Marielena’s Comments (group member since Jan 20, 2015)

Marielena’s comments from the Morales 2341 Spring 2015 Class MW group.

Hilda wrote: "Tolstoy might consider Ivan’s “simple and commonplace” life to be “horrifying" because Ivan had an ordinary life. At first his life is described as being pleasent. After marrying his wife it still ..."

i agree with you hilda i agree with the responds you give based on Ivan's life and how it dramatically changes. life has a way of flowing in different directions and Ivans life unfortunately did not go the way we consider normal it was painful and solitary.

In chapter two Tolstoy explained “Ivan’s Ilych’s life as most simple and commonplace and most horrifying” because Ivan was going trough a lot of changes in his life in chapter two. Ivan was in a place in life that everyone experiences, when there is new beginnings, right before marriage, mainly when people are at the age of wanting to settle down but at the same time not wanting responsibility. At one point Ivan decided to get married and his life was based on expectations. Every thing Ivan did was expected from everyone else so Ivan was always basing every action he did according to what was expected. After marriage life was not what he himself expected because of the result of his marriage life. Ivan’s wife Praskovya Fyodrovna was a psychopath because she could not control her jealousy and was given Ivan too many problems and the more Ivan ignored his wife Praskovya the worst Ivan’s marriage would get so what Ivan eventually ended up doing was staying at home and focusing on his new jobs. A great quote directly from the story is “ Praskovya Fyodrovna, and Ivan llych began to use his official position and the duties arising from it in struggle with his wife to fence off his own independent world apart”. That is why I believe Tolstoy considered Ivan’s “simple and commonplace” life to be “horrifying because of how Ivan’s life was turning out and Ivan’s jobs were well paid but not so exciting jobs. My favorite quote was “ as a fly to the light, to persons of good standing in the world, assimilated their manners and their views of life, and established friendly relations with them.”

Hilda wrote: "In the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the grandmother can be defined as a misfit herself. She is manipulative and judgmental.  She takes the cat along even though her son didn’t want to arrive..."
Hilda I agree which your respond because the grandmother is a perfect example of a misfit character in the story. She is in fact very manipulative and judgmental about every situation in the story. She does things everyone else does not want to do and she is always making everyone mad at each other and at herself.

The grandmother is a crucial character in the story because she is in fact one of the characters that wishes to tour the planation when the rest of the family does not want to go visit the plantation first. The grandmother also wants to bring the cat on the trip, which is another out cast situation everyone has to deal with because no body wants the cat on the trip. Through out the story there is a character that is called the “misfit” which is basically a nickname for a person that does not fit into the situation or what everyone considers a normal family. Another misfit in the story is “grandmother” because she is always not fitting into the situation; she always wants to do something else or has a different viewpoint on things. A perfect example is when the story begins with the grandmothers point of view dealing with negative opinions about the family trip,” The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Baileys mind”. So I do consider the “grandmother” has a misfit character in the story. My favorite quote was when “Red Sammy says “ Everything is getting terrible. I remember the day you could go off and leave your screen door unlatched. Not no more”.

Hilda wrote: "I agree with the statement, Alfred Prufrock shows frustration and "incapable of decisive action. " At first he is afraid to ask the big question and he goes back and fourth thinking about his life...."
Hilda, i agree with the statement of Alfred also the frustration and impotence of the modern individual; a modern, urban man who feels isolated and incapable of decisive action. i also was for the agreement because the situation is true of a modern man.

Prufrock is a perfect example of the frustration and impotence of the modern individual so I argue for the statement. Modern individuals are very insecure and undecided, making desion based on how people will react to there decisions. Basing the future on what other people think is the correct lifestyle or outcome of life. A modern, urban man who feels isolated and incapable of decisive action. He represents the thwarted desires and modern disillusionment. Line 120 gives a perfect example on the questions Prufrock is asking himself “ Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each”. Frustration is at the highest when getting to a point of asking a question for everything that he is doing, even on the election of fruit, representing maybe even to a point a physiological perspective. Another perfect example that Prufrock is like the modern individuals today is when he states in line 30, “ And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions. My favorite quotes in this love song are in line 75 “ And the afternoon, the evening sleeps so peacefully!” and “ For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

In the short story of Mr. Wright and Minnie there is conflict due to love. The kind of love where, hope is lost and a sparkle of joy is left. Mr. Wright took away the only sparkle Minnie had left after taking her dreams in the choir away. Minnie’s reaction is physiologically a way of her responds towards her husband who was the murder of the only spark that gave Minnie hope. Mr. Wright was really wrong in taking what Minnie loved more in this world because she felt she had to take justice into her own hands. I agree that “Minnie Wright’s murder of her husband would be condoned by feminist critics… as a defiance of patriarchy” because the sheriff and the attorney are very judgmental when it comes down to the women who are in the story called Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale. In conclusion what Minnie had done was a crime in all matters of the law, but Mr. Wright was not going to be condemned for strangling her bird as Mrs. Wright was going to be condemned for strangling her husband. My favorite quote was when Hale starts to make his declaration about Mrs. Wright and get to the part where he is disturbed asking for Mr. Wright and Mrs. Wright Laughs. “And then she laughed. I guess you would call it a laugh”. I think that was a responds of revenge on her part.

