlogKari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-31841122090054725342012-05-03T08:38:00.001-07:002012-05-03T09:10:10.532-07:00AP Exam PrepInstead of spending my morning off (credited to the now glorious CST schedule) sleeping, in bed, where I really want to be, I'm studying lit terms and past vocab words and I even read through a couple of Shannon Fahey's literature analyses to learn new novels vicariously through her studies. (Shout outs to Shannon. She's awesome. Check out her literature analyses at: <a href="http://sfrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/p/literature-analyses.html">http://sfrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/p/literature-analyses.html</a>)<br />
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So yeah, I'm studying. I'm going to do great on the exam :)Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-23951926155472564412012-04-30T14:34:00.002-07:002012-04-30T14:34:58.230-07:00AP Exam Study Plan<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year's AP exams are approaching much faster than expected. Just this week have I finally become aware of their proximity. However, I feel that my study plan is focused enough that I won't have to worry about being unprepared. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My plan is very focused around my own strengths (vocabulary, word usage, literary terms) and weaknesses (ESSAYS). I am very confident in my understanding of the AP vocabulary words and terms that we've learned over the last couple of years, so only a minimal amount of time will be spent reviewing those. I intend to study the term list we've been using in class with traditional methods--and if there's still one that I don't fully understand, I know that it is on one of my colleagues blogs! To tackle my weakness, essay writing, I will begin by arming myself with knowledge. Since I know that the essays are primarily literature based, I feel the best forst step is to bolster my knowledge of several pieces of literature. I find my classmates' blogs most helpful in this. Reading through a number of their literary analyses will help me better understand pieces that I've already read-- like a little refresher course-- and introduce me to new pieces that I may find useful for a particular essay. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once I've gotten all of the background information set in, it's time for practice. I'll focus on practicing analyzing pieces of literature, such as poems and excerpts. I'll need this for both the multiple choice section and the essay section. My biggest concern, however, is the written portion of the exam. The only way I feel I can prepare for that is writing a number of essays on my own time for practice. My biggest issue is timing, so getting used to writing a couple in a crunch should help me feel more confident when I get into the testing room.</span>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-1533405980895973122012-04-22T20:18:00.001-07:002012-04-22T20:40:46.478-07:00Lecture Notes: MacBeth<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day I</span></u><br />
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</span></span></span>Acts I-III all chronicle Macbeth's rise to glory
& IV, V follow his fall</span></div>
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</span></span></span>character driven play; less psychology &
intricate relationships</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Macbeth doesn't confide in the audience (like
Hamlet) he doesn't show any sign of humor or humanity, just painstaking
character development</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Macbeth as a Tragic Hero</span><br />
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</span></span></span>Beginning of play: indirect characterization
telling us he is well thought of, noble, honorable, etc.</span></div>
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</span></span></span>End of the play: stands alone to be killed by an
entire army</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Everything that happens in the play is the
function of Macbeth's own decisions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Murder of Duncan</span><br />
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</span></span></span>Why?</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Act I, scene vii, lines 25-28…glimpse of an idea
but too early to take for truth</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Macbeth seems to be in the grips of something
bigger</span></div>
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</span></span></span>his first reaction to the witches was weariness;
it seemed unjust to him at first</span></div>
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</span></span></span>tension between immorality (consequences?!)
& his ambition to be/stay king</span></div>
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</span></span></span>he knows that he will have to violate his
morals…he knows there will be consequences…he doesn't conversationalize his
worries and try to avoid the situation <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Hamlet)</span></div>
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</span></span></span>he struggles with knowing that to act on his
desires will lead to his own destruction (he then </span></div>
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</span></span></span>swayed, however, by his imagination of the
prospects</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Macbeth & Lady Macbeth</span><br />
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</span></span></span>Lady MacBeth</span></div>
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</span></span></span>She is the agent of evil in the beginning</span></div>
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</span></span></span>tells him to man up and keep the prospect of
being king alive</span></div>
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</span></span></span>urges him to be more manly when he comes to her
with things</span></div>
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</span></span></span>lacks regard for emotions, scruples, values,
nurturing, etc.</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Both characters experience a surreal feeling</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Macbeth is fearful & horrified, but he
hallucinates and it's as if he is compelled to or drawn to do it</span></div>
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</span></span></span>With help of Lady Macbeth allowed evil to
infiltrate his imagination. He knows what's going on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Courage & Fear</span><br />
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</span></span></span>Courage is abundant when it comes to outward
enemies but can't handle the inner fears</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Becomes fearful as soon as he kills the king</span></div>
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</span></span></span>deals with it by continued killing to allow
himself to plow through and come to a solution</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Lady Macbeth</span></div>
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</span></span></span>can't handle the inner strains….Macbeth goes off
without her</span></div>
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</span></span></span>guilt for lack of inner will destroys her</span></div>
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</span></span></span>feels like Duncan looks like her father</span></div>
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</span></span></span>sign of guilt and reprieve</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>she decays into craziness (for lack of a better
word) until she commits suicide</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day 2</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lady Macbeth</span><br />
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</span></span></span>A representation of pure force</span></div>
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</span></span></span>After the banquet, Macbeth & Lady Macbeth's
relationship becomes strained</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>They used to have a healthy
relationship/marriage but now they each have their own plans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Macbeth's throne is safe, no one suspects him,
but he has a guilty conscience</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Act III, Scene iii shows Macbeth still knows the
difference between right and wrong</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>He’s murdering his way to peace of mind</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Causes him to become less & less human</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Loss of physical relationships result in a loss
of feeling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Makes Macbeth care less and less for what life
has to offer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Act V, scene iii explains why Macbeth accepts
the news of his wife's death with a horrifying calm</span></div>
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</span></span></span>exemplifies the empty mockery his world has
become</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Three Witches</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Macbeth's driving force</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Plant the ideas in Macbeth's mind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>he is then unable to control himself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Different schools of thought on their purpose:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>A symbol of Fate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">§<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Events were inevitable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span>Exist to tempt & torment people</span></div>
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</span></span></span>After becoming thane of Cawdor, Macbeth believes
the witches prophesies to be true, so he feels he must see them through</span></div>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-57876197296167752262012-04-22T20:17:00.001-07:002012-04-22T20:33:57.442-07:00Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Recitation<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry for the awkward pauses and stuttering.. They ambushed me before softball practice. It's always strange when seventeen some odd girls are silenced and turn to stare at you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u>Questions</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. Macbeth won the respect of King
Duncan by</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. slaying the traitor
Macdonwald.</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. serving as a
gracious host for his king.</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. not pleading for
advancement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. King Duncan rewarded Macbeth by
dubbing him</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. the Earl of
Sinel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. the Thane of Cawdor
him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 12pt;">C. Bellona's
bridegroom</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. In addressing Banquo, the witches
called him which of these?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Lesser than Macbeth, and greater."
