Oedipus Journal 2

Toward the fork, toward the crossroads. The journey has left me weary but I am soon to reach my destination. I have only a little farther to walk, only a little farther. I can see the crossroad now. I am so tired, i can not keep my head up so I let it hang down. I stare at the dirt path, at my sandaled feet stilling up the sanded road. Ahead in the haze I see a cart, i see a man I see it come closer and closer. I keep walking head hung low, then i hear voices grow louder and I look up just in time to throw myself out of harms way. I shake myself rid of the dirt and I turn to see who this inconsiderate person is. i strike the man, hard, as hard as possible. I was angry. His prod is thrust toward my head but never connects, i strike him once more. I repaid him for the close call he dealt me. On quick blow with my staff and he fell from his seat. I rolled him from the wagon headfirst and I killed him. I killed a man, I killed many men, I killed them all! I am not sorry, i am not. I have done the deed and that is it, no more thoughts shall be wasted on this, no more seconds lost. I have killed the strangers, I have killed them all.

-Oedipus April 23

Oedipus Journal 1

Point of view/ the character of Oedipus:

This tragedy is told through the eyes of King Oedipus. Form the pages I have read for this journal, the whole scene is in The King's perspective. Because the point of view is throughout the king's eyes, who we learn in a very pompous and thinks very highly of himself, puts the reader at a disadvantage. This point of view puts the reader at a disadvantage because it limits the insight they have into the scene because they can only understand the story through Oedipus' eyes. there are very few characters in this first scene, but one feels that they learn very little about any of them, the one one we learn about is the king of Thebes. Through this point of view the reader sees the person of Oedipus, the arrogant and powerful man that he perceives himself to be. This passage focuses on the things he will do for Thebes, the great things he is going to do for the community, and how he will save his people. The point of view elevates the status and importance of the King, because the passage is focused on the king and his actions. This scene is not the most credible because of the King and his heightened view of himself, and also because with only his view we can not find others credible because we can not see into their thought and find what they are saying believable. The author makes the readers not like the King even thought from what he says he is amazing and a great guy. The writer does this through the attitude of Oedipus, because of it we feel a strong dislike to the arrogant ruler of Thebes, which leads us to nt listening or believing the things he says/thinks.

Poetry 2

Hush, just stop
There's nothing you can do or say, baby
I've had enough
I'm not your property

As from today, baby
You might think that
I won't make it on my own
But now I'm

Stronger than yesterday
Now it's nothing but my way
My loneliness ain't killing me no more
I am stronger

Than I ever thought
That I could be, baby
I used to go with the flow

Didn't really care 'bout me
You might think that
I can't take it but you're wrong
'Cause now I'm

Stronger than yesterday
Now it's nothing but my way
My loneliness ain't killing me no more
I am stronger

Here I go, on my own
I don't need nobody, better off alone
Here I go, on my own, now
I don't need nobody, not anybody

Now I am stronger than yesterday
Now it's nothing but my way
My loneliness ain't killing me no more
I am stronger

By Britney Spears

Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines, and Stronger by Britney Spears are both about the same thing, the end of a relationship. Both works use very simple images and words to get their points across. Pabla Neruda and Spears construct their works with a structure that is simple and easy to understand. Both authors come right about and say what they are thinking, that they are done with their relationships and they are moving on. This meaning is not hidden to the reader. They make it very clear to us what the work of expression means. "The last pain she makes me suffer and these the last verses that i write for her" by Neruda and "My loneliness ain't killing me no more, I am stronger", highlight the simple parallel structure in the works. This structure reveals their ability to get over the relationship.

Poetry

This poem is about feeling between two people. The poem is about expression of feeling and communication. The poem is more specifically about the inability to express thoughts and the pain this brings. The speaker says that he is "Penned up between the sea and sadness". This quote expresses the speakers inability to express himself through the word "penned". We understand his trapped feeling because he compares his feelings to being in a cage. He struggles but can not get out. The use of the word sadness illuminates that the inability to express his emotions causes grief and sadness. The pain associated with in-expression shows us the negatives of not showing your feelings.

