Bianca

Bianca's character in The Taming of the Shrew is a flat character. She doesnt move the play forward but sets the reason for the plot. She may not be important to moving the play forward but she is the reason why the shrew is to be tamed. She is the sister of Katherine and her foil in the play. Even her relationship with Lucentio is the foil to Katherines relationship with Petruchio. Bianca is not a interesting character. She stays the same throughout the play and even her feelings for Lucentio are the same throughout the story because she always felt more for him out of all the men who tried to be with her. She also is in the play but not as a main charater. She is important for the plot of the play but not in moving play forward.

setting the stage

In Shakespeare’s plays he uses language to set the scene such as what time of day it may be. In act 4 scene 5 of The Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare uses this langue to tell that it is day time in the scene. We learn this because of the conversation between Katherine and Petruchio when they argue how the moon isn’t out, it is the sun. Petruchio says “Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!” and Katherine replies “The moon? The sun! It is not moonlight now.” So because of this conversation the audience knows it is day time even if they may not be able to see that it is day. These hints help create less confusion in when the scenes are taking place. Also in the scene another hint to show that it is day time is when Petruchio says “Good morrow” to Vincentio when he enters the scene

Eveline response

In the story “Eveline” by Joyce Eveline the protagonist has a decision to make which is either go with her boyfriend Frank to Buenos Ayres or stay with her abusive father where she says “It was hard work-a hard life”. But when the chance comes for her to finally leave to have a good life she decides not to go. Throughout the story she struggles with her decision. She is unsure of her decision and asks herself “Was that wise?” She goes through aspects of her life like her job that she said she wouldn’t miss that much and her house which seemed like something she wasn’t quite ready to let go. She says “Perhaps she would never see those familiar objects again which she had never dreamed of being divided.” But then she has an epiphany and she realizes that she has to escape. This comes to her when she thinks bout the time of her mother’s death. “She stood up in a sudden impulse of terror. Escape! She must escape!” But when her and Frank are at the boats she doesn’t leave. I think she does this because she feels she still has a responsibility to follow her mother’s wishes to keep the house together. All her family has left and she is all her father has left and if she leaves then her house and family would have been separated. Although she wanted to go with Frank she felt a duty she had to uphold and role to take as a caretaker.

Sympathy for Gregor?

I think Kafka did want his readers to sympathize with Gregor in “The Metamorphosis”. There is a lot to sympathize to with Gregor. Up until he turned into an insect he was the provider for his family and they depended on him greatly. Then when this metamorphosis occurred they seemed to have forgotten all together that Gregor even existed and all he has done for them. They neglected him not even calling him by his name or trying to accept this new appearance he has. Also his father through an apple at him which is one cause of his death and non of his family members even cared to try and take it out or notice that because of it, he was not eating and withering away.

But the passage I think shows the most sympathy for Gregor is when his sister wants to get rid of him and Gregor’s death. The scene where they want to get rid of him is the final straw where they want absolutely nothing to do with him his own family the people who are suppose to take care of you through whatever. This is a very sad thing to hear a family member say especially since Gregor still understood what they were saying and he still felt like he was Gregor, the only difference being his body. After his sister does this “Hardly was he will inside his when the door was hastily pushed shut, bolted and locked….she shouted ‘At last!’ to her parents as she turned the key in the lock”. This shows how much they wanted to get rid of him that they locked and bolted the door. This was to show now they were done with him and didn’t want anymore to do with Gregor. His sister even yelled happily that he was gone. The reason I think this should show sympathy for Gregor is because it shows how his family turned their back on him just because of physical appearance. And it started the very first time they say him as an insect and it just got gradually worst.

Also I thought his death showed sympathy because he dies alone knowing that his family no longer wants him and he again is sacrificing himself for his family (so he is no longer a burden) yet they never sacrificed anything for Gregor. Even before he dies he still thinks positively of his family. “He thought of his family with tenderness and love”. After hearing how they think he must go because he was the “root of all our problems” he still loves his family.