(I)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Not so happy as Macbeth, yet much
happier." (II)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"A future father of kings."
(III)</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. I and II</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. I and
III</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. I, II, and
III</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. When Macbeth said, "Two truths
are told / As happy prologues" he was referring to</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. his titles of Glamis
and Cawdor.</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. the victories
against the kerns and gallowglasses.</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. the predictions made
to Banquo and to himself.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">5. "Nothing
in his life / Became him like the leaving it" is a reference to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. the traitorous Thane
of Cawdor.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. Banquo's son,
Fleance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 12pt;">C. Duncan's son,
Donalbain</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. Duncan's statement, "I have begun
to plant thee and will labour / To make thee full of growing" is an example
of</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. a
simile.</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. a
metaphor.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 12pt;">C.
personification</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. Lady Macbeth characterizes her
husband as being</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. "the glass of
fashion and the mould of form."</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. "too full of the
milk of human kindness."</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. "a cannon
overcharg'd with a double crack."</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">8. When Macbeth agonizes over the possible killing of the
king, which of these does he say?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"He is my house guest; I should
protect him." (I)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Duncan's virtues will "plead like
angels" " (II)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"I am his kinsman and his subject"
(III)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. I and
III</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. II and
III</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. I, II, and
III</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">9. Macbeth's statement to his wife,
"Bring forth men-children only" signifies that he</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. is proud of his
wife's transformation.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. is concerned over
the succession to the throne.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. has accepted the
challenge to slay the king.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10. As part of the plan to kill the
king, Lady Macbeth would</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. get the chamberlains
drunk.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. smear Duncan's face
with blood.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 12pt;">C. arrange an alibi for
Macbeth</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">11. Trace Macbeth's transformation
from a good man to an evil man.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">12. What motivates Macbeth to take
the evil path he chooses?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">13. What influence do the witches
have on Macbeth?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">14. Contrast Macbeth's response to
the witches' predictions with Banquo's.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">15. Describe the relationship
between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Trace how it changes over the course of the
play.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">PART 2</span></u></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. "Art thou not, fatal vision,
sensible / To feeling as to sight?" is a reference to the</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. ghost of
Banquo.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. dagger.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. bubbling
cauldron.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Lady Macbeth confessed that she
would have killed King Duncan herself except for the fact that</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. she couldn't gain
easy access to his bedchamber</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. he looked like her
father</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. one of Duncan's
guards spied her on the to stairway</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">3. Shakespeare introduced the Porter in order
to</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. allow Macduff to
gain admission to the castle.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. remind the audience
of the Witches' prophecies.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 12pt;">C. provide comic
relief</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. Malcolm and Donalbain flee after
the murder</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. because they fear
the daggers in men's smiles.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. in order to join
Macduff in England.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 12pt;">C. lest they be blamed
for it</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. Macbeth arranges for Banquo's
death by telling the hired killers that</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. Banquo had thwarted
their careers.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. if they fail, they
will pay with their own lives.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. he will eradicate
all records of their previous crimes.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. Macbeth startles his dinner
guests by</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. conversing with the
Ghost of Banquo</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. attempting to wash
the blood from his hands</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. saying to Lady
Macbeth that, "Murder will out."</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. The Witches threw into the
cauldron</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Eye of bat and tongue of
frog"(I)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Wool of bat and tongue of dog"
(II)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Fang of snake and eagle's glare"
(III)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. I and II</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. I and
III</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. II and
III</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">8. The three apparitions which
appeared to Macbeth were</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">An armed head. (I)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A child with a crown.
(II)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A bloody child (III)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. I and II</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. II and
III</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. I, II, and
III</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">9. In Act IV, Malcolm is at first
lukewarm toward Macduff because he</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. wasn't prepared to
overthrow Macbeth.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. suspects a
trick.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: 12pt;">C. wasn't worthy of
becoming king, in his opinion</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">10. Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane when</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A. the witches
rendezvous with Macbeth.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">B. the camouflaged
soldiers make their advance.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">C. Lady Macbeth
convinces her husband to stand and fight.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">11. What is the significance of the
line "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" (I, i, 10)?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">12. How does Macbeth function as a
morality play?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">13. How does Shakespeare use the
technique of dramatic irony in Macbeth?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">14. How does Lady Macbeth overcome
her husband's resistance to the idea of killing King Duncan?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">15. Contrast Macduff's response to
the news of his wife's and children's deaths with Macbeth's response to being
told Lady Macbeth is
dead</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Answers</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part I
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.
A (Act I, Scene II)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.
B (Act I, Scene II)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.
C (Act I, Scene III)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.
A (Act I, Scene III)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.
A (Act I, Scene IV)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.
B (Act I, Scene IV)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.
B (Act I, Scene V)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8.
C (Act I, Scene VII)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9.
C (Act I, Scene VII)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10.
A (Act II, Scene II)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11.
In the beginning, Macbeth frets over his plans to kill the King. After his
wife persuades him to go on with the plan, he becomes a power-hungry
murderer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.
Macbeth is motivated by his ambition to be king. He stops at nothing to protect
his crown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13.
Macbeth begins to plan his acts according to the prophecies of the
witches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14.
Banquo is at first skeptical at the witches' prophecy that his children will
become kings. He then cannot get these things out of his mind. Macbeth seems
to brush off what the witches told him, but in reality he begins to act based on
what was prophesied. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">15.
Lady Macbeth and Macbeth at first act as equals, planning to steal the crown as
one. Once King Duncan dies, Macbeth becomes power hungry and is then the
dominant figure in the relationship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part
II</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.
B (Act II, Scene I)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. B (Act II, Scene II)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. C (Act II, Scene III)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.
