Friday, November 4, 2011

Explain each two line stanza in sonnet 18? please

Concerning your question about Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18," just so you don't leave the answers to your question with a misunderstanding, the sonnet isn't arranged in two-line stanzas.


A Shakespearean sonnet is usually organized in three quatrains (four-line stanzas), followed by a couplet (a pair of rhyming lines).  You can see this in the rhyme scheme of this sonnet:


a b a b c d c d e f e f g g


The rhymes form the stanzas with the combinations of a and b, c and d, e and f, and g and g.


Just to explain, in the first stanza, day and May rhyme, and temperate and date form a sight rhyme.

What was the sonnet (young man) and the (dark lady) about? What exactly was the description of the sonnets?

"Out of the 154 sonnets that Shakespeare wrote, 126 seem to be written to the same person."  He was a rich nobleman and the first twelve sonnets urge him to marry and have children.  After the first twelve Shakespeare changes his tone to one of devotion to the young gentleman.  There has been rumors as to whether his devotion was one of a physical, homosexual nature, but Shakespeare's Sonnet 20 dispels these suppositions. It emphasizes that there existed a loving relationship, but not in the physical sense.

The "dark lady" appears in the last twenty-eight sonnets.  They don't follow any specific order and they address more than one subject and more than one woman.  "One was written to his wife Anne Hathaway, another is about his own soul, "the center of my sinful earth", and the final two are thought to be a pun on the Elizabethan cure for sexually-transmitted disease, sweating in hot tubs."  The Victorians named the mysterious woman, "the dark lady," because he described her hair and coloring as black, which was the total opposite of the woman of Shakespeare's time.  The title of beauty in his day was "fair."  As Shakespeare describes her, she is not fair in any way, "colour, beauty, or morality, and Shakespeare has the intense emotional pain of knowing that she becomes the young man's mistress of the young man he so admires." 

Thursday, November 3, 2011

What are some images of Ophelia?How do this images represten Ophelia?

Assuming that you are asking about the "imagery" that the character Ophelia represents, I hope this analysis helps: Of all the pivotal characters in Hamlet, Ophelia is the most static and one-dimensional. She has the potential to become a tragic heroine -- to overcome the adversities inflicted upon her -- but she instead crumbles into insanity, becoming merely tragic. This is because Ophelia herself is not as important as her representation of the dual nature of women in the play. Ophelia's distinct purpose is to show at once Hamlet's warped view of women as callous sexual predators, and the innocence and virtue of women.


The extent to which Hamlet feels betrayed by Gertrude is far more apparent with the addition of Ophelia to the play. Hamlet's feelings of rage against his mother can be directed toward Ophelia, who is, in his estimation, hiding her base nature behind a guise of impeccability.


Through Ophelia we witness Hamlet's evolution, or de-evolution into a man convinced that all women are whores; that the women who seem most pure are inside black with corruption and sexual desire. And if women are harlots, then they must have their procurers. Gertrude has been made a whore by Claudius, and Ophelia has been made a whore by her father. In Act II, Polonius makes arrangements to use the alluring Ophelia to discover why Hamlet is behaving so curiously. Hamlet is not in the room but it seems obvious from the following lines that he has overheard Polonius trying to use his daughter's charms to suit his underhanded purposes. In Hamlet's distraught mind, there is no gray area: Polonius prostitutes his daughter. And Hamlet tells Polonius so to his face, labeling him a "fishmonger" (despite the fact that Polonius cannot decipher the meaning behind Hamlet's words.)


But, to the rest of us, Ophelia represents something very different. To those who are not blinded by hurt and rage, Ophelia is the epitome of goodness. Very much like Gertrude, young Ophelia is childlike and naive. Unlike Queen Gertrude, Ophelia has good reason to be unaware of the harsh realities of life. She is very young, and has lost her mother, possibly at birth. Her father, Polonius, and brother, Laertes, love Ophelia tremendously, and have taken great pains to shelter her. She is not involved with matters of state; she spends her days no doubt engaged in needlepoint and flower gathering.


She returns the love shown to her by Polonius and Laertes tenfold, and couples it with complete and unwavering loyalty. Her frailty and innocence work against her as she cannot cope with the unfolding of one traumatic event after another. Ophelia's darling Hamlet causes all her emotional pain throughout the play, and when his hate is responsible for her father's death, she has endured all that she is capable of enduring and goes insane. But even in her insanity she symbolizes, to everyone but Hamlet, incorruption and virtue. 

The movie "Sleepers" can one experience change a child so much that he /she becomes a delinquent or an adult criminal?be specific

The answer is absolutely it can.  In fact, a traumatic experience such as sexual and physical abuse for anyone, regardless of age, can change a person for life, and often can lead to very negative, self-destructive behavior on the part of the victim.  What many psychologists and psychiatrists will tell you is that such crimes against children magnify the effects in adulthood.  It changes them during a mentally, physically and emotionally developmental stage in their lives that can change them drastically as adults.  It can also lead to bitterness and anger, unresolved rage, all sorts of issues that could possibly lead to delinquency.


There are also a number of studies suggesting that victims of sexual abuse as children are more likely to become abusers themselves, although this idea is still controversial and certainly not proven beyond doubt.

What influence on events do the occurrences at Andover bear?

Basically, the events in Andover are making the people in authority in Salem worried.  They have heard that the people in Andover have rebelled against the court there.  They are worried that something similar might happen in Salem.


In particular, Rev. Parris is worried about this.  He thinks that the next group of people scheduled to hang will cause problems.  These include Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor.  Unlike other people who have been killed, these two are respected by everyone in the community.  Parris is afraid that if they are killed, the people will rise up against the court like they did in Andover.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

What defeats General Zaroff in "The Most Dangerous Game"?

General Zaroff is defeated by the cunning prowess of Rainsford.  General Zaroff wanted to hunt his ideal quarry which possess the attributes of: "courage, cunning, and above all the ability to reason."  General Zaroff believed that life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong.  The weak of the world were put here to give the strong pleasure."  Obviously  Rainsford possessed all of the above attributes and showed that he was the strong one and Zaroff was the weak one.

Reference:  The Language and Literature Book by McDougal Littell

In Chapter 2 of "1984," what is the bad news delivered through the tele-screen?

Chapter 2 opens with Winston discovering that he did not put away his new diary after having written in it Down With Big Brother, which presages many problems that follow later in the book.  The party, meanwhile, announces that "the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grams to twenty." Such "bad news" always follows "good news," Winston recognizes, this time the "good news" being that Oceana's forces had a "glorious victory" against their Eurasian enemy.  The bad news is ususally true, while the good news fictitious, making a pretense for the bad.

Discuss at least two characteristics of Romanticism in John Keat's poem "Ode toa Nightingale".

The poet in Ode To A Nightingale  is an escapist .He escapes through imagination .On his way the bower of the bliss wher the nightingale is ...