Cuckoo's nest the importance of women

The big Nurse is the prominent woman in this book and the first one we see. Her looks would be as though she is a very good looking woman who takes care of the men which are in awe at her curvacious figure in which she hates. She tries to act real cold but her appearance doesnt portray that but they patients know that there is something on the inside that makes her run like she does. The second reference to a woman is Hardings wife who he accuses of sleeping around but states that she is extremely attractive and that she is the love of his life. But again another reference to a female who is trying to pull a man down in this book. Women in this book are designed to take away a mans strength and humiliate them in a manipulative way without really attacking them.

The Big Nurses Power

Although chief Bromden is a big man himself he sees size as a way of power. Example, the Big nurse. When she gets mad he describes her and says she swells up another sign of getting bigger and more powerful. Eventhough Bromden is bigger he feels smaller because he doesnt have the self confidence or courage to take any action. And better yet has not spoken a word for 31 years. So you can imagine how small the Big Nurse makes that "Big dumb indian" feel. Because the Nurse is so big and powerful her ultimate goal is to keep everything running smoothly and punish those who conform to society. Like not let McMurphy take the men on trips or even let them watch the world series. The Big Nurse must have absolute control at all times and things working exactly the way that she wants them too, and to accomplish that she has trained and worked her employees until she is inside there minds and has them thinking and acting like her and sometimes she only needs to give a look to her employees and they know where to go and what to do. And the instant McMurphy arrives in the ward The nurse and the patients know that he is an instant threat to her control and themselves are a little frightened because they have been in this system for so long and are scared of the consequences from the Big Nurse.

Cuckoos Nest part 2

The ward continues there strike and watches the blank tv pretending that it is the world series. McMurphy has taken some of the reigns in the ward and is challenging the Big nurses authority. The Big Nurse calls a meeting because i believe she is beginning to break even though she never shows it and wants to quit and send him upstairs to Disturbed. She needed a meeting to get her troops together because she believes that McMurphys charm is pulling them away from that ultimate goal that the Big Nurse has. McMurphy has start to make many of the Characters develop by his actions and emotions and have given many of them a confidence that they have never had. Chief Bromden awakes one night and looks himself in the mirror and wonders how there can be such a man like McMurphy and how he is so strong and doesnt let the Big Nurse or anybodys opinions overrule what McMurphy wants to accomplish. Bromden even goes as far as saying " I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was."

Cuckoo's nest Part 1

Chief Bromden has been in the ward forever and is the longest tenured patient. He knows everything that goes on in this ward and leads people on to believe that he is a deaf mute. The ward is ran by nurse ratched who has these patients by the controls and so brainwashed that most of them are in a worse state than when they arrived. So no wonder when R.P Mcmurphy arrives its just a different feel in that waiting area. That day everyone looked at the door to see who was newly entering there building. It was different then they were used to they were amazed but almost scared, they were exited but at the same time intimidated. They have never seen someone with so much confidence and so much spunk, because they would never talk to nurse ratched in the way that Mcmurphy talked to her that day. It was like God had came into the word. His enterance was almost Christ like and had the patients in awe. They anticipated his enterance but at the same time were scared because they never had experienced anyone like McMurphy. Things were about to change around the ward, but it needed some getting used to by the patients and some tolerance on the part of McMurphy to deal with these people on a day to day basis and break the monotamy of the ward.

I really enjoyed the play at the lantern theatre company, there was so much going on that i didnt know where to focus my eyes. I was amazed at how the stage was setup and how they used every inch to there ability and fit it right in with the story. Hamlet was phenomenal is stage movements and comedic timing were awesome and he brought a side of Hamlet that we didnt get to see in the movie nor the book. When there were times that the play needed to be brought back to life Geoff made the energy so much higher and therefore gave the supporting actors a little more motivation. Also, the audience was amazing and i felt like i was right in the middle of the action. I wish all plays were like that and all theatres were set up in that way because it really makes the play come to life and focuses my attention that much more on what is happening in the play. The actors did a phenomal job in that aspect also by incorporating the audience in what they were doing and keeping our attention. We were just as much in the play as Hamlet and Ophelia. Above all that play and adaptation of Hamlet i enjoyed greatly and it actually made me want to maybe do some shakespeare because of the energy and the fun that those actors brought to the stage.

Hamlet Act II

The play within a play worked effectively in Act II, during this "play" Hamlet was reanacting the scene in which Claudius had killed his father to see if he had gotten any reaction because he knew that if Claudius reacted he would know right then and there that Claudius felt guilt and that he actually poisoned his father in the garden. Before, during, and after the play Hamlet acts insane and covers up his jokes to make fun of or exploit the other characters flaws and his pretending to be crazy so he can get closer to Claudius and kill him for what he did to his father. On the other side Hamlet pretends that he is love sick for Ophelia and Polonius believes that is also the reason that Hamlet may be feeling down.

Hamlet starts to show us his crazy side in ACT I in a plot against Claudius who we find out killed his father while sleeping in the garden. Hamlet is taking time to mourn the death of his father and feels as though his soul and everything else hurts and is mad at his mother for celebrating this day for she is marrying Claudius. With her husband dead how can she not mourn but celebrate and forget the passing of her late King. Hamlet still in a state of depression dressed in his black attire walks in to the "party" in a dissaproving manner of his mom. It boggled my mind how one in love can seem to forget and move on so quickly without even thinking or honoring the late king. She even looks at her son like he is crazy because he is hurt by what has just happened to his father while his mother has already moved on and especially moved on with the man who had killed his father. Hamlet is on a mission to get back Claudius and even though we already believe that Hamlet is going crazy shakespeare uses the Ghost to distract us from Hamlets problems and explain that Claudius is the real killer and that Hamlet needs to fight back.