A (Act II, Scene III)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. A (Act III, Scene I)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. A (Act III, Scene
III)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. A (Act IV, Scene I)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. C (Act IV, Scene I)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. B (Act IV, Scene
III)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. B (Act V, Scene III)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11. This line in the first scene tips us off
that things will not be what they appear to be. Macbeth will become king, and
in doing so he will commit himself to a path of evil which will mean his death,
and ironically, Banquo's.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12. The differences between good and evil are
greatly portrayed in the play. This struggle is shown in Macbeth's character,
as he goes from being an honest hero to a power-hungry tyrant.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13. When
Duncan and his party arrive at Macbeth's castle, they are unaware of the wicked
plans that are being made. Their lighthearted, joking mood is ironic to us,
because we know what they are really walking into. It is also depicted in the
last act of the play.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14. Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth's manhood and even
devises her own plan on how he should kill King Duncan. She is finally able to
persuade him to go through with the act.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">15. Macduff is deeply grieved by the
loss of his wife and children. Macbeth on the other hand is too focused on
protecting his crown to care or really show emotion about the death of his wife.</span>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-74784449520867383052012-04-15T22:35:00.000-07:002012-04-22T20:34:48.113-07:00Active Reading Notes: MacBeth<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Macbeth and Banquo are generals of Scottish King Duncan’s army and they have just defeated two separate invading armies</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>One led by the Irish rebel leader, Macdonwald and the other from Norway</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Three witches come together and prophesize that Macbeth will come to be made thane of Cawdor and then eventually king of Scotland; also state that Banquo’s son will come to be the heirs of the throne next</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Seem to say this in a foreboding way, as if his rise to power will ultimately be his downfall</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>The two seem skeptical, but soon Macbeth is named Thane of Cawdor</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macbeth of unsure of whether or not he wants this rise to power à writes home to his wife</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>She has no qualms about climbing the social ladder and tells him to murder Duncan for the crown</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>She persuades him to kill Duncan that very night the two are to dine together</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macbeth seems to know right from wrong, but still chooses to do the wrong course of action à has no reason to justify his means either</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Plan to blame Duncan’s death on his chamberlains à get them drunk and they will be defenseless</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macbeth murders Duncan when he is sleeping; he is full of self doubt and ignores the vision he had that involved a bloody dagger floating in front of him</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macbeth is shaken terribly à forgets to leave the daggers with the chamberlains to frame them à Macbeth won’t go back into the room though</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Lady Macbeth shames him saying he is a coward; goes to put the daggers there herself</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macbeth hears knocking on three separate occasions, is frightened</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 16px;">“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood, Clean from my hand?”</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 16px;">“A little water clears us of this deed, How easy it is then!”</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; line-height: 16px;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; line-height: 16px;">The discovery of Duncan’s body has Macbeth all wound up and jumpy</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macbeth kills the chamberlains too out of rage</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span> Malcolm flees to England and Donalbain flees to Ireland (because they are seen as suspects since they are both in line for the crown)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macbeth takes to the kings position immediately</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Ominous happenings right after Duncan’s death and right before Macbeth coronation:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 16px;">It is daytime, but dark outside</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 16px;">Last Tuesday, an owl killed a falcon</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 16px;">Duncan’s beautiful, well-trained horses behaved wildly and ate one another</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth start to hallucinate about their kill</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macbeth, paranoid and confused, plans to hire a group of murders to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance, in order to null the witches prophecy about them taking his throne next</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Ambush them right before the dinner, manages to kill Banquo but Fleance escapes à Macbeth is worried and mad</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>As long as Fleance lives, the prophecy that he will come to seize the throne will be a possibility</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macbeth tells his wife that his mind is full of scorpions à guilt</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>At the feast, Macbeth sees Banquo’s ghost; starts to freak out which startles his guest</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>They think that he is losing it and the nobles start to lose their faith in his skills to rules</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>His subjects are also worried about Macbeth, lose faith as well</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Scared and worried about his position, he goes to the witches for help à they then introduce him to demon and spirits who also prophesize Macbeth’s future</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>They tell him:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">§<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span> Floating head à To beware of the noblemen Macduff (didn’t want Macbeth in the throne in the first place)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">§<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Bloodied child à It’s impossible that he will be harmed by any man born of woman</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">§<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Crowned child holding a tree àHe will be safe until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Castle</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Feels secure à all men are born of women, forest can’t move</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>We know from the previous scene before though that it’s just a false sense of security that Hecate and witches are enacting</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">§<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Why are they meddling?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Orders that Macduff’s castle be seize and to kill his wife and children (Macduff has escaped to England to join with Malcolm’s forces)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>We see that Macbeth is becoming more and more cruel and paranoid when he is told more prophecies</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macduff learns of his family’s murders and vows revenge</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Malcolm has managed to put together and army in England; Macduff joins him àride to England to try and take out Macbeth</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>The Scottish nobles support Malcolm; they are scared of Macbeth’s crazed and murderous ways</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Lady Macbeth is not coping with the guilt of all the deaths at her and her husband’s hands</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Wakes from a dream believing there is blood all over her hand; also sleepwalks all the time</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macbeth receives notices that she committed suicide right before battle àhe goes into shock and despair</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>He is depressed and confused but still waits for Malcolm’s army who have withdrawn to Dunsinane à reinforces his idea that he is invincible</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Learns that Malcolm’s army is coming with boughs made from Birnam Wood (witches prophecy) à fearful that his demise is coming</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Malcolm’s forces eventually overtake Macbeth’s</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>On the battlefield, Macbeth comes in contact with Macduff à still wants him very much dead</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macduff tells him he was not born from a women, but was “untimely ripped” from his mother’s womb (C section)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>All the prophecies have come true and Macbeth knows that he is doomed now àstill fights on until Macduff kills and beheads him</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Malcolm comes to take the throne à promises to treat his people with grace and kindness; invites everyone to his coronation at Scone</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Macbeth is a power -hunger tyrant, yet we don’t condemn him à was a good man that did the wrong things? Or was he just a bad person to begin with?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>He isn’t the “villain” of the story à he did commit multiple atrocities, but the reader somehow (or at least I did) try to make up and excuse as to why he did such crime</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Thoughts à “he only did it because he was peer pressured by his wife”, etc.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">o<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>He doesn’t take pleasure in his horrid actions, actually feels remorseful about it which is why the reader wants to forgive him</span></div>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-90950214110464405572012-04-02T20:06:00.000-07:002012-04-22T20:35:08.380-07:00MacBeth Prenotes<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Source 1</u>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both tones of the play (literal & symbolic) are sinister</span></li>
