Antigone 4

Creon: She,too. They are all asleep. It must be a good sleep
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Page: I don't know sir

I can't find any meaning but im guessing these lines would contain the most connections to the culture because it is at the very end and it seems like Creon now knows all the answers. The sleep part does however connect to what the Chorus was saying about how tragedy creates tranquility. Creon seems to accept the fact that by him declaring Poly. to be eaten by dogs and what not he subsequently killed the rest of his family. That is also the main point of the long part for the Chorus. It/he/they say that any one little thing can start a tragedy and after that it willl all happen without our help. Now that I think about it these lines are more of a proof for the Chorus that what is said about tragedies is actually true.

Antigone 2

Antigone goes to see Haemon
Antigone and Haemon fight and Antigone leaves
Antigone went to bury Poly.
Nurse catches Antigone outside
Antigone and Nurse talk
Ismene and Antigone talk about burying Poly.
Ismene leaves and Haemon comes in
Antigone and Haemon talk about their fight
Haemon leaves and Ismene comes back in

Antigone 1

I would have a spotlight that would go over each character as they are introduced. The scene would be very dark and the only thing the audience would be able to see is the spotlighted character. Also as each character is spotlighted I would have them do whatever action it is they were doing but more exaggerated. I don't know why but I think that would be a good way to set the stage and by emphasizing each characters action that would help characterize each person.
As far as the stage goes I would have it be all black with the a stair case like one on a porch with no railings be right in the middle. Antigone would be on the top with the nurse next to her. The guards would be standing on the bottom step and ground playing their cards and everyone else would be to the right of them scattered along the steps.

1984 Journal 3

George Orwell's warning is the danger of a government having too much power. In 1984 there is absolutely no limit to what the Party can do thus making the lives of the Outer Party terrible. If a government is allowed to take control of every aspect of life then people will soon lose any purpose to really live. In Stalin's government only the physical parts of one's life were controlled but if this was allowed to continue then Orwell is trying to show that soon people's minds will also be controlled. The language is also being simplified to prevent citizens from knowing any words that could lead to revolting or rebellion. This total control is a complete stretch of Stalin's government but it is a realistic stretch in a sense. Controlling everything is a logical step for a tyrannical government and the prevention of a complete rule by a government

1984 Journal 2

page 18

Before this passage Winston is writing very timidly and is nervous and worried about getting caught. Because of these feelings his writing is awkward and cramped. As he is remembering the day's Two Minutes Hate he subconciously makes a terrible decision in writing down with big brother over and over again. Not only does he write this phrase repeatedly but he also writes in in smooth legible hand-writing. This shows that Winston is confident in what he is doing. Not so much the outcome but the idea that the living underneath the Party is not the only way to live. His good penmanship makes Winston seem like he knows exactly what he has to do and can execute it perfectly. Earlier he is writing about his day which means nothing to him so he doesn't write legibly but because the resistance and overthrowing the party is the only forseeable way to improve his lifestyle, he is able to write wonderfully.

1984 Journal 1

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. 



Juxtaposition
Foreshadowing that fundamental things have changed
Makes Winston seem like he his hiding (anti hero)
Imagery
diction

Stranger Journal 1

I noticed that Mersault has about a 1:5 ratio for work to fun. So far he has mentioned only twice i think but talked about going to the beach, eating at a restaurant, and hooking up with Marie. He also has literally only had one half day of work to two or three days off. There is also a lot of talk about heat. This is mostly during the funeral because it didnt really seem like he wanted to be there

Stranger journal 6

Despite my willingness to understand, I just couldn't. After all, there really was something ridiculously out of proportion. Between the verdict such certainty was based. From the moment the verdict was announced. The sentence had been read at eight o'clock at night and not five o'clock. It could have been an entirely different one. It had been decided by men who change their underwear. It had been handed down. In the name of some  notion called the French.

stranger journal 5

The thing that has changed the most is the way Mersault describes people. In the beginning he called an arab nurse simply "the nurse" but in the second part he refers to arab people in a derogative way. When he's sitting in the visting room in prison he says there were Moorish people next to him. He no seems to be turing into a racist becasue he hangs out with Raymond. I also noticed that when he talks about Marie he doesn't only talk about the sex. He seems more passive on the topic of Marie and focuses more on just the idea of a woman.

Stranger Journal 4

"It was very hot" 66 
"It was getting hotter and hotter" 69
"cymbals of sunlight crashing on my forehead" 59


"It was a very bright white-washed room with a skylight for a roof" 6
"harsh light pouring out of the sky onto the windows and spilling into the room brought on a kind of dizziness"73


"The prison was on the heights above the town, and through a small window I could see the sea" 73
"my room looks out over the mian street in the neighborhood" 21

Stranger journal 2

Marie: I think she is in the novel to show that Mersault is more concerned with things that could physically please him rather than emotionally. She asks him to marry her and his response is it wouldn't make a difference to him whether it happened or not. He has already slept with her and they currently have all the physical connections you could have so he thinks have a legal bond between them would change nothing.

