In As I Lay Dying the youngest character, Vardaman, is also one of the most confused and unintelligent. He has no real common knowledge and he doesn't understand a lot of things that are happening. He doesn't understand his mothers death as he relates it to a fish, and he doesn't really understand family and some values.
Vardaman is the youngest so from the start we can see that he is not going to have the most knowledge in the book. He is further confused by the family that he has. His mother is sick and dies, a father who does mostly nothing, a talented brother that is a carpenter, another one who seems more like a father tot he family, a sister who is pregnant, and another brother who relates to no one in the family but his mother. This could be the main reason why he is such a confused child. One of the most intriguing things he does is relatng his mother to a fish. This could either represent how is confused about the death of his mother and how he is having a difficult time dealing with it. Coinccidently his mother is lost in the accident of the river, foreshadowed future of Vardaman calling his mother a fish. It also seems that in this scene we find out who his role model is or was. He seems to belive in Darl the most but when he looses his mother he looses faih in Darl also,
As we see Vardaman is the kid in the family and is really confused. This is his main characteristic in the story and its what makes Vardaman who he is. He doesn't know whats really going on and soon he'll grow to find out what things really are.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
P-O-W-E-R
In Margaret Atwood's "Siren Song", Atwood used imagery and repetition to show how women have control over men. Atwood uses the siren to show this control that the men are trapped by.
The poem talks about sirens warning the sailors of the song they sing. The siren tells the luring men that this song brings death to anyone that hears it, yet the men still are drawn to it. This not only gives us a tone of warning to the poem, but it also shows the uncontrollable desire that men have for sirens, or women.
The poem constantly refers to the word I. The repetitive use of the word I can show the sirens dominance over the men she sings to. It also lets us see that the poem is more about this deathly controlling sirens song than the men dying from it. The last three stanzas focus more on the men, constantly using the word you. The song is only for you, referring to the men in general. It only works on men and that shows the female dominance over men in both the poem and in a way the real world. The men don't have to want and pursue these assets from women but, they are urged to which also brings their deaths.
The imagery used also shows the power that the sirens have over men. "To leap overboard in squadrons" show that the men are ready to jump in groups to hear this song or chase what these women have. Even though they see beached skulls they still don't stop. This shows the control that females have over male actions, and both the physical and emotional state.
The men are drawn to this beautiful yet deathly song which could represent the women and their assets. The men are drawn because what the women have , they need, and now with that uncontrollable need in their minds and hearts, the females or sirens gain control and power over these helpless men,
The poem talks about sirens warning the sailors of the song they sing. The siren tells the luring men that this song brings death to anyone that hears it, yet the men still are drawn to it. This not only gives us a tone of warning to the poem, but it also shows the uncontrollable desire that men have for sirens, or women.
The poem constantly refers to the word I. The repetitive use of the word I can show the sirens dominance over the men she sings to. It also lets us see that the poem is more about this deathly controlling sirens song than the men dying from it. The last three stanzas focus more on the men, constantly using the word you. The song is only for you, referring to the men in general. It only works on men and that shows the female dominance over men in both the poem and in a way the real world. The men don't have to want and pursue these assets from women but, they are urged to which also brings their deaths.
The imagery used also shows the power that the sirens have over men. "To leap overboard in squadrons" show that the men are ready to jump in groups to hear this song or chase what these women have. Even though they see beached skulls they still don't stop. This shows the control that females have over male actions, and both the physical and emotional state.
The men are drawn to this beautiful yet deathly song which could represent the women and their assets. The men are drawn because what the women have , they need, and now with that uncontrollable need in their minds and hearts, the females or sirens gain control and power over these helpless men,
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The bait
In John Donne's, "The Bait" Donne uses metaphors and diction to show how women, in a sense, or are more like the bait in a pond and how the men are the fish. Donne talks about how the bait lures him in throughout the entire poem and also shows how the other men are lucky from straying from the bait.
Through the first half of the poem Donne shows the bait as something that he needs to have. Using lines like "Warm'd by thy eyes, more than the sun;" shows that, at least in the beginning, that Donne wants the confort of this bait. This is the one thing that he wants more than any other and that he is the best "fish" for this bait. Donne also shows his love for this bait through all stanza's comparing himslef to other fish and bettering himself.