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characters are evil
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In 1606, when Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, James I had been King of England for
3 years
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Symbolized the union of the Scottish & England crowns)
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">James I was fascinated by witchcraft </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The real Macbeth ruled in Scotland from 1040 to 1057
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source 2</span></u></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Macbeth demonstrates life as brutal and cynical, in order to ask life's
toughest questions</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First impression of Macbeth: brutal warrior! he just cut an enemy open from belly
button to throat</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lady Macbeth convinces him to commit murder</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Macbeth's murder Duncan, their benefactor and guest, in his sleep</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everybody knows, but they make him king anyway</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Macbeth goes to a witch to see his future, and his head ends up on a stick</span></li>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source 3</span></u></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most intense and most
complex psychological studies</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Macbeth was actually
written as a tribute to Shakespeare's royal patron, King James I of England</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shakespeare changed history to simplify he story and to play into King James likes</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The real Macbeth became king in 1040 when he killed the
previous king, Duncan, in battle</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This violent record was largely the result of how Scottish kings came to
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For most audiences the witches are the most spectacular element of the play</span></li>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source 4</span></u></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of Shakespeare's favorite sources was Holinshed's <em>Chronicles of the
History of England & Scotland</em>. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Used this document for information in the writing of his histories, and as a source for some of the tragedies in Macbeth</span></li>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source 5</span></u></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Minor sources that contributed to Macbeth include Reginald Scot's
"Discovery of Witchcraft" and King James' "Daemonolgie"
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Changes to these sources serve 3 main purposes:
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Produced a more exciting story than historical records
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Created a more complex characterization of Macbeth
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Catered to the beliefs and likes of King James I</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Holinshed's "Chronicles," Macbeth is introduced as a valiant gentleman,
and (as in Shakespeare's play) is sent by King Duncan to crush the
rebellion led by Macdonwald
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our first impression of Macbeth is strong</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shakespeare deviates from Buchanan's depiction of Macbeth as a cruel,
barbarous man, an idea also suggested by Holinshed</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shakespeare's use of Macbeth's guilty conscience was a way for him to intrigue and compliment King James</span></li>
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</div>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-47222689644974254712012-04-01T23:00:00.000-07:002012-04-22T20:35:28.568-07:00The Top 3<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These three video posts were most effective, I think, in explaining their host's literary analysis novel: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Mari Kagawa is always awesome...</span><br />
<a href="http://mjkrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/03/ice-man-lit-analysis-video-project_29.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://mjkrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/03/ice-man-lit-analysis-video-project_29.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Dania Hatamleh, entertaining and explanatory:</span><br />
<a href="http://dhrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/03/to-kill-mockingbird.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://dhrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/03/to-kill-mockingbird.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Isaac De la Cruz.. </span><br />
<a href="http://iadrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/03/crossing-remixed.html#!/2012/03/crossing-remixed.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://iadrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/03/crossing-remixed.html#!/2012/03/crossing-remixed.html</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-21424192387205838712012-04-01T22:54:00.000-07:002012-04-01T22:54:04.908-07:00(Another) Remix: Animal FarmA little help on how to make a youtube video... help? Anyone? ...Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-37932450914713857582012-04-01T22:47:00.000-07:002012-04-01T22:47:27.263-07:00Literature Analysis: Animal Farm<br />
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>George Orwell created an allegory comparing a
small farm ran by animals to a fascist government model his short novel <i>Animal
Farm</i>. Orwell personifies the farm animals to allow them to express their
discontent with the rulership of the farm’s current owner, Mr. Jones. Old
Major, a commanding boar in the barn, leads the animals in a rebellion against
Mr. Jones, urging his "comrades" to earn autonomy. The animals then
organize in a mutiny against Mr. Jones and manage to overtake the farm. Old
Major is reveled as a hero, a leader that preserved the best interests of the
farm and its animals. As the days go by, the morals and cornerstones of the new
farm begin to slip, and Old Major begins to become more and more like the
dictator-figure he once sought to overturn. Old Major recruits three "comrades"
that help maintain his rule by feeding the farm animals propaganda; these three
characters take to educate rest of the animals on Old Major’s philosophy. They
engrain his philosophies so far into their heads that the policies become
second nature to the farm animals. Once Old Major dies, the barn is left his
three biggest followers: Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer. Soon after, Napoleon
uses his cunning and deceitfulness to run Snowball off the barn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Napoleon
becomes a tyrant and kills any animal that doesn't worship his leadership. Out
of fear and loyalty to the only thing they know, all of the animals stand
devoutly by Napoleon's rule. The animals' quality of life continually
diminshes, as they are put to work more often and fed less often. Napoleon begins
to garner control over every aspect of the animals lives, and becomes more
human-like. He begins to walk upright and wears overalls. The novel ends with
the farm's leaders dining in the company of their human neighbors. The animals
can no longer distinguish animal from man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The theme of the novel is the
corrosive nature of power. The allegory shows that the concentration of power
in a small circle of leaders combined with an uneducated people is bound to
lead to corruption, even if the revolution originated with the purest
intentions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Orwell's tome was somber and became
progressively more so as farm-life became more and more oppressed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Allegory– The novel is an allegory
for the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. The pig elite represents the USSR
( Napoleon=Stalin; Snowball=Lenin). Many of the events of the novel were
parallel to those in Russia. For example, propaganda was used heavily by Stalin
during his ruler over the USSR, and also by Napoleon through Squealer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Personification
– All the animals in the novel could speak. They were also given the human
quality of the desire for autonomy and a sense of government. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Diction
– A power relationship was demonstrated by Orwell's word choice. While using
strong words when addressing or creating dialogue for the pigs, he used simple,
elementary vocabulary for their followers. This implicitly establishes the
pigs' dominance over the rest of the animals by making them appear to be more
sophisticated and capable than the rest of the animals. It also separates them
