tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80797307513515058122024-02-08T10:58:51.596-08:00Anne SheridanReading is my life.....Anne - As English Lit <3http://www.blogger.com/profile/03372144245539977025noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079730751351505812.post-50139790899351620912010-05-20T07:02:00.000-07:002010-05-25T05:10:58.163-07:00connections<span style="font-family:times new roman;">Both Victor and Macbeth suffer from isolation. Victor suffers moreso, I think, since his isolation at first is of his own doing. He chooses to spend months at his unsavory experiments--visiting charnall houses and graveyards to collect his materials. He does not go out into the world to enjoy nature, he does not sleep or eat well. Later, his isolation is because he is trying to protect those he loves from the creature (so he says). Macbeth is isolated due to his guilt for killing Duncan, and then because everyone recognizes him for what he is--an evil, ambitiious, killing machine who will cut down anyone in his way.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Fate is evident in both the novel and the play since there are similar themes-playing God will only bring you trouble. Macbeth tries to tempt fate by hurrying events along and murdering Duncan. Victor attempts to play God by creating a human being which, after being abandoned, turns on him. In both, the outcome is not pleasant. Those who take faith out of the equation are destined to suffer horrible consequences. Had Macbeth allowed Fate to "stir" his future for him, he might have been King without murdering Duncan and losing favor with his friends. Had Victor allowed his father and professors to steer him away from the countles antiquated books he was studying, he may not have created the creature and suffeed so many losses.</span>Anne - As English Lit <3http://www.blogger.com/profile/03372144245539977025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079730751351505812.post-41440662680617129962010-05-13T07:43:00.000-07:002010-05-13T07:52:08.643-07:00Frankenstein can be seen as a novel identityFrankensteins can be seen as a novel of indentity because it has to deal with the identity issues of both frankensteins monster and victor frankenstein. another main issues to be dealt with is Mary Shelleys identity.<br /><br />Frankensteins view of himself within paradise lost: does he see himself as adam or eve?<br /><br />Mary Shelley: why didnt she put her name on the novel at frist?<br /><br />Victor frankenstein: playing god, does he see himself as the monster?Anne - As English Lit <3http://www.blogger.com/profile/03372144245539977025noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079730751351505812.post-91899968043556325832010-03-30T06:06:00.000-07:002010-03-30T06:19:14.719-07:00Key Issues From the Bloody Chamber<ul><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Shock Value</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Use of explicit language in the fairy tales, is using the shock factor because the reader isn't it. this creates shock value and read-on-ability as the reader wonders if she has included other graphic language.</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Feminism</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">You can see feminist views in these novels by the way Angela carter allows the female characters to be much more dominant in these fairy tales then they bare in the original. They originals used females as damsels in distress and allowed the men to rescue them, Where as in this the female are a lot more independent and allow for the men to be rescued such as in "the courtship of Mr Lyon" this is one of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">main</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">feminist</span> stories as the name itself shows that the female is stronger because a man would court a women but now it is the women courting the man. </span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Fairy Tale</span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Entrapment</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Sympathy</span></li><li></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p>Anne - As English Lit <3http://www.blogger.com/profile/03372144245539977025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079730751351505812.post-74243226796199935872010-01-28T07:00:00.001-08:002010-01-28T07:48:33.159-08:00In chapter 10 to what extent is nature a key point???????? ey ey ey!<span style="font-family:times new roman;">Nature is</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> a key point in this chapter because it helps us see the monster in a lot of different lights. It helps you feel sympathy for the monster as it makes him very child like, because he is finding solace and prosperity in something else that is so innocent and natural. </span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The monster can also be related to nature in the way in which nature is something so big and intimidating can be so peaceful and harmful. The way both victor and the monster find peace in the mountains that at the point in time seemed so harmful and frightening makes them relate to each when they both want to be so far away from each other.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Mary Shelley began writing about the mountains in a new to everyone else to show how they could be seen in a different light to frightening and daunting to readers. She allows the reader to link Romanticism and Aesthetics with the mountains and the monster together as they have both been created by a force higher then their own power because they both have picturesque qualities about them but are both sometimes shunned by the human race because of the infinite amount of power behind them. The human race is so <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">fearful</span> of objects more powerful and different to themselves that they stick together and refuse its <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">acceptance</span> into a society that is created around vanity and judgments, i think this is the point Mary <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Shelly</span> is trying to make by saying how society at the time was very judgemental towards things that were different, and by writing <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Frankenstein</span> was trying to show people how something so different could <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">in fact</span> be more <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">beneficent</span> towards everyone.