Lit Circles End Task #1 Catching Fire Creative Writing President Snow’s Journal Journal Entry #1 I knew I was in trouble when Katniss threatened to kill both her and Peeta with the berries to ensure they both won the Hunger Games. It looked like they were trying to defeat the capitol and they succeeded. The other districts saw this suicide threat and have started a rebellion. I went and visited Katniss in her Victors’ Village home and informed her of the uprisings. I told her she has to prove to all of Panem that what she did was really driven by love, not rebellion, in order to stop the uprising in the districts.
And putting a bullet through his head” (Collins 62). Unintentionally, Katniss has reinforced the rebellion causing the entire district to go into madness. This is just one example of the rebellion being one of the main themes in this book. Another instance that shows how revolt is a primary theme is when Katniss meets two travelers from District 8, Twill and Bonnie. These two travelers are making their way to District 13, which is believed to have been destroyed seventy-five years ago.
In the play, the women take matters into their own hands by hosting a sex strike; they are determined to win the war by themselves. Lysistrata is seen to be the leader of this great adventure and a whole new look on anti-war gestures are seen. Aristophanes makes the play about making war, and not making love. The sex strike is strung out for six days, at the Acropolis. Overall, the women were upset that their men were never home, thus making an unbalance in their family, leading to an unbalance in society.
Readers Response Uglies by Scott Westerfeld centers around a character named Tally Youngblood who’s about to turn 16. In this society everyone is ugly but when they’re 16 they go through a procedure that makes you “pretty”. Early in the book Tally meets a girl named Shay who doesn’t agree with the society ways and has decided to not get the procedure to turn pretty. When Dr. Cable a secret police officier heres Tally and Shay talking about the procedure and the secret town where all the uglies go that don’t want to turn pretty. He decides to blackmail Tally so he can find the secret place and turn everyone pretty, if she doesn’t find the secret place he won’t turn her pretty.
Juliet shows her devotion to Romeo throughout the entire play. One example was when Juliet is confronted with her parents’ decision for her to marry Paris. She refuses to follow through with their command and says, “I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear, it shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, Rather than Paris.” These lines are ironic because she has already married Romeo and she loves him with an undying burning passion. Furthermore, when she chose to take the very dangerous potion that would make her fall into a very deep sleep, she was taking a huge risk. She was taking a very high risk in taking the potion because Friar Lawrence did not even know if it would work and she herself questions if he wanted to poison her.
She was not declared innocent until Benedick and the friar discover what happened and told everyone (4.1.186-255 and 4.2.50). This proves that men are believed over women. The women also could not defend themselves. They could not defend themselves with words but also with actions. After Hero was accused and fainted at the wedding, Beatrice wanted to avenge Hero’s integrity and honor.
He shows that he does not have moderation and self-control by the tyrannical ruling of his people as well as abusing an age old birthright that robs the bridegroom of his bride on their wedding night (Mason 15). He further shows his lack of self-control and disregard for others by deciding to kill Humbaba, who he describes as “the Evil One” declaring “we must prove ourselves more powerful than he” (Mason 27). This decision proves fatal for Enkidu and Gilgamesh not wanting to accept the death of his friend, tries to search out the one who the thinks can give him the answer to bring Enkidu back. So consumed in his grief, Gilgamesh cannot control himself and destroys the Sacred Stones that would gives him access to the very person he is searching for (Mason 67). Gilgamesh does eventually learn moderation and self restraint, “Gilgamesh said nothing more to force his sorrow on another” (Mason 92).
She is a temptress who disturbs the fraternity of the men, for whenever she enters the bunkhouse, or at least stands in the doorway, preventing the men's passage, Curley's wife is a source of tension: The men worry that they will succumb to her physical allure; they worry that Curley will appear and become jealous and enraged against them. Once she has tempted Lennie, he sins and kills her--albeit accidentally. At any rate, the death of Curley's wife is the end of the "dream" for Lennie and George and Candy. There can be no Eden for them as George must kill Lennie before he is caught and his soul destroyed. With the death of the child-like Lennie, the innocent dream of having a ranch is also
Both plays show fearless women who intervene with political matters and cause tension within the kingdom. Lady Macbeth questions her husband and pressures him into being more aggressive, while Antigone defies Creon by burying her dead brother, Polynieces. Both Lady Macbeth and Antigone defy the social and political expectations of their society by adopting the expected behaviors of the opposite gender. Lady Macbeth disregards the social and political norms by wanting to become more masculine and aggressive. While she prepares to exterminate the current king, she cries out “Unsex me here,/ and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full/ Of direst cruelty.” (Shakespeare.
January 4 , 2011 Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth is feeling a lot of guilt upon herself because , when Macbeth killed the king she was the one that put him up to it , because Macbeth was never like that and he loved him king very well , but Lady Macbeth wanted to be the queen and she put words into Macbeths head . Shes evil , selfish , she doesn’t have a heart shes not kind at all and she doesn’t have remorse for acting the way she did putting all kinds of things in her poor husbands head , who never would have thought of killing the king . “ Fie , my lord , fie a soldier , and afeard ? what need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him ?