Hilda wrote: "Eveline wants to escape but doesn’t know if she should. She sits by the window thinking about her past memories. “She had consented to go away, to leave her home. Was that wise? She tried to weigh ..."

Hilda i agree with your decision because i also believe Eveline was afraid to start over and be respected. Eveline want to start over but didn't find enough reasons to do so, and decided to stay.

I think Eveline did not make the right decision because she made her decision based on fear. Eveline was afraid of leaving everything behind, and leaving her comfort zone. Of course Eveline was going trough a rough time in her life like everyone else, but she missed the opportunity to live her own life and create her own story. Eveline said it her self “ She would not be treated as her mother did”. Eveline was comparing her decision and love life with her mothers experience with love and made her final choice with fear and decided not to go with the person that made her feel alive, “ Frank would save her. He would give her life, perhaps love, too”. Frank would give Eveline the opportunity to feel and experience new adventures without being in a daily routine and with her father on her back. But because of fear she decided to let Frank and everything that was maybe going to be a wonderful life go in a second of doubt. Know Eveline will live the rest of her life until her father dies under his command and in fear, wondering what if she would have followed Frank to Buenos Aires, what if she would have given her self the opportunity to believe in someone that wanted to spend the rest of his life with her, and save her from the nightmare she was living in.

Hilda wrote: "In the poem “Porphyria’s Lover” it could be reffered as the love obsession that a man can have for a women. In the poem the man is obsessed with Porphyria. "Made my heart swell, and still it grew W..."

Hilda i agree that the poem is referred as the love obsession of a man towards a women.But that love and obsession towards Porphyria did lead her to death because of the man that strangled her. i like the quote you choice as your favorite line because it describes perfectly what is happing in the poem.

Browning’s intentions when writing this poem was to help his readers under stand a different kind of love there can be towards a person. The narrator’s obsession for Porphyria is a love that the narrators is willing to keep forever because he knows that expectations will take his love away. In reality looking at the situation from a different perspective I believe that when a person is in love there is no kind of harm towards the person that is loved in any way. Society in the past and todays is very much alike because society can persuade people to not follow their hearts. Porphyria I believed was being pressured to not follow her heart and obey the rules of society, so the narrator in such way knew what the situation was and decided to keep Porphyria by his side forever by taking her life. The poem is a very interesting poem because the poem is very unexpected in many ways starting of with a romantic setting. “ I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, and kneeled and made the cheerless grat Blaze up, and all the cottage warm,” And then ending with a disaster “In one long yellow string I wound, Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain.”

Hilda wrote: "Act I , Scene III


BANQUO: That trusted home
Might yet lead you to get the crown,
Besides the thane of Cawdor. But it is strange:
And sometimes it will win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkn..."

Hilda I really like this scene because both Macbeth & banquo are deciding over the power of good or bad. Weather to listen to the three witches or go with their right quest. Love your choice of scene very interesting part of the play.

ACT IV, SCENE II
Setting: the castle (a modern home) Lady Macduff & Son
Lady Macduff: your father is dead;
And what will you do now? How will you live?
Son: As birds do, mother.
Lady Macduff: What by eating Worms and flies?
Son: With what I have been taught; just as birds handle the situation when their parents leave them.
Lady Macduff: Poor Bird! He will learn to fall deeply and have a hard time in fear.
Son: why should I fear, mother? Poor birds are prepared. My Father is not died, for your entire saying.
Lady Macduff: Yes, he is dead. What will you do without a father?
Son: What will you do without a husband?
Lady Macduff: Well, I can buy as many husbands as I please at a market.
Son: Then your money will go to waist because you will only buy a husband so he would be returned.
Lady Macduff: I had enough faith in your father and now that faith is all gone.
Son: Was my father a traitor, mother?
Lady Macduff: Yes son he was a traitor.
Son: What is a traitor mother?
Lady Macduff: Why, one who swears and lies.
Son: So, what happens to all Traitors?
Lady Macduff: Everyone that is such a traitor must be hanged.
Son: Everyone that lies and swears must be hanged?
Lady Macduff: Everyone
Son: Who hangs the traitor’s mother?
Lady Macduff: The men who are honest.
Son: Then the liars and the swearers are fools, because they can lie there way out of anything and fool the honest men and hang them up first.
Lady Macduff: Oh. God please help this silly monkey. So, how do you feel about your father?
Son: If he were dead, you would cry for him mother, but because you do not cry that means I will have a new father quickly.
Lady Macduff: be quiet and get going young son.

