Monday, 23 May 2016

Power and Corruption
"I am thane of Cawdor, if good, why do I yield to that suggestion" After Macbeth became thane of Cawdor he gets thoughts on murdering Duncan for the position of king and the witches in his kitchen add to it, Later Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to kill king Duncan whilst he is sleeping. Macbeth's will urges not to kill Duncan and yet Lady Macbeth further convinces Macbeth and his lust for power takes over and kills Duncan. In the end after Macbeth gets the position for King and gets overwhelmed with power.


Nature imagery
"Dark night strangles the traveling lamp,"
After King Duncan is murdered by Macbeth, we learn from the old man and Ross that some strange and "unnatural" things have been going on. Even though it's the middle of the day, the "dark night strangles the traveling lamp," which literally means that darkness fills the sky and chokes out the sun,(an eclipse?)Probably. And in this case, nature itself becomes a symbol for the political struggle. 




Supernatural 
"As sure as I'm standing here, I saw him" Macbeth see's banquo and starts to go mad after the deed was confirmed. Macbeth starts hallucinating and goes mad after killing his friend and see's Banquo in Macbeths seat with a crown atop his head and from this point on he tries to ignore it but gets more paranoid and starts talking nonsense about death. He later gets told a apparition showing banquo in a row along with other "random" people supposedly the successors and each have a crown on top of each of them
 

Blood & Gore
"He's lying in a ditch, with twenty deep gashes in his head" Macbeth orders murderers to assassinate Banquo during a feast and Macbeth starts losing his mind to the witches. The way the murderer confirms that banquo is dead to Macbeth, is to give him gorey details which at the theatre was a theme the audience enjoyed. "My lord his throat is cut that I did for him"
Banquo was told a inexplicit prophecy by the witches which enrages Macbeth to make him have a drive to kill Banquo. Banquo 's prophecy is "lesser but much greater life"  which means his generation is not as great as his successors.


Dramatic Irony
"This castle is in a pleasant place." A sentence usually found in multiple plays which indicates a negative future or bad omen is to come later to the future. In Macbeth it starts of with the witches foretell the prophecy of Macbeth becoming the king which the witches weren't being specific about making Macbeth king in what way, as if in a pacifistic way or a aggressive way.

Monday, 25 April 2016

Soliloquy
When the character speaks out aloud about a decision and change there mind

Dramatic irony
When the audience knows that what the character thinks is good is actually bad

Heroic coupler
At the end of a soliloquy means a decision has been made
2 lines iambic pentameter that rhyme

Friday, 25 March 2016

Genre:
Mystery 
Suspense 
Crime

Theme: Taking care of others
Problems/Conflict
- Thugs 
- Money shortage
- Shelter 
- Weather
- Hunger
- No friends
- Safety
- Accommodation    

Reception
- Links dad runs of with a receptionist 
- Vincent is a selfish and changed links mother completely 
- Forced to move to the streets 
- Getting a job was difficult (Man vs society he is also ashamed)
- Goes to sisters place but doesn't feel the need to be there (Man vs society)
- Hunger becomes a problem (Man vs himself)
- Shelter almost kills Link
-  Rents a room and he goes to the job office but gets declined (Man vs society)
- He gets kicked out of the motel and has to pay in advance
- Link gets his watch gets stolen by a thug


Vince is a catalyst of the story, the reason it all started
Ginger is the mentor of the story and guides the protagonist
Link is the protagonist and seeks to stay alive
Shelter is the antagonist and seeks order
Gale is a interest to reinforce the theme

Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Rough Sleeper's

compassionate: a feeling of wanting to help someone who is sick,
callous: not feeling or showing any concern about the problems or suffering of other people
Plight: Unfortunate situation 
Patronizing: Making them feel below you
unanimous: Everyone agrees 
Vociferous: Expressing opinions or opinions in very loud or forcefull way.
Benign: Wont cause further damage

The difference in real life and in stone cold is that link left at his own will, people usually go homeless because of a shortage of money,in real life they buy alcohol and drugs which in the story is the complete opposite. 

Monday, 22 February 2016

Ode to a large tuna in a market

Here,   
among the market vegetables, 
this torpedo 
from the ocean   
depths,   
a missile   
that swam, 
now   
lying in front of me 
dead. 

Surrounded 
by the earth's green froth   
—these lettuces, 
bunches of carrots— 
only you   
lived through 
the sea's truth, survived 
the unknown, the 
unfathomable 
darkness, the depths   
of the sea, 
the great   
abyss, 
le grand abîme,
only you:   
varnished 
black-pitched   
witness 
to that deepest night. 

