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AP Literature: November 2007
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007. Symbolism is used rampantly throughout Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. And tulips are one of the less discussed symbols. The tulips, quite simply, represent a Handmaid's menstruation cycle. Every time tulips appear in the novel, Atwood is describing what stage of life they are in. These quotes are ordered from the beginning stage of the cycle to the end:. The tulips have had their moment and are now done, shedding their petals one by one, like teeth" (153). Ordinary, ...
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AP Literature: Shakespeare's Tragedy: Macbeth
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Sunday, June 08, 2008. Shakespeare develops this tragedy by creating a character who is struggling through the worst battle one can endure – one against himself. This tragic figure along with the bloody imagery, murders, and the dark tone from the start of the play, “ (Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches. When shall we three meet again /. In thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly's done, /. When the battle's lost and won. That will be ere the set of sun. While a true man. Would have t...
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AP Literature: June 2008
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Sunday, June 08, 2008. Shakespeare's History: Richard III. My kingdom for a horse! Richard III has such incredible control over every aspect of his life, and even controls the lives of others around him. He has a brilliant mind and is master at using language and betrayal to his advantage. The only real challenge Richard faces in the play is when another young man who is good with words converses with him. Richard’s only vulnerability is exposed during his final moment, in battle. I also found that readi...
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AP Literature: Shakespeare's Comedy: The Taming of the Shrew
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Sunday, June 08, 2008. Shakespeare's Comedy: The Taming of the Shrew. Unknit that threatening unkind brow, /. And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, /. To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor: /. It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads, /. Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds, /. And in no sense is meet or amiable. /. A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, /. Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty; /. And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty /. But that our soft c...
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AP Literature: Sound and Sense #251 The Sound of Night - Maxine Kumin
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Sunday, March 30, 2008. Sound and Sense #251 The Sound of Night - Maxine Kumin. This stanza the speaker is now focused on the future - they are settled in, maybe a little accustomed to the noises, although still fearful. They are reassured by the definite coming of the "sweet" sun which will save them, and they concentrate on this to keep their minds off of the ever-present night sounds. Sunday, March 30, 2008. Just thought I would see what impressions you had of the religious quality to the work (obviou...
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AP Literature: Shakespeare's History: Richard III
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Sunday, June 08, 2008. Shakespeare's History: Richard III. My kingdom for a horse! Richard III has such incredible control over every aspect of his life, and even controls the lives of others around him. He has a brilliant mind and is master at using language and betrayal to his advantage. The only real challenge Richard faces in the play is when another young man who is good with words converses with him. Richard’s only vulnerability is exposed during his final moment, in battle. I also found that readi...
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AP Literature: Sound and Sense #212 Money - Victor Contoski
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Sunday, March 30, 2008. Sound and Sense #212 Money - Victor Contoski. That is also a well-known fact. This is the emotional death the speaker is referring to. That plummet into total darkness when all that someone has relied upon turns its back and leaves them. Sunday, March 30, 2008. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sound and Sense #251 The Sound of Night - Maxine K. Sound and Sense #212 Money - Victor Contoski. Sound and Sense #209 Good Times - Lucille Clifton. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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AP Literature: March 2008
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Sunday, March 30, 2008. Sound and Sense #251 The Sound of Night - Maxine Kumin. This stanza the speaker is now focused on the future - they are settled in, maybe a little accustomed to the noises, although still fearful. They are reassured by the definite coming of the "sweet" sun which will save them, and they concentrate on this to keep their minds off of the ever-present night sounds. Sunday, March 30, 2008. Sound and Sense #212 Money - Victor Contoski. Sunday, March 30, 2008. The syntax of this poem ...
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AP Literature: January 2008
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Saturday, January 26, 2008. I managed to find one symbol in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. That we hadn't already discussed fully in class, and it is the Congo River. Obviously, the river is what takes Marlow into the heart of darkness, it is his journey, the path he takes into his inner soul. However, why does Marlow rarely step foot on the land, the actual soil of the Congo? An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". Saturday, January 26, 2008. Trying to find one. In my mind's eye. ".
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AP Literature: October 2007
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Monday, October 22, 2007. Acrobat and The Handmaid's Tale. Criticizes the hypocritical teachings of organized religion: "I must be an acrobat, to talk like this and act like that.". And I'd join the movement if there was one I could believe in. Yeah I'd break bread and wine if there was a church I could receive in" points towards the author's religious beliefs, or rather, lack of belief. This song relates incredibly well with Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