Raymond: These two seem to compliment each other nicely. Mersault has a passive attitude towards the idea of Raymond gertting revenge on his "girlfriend" so he writes the letter without any thought of the consequences. It seems that most people wouldn't want to hang out with Raymond because he is notoriously known as a pimp so Mersault is there to keep him company. The two never really truly connect with each other, they just talk about Raymond's plan and smoke his cigarettes

Stranger Journal 3

I think The Stranger fits this book the best because the other two don't fully describe how Mersault fits in the book. The Outsider makes it seem like Mersault would be on the outside of society or he wouldn't fit in which isn't necessarily true. He is able to assimilate fairly well with the other citizens he just is a little different. The Foreigner would give him an image of having no idea what the customs of the society is in are. He knows exactly what he should be doing he just doesn't do it. A foreigner usually stands out to the indigenous people but Mersault isn't somebody that gets noticed a whole lot because of his passive nature.

Journal 5

They put her to bed and sent for her married daughter from up around Ocala to come see about her.  The daughter came as soon as she could and took Annie Tyler away to die in peace.  She had waited all her life or something, and it had killed her when it found her.
      The thing made itself into pictures and hung around Janie's bedside all night long.  Anyhow, she wasn't going back to Eatonville to be laughed at and pitied.  She had ten dollars in her pocket and twelve hundred in the bank.  But oh God, don't let Tea Cake be off somewhere hurt and Ah not know nothing about it.  And God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me.  Maybe Ah'm is uf fool, Lawd, lad dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus.  Ah done waited uh long time.
      Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark.  he peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.  but pretty soon, he laid all that aside and went about his business dressed all in white.  But it was always going to be dark to Janie if Tea Cake didn't soon come back.  She got out of the bed but a chair couldn't hold her.  she dwindled down on the floor her head in a rocking chair.




Personification of the sun sending spies, it is also a symbol of the sun rising which means something new is coming/beginning. 
Makes Janie seem weak without Tea Cake around
Personification
Juxtaposition? because taking someone away usually has bad connotations but in peace obviously has a more pleasant image
At first she was waiting for something but in the end it had found her which means at some point in time whatever it was she was looking for had began looking for her
By not using parallel structure the 10 dollars that are in her pocket are more important than the money in her bank probably because Tea Cake can hurt her by taking the money she has on her like he had done before
Different types of the word "wait" are used a lot which gives this a sort of impatient tone
Tea Cake is symbolized as Janie's sun because she had just recently left Jody which makes him a new beginning.

Journal 4

So Emilee started to ponder about love. Love, the elegant soul with the suede jacket that lives just over the hills. The elusive one that lived in the house that seemed to have no entrance. What desire has Love for a hiding place, and what call can alert his ear? He lodges in his impenetrable abode which sits above the rest of the world. Remains inquisitive and statue-like all day with his bow drawn back. She was about to discover a button from his jacket at any given time. She was optimistic yet cautious.

Journal 3

It seems like Jody is being characterized in a way that makes him seem almost like a slave master. His actions towards don't show this but how this communities operates does. In chapter 5 I think it was Coker that was talking about how people feel weird talking to him and they bend which ever he blows. He controls what everybody does but not in a hostile way. He uses smooth words but delivers them with a firm tone which the towns people are influenced by. The one person that is not completely under the influence of Jody is his wife. He controls everything she does, prevents her from mingling with the town's people, and makes her work the shop. This is the main reason that I think Hurston is trying to portray Jody as a slave master figure.

Eyes journal 2

And look at the way he painted it-a gloaty, sparkly white. The kind of promenading white that the houses of Bishop Whipple, W. B. Jackson and the Vanderpool's wore. It made the village feel funny talking to him-just like he was anybody else. Then there was the matter of the spitoons. No sooner was he all set as mayor-post master- landlord-storekeeper, than he bought a desk like Mr. Hill or Mr. Galloway over in Maitland with one of those swing-around chairs to it. What with him biting down on cigars and saving his breath on talk and swinging round in that chair, it weakened people.

Imagery


Allusion to the houses of Bishop Whipple, etc.


Consonnance/alliteration? Cigars and saving


Tone: Envious, judgmental

Mood: Jealousy, animosity

Purpose: These techniques show how the village people pay close enough attention to Jody to realize every little thing he does, but nobody has the courage to say or do anything about it. They respect him but criticize almost every aspect of his life because they are jealous of what he has. Jody lives like a big shot in a small town and to some of the people he could almost be seen as a master to the village people being his slaves.

Eyes Journal 1

In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the author refers to the mouth a lot when describing Janie's return. When the people on the porch remember their envy of Janie they "chewed up the back of their minds and swallowed with relish". Hurston also says they "made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs". The reference to the mouth gives these people a rude and almost evil sense and make their gossip seem to be a terrible thing. After Janie walked by everybody started laughing and Mrs. Sumpkins "sucked her teeth". This makes Mrs. Sumpkins seem like some sort of beat that is cleaning her teeth of her evil gossip.


In this book animals and nature are often connected to love. When Janie was sitting under the tree as a young girl  “She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister–calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was marriage”. Hurston also says "In the air of the room flies were tumbling and singing, marrying and giving marriage in return”.  This is foreshadowing that Janie will spend a majority of her time trying to find the right marriage for her.


The tree that Janie sits under symbolizes her innocence as a young girl. She "spent most of the days under a blossoming pear tree in her backyard". Janie connects the blossoming tree with her dreams of having a life filled with love and a wonderful marriage. When Nanny tells her that she wants Janie to marry Logan Killicks, Janie's dreams are killed right then and there: "Vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree but Janie didn't know how to tell Nanny that". The unexpected curveball in her dream made Janie grow up rather quickly thus losing her innocence. "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a women".