Kafka citation

In his story "The Metamorphosis," Kafka presents a the transformation of Gregor Samsa from a human being into an enormous insect. Gregor has changed physical form, but Kafka clearly indicates that his essential being has not changed in any fundamental way. Gregor still has human feelings and needs, he still wishes to relate with his family and other members of society, and he still wishes to be responsible. As this character analysis of Gregor in "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka suggests, his mother, father, and his sister have not changed form, but their metamorphoses are the most profound because they demonstrate how easily one’s beliefs, values, and basic treatment of others can be compromised because of a failure to adapt psychologically. This new development causes them to turn on him. In his new state, Gregor is particularly vulnerable to his family member’s abuses. His parents and sister, the people who should accept him unconditionally and protect him according to the traditional code of family relationships, are those who abuse him the most. His beloved sister concludes that he should be disposed of, because he isn't really Gregor. His father heaves an apple at him with such force that the apple lodges in his back and becomes infected. Eventually Gregor deteriorates and dies. When Gregor woke up as an insect, his essential identity had not changed; he did not begin to change in his heart until other people's attitudes toward him changed as a result of the metamorphosis of his appearance. What ultimately killed Gregor Samsa was not the physical experience of becoming an insect; it was people's cruelty to him as a result.

Hawthorne free response.

Hawthorne shows through Young Goodman Brown that all people have evil in them which Is why he losses faith in humankind by the end of the story. I believe that when the guide says “Evil is the nature of mankind” the story does agree with this assertion because of how Young Goodman Brown sees people after he leaves the forest. His realization of this evil present in every person is when he says “‘My Faith is gone!’ cried he, after one stupefied moment. ‘There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For thee is the world given.’” So here young Goodman Brown realizes that not all people are good and many have evil sides. He sees this in the forest, where there is evil, and he sees people from the town in the forest as well who are suppose to be these good figures, such as Goody Cloyse. So when the guide points out that “Evil is the nature of mankind” Brown starts to see it more and more. Also when he is in town after this realization he has become very bitter and sees the truth of everyone. He says “When the minister spoke from the pulpit …with his hand on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion….then did Goodman brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.” This is now how Goodman brown sees these people are suppose to be pious people but in actuality they have encountered evil. So because of this it shows that evil is the nature of mankind.

revised plath paragraph

In the poem “Daddy” Silvia Plath uses Holocaust imagery to show her relationship with men in her life. Her comparisons of the holocaust and her past male relationships, mostly pertaining to her father and husband, articulates the cycle of abuse she has experienced with the male figures in her life. Plath compares herself to Jews from the holocaust and you can see that in the quote, “I thought every German was you. /And the language obscene/ an engine, and engine/ Chuffing me off like a Jew. A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen. /I began to talk like a Jew/ I think I may well be a Jew.” This quote reveals the kind of mistreatment Plath feels she has received from men because Plath illustrates her being the victim as Jews shown when she says “ Chuffing me off like a Jew…..” and her father being the mistreating German Nazis. Also the quotes “I thought every German was you” represents the kind of fear she had from these she men she compared to as German Nazis. Jews were afraid of Nazis because of the horrible treatment they put on them and when she says this line it compares the same fear men have made her feel. It also says “A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz…” Here she is comparing the trauma of oppression these men in her life have made her experience and relating it to the trauma of the genocide of the Jews. But it is more a relation to the felling rather than the actual physical treatment Jews had. Through Plath’s imagery she is trying to get sympathy from her readers about her situation and in the Holocaust Jews were sympathized with because of there horrible treatment form the Nazis. The imagery portrays her feelings of abuse she has felt through the years of her life from the men she was supposed to have trust the most.


How I revised this paragraph was first I checked the grammar and spelling and changed any mistakes. Then what I did to improve the content was I explained the quote I used in more depth and I introduced the quote since in class it was said to not just “drop quotes” which is what I did in the first paragraph. These are really the only changes I made to improve my paragraph.