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".

William Blake Questions...3/16/2009

1) I do not agree with the editors of my textbook that Blake had the ability to to enact social change with his poetry. I do not agree because I don't believe that anybody is capable of bringing that much power to people just through poetry. Most people don't know what is going in a poem they are reading, so I don't think that Blake's poems were able to make change in the society he was living in. '

2.) The editors may have included the Parliament transcript as a primary source to show that social change was actually occurring during the time of his poetry. This did not affect my reading of the poem because I don't believe that one poem was able to change the way society acted, I think it was clearly just a big coincidence that it all happened at the same time as Blake's poetry being released.

Jonathan Swift Teach Prep Work

A.) My groups main question was "Why are the Lilliputians doing this to Gulliver?" We wanted to know what Gulliver did to deserve this. Did the Lilliputians have something against him? Was it a power issue? Did the people of Lilliput feel intimidated because of their size compared to Gulliver's?

B.) The small teacher groups that we did this week were very helpful in going deeper into the story and helping us better understanding what was going on in the story. I think it was interesting to hear what my peers had to say about the story and their personal views of the story line. I would like to do something like this again in the future with other novels or stories.

C.) My group decided to first present our question with all of our predictions of what we believed was going on. Our group then went on to make assumptions as to what would happen and why.

1984 Final

O'Brien is one of the major characters in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The main character, and protagonist in the story, Winston Smith feels like he becomes very close with O'Brien, who happens to be an “inner party” member. In this novel the city is set up into a certain society where everything is suppsoed to “perfect” and where nothing can go wrong, and nobody does the wrong thing. Everyone living in this society always did the right thing because nobody knew what would happen if soemthing happened or if somebody did the wrong thing.
The idea of keeping their soceity in an “oligarchical collectivism” meant that everyone living there was under tight control and had little to no privacy and/or freedom. This type of living continued to go on as a result of everyone living in this society being too scared to speak up and say something about what was going on. The main reason was that no one knew what their fate would be if they acted against the party.
Winston always sort of suspected that O'Brien was secretly opposing the party and didn’t like what was going on. After a while O'Brien finally approached Winston and said some things to him that makes Winston think that what he was thinking about O’Briwn was acutally true. When Winston finally gets the urge to confront O’Brien about what was going on, O’Brien basically lets him know that he totally disagrees with the party and would be interested in overthrowing it. Winston believes O’Brien, only to later find out that O’Briwn was enitrely loyal to the party.
O’Brien says to Winston, “They’ve got you too! They got me a long time ago.” The party basically decides the fate of everyone living in their society and can maniupalte them with anything they feed to them. Towards the close of the book we find out that there acutally is no such thing as “Big Brother”, but it is only an imagainated thing to further scare the people living in the society and make them even more afraid to rebel against the party. Eventually, in Room 101, O'Brien does finally get to Winston and torture’s him to finally get Winston to grab on to the philosphy of “Big Brother” and the party, and Winston is finally brainwashed.

Writing In Repsonse to Orwell

The most interesting part of 1984, the novel, to me was the way it made assumptions to the future and guesses as to the way people will live their lives in the future. The author, George Orwell, talks about things that may happen in the future like new inventions and even a new way as to the way we speak. One major topic that 1984 examines is propaganda, which is a big part of our current world. So Orwell discussing propaganda was a good insight as to what did happen in the future. Some of the examples of propaganda in the novel are the messages that are displayed on the “tele-screens”, the names of the ministries, and the posters of “Big Brother” displayed all around the town. This was interesting to me because it shows the way the government and/or media can really change a person’s perspective of something in current events and pop culture. This same thing happens today, mostly with celebrities and tabloid magazines.
Another interesting thing I discovered about George Orwell was that he also wrote poetry, like the one in “Why I Write”. I think it’s cool that he has the passion to write both novels and poetry. The fact that Orwell writes both forms of literature is mind boggling to me because to me the two forms of writing are completely different and require a totally different mind set for each form.