The bottom half of the poem Donne realizes that he is entrapped by this bait. This bait, being a woman, has trapped him and he needs it more than anything. He now compliments the other fish for not being lured in. Telling them in stanza five "Let others freeze with angling reeds,And cut their legs with shells and weeds,Or treacherously poor fish beset,With strangling snare, or windowy net." He warns them of the danger of love and this bait that women are throwing out. This is Donne's main point through the poem. The bait is not actually his love but more like his trap or prison. The bait has captured him.
Through the first half of the poem Donne shows the bait as something that he needs to have. Using lines like "Warm'd by thy eyes, more than the sun;" shows that, at least in the beginning, that Donne wants the confort of this bait. This is the one thing that he wants more than any other and that he is the best "fish" for this bait. Donne also shows his love for this bait through all stanza's comparing himslef to other fish and bettering himself.
The bottom half of the poem Donne realizes that he is entrapped by this bait. This bait, being a woman, has trapped him and he needs it more than anything. He now compliments the other fish for not being lured in. Telling them in stanza five "Let others freeze with angling reeds,And cut their legs with shells and weeds,Or treacherously poor fish beset,With strangling snare, or windowy net." He warns them of the danger of love and this bait that women are throwing out. This is Donne's main point through the poem. The bait is not actually his love but more like his trap or prison. The bait has captured him.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
The Good-Morrow
In The Good-Morrow John Donne uses metaphors and imagery to represent his feelings of love. This poem by Donne is filled with these metaphors and the images that surround them making them more clear. One of the major metaphors within the poem is the actualy love that is being expressed and it is made more clear by some of the images that are used to represent it.
The metaphors that are in all three stanzas. The first stanza states "But I sucked on country pleasures, childishly?" Donne asks himself did he continue to go along with the love, childishly and instead of realizing whats really going on. The imagery he uses with country pleasures also give us a sense that this was something favorable to Donne, something pleasant. The second stanza states "For love, all love of other sights controls". This lets us kno that love is controlling every aspect of his life and the imagergy to support it comes in line 14 where Donne talks about the world as one, love conquering all. The last stanza states "Where can we find two better hemisphere, Without sharo north, without declining west?" This tell us how rare it is to find two perfect loves exactly perfect for each other, while at the same time it is its own imagery.
Donne used the metaphors along with the imagery to show how his love was so addictive controlive and yet perfect. These metaphors gives us better insight on how serious and deep this affection is and how it is like the title, yet another metaphor, The Good-Morrow.
The metaphors that are in all three stanzas. The first stanza states "But I sucked on country pleasures, childishly?" Donne asks himself did he continue to go along with the love, childishly and instead of realizing whats really going on. The imagery he uses with country pleasures also give us a sense that this was something favorable to Donne, something pleasant. The second stanza states "For love, all love of other sights controls". This lets us kno that love is controlling every aspect of his life and the imagergy to support it comes in line 14 where Donne talks about the world as one, love conquering all. The last stanza states "Where can we find two better hemisphere, Without sharo north, without declining west?" This tell us how rare it is to find two perfect loves exactly perfect for each other, while at the same time it is its own imagery.
Donne used the metaphors along with the imagery to show how his love was so addictive controlive and yet perfect. These metaphors gives us better insight on how serious and deep this affection is and how it is like the title, yet another metaphor, The Good-Morrow.
Monday, November 17, 2008
End
The sex left and everyone flipped. Fitst the women didnt wanna do it but they eventually gave in. The men went crazy when they found out. They couldnt overpower their wives because they didnt have the will power or the mental strength did. So the strong Lysistrata overpowered. I wonder whats going to happen next.
Why cant we be friends?
Why are two of the powerhouse in one state fighting. Thisis like fighting your own family. Lysistrata put it best when she told them that they rely on each other for help. Luckily the men had women as strong as their ego's were.
Strong Woman
Wow Lysistrata is such a leader in this play. Not only does she call all these women and get them to obstain from sex, she did it alone. Even in the eyes of savage men she never backed down to them. It is true that Lampito helped her but never the less it was most of Lysistrata's idea. She even got the result she wanted and in less than a day. Thats a string woman.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