Hilda wrote: "An example of dramatic irony are episodes from the TV sitcom "Friends." The show is based on 6 friends and their lives. In season 5, Monica and Chandler are friends but become in love and try to ke..."
Hilda friends is a very good example I have never had thought of that episode I am personally a huge fan. I really enjoyed remembering that scene thank you; you brought many funny memories to mind.

A perfect example of a dramatic irony in a movie is when both of the main characters called Allie and Noah in “The Notebook “ fall in love with each other. Both Allie and Noah have a summer romance and go madly in love not thinking about the consequences there summer romance was going to bring. Noah was a country boy and Allie was from the city with means that Noah comes from less resource than Allie. In the movie Allie’s father is described by “having more money then God”. Allie’s parents are worried because of Allies actions and feelings towards Noah because they did not want Noah for Allie, Allies mother called him “trash”. Allies parents wanted someone with class and money that could give Allies everything they ever gave Allie. When summer was over Allies parents took her away and Noah was to late by the time Allie was gone. So 7 years past and allie was living her life as well as Noah and one-day destiny brought them back together. Allies had to choice between the rich young boy and poor Noah the love of her life. Finally after spending days with Noah she realized she wanted to be the rest of her life with the love of her life.
My favorite quote of Macbeth - “ Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

In the story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, I do believe the people in the village are guilty of murder because killing someone with stones in a lottery just because of a tradition is murder. Everyone in the village knew what the situation was and believing in myths just for crops to grow is mythological, everyone knew the consequences of their actions and taking someone’s life is not correct in anyway. In the story everyone is gathered in the middle of the post office and the bank for a tradition to take place so their crops could grow, but no one realizes that crops grow with plenty of care and summer days not with a sacrifice. In other villages the lottery was an outgrown tradition because of the fact that the other villages realized how irresponsible and cruel this situation was for everyone even for the children in every village. How can people with such hearts do something so cruel to one another? In the story “ the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready”. Even the children were ready to kill someone to death with stones and everyone seemed to enjoy the fact that someone was being sacrifice for there own benefit.
My favorite quote from the story the “The Lottery” was “ The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green”.

Hilda wrote: "The “Cat in the Hat” can be analyzed as a mythological point of view. The narrator in the story is the little boy. He wishes his sister Sally and him can do something on a rainy day. The cat in the..."
I believe "The Cat in the Hat" can be analyzed as a mythological point of view because of all the mythological characters that are in the story, and the entire situations that come along.

Rogerio wrote: "In the story of The Cat in the Hat I chose the Fish as my character. The fish did all he could to prevent the kids from giving into temptation. The temptations of life, life which is full of tempta..."
I agree, the fish is the subconscious of the children and I believe you are also correct on the comparison of the children’s situation with every day life. Everyone has moments in life were their are choices between right or wrong.

The story “The Cat in the Hat” can be approached to literature by gender criticism. The story begins with two young characters, named sally and her unnamed brother. Both children are very bored because of the weather and they both cannot go outside and play. All of a sudden the cat in the hat appears in their front door, ready to have fun and break moms rules. The gender criticism starts as soon as the cat in the hat walks in, sally is described as a control freak and the unnamed brother is described as a rule breaker. Once the fun starts sally’s brother wants to play and do everything the cat says but sally has second thoughts about her mother’s rules. When thing one and thing two come in the house in the box the fish starts to freak because the fish is the second character that wants to keep everything in order. After the children had all the fun they could with the cat, thing one, and thing two, the children realized they had done wrong and destroyed there house. Sally as the young girl described in the book was the first one to control the situation and make the cat play the last game, that will make the children’s house go back to normal.

The Archetypal characters in the movie the “Notebook” are Noah and Allie. The two crossed lovers were very different which gave them plenty of problems. Noah was a country boy and Allie was from the city they start their romantic story when they first met at a carnival they had nothing in common but, Noah insisted on making Allie go out with him on a date. After being forced on a life or death situation Allie finally accepts and they went on there first date. They fell in love and everything was like a dream for the summer. When Allies mother realized the relationship was true love she immediately tries to take Allie away and forget Noah. Allies mother does everything in her power to make Allie forget Noah by not letting Allie receive any letters from Noah; even through she knew her daughter was going through a storm of sadness. Then 7 years pass and Allie gets tired of waiting from a sign of Noah and starts a new romance, but exactly the day she decides to move forward and get married with her new love Noah comes back into her life. Everything Noah ever promised Allie he was doing and Allie was having second thoughts about her marriage. But Allie finally realized who her heart always belonged two and decided to stay with Noah. The Archetypal symbols in the story where the duck in the pond that made everything seem like a dream. The archetypal situation was there quest, there long search for there true love.