Hamlet post(03/23/09)

i have a feeling that everyone knows something that hamlet is missing as the mother mention to be a friend on danmark or the curiosity of horatio and marcellus for he ghost.
i think that hamlet has feelings about the assassination also before the ghost of his father told him and that what claudius said when he announce his marriage with gertrude was suspicious: you brother is just dead and you are acting like there's nothing new going on, i think that this fact gives us the notice that probably claudius knew it before so he is not shocked and he already knew what he was going to do.
Everything is really organized so you could get suspicious and what the ghost
said defiantly tells us that any suspect was right.
is this two scenes you can tell the corruption of the govern at that age in Danmark and i like the way Shakespeare shows you this corruption through this facts.

Orwell/nineteen eighty-four response

an issue that i really liked of 1984 by Goerge orwell was how the writer can make you feel the fear and the confusion that the main character Winston feels, this kind of govern, that is a mix of the east berlin and the totalitarism of Hitler, point on let people think that less they know better it is and they can do it by a program that works to drive people to a statement of  a sort of madness that let them think that their govern is saving their lifes also when they don't know it so it is their saviour and this way it becomes something about a god for the population.

The attracting part of winston is that he think something but he can't really connect it to his body because he is almost integrated in the system, this character have sometimes thought that could drive to a rebellion but he can't connect them to actual facts, but he can still have independent thoughts.

I read only the first part of the book but i have to say that already from the start you can feel that there's something really non-human going on and you start to get kind of involved in this kind of thoughts.

my conclusion is that people is giving to much importance to what the govern says that is right without thinking with his own head.

Chimney sweeper William Blake

I kind of agree with the editors because Blake could move the pity and the goodness of the people but could also just let them say something like "now stop it, don't exagerate" because his poems are on the edge between something that can be considered serious and something that instead can be considered childish.

The Parliament transcript didn't really affect because i already knew those things but just refresh those information just after the reading makes you think that his poems are more deep then a lot of people could think after the first reading, also because the working condition could reflect the condition of the young boy in the "Chimney Sweeper song of experience".

jonathan swift preparation work

Some questions that i think that are important:

1. Why did swift use irony to explain how he feels

2. what does the size of gulliver mean to us?

3. Why does swift make the people so mean to gulliver?

4. Why is gulliver so nice and calm to them?

Some of the things that i wanted to discuss with my classmates was the way swift showed gulliver as being a prisoner to the lilliput people. I think that it means something important the way they made people look at him as he was something like a danger for their community.

I think that many students found this story very hard because of the different types of language he uses and because of the ancient english, or anyway i found it hard and i think that have a vocabulary near you while you read can help, or maybe someone that knows the meaning of ancient english words.