by making them more human-like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-10424912145182454612012-04-01T21:49:00.002-07:002012-04-01T21:49:36.124-07:00Reeeeeemix: The Textbook (dun dun dun)A poem, "She Walks in Beauty", by Lord Byron (George Gordon):<br />
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<em>She walks in beauty, like the night </em><br />
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<em> Of cloudless climes and starry skies; </em></div>
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<em>And all that’s best of dark and bright </em></div>
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<em> Meet in her aspect and her eyes; </em></div>
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<em>Thus mellowed to that tender light </em></div>
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<em> Which heaven to gaudy day denies. </em></div>
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<em><br /></em> </div>
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<em>One shade the more, one ray the less, </em></div>
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<em> Had half impaired the nameless grace </em></div>
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<em>Which waves in every raven tress, </em></div>
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<em> Or softly lightens o’er her face; </em></div>
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<em>Where thoughts serenely sweet express, </em></div>
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<em> How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. </em></div>
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<em>And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, </em></div>
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<em> So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, </em></div>
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<em>The smiles that win, the tints that glow, </em></div>
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<em> But tell of days in goodness spent, </em></div>
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<em>A mind at peace with all below, </em></div>
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<em> A heart whose love is innocent!</em></div>
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And my analysis of it:</div>
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Dramatic Situation: a narrator describing his love for the subject</div>
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Speaker: an unseen observer, likely male, in eighteeth (?) century England</div>
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Structure: ABABAB/CDCDCD/EFEFEF; each line contains exactly 8 syllables</div>
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Theme: Love, obviously. The narrator describes everything that is lovely about the subject</div>
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Diction: manipulated to fit the structure ("o'er"); uses specific adjectives to illustrate the popular images of beauty and goodness, such as "innocent", "beauty", "eloquent", "tender", and "pure"</div>
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Grammar: semi-colons used to
separate ideas within the poem</div>
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Images/Figures of Speech: creates an image of the woman through the descriptions of the things that make up her beauty</div>
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Tone: awestruck</div>
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Literary Devices: </div>
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Simile: "she
walks in beauty, like the night" </div>
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</ol>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-13420967573538399192012-04-01T21:26:00.001-07:002012-04-01T21:26:29.511-07:00Reeeemix!: 9-Point Poetry AnalysisTo be entirely honest, the follwing video describes my sentiments exactly when it comes to evaluating and appreciating poetry through nine-point analyses:<br />
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However, I know that these types of analyses are precisely the standards by which a student's capacity for higher-level thought and understanding are measured, so alas I must practice/learn/obey them. They are as follows:<br />
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<li>Dramatic Situation: The speaker. His (or her) surroundings/lifestyle/bias/context</li>
<li>Structure</li>
<li>Theme</li>
<li>Tone</li>
<li>Grammar and Meaning: diction and mechanical significancies</li>
<li>Imagery and Figures of Speech</li>
<li>Tone</li>
<li>Literary Devices</li>
<li>Prosody: how the structure and flow of a text convey insight to the meaning of the piece and the intent of the author</li>
</ol>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-8289534606664003832012-04-01T21:10:00.000-07:002012-04-01T21:10:18.706-07:009-Point Analysis: Tom's Diner<div style="text-align: center;">
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<em>I am sitting<br />In the morning<br />At the diner<br />On the corner<br /><br />I am
waiting<br />At the counter<br />For the man<br />To pour the coffee<br /><br />And he
fills it<br />Only halfway<br />And before<br />I even argue<br /><br />He is
looking<br />Out the window<br />At somebody<br />Coming in<br /><br />"It is
always<br />Nice to see you"<br />Says the man<br />Behind the counter<br /><br />To the
woman<br />Who has come in<br />She is shaking<br />Her umbrella<br /><br />And I
look<br />The other way<br />As they are kissing<br />Their hellos<br /><br />I'm
pretending<br />Not to see them<br />And Instead<br />I pour the milk<br /><br />I
open<br />Up the paper<br />There's a story<br />Of an actor<br /><br />Who had
died<br />While he was drinking<br />He was no one<br />I had heard of<br /><br />And I'm
turning<br />To the horoscope<br />And looking<br />For the funnies<br /><br />When I'm
feeling<br />Someone watching me<br />And so<br />I raise my head<br /><br />There's a
woman<br />On the outside<br />Looking inside<br />Does she see me?<br /><br />No she does
not<br />Really see me<br />Cause she sees<br />Her own reflection<br /><br />And I'm
trying<br />Not to notice<br />That she's hitching<br />Up her skirt<br /><br />And while
she's<br />Straightening her stockings<br />Her hair<br />Is getting wet<br /><br />Oh,
this rain<br />It will continue<br />Through the morning<br />As I'm
listening<br /><br />To the bells<br />Of the cathedral<br />I am thinking<br />Of your
voice...<br /><br />And of the midnight picnic<br />Once upon a time<br />Before the
rain began...<br /><br />I finish up my coffee<br />It's time to catch the train </em></div>
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<em>-Suzanne Vega</em></div>
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Hmmmm... After working on this for quite some time now, looking for something that is not here, I have come to the realization that I picked a terrible example for a nine-point analysis... The beauty of this poem (song) is its simplicity and lack of multiple burdening underlying meanings. I honestly don't believe that there is any particular structure or theme applied to the poem. I highly doubt that Vega was constructing a sophisticated abstraction through any sense of tone or prosody or any number of literary techniques (though the imagery was very strong throughout..). To impose such complex structure as a nine-point poetry analysis on something so free and simple would be superfluous in your task to read/understand/appreciate the piece. So boo! to the nine-point poetry analysis. At least for now.. </div>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-3205644308221583862012-04-01T20:50:00.002-07:002012-04-01T20:50:45.498-07:00Why did Charles Dickens Write ATTC?My best hypothesis for Charles Dickens' purpose is this: a comparason of a couple of tumultuous lives based in two of Europe's most significant and populous cities would provide Dickens' a proper medium to explore the light and dark sides of humanity. As we learned from our in-class lectures, Dickens' was consumed by explicating the dark (evil) and light (good) characters that existed in all people, and even more importantly in himself. The different settings provided two different atmospheres for the nature of a human being to be unraveled, allowing the characters to act as models for different parts of society and making his study more comprehensive. The paradox of the novel brings the two cities together to provide the comparison.Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-29295873957934127782012-04-01T20:34:00.001-07:002012-04-01T20:34:42.978-07:00Discussion Notes: Literary Techniques in A Tale of Two Cities<br />
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The American Revolution (effects it
had on England); the Bible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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understand them and the text as a whole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"It was the best of times, it
was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of
foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it
was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of
hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing
before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the
other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of
its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil,
in the superlative degree of comparison only." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>i.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Contrasts appear throughout the novel: the idea of
resurrection comes with the idea of death (one would not be possible without the
other); The contrast/relationship between Paris and London; contrast/relationship
between Lucie Manette and Charles Darnay<a href="" name="more"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">people in the street drinking
spilled wine off the street, with wine stains smeared on their faces and arms,
and "Blood" written on the wall in muddy red wine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">provides vivid image of poverty and foreshadows
