One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Part IV

In part four I wanted to discuss the effects Kesey has achieved through his use of consciousness and sanity as opposed to insanity. Kessey show’s how Bromden think’s that the modern society is oppressive, and and that the the hospital’s are like repair shop’s for the people who do not fit into the world. His way of interpreting/describing the world emphasizes the social pressure to conform to what other’s think. Those who do not conform or agree to the rules and feelings of the society are looked upon as defective products or sick people of the “schools, churches and the society.” Then later they are labeled mental or ill. The hospital is normally defined as the place where the ill go to be cured. However, in the cases of these people he thinks that they are programmed then put back into the society of so called robs. I think that Kessey has difined his feelings toward society in this book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. And I’ve enjoyed it.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Part III)

In part three of One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest I thought that I’d discuss how Kesey has developed our understanding of Broomden over the first half of the novel. I think that Kessy has portrayed him to be an character of intelligence but at the same time to be a little weird, or crazy. For example when McMurphy breaks the glass it tell us in a sense nthat he could tell that the nurse was becoming provoked because she started to loose her patients. This show’s that broomden is not as insane in crazy as they think he is being as though he’s aware of what’s going. He is still discerning and understanding of the additudes of the nurse. Kessey also in a sense make you think that Broomden is crazy by him being inducted into some sort of cyke hospital.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Part II)

In part 2 of this book for my blogg I wanted to talk and disscuss how the nurse Ratched reacted in the glassed in Nurses' Station after her outburst and she’s being watched. The patients all are looking at her they think something’s up with her now and and she can’t escape it. Ratched trys to keep her composure by trying not to be nervous . Ratched appears to me to be very vindicative and sneaky ecspeally knowing that she has the power to rule over things or people such as Bromden. She knows she has the power to keep him there as long as she wants and sheuses it to her advantage. Ratched knows she can send anyone she wants for electroshock therapy. Ratched thinks that she has regained control but she really hasn’t .The staff meeting illustrates Nurse Ratched's power in the hospital. And the glass, which is kept so spotless and that’s always being clean represents the control Nurse Ratched has over the patients. But by McMurphy breaking the glass, he reminds the other patients that her power over them is breakable. This shows that the nurse is very dishonest i think.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Part I)

The character I wanted to speak about was Bromden which is a very interesting character. Bromdem seems to be drugged throught the whole play. He thinks that the Nurse can set the clock to any speed. So he feels that by not having time that will help him with his provoked state that he’s in. I really like Bomden as a character I think he really does and excellent job acting. For instance they nicknamed “Chief Broom” because the aides make him sweep the hallways and clean. Bromden is very paranoid, bullied, and he hallucinates a lot. He talks a lot about fog which is really an exspression of how he feels when he takes his medicine. He thinks that he is really weak, even though he used to be strong. But really it’s the medicine that makes him feel that way. Then in part1 on pg. 9 he say’s “ when the fog clears to where I can see, I’m sitting in the day room. “ So this show’s that they have him so drugged up he that he can’t even understand what’s going on until reality hit’s.

In my blog I wanted to discuss the play and some of the things I found entertaining and interesting about it. The play Hamlet was very interactive with the audience it made you think as if you were feeling what the actresses were feeling. The guy who played Hamlet did an excellent job. Hamlet made the play funny yet he made the points in the play that were to stand out, stand out, the points that were of importance in the play he showed them to be just so at the proper time. The characters dress was something I felt was something that the director wanted us as an audience to look at. The reason I state this is because he put much effort in the clothing or costumes that the characters wore he made them very interesting were as though the dress was not all from the same time period but of different errors Hamlets outfit and Ophillia's outfits were totally different from that of the other characters in the play. The reason I think the director did this was to be 1. creative and 2. to send a message as to the big age difference between them from the other more mature and sophisticated characters. The characters here in this play all made themselves known to the audience they all were interactive which made the play very enjoyable to us as an audience.

Qoutes/Themes I thought were important!!!

Qoutation:
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?—To die,—to sleep,—
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. 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: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despis’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,—
The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns,—puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.

