Post #8 Coded Passage

Oh, beware, my lord, of jealously!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!

1)Translation: Be careful of jealousy. It mocks both itself and the sufferer of jealousy. It is it's own punishment. A husband who knows his wife is not faithful can at least find comfort in knowing the truth. That way, he can stop loving her or stop being friends with her lover. What a burden is it to both love, doubt, care and have suspicions. 

2)    =metaphor of jealousy 
     , =repeated use of commas
       =feelings Othello (will) has/have
       =repetition of the word "Who"

3)Iago is saying that a man that is jealous is only hurting himself. The reason is that we create jealousy ourselves, in our own mind. He is warning Othello to be careful because it can come back to haunt us in the end. Jealousy leads to doubts, assumptions, and the loss of trust in a relationship. Essentially, destroying the relationship as a whole.
    

Post #7 1/8/13

The consequences of jealousy are often destructive to a relationship.

Many people say that jealousy is good in a relationship because it shows that you care. But to an extent jealousy can be scary and destroy the relationship. The basis of where jealousy comes from is mistrust and doubt, and this causes uneasiness. Jealousy is something that is all in our head, created in our mind.

Venice:

-Venice is a city located in northeast Italy

-In the 16th century, Venice became one of the most important musical centers of Europe

-During the 16th century, Venice experienced an economic crisis. The Eastern market was lost and Venice ceased to be a Mediterranean power

Cyprus:

-Cyprus is located in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt

-In the 16th century, Cyprus was overtaken by the Ottoman empire

Moors:

-Moors were the medieval Berber Muslim inhabitants of Morocco 

-Moors came from Mauritania and Northwest Africa

-In the 16th Moors were trying to leave Spain/Europe because they were being persecuted 

Turks:

-The Elizabethan people did not like or trust foreigners because they were "outsiders"

-Non-Christians were rare so they were considered extreme foreigners

Epilepsy:

-The only visible symptom of epilepsy is seizures

-In the Renaissance, epilepsy was treated with copper, zinc oxide, silver nitrate, mercury, bismuth, and tin

-During the Renaissance, anyone with epilepsy was considered brilliant or prophets

-It was regarded as a horrible disease during the Renaissance

-Today, epilepsy can be treated with medication and surgery

-Today, epilepsy is regarded as a sad disorder

Post #6 "Easter 1916"

4th Stanza:

Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?---------(Suffice: be enough)
That is Heaven's part, our part     (God's job to stop the fighting)
To murmur name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come  (Sleep another way of saying death)
On limbs that had run wild     (That once was alive)
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it a needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love             (love for Ireland)       
Bewildered them till they died?    
I write it out in a verse-
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Conolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,    
Wherever green is worn,    (Color for Ireland)
Are changed, changed utterly:     (Lines are once again repeated from stanza 1 and 2)
A terrible beauty is born.

• Words with same highlights rhyme
• Certain people stated as referred to from stanza 2
• Places
• Underlined means the word is repeated

This last stanza of the poem "Easter 1916", William Butler Yeats is basically trying to say, is everything worth the outcome to make today today? When will all the deaths be enough, now that the people that once were living are dead. Forever they will be dead. The last two lines have been repeated throughout the poem and I think that the "terrible beauty" is the people who started everything, the revolutionaries. And "changed utterly" refers to Ireland never being the same again.  

Post #5 The Piano Lesson

     I believe that "the piano lesson" is about facing your fears, moving on, and letting go of what's holding you back. August Wilson chose The Piano Lesson as a title because the majority of the novel revolved around the piano. Boy Willie comes to understand the importance of the piano when Berniece plays on it and Sutter's ghost disappears. It is significant that Berniece call out the names of her family members because it's as if she is giving them permission to go to the after life. It serves to show that Berniece has accepted the fact of the past and is moving on.

Post #4 Downward Path of Upward Mobility

1. Fareed Zakaria thinks that social mobility is going down in the United States because evidence shows how  it has stalled in our country. The US welfare spends very little on the poor, in the past moving up in America was more probable than moving up in society today. I agree with Zakaria, when you're born into poverty, the chances of you moving up in status is not as high compared to other places in the world. America isn't what it used to be.

2. The biggest factor for getting the US back on track with the American Dream and social mobility is income inequality. Tax increases on the rich will do little to change the basic trend. This is making it hard for the US to have social mobility because it's more difficult to earn as much money as a rich person.

Post #3 Piano Lesson Act 1

1. The ghosts of the Yellow Dog are the spirits in limbo. They are the spirits of the people that have already passed away, people like Crawley.

2. So far the "n word" has been used in a casual tone by Boy Willie with those that he knows.

3. The Irene Kauffman Settlement House is place that helps the less fortunate.

4. Parchman Farm is a historical reference to a prison.

Post #2: The Beast

PASSAGE 9 (page 143-144)

"You are a silly little boy," said the Lord of the Flies, "just an ignorant, silly little boy."

     Simon moved his swollen tongue but said nothing.

     "Don't you agree?" said the Lord of the Flies. "Aren't you just a silly little boy?"

     Simon answered him in the same silent voice.

     "Well then," said the Lord of the Flies, "you'd better run off and play with the others. They think you're batty. You don't want Ralph to think you're batty, do you? You like Ralph a lot, don't you? And Piggy, and Jack?"

     Simon's head was tilted up. His eyes could not break away and the Lord of the Flies hung in the space before him.

     "What are you doing out here all alone? Aren't you afraid of me?"

     Simon shook.

     "There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm the Beast."

     Simon's mouth labored, brought forth audible word.

     "Pig's head on a stick."

     "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!" said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?"

     The laughter shivered again.

     "Come now, " said the Lord of the Flies. "Get back to the others and we'll forget the whole thing."

     Simon's head wobbled. His eyes were half closed as thought he were imitating the obscene thing on the stick. He knew that one of his times was coming on. The Lord of the Flies was expanding like a balloon.

     "This is ridiculous. You know perfectly well you'll only meet me down there--so don't try to escape!"

     Simon's body was arched and stiff. The Lord of the Flies spoke in a voice of a schoolmaster.

     "This has gone on quite far enough. My poor misguided child, do you think you know better than I do?"

     There was a pause.

     "I'm warning you. I'm going to get angry. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on the island! So don't try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else--"

     Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was a blackness within, a blackness that spread.

     "--Or else," said the Lord of the Flies, "we shall do you? See? Jack and Roger and Maurice and Robert and Bill and Piggy and Ralph. Do you. See?

     Simon was inside the mouth. He fell down and lost consciousness. 

S = Alliteration:

W = Alliteration:

M = Alliteration:

Lord of the Flies = Repeatedly Used

silly little boy = Repeatedly Used

                      = Words Given As If Parent-->Child (Lecturing)

                      = Foreshadowing
? = Continuous Questions 

Simon is the first character to realize that the beast is not something the boys can hunt or kill, but something in themselves. Not only that but he is the first one to die as well. He rarely shares his thoughts and when he does, his thoughts are cast away. William Golding gives Simon a gentle and quiet personality, different from the others. Similar to Piggy, Simon is almost like an "outcast" from the group of boys. In this passage, Golding shows Simon talking to the beast (himself). His diction gives off a feel of a parent lecturing a child or a teacher scolding a student. It foreshadows what is going to happen to Simon later in the novel. Simon talking to the beast, which is himself, shows that the beast is not something physical. Towards the end of Lord of the Flies, Simon is murdered by the group of the boys. Simon may have died being the only one aware of what the beast actually was, a monster inside themselves.