Only you: 
dark bullet 
barreled   
from the depths, 
carrying   
only   
your   
one wound, 
but resurgent, 
always renewed, 
locked into the current, 
fins fletched 
like wings 
in the torrent, 
in the coursing 
of 
the 
underwater 
dark, 
like a grieving arrow, 
sea-javelin, a nerveless   
oiled harpoon. 

Dead 
in front of me, 
catafalqued king 
of my own ocean; 
once   
sappy as a sprung fir 
in the green turmoil, 
once seed 
to sea-quake, 
tidal wave, now 
simply 
dead remains; 
in the whole market 
yours   
was the only shape left 
with purpose or direction 
in this   
jumbled ruin 
of nature; 
you are   
a solitary man of war 
among these frail vegetables, 
your flanks and prow 
black   
and slippery 
as if you were still 
a well-oiled ship of the wind, 
the only 
true 
machine 
of the sea: unflawed, 
undefiled,   
navigating now 
the waters of death.

2,3,4 stanza analyses 

The example's symbolizes the tuna's speed
torpedo from the ocean depths, a missle that swam, like a grieving arrow,
sea-javelin, a nerveless oiled harpoon, barreled from the depths, 

Friday, 5 February 2016

Launderette and Ode to a large tuna



LAUNDRETTE
We sit nebulous in steam
It calms the air and makes the windows stream rippling the 
hinterland's big houses to a blur
of bedsits ­ not a patch on what they were before.

We stuff the tub, jam money in the slot
sit back on rickle chairs not
reading. The paperbacks in our pockets curl. Our eyes are riveted. Our own colours whirl.

We pour in smithereens of soap. The machine sobs through its cycle. The rhythm throbs
and changes. Suds drool and slobber in the churn. Our duds don't know which way to turn.

The dark shoves one man in,
lugging a bundle like a wandering Jew. Linen washed in public here.
We let out of the bag who we are.

This young wife has a fine stack of sheets, each pair
a present. She admires their clean cut air
of colour schemes and being chosen. Are the dyes fast? This christening lather will be the first test.

This woman is deadpan before the rinse and sluice
of the family in a bagwash. Let them stew in their juice to a final fankle, twisted, wrung out into rope,
hard to unravel. She sees a kaleidoscope

For her to narrow her eyes and blow smoke at, his overalls and pants ballooning, tangling with her smalls
and the teeshirts skinned from her wriggling son.
She has a weather eye for what might shrink or run.

This dour man does for himself. Before him,
half lost, his small possessions swim.
Cast off, random
They nose and nudge the glass like floatsam l

This poem has no tone since no one talks
The first three stanza are about describing the launderette
The poem itself is positive but has some negative stanzas and some rhetorical question's such as "Are the eye's fast?"

Whether there is a negative or positive there is a meaning behind it and describes the personality or what has happened recently with that person

Stanza 6 Analysis 

This woman is deadpan before the rinse and sluice
of the family in a bagwash. Let them stew in their juice to a final fankle, twisted, wrung out into rope,
hard to unravel. She sees a kaleidoscope

Another wife comes in to wash her family's clothes she is more experienced but her life is depressing the quote "let them stew in their juice" is symbolic to her family. 

Friday, 29 January 2016

Tone and mood

He was walking down the alleyway when he then met a hobo who offered him peanuts, The hobo handed it over and he ate some then he thought to himself these peanuts are making me thirsty.

Tone: Voice of a character
Mood : Setting of story

Friday, 15 January 2016

Charactera

Character's

Flat Character 
Caricature (1 characteristic traits)
Archetype (2-3 characteristic traits)

Round Character 
Landlady. 
The lady is a archetype and billy is a caricature.

Lady: Friendly,Trustworthy,Manipulator,secretive,
The land lady is to billy as a beartrap and a bear


Billy: Polite,Naive,Curious

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Symbol

Symbol
The Boating party by Mary Cassatt
-The child is the daughter of the mother
-The sail is being pushed by wing
-The man is rowing towards the land
-They are married
-They own the boat
-The woman holding the child can represent compassion and caring
-The man rowing the boat represents strength
-The land implies safety
Implicit - Expressed but not directly
Explicit - Expressed directly

Friday, 8 January 2016

Snow and sunset similes and metaphor

Metaphors

- The snowboarder shot through snow as a bullet

the snow flew violently through the air like a group of fighting pigeons 

Simile

- The light blue sky lit up in mornings like a child waking in the morning

-The tree's shuffled in the wind like a person dancing

-The wind was howling as if a person was snoring

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Metaphor

- The Sun was a blazing heat

Simile

- The sun was as red as a robins chest

- The clouds outline were as red as lava cooling

- The sky blazed in heat like hate building hatred