Act 3 scene 1 lines 56-88, this quotation I thought was very interesting and important. And it also was a theme in the play. What Hamlet was speaking about was suicide. Hamlet feels because of what he was taught religiously that the fact of whether to commit suicide or not was something that was and still is something that people believed you go to hell for that’s why he says “To be, or not to be,” that is, to live or not to live. Hamlet decides that the uncertainty of the after life, is not dependant upon committing suicide to end the pain of life. He outlines a long list of the miseries and things that he was concerned about. He talks about hard work political oppression. These where some of the problems that he thought could cause a person to commit suicide. That’s why Hamlet says “who would choose to bear those miseries if he could bring himself peace with a knife, “[w]hen he himself might his quietus make / With a bare bodkin?” He answers himself again, saying no one would choose to live, except that “the dread of something after death” makes people submit to the suffering of their lives rather than go to another state of existence which might be even more miserable. Then Hamlet talks about the moral sensitivity part of it that makes suicide impossible he says “conscience does make cowards of us all . . . thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.” This shows how they felt about suicide and how it bothered his conscience. That’s what I found interesting foor this weeks blog.

Assignment For Week Of 3-30-09! Hamlets Portrayal To Be Mad

This Blog I wanted to talk about Hamlets additude. Hamlet is very creative in his character. I feel that Hamlet is the one who really makes this play amazing and interesting to its audience and people. In act 2 scene 2 I think that even though Hamlet portrays to be mad and he really is’nt, he does a really excellent job at it. His portrayal is so convincing and decieving that many critics/people feel that his sanity shatters at the fact of him seeing his dead father’s ghost. People think this really has affected Hamlet to the full. However, if you really discern and observe Hamlet as the unique character he is his disposition and demeanor would show you otherwise. You can tell that Hamlet is only pretending.In act2 scene 2 line (390) he says “I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw” . This shows that he is only “mad” at certain times, and the rest of the time he’s fine. The foot note says when his mental state of mind is good “he knows what is what”. Therefore even though Hamlet is confused and upset, and his confusion is like an intense state of mind some say madness but its really just another interesting part of Hamlets character .
 

Assignment for the week of: 3-23_09!!

During my blog this week I wanted to discuss how Shakespeare includes characters in the book Hamlet as foils for Hamlet. Some of them are Horatio, Laertes, Claudius, and Laertes. Im going to talk about how they are alike and different espeacially when responding to crises. Horatio’s is very loyal which contrasts with Hamlet because he’s a person who is very changeable and has the quality of being excitable, even though they both share a love of learning, understanding and reason of thought. Claudius’s another character who is willing to disregard all moral law and act decisively to fulfill his fanticies and lust for power which contrasts powerfully with Hamlet’s concern for morality. Fortinbras’s has a great additude of willingness to go to great lengths to avenge his father’s death, even to the point of waging war and any sort of division that may come with it, this on the other hand contrasts sharply with Hamlet’s inactivity, even though both of them are concerned with avenging their fathers. Laertes’ is one who is single-minded, and has a desire to avenge Polonius whos a opposition to Hamlet’s inactivity with regard to his own father’s death.However even though these characters may differ, Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras are all in a position to seek revenge for the murders of their fathers, and their situations are deeply emotional personal and revengeful. Hamlet’s father killed Fortinbras’s father, and Hamlet killed Laertes’ father, exemplifying the fact that Hamlet occupies the same role for Laertes as Claudius does for Hamlet.
 

“Monday March 31, 2009”

The way Id like to start off my first assignment is by talking about quotes that seemed relavent and that stood out to me one was in act I, scene 2 on pgs (129–158).

“O that this too too solid flesh would melt,Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden,That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead! nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on: and yet, within a month,
Let me not think on’t, Frailty, thy name is woman A little month; or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father’s body Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason,Would have mourn’d longer, married with mine uncle, My father’s brother; but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month; Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married: O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good; But break my heart,—for I must hold my tongue.”
Hamlet say’s this after the fact of going thru the the terrble scene at Claudius and Gertrude’s court, then his mother and stepfather asked him not to come back to Wittenberg but to stay in Denmark, and Hamlet really didnt want to do it. This is when Hamlet thinks about suicide (desiring his flesh to “melt,” and wishing that God had not made “self-slaughter” a sin), saying that the world is “weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable.” This meant that he no longer wanted to live but he wanted to commit suicide , this was the only thing he thought could relieve his feelings and to get away from the life in that painful world/society that he lived in. But Hamlet thinks also thinks that suicide is not really and option for him because of his religious beliefs. Hamlet then starts to describe the causes of his pain, espeacially the fact that his mother married to Claudius. He describes this hateful feelings towards their marriage. Than He compares Claudius to his father (his father was “so excellent a king” while Claudius is a bestial “satyr”). Hamlet then talks about the description of their marriage, he says “Frailty, thy name is woman”; incest, commenting that his mother moved “with such dexterity to incestuous sheets”; and the ominous omen the marriage represents for Denmark, that “it is not nor it cannot come to good.”So his mom really commited incest and he new it was’nt to fond of it either. This is what I got out of act 1 scene 2 . 