danger/bloodspill <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Foreshadowing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The first Saint Antoine scene, red
wine spilled on the streets, "Blood" smeared on the wall in muddy red
wine <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Signal bloodshed and war<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">helps the reader anticipate upcoming
events, which contributes to the reader’s understanding of the novel as it
develops <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Diction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Thus did the year one thousand
seven hundred and seventy-five conduct their Greatnesses, and myriads of small
creatures--the creatures of this chronicle among the rest--along the roads that
lay before them."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Very period-based and culturally influenced; Dickens writes
to a specific <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>audience <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Samples of a people that had
undergone a terrible grinding and regrinding in the mill, and certainly not in
the fabulous mill which ground old people young, shivered at every corner,
passed in and out at every doorway, looked from every window, fluttered in
every vestige of a garment that the wind shook."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Long, complex run-on sentences<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Creates a slow pace for the story,
which only makes it harder for contemporary readers to follow and understand <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Set in two cities (London and Paris)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span>i.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Allows Dickens is to compare the two cities <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>through his characters with the effect of highlighting
certain aspects of each society<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Symbolism<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucie's golden hair symbolizes
everything her father, Dr. Manette, lost when he was imprisoned; (It reminded
him of his wife)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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insight into the minds of the allowing the reader to discover new information in
a more meaningful way<o:p></o:p></span></div>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-83453475311872815942012-04-01T18:45:00.002-07:002012-04-01T18:45:49.758-07:00A Tale of Two Cities Summary, Chapters 1-3The first chapter sets up the story by providing ample information about the historical context of both England and France through each nation's trends and issues. England is characterized by religious worries, paranormal phenomena, crime and capital punishment. France is marked by excessive spending and extreme violence.<br />
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The second chapter introduces a new character, Mr. Lorry, a man travelling from London to Dover. While on his trip, a messenger stops beside Mr. Lorry's carriage and asks to speak to him. Mr. Lorry recognizes the messenger and the two exchange messages. <br />
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In the third chapter the narrator explains the thoughts of the passengers of the carriage, focusing on Mr. Lorry. Mr. Lorry floats in and out of a strange dream in which he sees himself showing a corpse to another man. The other man's reactions vary, at times refusing to see the corpse and at others demanding to see it immediately.Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-70700242532371919052012-04-01T17:53:00.002-07:002012-04-01T17:53:40.761-07:00A Tale of Two Cities: The Meaning Behind the TitleThe title of the classic Dicken's novel seems to say it all: it's a <em>tale </em>of <em>two cities. </em>Easy enough. But what we don't get from a quick glance at the title are all of the underlying stories within. <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em> is not just a story about Paris and London, but a comparative study of two very different socities through the stories of several characters' struggles and relationships. Dicken's uses the different situations of each character to model the society they belong to, allowing him to explain his take on the light and dark sides of humanity-- as well many of the institutions of human society (i.e. religion and politics)-- through examples and implications.Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-77856528445002922312012-04-01T17:27:00.002-07:002012-04-01T17:27:34.364-07:00Tom's Diner<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="400" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mNWyF3iSMzs?rel=0" width="550"></iframe>
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<em>I am sitting<br />In the morning<br />At the diner<br />On the corner<br /><br />I am
waiting<br />At the counter<br />For the man<br />To pour the coffee<br /><br />And he
fills it<br />Only halfway<br />And before<br />I even argue<br /><br />He is
looking<br />Out the window<br />At somebody<br />Coming in<br /><br />"It is
always<br />Nice to see you"<br />Says the man<br />Behind the counter<br /><br />To the
woman<br />Who has come in<br />She is shaking<br />Her umbrella<br /><br />And I
look<br />The other way<br />As they are kissing<br />Their hellos<br /><br />I'm
pretending<br />Not to see them<br />And Instead<br />I pour the milk<br /><br />I
open<br />Up the paper<br />There's a story<br />Of an actor<br /><br />Who had
died<br />While he was drinking<br />He was no one<br />I had heard of<br /><br />And I'm
turning<br />To the horoscope<br />And looking<br />For the funnies<br /><br />When I'm
feeling<br />Someone watching me<br />And so<br />I raise my head<br /><br />There's a
woman<br />On the outside<br />Looking inside<br />Does she see me?<br /><br />No she does
not<br />Really see me<br />Cause she sees<br />Her own reflection<br /><br />And I'm
trying<br />Not to notice<br />That she's hitching<br />Up her skirt<br /><br />And while
she's<br />Straightening her stockings<br />Her hair<br />Is getting wet<br /><br />Oh,
this rain<br />It will continue<br />Through the morning<br />As I'm
listening<br /><br />To the bells<br />Of the cathedral<br />I am thinking<br />Of your
voice...<br /><br />And of the midnight picnic<br />Once upon a time<br />Before the
rain began...<br /><br />I finish up my coffee<br />It's time to catch the train</em></div>
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Ever since the very first time I heard this song as a young girl the simplicity of the lyrics have captivated me. I always used to think: "Wow, she's singing about nothing!" but only of the late have I realized that the fact that she's apparently singing about nothing is what makes the song so awesome. It is sung a cappella, which only amplifies Vega's words helping to create a clear image of the speaker's surroundings and adding interest and aesthetic appeal (amiable at least to people like me!) to the song.</div>
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<em></em></div>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-45778291386119878962011-12-04T20:33:00.000-08:002011-12-04T20:33:26.790-08:00A Key Idea from This Semester<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KT16DcHcjRA" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The main reason why I felt that this video represents one of the key ideas of the course so far is the content of the poem itself. The poem, The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski, urges readers to charge of their lives and live life to the fullest. It can be translated to this course as a message to actively participate in and take control of our learning, allowing it to make us well-rounded, intelligent people. Many of the things we do in this class deal with that idea, but I felt that this was the most blunt example.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Latin poet Martial is known for his twelve books of Epigrams. The video below shows a recitation of a few of them.<br />
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(Warning: crazyrabbit, as he calls himself, isn’t the most entertaining fellow to watch… but these examples are excellent as far as epigrams go… so bear with me, and watch it. :) )<br />
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Epigrams can also be humorous, like these:<br />
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• "No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend."<br />
(Groucho Marx)<br />
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• "I am not young enough to know everything."<br />
(Oscar Wilde)<br />
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Either way, an epigram is short, pointed, and (most importantly) full of meaning.Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-34843846095747709362011-11-29T00:40:00.001-08:002011-11-29T00:43:49.365-08:00Thinking Outside the Box, Take 2<br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Although
Plato and Sartre had different intentions in writing each of their respective
pieces ("Allegory of the Cave" for describing effective leaders and
"No Exit" for describing the existentialist vision of a true
"hell") they both took advantage of several literary techniques, such
as allegory and symbolism, to describe the limitations of human thought. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">"Allegory
of the Cave" and "No Exit" were two allegories that illuminated
their author's philosophy regarding the way humans think. Both Plato and Sartre
used a form of symbolism to demonstrate the idea that our concept of reality
restricts our ability to think/act freely. For Plato, this was manifested
graphically by shackles chained around the cave-dwellers bodies, physically
limiting the men's abilities to view the real world. Sartre's example was much
less graphic, and much more implied. One example of symbolism in "No
Exit" would be the representational value of the character Garcin.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Because the
men imprisoned in "Allegory of the Cave" were shackled in a certain
position, they were incapable of seeing everything that was happening behind
them. (There stood the puppeteers that cast Forms in front of the light.)
