Lucentio

Lucentio is one of the main characters in the play as he plans to marry Bianca. He is a flat character whose traits don’t change throughout the story. Has he still wants to marry Bianca and have success over the other men, who won’t be able to “woo” her. The play moves forward as he disguises himself as Bianca’s Latin teacher so he can get next to her of course. As the play goes on, we learn how Lucentio is working his magic on Bianca as her teacher. The effects of this character have to deal with the other foil character and what they will do. On the dialogue, Lucentio plays as the Latin teacher while his servants play him and they try to talk to Bianca’s father about the marriage. When this happens, the other suitors decide to leave, since they know they have lost the battle over Bianca.

Setting

In Act 4 Scene 1, “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare, Petruccio provides enough descriptive details about the setting of his house along the country side in the play. It must cold outside Petruccio’s house because he is asking his servants to make dinner for his new wife, Kate.
Grumio: “Why, therefore fire, for I have caught extreme cold. Where’s the cook? Is supper ready, the house trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept, the servingmen in their new fustian, white stockings, and every officer his wedding garment on?”
Curtis: “All ready. And therefore, I pray thee, news.”
Petruccio is unhappy with his cooks because they do not have his supper ready when he wants to eat. He tells his servants to light a fire because of the extreme cold outside and does not want his wife to get sick. He wants her to be treated right and get perfection. Curtis lets him know that the cooks are already cooking and it shouldn’t be much longer. Kate wants him to be patience and the warm food will come to comfort them. This lets the readers know that the setting for the play is cold right now as the characters are asking for hot food.

Araby epiphany

Epiphany is an break through or realization of some sort, often relating with religious overtones. In Joyce's "Araby" a young boy, who is the narrator, is looking to buy the girl he loves a present. The narrator gets the money late from his uncle, on the day he was suppose to go get the girl a present. When he gets there, there is only 10 minutes left before it shuts down. Without realizing it, he spends double the money on getting in, instead of finding the cheaper entrance. The boy has his epiphany when he is leaving the bazaar.

"Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."

The narrator is upset about leaving the bazaar with nothing in his hands for his girl. He is full of anger and anguish because he realizes if he doesn't get her anything. There are plenty of boys that will go after her, just like him, to buy her a present of some sort. On his way home, the narrator realizes he was trying to hard to impress the girl and instead of having all his money for himself. He is only left with six pence.

Ciation Exercise

The Metamorphosis is one of the most frequently analyzed works in literature. This elusive story, which chronicles the transformation of Gregor Samsa from a human being into an enormous insect , is renowned for its ability to inspire diverse, sometimes mutually exclusive interpretations. Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, awakes to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin. Initially shocked by the change, Gregor soon begins to worry that he will miss his train and be late for work. This is the fundamental crisis that Gregor, as so many human beings in the modern age, must face. This crisis is the conflict between freedom and one's responsibility to oneself on one side, and guilt and the demands posed by society and family on the other. If escape from this predicament is impossible, then Kafka, with his metamorphosis, provides an impossible escape. By becoming an insect, Gregor gains both his freedom and the right to avoid guilt, since his freedom is forced on him. Gregor dies at the precise moment when the sun comes up. He sees the first light of dawn and dies, echoing the beginning of the second chapter. Gregor's death is the result of his discovery of his identity. At the moment when love, freedom, and art are combined within him, he recognizes the need to finally leave his family to pursue their future. He was driven only by his sense of duty and then guilt, but since his guilt had no real cause, he also could not cling to it for his identity. The Metamorphosis has tended to focus on the psychoanalytic and symbolic, or allegorical, nature of the story.

Sympathy

"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, is dealing with whether the reader should or shouldn't sympathize with the protagonist, Gregor. He doesn't want the reader to sympathize with Gregor because the reader can't relate to Gregor's problems of turing into a bug.

"The cleaning of his room, which she now did always in the evenings, could not have been more hastily done. Streaks of dirt strected along the walls, here and there lay balls of dust and filth. At first Gregor used to station himself in some particularly corner when his sister arrived, in order to reproach her with it, so to speak. But he could have sat there for weeks without getting her to make any improvements; she could see the dirt as well as he did, but she simply made up her mind to leave it alone."

This passage is about how his own sister does not want to approach him because the sight of him upsets her. Because his sister cleans his room and he wants to talk to her but she ignores as he sits in the filthy side of the room. She doesn't even clean that side no matter how dirty it gets. So the feeling Gregor was feeling was probably lonely and hated. No one is left alone in their room and locked in it. She did not see him as her brother anymore but more as a bug, so she left him alone. Since his own mother can not stand the sight of her own son, no reader has experienced his own mother not love him. So we can not sympathize with the Gregor, as his own family does not appreciate him.

Revised Paragraphy

“Digging” a poem by Seamus Heaney, uses similes and other literary devices to convey the reader that the narrator does not want to become a farmer, but a writer. “The squat pen rests; snug as a gun,” is a simile which the narrator is trying to let the reader know that he is comparing the gun to his pen. That his pen is a perfect fit, just like a gun would be to a gunman. That he is meant to become a writer and not a potato farmer like the rest of his family on the male side. "The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap/of soggy peat, the curts cuts of an edge," is giving the reader an image in his mind. This is alliteration because it has a repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. The reader is picturing what the narrator is saying. It gives a more of grotesque imagery and an unpleasant feeling. The use of similes and other literary devices helps the reader understand the meaning of the poem and relate to it by using personal experiences.


First, I fixed the introduction because it was unclear and wasn't concise. So the paragraph has a point and I added more analysis of quotes from the poem, to give further analysis of the poem.

Digging Paragraph

In “Digging” a poem by Seamus Heaney, uses similes to portray the meaning of the poem. “The squat pen rests; snug as a gun,” is a simile which the narrator is trying to let the reader know that he is comparing the gun to his pen. That his pen is a perfect fit, just like a gun would be to a gunman. That he is meant to become a writer and not a potato farmer like the rest of his family on the male side. The use of similes helps the reader understand the meaning of the poem and relate to it by using personal experiences.