Monday March 23, 2009

“Kubla Khan" is more prone to intertain the imagination. Kubla Khan enjoys life and is allways in good spirits I think . In the last line, Coleridge says he drinks the milk of Paradise so therefore that shows that he was’nt cautioning against the imagination. The only way for everyone to get to their own personal "paradise" is through their imagination and thier minds Khan shows you how to obtain that. The Earth will never be a paradise- without imagination during the times we live in. Thats why imagination plays a bing role in life. We could never experience what that might be like without the woderful imagination God created us with. Throughout the whole poem, there is a general sense of indulgence and feelings of what it was like in Kubla Khan's world. Just because he indulgdes himself in ornate things does not make his paradise a bad place. Every once in a while, everyone needs to be indulgent in things of thier intrest.

Some questions that I thought was Relavant!
1. Why does swift use Irony to get his point across about how he feels about the Lilliput leaders?

2. Why do you think that the people of Lilliput tied Gulliever down?

3. What does the height difference of Gulliever represent?

4. From reading what Swift writes about his society what connections we make to the society in which we live today?

Some of the moments that I found to discuss with the class is the size in which they portrayed Guilliver as being verses the size of the Lilliput officials/people. I think that it's of great importance to the txt and to what they were trying to represent.
Many students would find the txt difficult because of the language that the txt uses. I think a great way to help students understand more of the txt is to look at the vocabulary and define the meaning of the words than use and read the definition tom understand the passage. Ex: "lifting up his hands and eyes by way of admiration, cried out in a shrill, but distinct voice, Hekinah degul." The definition of Hekinah degul is a represintation of Pig latin meaning non-sense words! So as we see the definition can difine the whole sentence or paragraph.I leaned much from my small Student teacher group it really helped me to appreaciate the value of others thoughts and reasonings on difficult text as this. I also learned how to disscuss the relivance of the txt in contrasting my thoughts with the society in which we live today.

The role that the doctrine of the brotherhood in which O’Brien proclaims to Winston is one of significance and importance. The reason I say this is because it can have a tremendous effect on Winston’s life. O'Brien is a powerful member of the Inner Party who tricks Winston into believing that he is a member of the revolutionary group. O'Brien inducts Winston into the Brotherhood. Then he appears as though he’s helping Winston's by  pretending  to be connected to the Brotherhood merely to trap and get Winston commit an act of open disloyalty and disrespect to the Party in which he is deceiving him to be part of. Winston trusted and had faith in O'Brien because O'Brien appeard to be someone there for his benifit he thought O'Brien was there to encourage and upbuild him however as time proceeded he realized that he was there for just the oppisite. There was something also created called the INSOC was developed to assist in monitoring the lives of the citizens who lived there. the only way for them to gain control and know exactly what was going on they had to keep close watch on the people who lived there which also served as security purposes. Winston had become very understandable of what was going on he began to think of ways in which he could consume himself from the government by hiding himself in a very secretive way were as though none of the government officials could see him or influence him in the way in which they wanted to. While being incarcerated Winston wrote in his journal book how he use to be surrounded by walls and isolated within his own walls just to hide himself from the cameras of the officials. This was Winstons way of controling what the government could see and couldn't so therefore they couldn't control him because they couldn't see him. The doctrine O'Brien Quoted that "Only the disciplined mind can see reality" I thought that meant that only one who was disciplined mentally and emotionally could understand what was being done to the citizens at that time. O'Brient has really influenced Winston into believing that he's for him and there to help him when really he isn't there for his benefit but for that of his own.