Instead they could only see images reflected onto one of the cave walls--
shadows. These shadows are abstractions, ideas that are separated from their tangible
form. Because they were chained in for all of their lives, they were
comfortable with their condition-- implying that they innately believed everything
they saw reflected on the cave wall was real. However, Plato insists that the
men are intellectually limited to realizing what is real because they
constantly mistake the abstractions for the real thing. For instance, if one of
the puppeteers held an object like a pencil up to the light, the men would see
the image on the cave wall and say "I see a pencil." When taken at
face value, this seems quite reasonable. But Plato points out that the speaker
is wrong because he is in fact seeing the shadow of a pencil, not an actual
pencil. The man doesn't realize that he is wrong because never knew differently
from the shadows, therefore they had no reason to disbelieve what he saw. What is
important here, and what I am getting at, is that Plato believed that our
thinking was limited and/or flawed at birth. This is shown by the fact that the
men (representative of society at-large) are being kept in the cave against
their own will. All that they ever knew were the shadows, the abstractions;
they must be disabused of their perception of reality by the enlightened
philosophers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">As an
existentialist, Sartre gave a very different interpretation on why human
thought is limited. Existentialists focus on the fact that humans think
differently about their own existence and mortality than other animals do. They
tend to examine how the human mind copes with the ideas of true individuality,
the possibility of empathy, and the authenticity of our motivations through
internal reflection. This is primarily why Sartre's philosophies are so much
different from Plato's. With "No Exit", Sartre demonstrated that man
creates his own hell by thinking about his being and his existence. For
example, Garcin was entirely consumed with reflecting on his life on Earth. At
one point in the play, he called on his roommate, (for lack of a better term),
Inez to pass judgment on whether or not he was a coward. Since Garcin felt that
she had encountered many of the same moral obstacles during her lifetime that
he had, he assumed that she would identify with his struggles and ultimately
support him. His "torture", and what made the room so hellish for
him, was the fact that his Inez refused to empathize with him. In this case,
Garcin was limited to thinking about his short-comings because he refused to be
candid and true with himself about his actions on Earth. Sartre implies that
man (symbolized by Garcin) is completely aware of his true nature, as seen by
Garcin's anxiety and guilt, but refuses to accept it, thus restricting his
ability to think freely and inadvertently creating a sort of personal hell. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Both pieces
venture even further into the human psyche to explain why an expansion of the
human mind is nearly impossible for its characters by giving them an
opportunity to escape their confines and explore another world. In
"Allegory of the Cave" the prisoners are confronted by freed man who
claims to have seen the Forms and knows what is real and what is abstract.
Though the men are given a chance to escape the cave and the confines of their
thinking, they revolt against the man and kill him. This could only be
explained by an innate human fear of the unknown,</span><span style="color: #323232; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> demonstrated by the men's
rejection of the free man's assertions. They were so comfortable with their own
sense of reality that they would-- and did-- kill to preserve that norm. A
similar scenario occurs in "No Exit". </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">When the door opened upon
Garcin's request, and he and Estelle where given a chance to escape their
hells, they refused to walk out of the door. Even Inez, who completely resented
the torture that Garcin and Estelle bestowed upon her, was afraid to be thrown
out. This is because they were all so desperately afraid of the unknown that
they would "rather bear those ills [they] have Than fly to otters that
[they] know not of."</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-51521081178179063842011-11-27T23:20:00.001-08:002011-11-29T00:40:16.568-08:00Thinking Outside of the Box<br />
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<span style="color: #323232; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Although Plato and Sartre had different
intentions in writing each of their respective pieces ("The Allegory of
the Cave" for describing effective leaders and "No Exit" for
describing the existentialist vision of a true "hell") they
illuminated very similar limitations on human thought. <br />
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Both Plato and Sartre used a form of symbolism to demonstrate the power that a
fear of the unknown possess over the mind. For Plato, this was manifested
graphically by shackles chained around the cave-dwellers bodies, physically
limiting the men's abilities to ascertain new knowledge. The fear was also
shown in the men's rejection of the free man's assertions. They were so
comfortable with their own sense of reality that the would-- and did-- kill to
preserve that norm. <br />
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Sartre's example was much less graphic, yet so entirely conspicuous and blatant
it could not be ignored. When Garcin and Estelle where given a chance to escape
their hell they refused to walk out of the door. Even Inez was afraid to be
thrown out. This was because they were all so desperately afraid of the unknown
they would "rather bear those ills [they] have Than fly to otters that
[they] know not of". (I couldn't resist...) This fear is the very same
fear that shows up in Plato's "Allegory of the Cave", and it also
restricts the characters' abilities to think and act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-67357757022690368612011-11-27T22:54:00.001-08:002011-11-27T22:54:08.412-08:00The Big Question.My big question deals with the human psychological state of anxiety. Specifically, I want to explore three main questions: (1) what is the nature of anxiety? (2) to what extent is it genetic, environmental, cultural, or learned? and (3) how can one effectively manage or cope with their anxieties? Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-14361439514602213142011-11-27T22:48:00.001-08:002011-11-27T22:48:51.724-08:00Hamlet versus BeowulfThe difference between Hamlet and Beowulf lies with the influence that self-overhearing holds over Hamlet. Beowulf did not concern himself with over-analyzing his actions, reconsidering his motives, or foreseeing the consequences that would befall him. His words did not constitute his actions. He simply did what he felt was necessary of him. <br />
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Beowulf, like the several other heroic figures of the era, did not waver over decisions and consequences. He acted impulsively, without regard. For example, when Beowulf heard that the danes were in trouble he immediately set out to help them. He didn't think much of whether or not his men wanted to go with him, or if his presence would even be welcome in Denmark, he just felt that it was his responsibility as a great warrior to take their battle (with Grendel) upon himself. <br />
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There's a scene in the play where Hamlet witnesses a similar sort of dutifullness. In act IV scene iv Hamlet comes across the men of King Fortinbras headed for battle over a small plot of worthless land. His conversation with the captain reveals that even though over twenty thousand men may lose their lived over this squabble, they feel no ambivalence because it is simply their responsibility to fight for their king and their land. Upon his astonishment, Hamlet utters: "How stand I then, That have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep". During this soliloquy Hamlet self-overhears and realizes that he has all the reason in the world to kill Claudius; all he needs is the conviction. From this session, Hamlet learns that he mustn't have context to take revenge on Claudius, as he thought when he first saw the players, and resolves to kill his uncle. <br />
