Monday, April 25, 2016

The thesis: Banquo is a perfect foil to Macbeth

A foil is a character that follows the same path as the protagonist but makes different decisions. In Macbeth, Shakespeare has made the protagonist Macbeth and Banquo his foil. In the scene where Banquo and Macbeth talk to the three witches which give Macbeth a lot of amazing and exciting prophecies for his future, they also give some to Banquo but instead of thinking a lot about this like Macbeth, he didn't really do much it. He also didn't quite trust the witches as much as Macbeth did, instead we decided to warn Macbeth that even though it sounded amazing what they we saying, it migth lead them to their doom. "...The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with their honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence...".

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Macbeth 101

Dramatic irony: is when the audience knows something that the characters don't
Soliloquy: when the main character shares their feelings with the audience but they keep changing it and they finally end it with a heroic couplet.
The Fourth Wall: is when the main character talks to the audience like "Well, that was a funny..." Or "Wow I wasn't expecting that..." 
Heroic Couplet: at the end of a soliloquy, means a decision has been made or two lines in iambic pentameter that rhyme

"...Hear it not Duncan for its a knell 
That summons thee to heaven,
Or to hell..."

Shakespeare is the first author that has made us see what the character feels.

The Theme: "Power and Corruption" 

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Me poem

think about tone.......


We make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated heart
Till someone find us really out.

'Tis pity if the case require
(Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire
The understanding of a friend.

But so with all, from babes that play
At hide-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are. 

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Stone Cold Written Work

1.
Link:
1)"I'm invisible" pg.1
2)"I started getting really depressed" pg.13
3)"I decided it was time to move on" pg.9
4)"thought of me as a dosser" pg.14
5)"I made loads of mistakes" pg.18
6)"I was thankful at the time" pg.20
7)"I started to feel nervous" pg.21
8)"I didn't care" pg.
9)" I was angry and a bit shaken" pg.31
10)"My anonymity was a comfort" pg.32
Character type: protagonist

Ginger:
1)"Six, Seven months" pg.41
2)"Well, when you are, smoking helps. Dulls the pain" pg.42
3)"Why?"... "We were in somebody's doorway. Wouldn't do for the owner or tenant or whatever to find us here when he came to open up, would it?"pg.44
4)"You don't have to feed me, y'know, just 'cause we shared a doorway. Folks like us, we've got to look after number one. And don't tell anybody else you've got nine quid or you won't have it long." pg.44
5)"Waste of time, mate. Foregone conclusion. They'll say you made yourself homeless 'cause you left your mum's place voluntarily." pg.45
6)"Not a sausage, mate, you can take it from me. I've seen it too many times." pg.45
7)"Nobody cares, see? Nobody gives a toss. That's the first thing you gotta learn. pg.45
8)"Yep. All day, every day. And sometimes I don't make a price for a sandwich." pg.45
9)"I wouldn't wait until it runs out, mate. Like i said, some days you'll make sod-all. I'd start today if I was you." pg.46
10)"Fair enough. Tell you what - you try outside of National Gallery." pg.52
Character type: mentor

Shelter:
1)"If they can only find shelter everything will be fine. Well- get fell in, my lucky lads. I'm reading fro you." pg.2
2)"You're a handsome devil but you're idle, lad." pg.7
3)"They're not going to stop me, though. Oh, no. They abolished National Service, and they've put me where I can't turn garbage into men anymore, but I can clean up the garbage, can't I? They can't stop me doing that, and I will. By golly, I will." pg.12
4)"A cat speaks of warmth, comfort, placid domesticity. A man who keeps a cat can't possibly mean anybody harm, can he?" pg.16
5) "Shelter and Sappho, otherwise known as The Invincibles. All is ready. Recruiting can now commence." pg.17
6) "I'd made up the whole thing up- name and everything. Part of my preparation." pg.23
7)"I slipped up behind him and put him out of his misery" pg.24
8)"Cruel? I don't think so. He's not cold nor hungry now."pg.24
9)"Nobody wanted him, so nobody will miss him, and there's one less dosser to clutter up the place. Who loses?" pg.24
10)"As a soldier, it was a chief function to kill, waste, do in- whatever you want to call it - those among my fellow humans whose activities happened to displease the powers that be in my country." pg.28
Character type: antagonist

2.
Young Link has had so many downsides throughout his life so far in the book "Stone Cold", but despite all the negative parts of Link's life, he was still able to find a way to keep going. The beginning with his new stepfather, Vince, had not gone very well which lead to Link becoming homeless. This was a rough time for Link because he was completely new at homelessness, yet still he kept finding new doorways to sleep all over London. By doing this he eventually found a person he taught it was worth to hang on to for a while, Ginger. Unfortunately, a disaster had happened, Ginger has been murdered by the evil antagonist Shelter while trying to find Link. For months, Link has been searching for him only to find absolutely nothing until he meets a wonderful women called Gail who helps him with discovering more about Ginger's disappearance. These are all the reasons why Link is a growing character throughout the whole book even as his life is spiraling downwards.