Colleridge and Shelley

Imagery is a huge part of writing in the romantic period and i beliebe colleridge is saying that imagination is allowed, but it should be reasonable because your mind might get too carried away and bring you away from what your life is really like and who and where you are at that stage in your life. I believe he is writing to someone who maybe doubts themselves and dreams big only to be followed by failure. Collergidge is saying it is ok to dream and ok to go after your goals and what you want in life but sit back first and take a look at reality before you go pursuing those dreams that are too big to follow. Anything is reasonable to imagine but to accomplish that feat is an incredible task and thats what i think colleridge is trying to stress.

Yes, I believe that Blake had the power to enact social change. His use of vivid imagery was very persuasive in displaying this little boy's emotion in these hard times. Blake didn't have to explain that the boy was working hours a day at very low wages to express the boy's discomfort. He let the boy create a picture in the readers mind of what that time was like and the struggles of a lower class family at that time. Coming from the upper class though, did Blake really have an idea of what life was like? Or did he use cliches to express the boy's sadness and his alleged "anger" at his parents. I like Blake's use of religion in his poems to express the boys anger towards his parents. He says that his parents are at church praying to a God who has dealt them this hand or that is how I take it atleast. Also that his parents have done nothing for him and yet he has to work day in and day out to make a living for them and put food on the table. This is effective because now as a reader we begin to feel the little boys pain and this society that he has to live in that he has to work at this young age for his parents to still struggle. And this is the imagery that Blake uses to his advantage to hopefully enact some sort of social change.

This week in class we got together in small teacher groups which I really enjoyed because I like when we take the hands on approach to english. I would of enjoyed this project better if we had gotten together as a class first and really analyzed what Swift was trying to portray in this story about society in the eighteenth century, but gaining other people in the groups opinions was very good and helped me further understand the story. Some positives about the teacher groups is you get more than one view point on how other people understood the story and the questions they had and how they comprehended what swift was trying to portray. The negative was that when we had gotten into bigger groups, people had gotten off task and were not paying attention and fooling around which in turn made me less motivated and I didnt learn more about Gulliver. I think it would have been better if we could have presented our findings and questions in front of the class so that they could have critiqued us and gave us there input on the story. Overall I thought this project was pretty good, I enjoy thinking outside the box and hear what other people think about the story and it opens up my mind also and gets me thinking more outside the box.

1984 prompt

Humility is not thinking you are above anyone, very modest and humble. In some cases though humility can be considered as “low” which Winston was in thinking of conspiring against Big Brother. Winston was alone, there wasn’t a person in that government who thought the way Winston thought, and he was alone in the world but believed that he wasn’t in his mind. Winston didn’t have the self discipline to live in that government like everyone else, he had to speak out and for that he would be punished. O’Brien states that he will now lose his sanity but in the next sentence he calls Winston a lunatic. I believe in those couple of lines O’Brien is using reverse psychology on Winston saying that clearly you are unstable because you are against Big Brother. But then contradicts himself by saying now you must come with me while we break you down psychologically so that you are mentally stable and believe in Big Brother and the totalitarian government. Then the breakdown begins because O’Brien says “When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same things as you.” I believe he is trying to make Winston seem like he was crazy in believing that people actually think about conspiring against Big Brother. Maybe his mind did persuade him in thinking that and he was wrong in this situation for believing people felt the same way as he had. Winston should of took notes from his friend Syme, he knew too much and failed to believe it. Winston’s mind ran wild with the thought of conspiracy and that the citizens of the government were all behind him and ready to go against the reign of Big Brother. Winston let his mind take over, in a way I don’t feel bad for Winston because he knew the consequences and he did not have the self-control to keep his thoughts to his self. Now Winston would become like a child and re-learn everything in the world all over again and learn to love and follow Big Brother. In a way I believe that O’Brien could read Winston’s mind. He used Winston’s fear of rats to turn him against Julia and in the end love Big Brother. In the end did Winston love Big Brother because of O’Brien’s interrogation had made him, or because that was his only option and he had finally gained some humility and knew that loving Big Brother was something that you had to do and deal with or else you would be vaporized and forgotten about.

1984

In George Orwell's 1984 there is a lot of stress on Winston and him worrying about committing a thought crime and becoming vaporized. I believe Winston was one of those men like Syme who did know too much eventhough he didnt think that he did and he thought that he was very discreet about his hate for Big Brother. In that sequence when Winston is talking to Syme at the lunch table, the whole time Winston is thinking to himself that this man will die because he will eventually become to smart and powerful and know everything there is to know about newspeak. I believe that Winston in a lot of ways was like Syme and the rest of the people who knew too much and committed thought crimes. Winston knew that Syme knew too much, because Winston was constantly thinking of ways to outsmart Big Brother and somehow conspire against the Government. His hate for Big Brother was later found out by O'Brien which eventually did him in. Winston I believe thought he was smarter than he really was and that led to Julia his "lover" being caught also. Now Julia in my opinion was the more secretive one and was smarter than she led on. We seen her as a woman who only wanted to defy the sexual rules and seemed almost ignorant to everything that was going on around her. She would of never been caught if she hadn't come in contact with Winston. There relationship seemed forced and Winston at times despised Julia and everything she stood for even said he would sacrifice her to the rats. But in the passages before he professes his love to her. There relationship was more sexual than anything and Winston loved her because she was the only one that showed interest in him and was the only person that he really had in his life. It is no wonder that he loved her and hated her at the same time because she is the only one that he showed emotion too. In the end Winston says that he loved Big Brother and gave up all that Julia taught him too believe. Big Brother is bigger than any thing in this book and Winston was no match to take down this dictatorship, the government left the people no choice but to love Big Brother or they would eventually find out and be killed like Winston.