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The example above also shows the role that language plays in Hamlet. Since Hamlet is stuck in a sort of paralysis, he relies on his thought processes and his words to motivate him to action, and sometimes to explain his inaction. <br />
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The "to be or not to be..." soliloquy is an example of Halmet's dependence on thought and reflection to explain his inability to act. Although Hamlet has already decided to avenge his father, he still has not done it, and continues to buy time with endless reanalysis. During the soliloquy Hamlet self-overhears to discover what is truly holding him back-- "the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country". He says: "To die, to sleep-- To sleep-- perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause." Hamlet reveals his inability to act with that statement alone. He admits that the consequences of his actions (in this case, the life after death) are far too great to be ignored. "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all". <br />
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Beowulf would never be caught second guessing himself, much less allowing his own thought-process render himself impotent to fulfill his responsibilities. As you can see, the role of language is much greater in Hamlet than it is in other epics like Beowulf, and distinctly characterizes Hamlet as a unique type of protagonist/hero. Kari Griegohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02103228309575468429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372334338589176786.post-5801407295867407422011-11-27T18:43:00.001-08:002011-11-30T21:36:18.098-08:00Performative Utterances in Hamlet<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">It is a
common misconception that Prince Hamlet’s ultimate struggle, his dilemma, is
whether or not to avenge his father. However, after studying Shakespeare’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hamlet</i>, it is evident that Prince Hamlet
never wavered over that decision. Hamlet resolved to exact revenge on his uncle
very early in the play. His true difficulty is in connecting his words and his
actions. For example, even though he decides to avenge his father, he repeatedly
fails to allow his thoughts to manifest in real-life actions (i.e. killing
Claudius). This can be explained through Fredrik de Boer’s paper on
performative utterances, in which he explains the character of Hamlet through
J.L. Austin’s theory of performativity and Harold Bloom’s idea of
self-overhearing.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Austin’s
theory of performativity explains the power of spoken language by dividing it
into three forces: the locutionary, the illocutionary, and the perlocutionary
forces. The locutionary force consists simply of the words that are said; the
illocutionary force is the way that the words are interpreted, or what is
meant/implied; and the perlocutionary force is the response to or the
consequence of what was said. Austin holds that these three forces are responsible
for language’s ability to create a sense of reality by establishing facts in
the world and, in some cases, constituting action.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The
character of Hamlet is certainly one of those cases. Hamlet is characterized by
his inability to kill Claudius. While some think this is because Hamlet is
insane, others think it is because he is depressed and indecisive. The truth,
to the contrary, is that Hamlet is neither mad, nor irresolute; he simply lacks
the ability to translate his thoughts into action. Thus, his words (thoughts)
are his only form of execution. This is why Austin’s theory of performativity
is pivotal to understanding Hamlet the character, and in a greater sense, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hamlet </i>the play.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Hamlet’s
action exists in the transition from the locutionary to the perlocutionary
forces. Since he suffers some kind of psychological paralysis—which will be
discussed later on through Bloom’s idea of self-overhearing—Hamlet is incapable
of physically taking revenge on Claudius. Therefore he must use his words to
manipulate the other characters in the play. Hamlet choreographs his “mad”
outbursts to draw certain reactions from Gertrude, Claudius, Polonius, and the
others. Forcing everyone around him to concentrate on something as significant
as insanity distracts them from Hamlet’s true thoughts and allows him ample
time (and opportunity) to kill Claudius. For example, <span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">hhhidhhdsgjlhljhgfjbfdsljbgslkjkljnbsbsnlnnnlfd</span>Hamlet
uses his interactions with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to feign a sort of
madness. He reacts to their presence with rage and incomprehensible utterances
(locutionary), causing them to believe that he is insane (perlocutionary).
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern then report back to Claudius and Gertrude that
Hamlet is still in bad temper. This keeps them wondering what could be
troubling him, defining certain plot events and giving Hamlet the time he needs
to take out his uncle.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Another
example of Austin’s performative language is the play acting in Act II. Hamlet
is astonished at how the player’s words, devoid of meaning or context, can be
delivered with so much conviction (illocutionary) as to draw such an impressive
response from his audience (perlocutionary). This causes Hamlet to recognize
his own flaw and reflect upon it.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">This
reflection comes in the form of what Harold Bloom calls self-overhearing.
Self-overhearing is any instance in which a character hears himself speaking
and consequently learns about himself or his motivations. Immediately after
Hamlet meets the players, he undergoes a self-overhearing process (Act II,
scene ii). In this scene Hamlet realizes the power of words and his own
inability to act with conviction. He develops. Hamlet continues to develop with
every sequential soliloquy. Though it is not a form of action for Hamlet,
self-overhearing is his means of growth, allowing him to realize his ultimate
flaw and motivate him to act against Claudius.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Just as
self-overhearing plays a big role in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hamlet</i>,
it has played a big role in my life. When I think about the decisions I have to
make I often tend to actually stop and think about why I want to go with a
certain option and why that would/would not be a good decision. This
self-overhearing session gives me insight into my character and motivations. It
also creates a sense of reality. Though I do not believe that it defines who I
am, I do believe that it refines my memory of the past. For example, if I tell
myself a story about what happened on any particular day, I find myself
revising it; I think of things that could have happened to make the situation
better or funnier and inadvertently change my memory of the event. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Thus,
performative utterances play a tremendous role in the development of the
characters in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hamlet</i> and in myself.
In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hamlet</i>, Austin’s theory of
performativity explained Hamlet’s form of action and Bloom’s self-overhearing
explained Hamlet’s character development. Self-overhearing has also had an
impact on my sense of reality by giving me insight into myself and motivations,
and by minutely altering my memories.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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