PART IV

In part 4 Nurse Ratched finds out that Bibbit and Starr had sex. The nurse sends him to visit Dr. Spivey but in the mean time Bibbit commits suicide. Ratched blames McMurphy for what Bibbit did to himself, he gets so mad he attackes Nurse Ratched. McMurphy is sent to Disturbed where he gets a labotomy performed on him. By the time McMurphy is back most patients have checked themselves out and the ones left refuse to belive that the guy who was labotomized is not McMurphy.

PART III

In Part 3, especially during the the fishing trip scene, the patients start to learn more about themselves and become more comfortable with their illnesses and try to better themselves. One of the first things that McMurphy said when he arrived to the hospital was that no one in the ward ever laughed. but on the fishing boat, everyone is laughing and having a really good time. After being in that hospital for so many years and being stuck inside, they patients are finally receiving "treatment".

PART II

In Part 2 McMurphy is starting to really have a positive influence on the other patients. He understand the other patients and realizes why they are in the ward just like him and tries to help them out and figure out ways to better their treatment. But the most important thing that happens in this section is the change that starts to takes place in McMurphy and the kind of person he is. He is beginning to realize that he has some responsibility to the other patients and then he learns that almost all of them are in the hospital voluntarily, and he starts to feel a little different.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: PART I

Part 1 talks about the first week that McMurphy is in the ward, he is also the main character and narrator. There are already signs that he is starting to have an effect on the patients. For example, Chief Bromden, although he is over six and a half feet tall, feels himself to be small and weak. McMurphy also gets Harding to admit that the Big Nurse is not helping them, but keeping them under tight wraps and treating them like children. McMurphy forces them to see that the therapy sessions that are supposed to be helping them are in fact having the opposite effect. McMurphy tried to show everyone what is really going on and basically get the fact across.

Hamlet Act II

For Act II of Hamlet I decided to discuss why the player in Act II decides to speak an excerpt from "The Aeneid":

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC that tells the story of Aenaes, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, and became the ancestor of the 'Romans'. The player who comes to put on a play for Hamlet and his family and friends reads an excerpt from the Aeneid. The reason, I believe, Shakespeare chose this certain epic poem to add to his story was because it shows Hamlet's fear and hesitation of killing his uncle, even though he really wants to. Hamlet tries to kill his uncle but in unsuccessful at first because of his fear and hesitation to do so. I think Shakespeare was smart to add to this excerpt because it secretly ties in with Hamlet's own personal struggle, without having to say it straight forward to the audience what was going on.

Hamlet, Act I

I decided, for Act 1, to discuss the struggles Hamlet goes through after the death of his father and how he tries to deal with his pain and anger:

Hamlet is so upset by his father’s death, that he too wishes to die. He feels as if he is an unlucky person stating that “O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into dew" in Act 1, scene ii, lines 133-134. Hamlet seems to hope that if he was to die, then he would become cleansed and just be done with everything and forget about all the bad stuff in his life. Hamlet also realizes that committing suicide would be considered a sin in the eyes of the “Everlasting” God (Act 1, scene ii line 135) who with hall this “canon ‘gainst self slaughter! line 136) would prevent him from reaching heaven and would be considered evil in the eyes of God and would therefore go to hell.

Coleridge and Shelley

1) The power of the imagination is often exalted in Romantic poetry. In your opinion, does “Kubla Khan” celebrate the imagination or caution against its indulgence? To whom might Coleridge be writing and for what purpose(s)?

Kubla Khan, in my opinion celebrates the imagaination. I say this because the way the poem is written makes it seem that the author, Colerdige, is trying to make a point naming the poem "A Vision in a Dream". The name of the poem makes it seem as if the whole thing is a fantasy and that the whole idea comes from the authors mind and imagination. As to whom Coleridge may be writing to, I would say that he is writing for his own desire to get his ideas down and just get them out of his head. The purpose of his writing may be to just free his mind and clear his thoughts and to take notes on his imagination.

2) Even in the brief space of a sonnet, Shelley suggests a number of narrative frames. How many speakers do you hear in "Ozymandias"? What does each of these voices seem to say to you (or to others) as listeners?

In the sonnet, "Ozymandias", I hear only one speaker throughout the whole sonnet. I do not hear numerous voices becuase the sonnet just flows freely and dosen't seem to have different sections or "voices".