</span>Anne - As English Lit <3http://www.blogger.com/profile/03372144245539977025noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079730751351505812.post-73789816246159079502009-11-10T05:03:00.000-08:002009-11-10T05:18:21.194-08:00The Witches.......<span style="font-family:times new roman;">I think the witches are important to the play because they start the play of. They tell Macbeth and Banquo their furtues which sets the play into motion. I think this is important because otherwise if we hadn't heard the prediction and then Macbeth and Lady Macbeth killed the king anyway we wouldn;t feel any sort of sorrow for them at all, where as we can half and half sympathise with them for killing him and then the others. But it also raises the important question, which is " If the witches had never told Macbeth that he would be king, would he of killed the king????" it makes you question Macbeths motives, because Banquo hasn't forced his sons into the king chair he is waiting paitently for it too happen. It makes you question whether you think Macbeth should of left it and fallen into the king's chair by chance or by his own forceful nature.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">When "Hecat" then shouts at the witches for telling Macbeth she says<em> "hath been but for a wayward son, spitrful and wrathful, who, as others do, loves for his own ends, not for you"</em> which makes you think that he probably would of done it anyway because he is a spiteful person who only wants to do things for his own self.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">this is why i think the witches are important becasue they raise lots of questions for people to think about Macbeth.</span>Anne - As English Lit <3http://www.blogger.com/profile/03372144245539977025noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079730751351505812.post-38101634406035499922009-10-19T03:26:00.002-07:002009-11-02T01:52:44.795-08:00Act 1. . . . . . .<span style="font-family:times new roman;"><em>"1. Setting in a castle."</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Although the play starts of with the witches in the forest, is soon then changes to the scenes in the castle, the castle is also where the murders happens, this adds to the Gothic nature, because it appears to be night-time in a lot of the scenes.</span><br /><br /><em><span style="font-family:times new roman;">"2. An atmosphere of mystery and suspense"</span></em><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Shakespeare includes a lot of imagery in act one, The tales of war and then the witches predicting the future creates imagery for the audience. in Act 1 Scene 3 the stage directions Shakespeare has given when the witches enter is thunder, this could create a suspense as thunder would be seen as bad news and you would predict that something bad is about to happen. They way the witches also leave the scene adds suspense as well as they just suddenly disappear. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><em>"3. An ancient prophecy </em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">This happens in act one with the witches, as they predict the future of Macbeth and Banquo. This prophecy is highly needed as it now sets the whole plot into order as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth now plan on how to kill the king.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">The first act in macbeth plays the main part in the play by setting the plot line into order, it helps the reader to se both sides to macbeth and lady macbeth by using different elements of gothic literature </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span>Anne - As English Lit <3http://www.blogger.com/profile/03372144245539977025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079730751351505812.post-87645231018658692802009-10-08T06:43:00.000-07:002009-10-08T06:48:46.658-07:00Coursework Progress...<span style="font-family:times new roman;">I have decided to do my coursework on "where rainbows end" by Ceclia Ahern and "The Sorrow's of Young Werther" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. These books are both epistolary novels, which means they take the form of letters and emails in their writing instead of plain paragraph.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">I am going to do these books as i think the use of letters is important to the structure of the book. My question is going to be based upon the use of letters within the novels and how they correspond with the characters.</span>Anne - As English Lit <3http://www.blogger.com/profile/03372144245539977025noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079730751351505812.post-16746537542840331622009-09-28T02:45:00.000-07:002009-09-28T03:30:18.138-07:00Marxist ApproachThe Lord of the Flies.<br /><br />In the lord the of the lies there are a lot of marxist concepts. When the boys land on the island there is a lot of confusion and panic but also a sense of control as the island is seen as a paradise onto themselves, but soon they see that they need food and shelter to survive. Immediatly one of the boys (Ralph) takes control and the others listen to him. Ralph then appoints the "bigger boys" to be the hunters and the "smaller boys" to make the home and shelters. This take the idea of marxism into order as it is immediatly putting people down due to their apprant status within the group of boys. This sense of status also happens when the food is divided between the boys as the bigger boys get more food then the smaller ones.<br />The power the bigger boys exert over the smaller boys is inevitable as they are seen as smaller and weaker, although they are more likely to be of the same background in society the bigger boys have the power.<br />In the end when jack and piggy leave the bigger boys and try and make their own society. Because they have started the own society of boys the other society of the "bigger boys" get angry and end up killing piggy, this shows the marxist approach as it shows that whoever has the power will in the end be better off then the lower society.Anne - As English Lit <3http://www.blogger.com/profile/03372144245539977025noreply@blogger.com1