One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Part 2

For this post I would like to talk about McMurphy's actions between the whole second part of the book. As a person reads about McMurphy's action they can see that he seemed to be the only hope for the other prisoner's of this correcting facility. At first he starts up every argument to make things more fair for the others who were forced by the state, or by their own humiliation into this prison. But as time goes own, and McMurphy learns more about the control the Big Nurse has over everyone he backs down bringing down everyone else with him. Any one that read the story knows this happens but I'm asking about McMurphy's reasons.

I really wonder what was going through his mind, and why did he step down only to step up again later. Did he realize that he would be there a long time, and decided he needed to make things better for everyone since no one else would do it? Did he just wanted to help every gain back a little respect? Or did he just want to fight the Big Nurse, all the nurses, the doctor, and the whole system? What were the motives behind McMurphy, and the motive that made the writer chose this part in his story. Although, I may never figure it out I will always wonder.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Part 1

As we have been reading this first section of the book there is a lot of question one can have lingering in their minds about the ward, and about the main character. Although, off the start you quickly learn how the chief is treated by the staff, and the positions of the different groups that the broken humans fit into you don't find out why he is there. You learn that the chief pretends to be deaf, and dumb but you wonder what the true reason he is there for. His flashbacks don't help the audience much because they often are very short, and confusing to see how his short visions deal with the storyline. Another thing I would wish to learn more about is how the place works. Some mysterious things tend to happen for no reason that is hard to understand why would the ward do these random things. One thing, for example, is the fog like clouds that fill the room near the beginning. Whats even more confusing it trying to figure out whether things are real, and just what the chief sees. He seems fine mentally, but it is through his perspective and what he sees may not turn out be what is the actually reality. So there are some question that are left on my mind after reading the first part.

My Second Rather Late Post for Hamlet

In the play Hamlet Shakespeare includes a play inside this play, which Hamlet uses to his advantage to find out whether or not his uncle killed Old Hamlet. I feel that this was a fantastic idea from Hamlet to include this into the play because it is something that he knew really well. Not only is a good plot device, but it also give Shakespeare a chance to poke fun at his own line of work. There is one scene in Hamlet that shows this very well. He describes to the actors how to deliver the extra scene which he wrote for the play. He warns them not to wave there arms around in the air too much, or deliver the line by over.under acting. He was trying to make it as realistic as possible so he could see his uncle's reaction to the play. I feel that this was interesting because it is very likely that Shakespeare told the actor's of his plays the same thing when they rehearsed his plays. Though this we could see alittle into the life of Shakepseare. So thats why I think that this is an important plot device in the story.

Hamlet Act 1

After reading the entire play of Hamlet I have to go back to this post and write my thoughts about sight in the play. A question that has many people baffled in Hamlet is why, or why not certain people in the play can see the ghost of old king Hamlet. Today I write a possible explination. I believe that the only people that can see the ghost are people that remained loyal to the old king, and/or mourned and prayed for him. I believe this cause Hamlet, and Horatio can easily see the ghost of old King Hamlet. Since Hamlet had been constantly been mourning his father's death it seems likely that it could be the reason. Hamlet had also remaine loyal to his father as he angered by his Uncles rapid rise to power, as well as his mother's nearly instant betrail of he late husband when she remarried. This could also be the reason why Hamlet's mother couldn't see the ghost when they were both in her closet having their conversation. The only other people that had seen the ghost were gaurds that patrolled the castle at night. Since they served the king the must have atleast shown loyalty to the old King Hamlet. So I believe that is the reason why some of the characters can see the ghost of Hamlet, where others cannot.

1984 Final Assignment

In the book 1984, the doctrine that O'Brien proclaims to Winston is a major key to maintaining the system of government of called oligarchical collectivism, and to Winston's fate at the end of the book. What O'Brien say basically covers the government, and all of the characters, and actions in the book. O'Brien speaks about how their form of reality deals with what everything that the collective group, Big Brother and the party, see and not in nature or science. This seems to mean that since Winston is the last man last reality is distorted to him because he doesn't see what the party sees, and cause he doesn't believe in the parties control of reality. By enforcing this type of mind on the people they all begin to fall back, and let the party control them. Anyone who dares to think differently, or really thought at all became an unperson. Just like Syme. By being to smart for his own good the party took him turning him into an unperson. I believe this is because he was talking about changing words, and there language. By saying this he was talking about how he was changing reality, and society by removing words from their language. By keeping people oblivious to nearly everything they control society and reality. If no one knew who created planes who is to say that Big Brother didn't create them. They can control what people know and change facts, and history at will. Just as the war changes in the book, history, and reality change constantly at Big Brothers will. The only people that could protest to this was the few people like Winston. The last men, and women left to defend their incorrect reality. The knew that Big Brother printed lies, and they saw how the war changed. But it didn't matter because in their world they were outnumbered by the party. There reality became true since everyone swallowed the lies since they controlled reality. Final, when Winston was tortured into sanity there views were gone. Only the parties reality exsisted. So this is how O'Brien's views are correct.

Since Winston was one of the view people left that saw their own version of reality he was dooed from thew start. The only way he could show his form of reality is through his conversations with Julia, who didn't seem to care much about the parties lies, and through the writing in his journal. Since Winston believed in his own reality he had to be eliminated. With even one person believing in a different form of reality the parties views couldn't completely exsist. They needed to warp there minds to make their reality the only one. With no one to object it would become true. So Winston had to be changed and die to keep the party alive, and to keep their views the one, only, and true views.

Blake Post

1) Yes I do believe the editors of the book when they say that his poetry can change society. The poem that Blake has wrote paints a vivid picture of the boy working as a chimney sweeper. It shows how his family struggles forcing him to work so he can continue his own life. This causes the readers to feel bad for the boy. People in lower classes, and possible in the lower middle class could look at this poem and start to compare their life to the boy in the story. This may motivate people to try to change their current society. This means that the editors could have been right.

2) The reason the editor may include the document was to show the similarity to our time, and our social system. By compare our time to theirs we can see the similarities in the two systems. We may see how people in our time try through art, or media to change society like Blake did. This helped reading the poems easier since I could compared the poems to my on time.

Jonathan Swift Teacher Prep Work

A). This Question I have wrote for this assignment was:
1. Why does the Gulliver gain his freedom earlier then he was suppose to?
2. Does his newly gained freedom affect his decision to help the Lilliputians by protecting them?
3. What is Jonathan Swift satirizing in this part of the story?
4. Why does Gulliver agree to help the Lilliputians?

B). The teacher group I was working in this week was made up of Paul, Micheal, Matteo, and I. I learned a lot being in this group. Paul, and Mike always have a different way of looking at things which helped me see other sides of the story that I wouldn't normally think of. I didn't have much to offer to the group because my original question were not very in depth, already asked, or not important enough to actually have a class discussion on. Looking back I really wished I wrote better questions to contributed more to the group. Other then that it was a good group. A conversation was constantly going, and everyone got a chance to suggest an idea, or opinion. The only thing I would change would be my questions, and therefore my contribution to the group discussion.

C). Our group has an idea of what we are going to do. Although its not set in stone what we are doing, but we have the general idea. Most likely we will just come in on Monday, and finish working on our poster for the class. Mike will finish writing all the questions, and we will think about what was being satirized by Jonathan Swift about government and politics in this story.