We can see that the speaker is a male and who he is talking about is a woman. We find clues to this hypothesis in the way the poem is written. the way the speaker talks, he talks with a dominance and a possessive, masculine authority." I have gone marking the atlas of your body with crosses of fire." in this quote we can make a guess this is a man, through the way this is said. He says this with authority and dominance. He references himself., this shows that he is the dominant, that he is the important one. We can tell that he is talking about a woman because of the comparisons to a doll, "Sad and gentle doll". He compares her in a lifeless controllable thing. He talks like she is under him, that she is less than he is.

This poem was written so that the author could finally say the words that he once did not know how to express. I think that the narrator was personally connected to something similar to this. He wanted to express his emotion in a poem. He writes, "I have reached the most awesome and coldest summit". This quote shows the reader that he is writing about his own life because he compares his triumph to something like a goal. He finally reached this long term goal of expression of emotion. He shows this by saying he had reached the most awesome summit. The coldest part of the quote illuminates that this is a true life experience thought the emotion this word evokes. We can see that this is real because of the emotions.

This poem was written using imagery, particularly religious imagery. "Sing, burn, flee, like a belfry at the hands of a madman". Through the image of this crazy man in the tower we imagine a person secluded in a tall tower. The image highlights the way that not being able to express your feelings cuts you off from others. The imagery suggests the outcome of not being able to show your feelings.

1984 Journal #3

Orwell is able to make his dystopian vision of total submission to to authority believable through the characters in his novel. Our protagonist in the novel 1984 does not agree with the dystopian society and the rules that Big Brother places on him and the community. Throughout the novel he goes against the rules by having an intimate relationship, thinking tyrannical thoughts and disrespecting Big Brothers authority. But at the very end of the novel, the last sentence reads, "He loved Big Brother" (297). This quote shows that the dystopian ideals have been successfully instilled into the rebellious protagonists head. They conformed the rebel. The conquering of the protagonist shows the dystopians power and highlights the believability that a society could really work this way. Orwell creates the society in which everyone conforms and agrees with the society or is extinguished.

even though in the end of the novel, out hero protagonist loses his fight against Big Brother and the community, Orwell instills a hope in us throughout the fight of Winston. He fights hard in the book to detach from the society and become his own person the reader feels hopeful that he will succeed somehow and change the community. Though this does not happen, his effort gives us hope that one day it could happen.

1984, Journal 2

The brunette girl that was once thought to be a spy by Winston, the main character but is now revealed as a secret lover of his. True love is not condoned in this dystopian society and they learn to meet in places and talk in secret. This brown haired young fair girl works in the ministry same as him in the fiction department. Her job is to create fiction in the community and to pass it off for truth. She was a quiet girl, which is why Winston originally thinks she is a spy for the thought police. She and Winston realize their desire for each other when Julia slips him a note expressing her feelings toward him. They become secret lovers where nothing is secret. Together they break the rules of Big Brothers community and they have a meaningful relationship. Together they express their feelings toward Big Brother and the society they live in. They share their ideals and their thought, the ones that are death if anyone finds out. Together they face sure death for having a meaningful relationship and thinking tyrannical thought about the community. The thought police finding them out is something the Julia and Winston risk though for the freedom of their relationship.

1984, Journal 1

“In principle a Party member had no spare time and was never alone except in bed. It was assumed that when he was not eating, working, or sleeping he would be taking part in some kind of communal recreations; to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: own life, it was called, meaning individualism and eccentricity” (Orwell 82)

In this passage of George Orwell’s novel 1984, the idea of a dystopian world is conveyed through the structure and routine of daily life. The government is very active in peoples lives, they control your personal lives, they expect and demand that you do as they say. They strongly encourage sameness in the community. They drill into the minds of their members the mottos and values of the town. The state stresses sameness. They do not want you to be different, to have your own opinions, to be your own person. The state watches you all the time. They are active is your personal lives as it says, “there was never any alone time except in bed”. The community encourage you to be active in their community and to do things to benefit the good of it. There are no real social classes, but there is mentioned quite often through out the first part of the novel “A Party member”. The society categorizes the community with parties and demands specific requirements and expectations they must reform to, or else face consequences.

This passage speaks out against individuality comparing it to eccentricity. By doing this we see that the society does not promote individual thinking or personal expression. The society controls all aspects of time, thought and work in someone’s life.