You are correct in your observation, and this is
particularly true when we think about other Shakespeare plays, which actually only
contain one extended scene in Act Five in which all of the resolution occurs. However,
let us consider the impact of these short, choppy scenes on us as an audience. There is
a real sense in which the number and the length of these scenes help increase tension as
we quickly switch from one scene to another, eagerly awaiting to see what will happen to
Macbeth and how the prophecies will be fulfilled. Also, it is important for the plot of
the story to give us the perspectives of a number of different groups of people: Macbeth
himself and his confidence, his Lords and soldiers who desert him, and then the forces
of Malcolm who are attacking. It was necessary to do this through chopping and changing
to different locations. The nine scenes then in the final act serve to create tension
and also chart the feelings and actions of different groups as the inevitable end closes
in upon Macbeth.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
In Macbeth why are the scenes (and even Act 5 itself) so short?
Monday, March 14, 2016
What are some quotes about the physical decription of Dr. Jekyll in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
In the chapter of Robert Louis Stevenson’s
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde titled “Dr.
Jekyll Was Quite at Ease,” the story’s anonymous narrator offers a brief physical
description of Jekyll that stands in stark contrast to the earlier descriptions provided
of Mr. Hyde. It is in this chapter that Dr. Jekyll is introduced to the reader rather
than serving as a narrative device in those earlier discussions of Hyde. The lawyer
Utterson is remaining late following a small dinner party hosted by Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll,
the narrator points out, has asked Utterson to remain behind after the other guests have
departed for the night, and the doctor’s request, it is suggested, is a common
occurrence, as the “dry lawyer’s” advice is frequently sought. It is during this scene
at the opening of this chapter where Stevenson’s narrator provides a brief description
of Dr. Jekyll, describing “a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something
of a slyish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness — you could see by his
looks that he cherished for Mr. Utterson a sincere and warm
affection.”
This is the description of Dr. Jekyll provided
by Stevenson. The description of Dr. Jekyll’s alter-ego, Mr. Hyde, is considerably
different. Early in the novella, Enfield is discussing with Utterson a peculiar event
involving an unpleasant encounter with a stranger who had “calmly trampled” over a young
girl and “left her screaming on the ground.” Enfield’s description of this stranger
will provide the prelude to the mystery to follow:
“It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish
to see. It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut. . . He was perfectly
cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat
on me like running.”
And,
referring to a doctor brought into the fracas involving the stranger’s cavalier
treatment of this child, Enfield continues,
“Well, sir, he [the doctor] was like the rest of
us; every time he looked at my prisoner, I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with
the desire to kill
him.”
Finally, describing the
scene in which the stranger, Mr. Hyde, was surrounded by angry women, Enfield states, “I
never saw a circle of such hateful faces; and there was the man in the middle, with a
kind of black, sneering coolness — frightened too, I could see that — but carrying it
off, sir, really like Satan.”
Stevenson provides, in Dr.
Jekyll, the pillar of the community, a rather bland personage that is contrasted with
the personification of evil embodied by the malicious Mr. Hyde. In answering a question
as to the description Stevenson provides of Dr. Jekyll, therefore, it is perhaps not
unreasonable to include the full measure of that individual by including a description
of Hyde.
THE ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION OF CHLORIDE ION IS SAME AS THAT OF AN ARGON ATOM. WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO ??
Argon is a neutral atom with atomic number of 18. It has
an electron configuration of 2 electrons in the first energy level, 8 in the second, and
8 in the third, for a total of 18 electrons. Because there are equal numbers of protons
in the nucleus and electrons it has no net charge.
Chlorine
is a neutral atom with atomic number of 17. It has an electron configuration of 2
electrons in the first energy level, 8 in the second, and 7 in the third, for a total of
17 electrons.
But the third energy level can hold up to 8
electrons. So when chlorine gets one more electron to fill that third level, it becomes
a chloride ion with a net charge of -1. This means it still has 17 protons in the
nucleus (atomic number = number of protons) but now has a total of 18 electrons around
the nucleus - just like argon its neighbor.
I need some evidence to prove whether Holden is insane or not in The Catcher in the Rye.
I agree with the post above that mentions
PTSD.
(Symptoms of PTSD: depression, sleeplessness,
hypervigilance, weeping, negativity, self-isolation, attention deficit and trouble
concentrating, exaggerated startle response, untrollable anger, recurrent invasive
recollections of stressor events)
The book is full of
examples.
First, there are two
stressor events: Allie's death and the death of a classmate, Jame Castle, who leaped out
a dorm window wearing the sweater Holden loaned
him.
Allie's death:
I was only thirteen, and they were going to have
me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don't blame
them. I really don't. I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the
goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all the
windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and
everything by that
time...
Jame's Castle's
death:
So
Stabile, with about six other dirty bastards, went down to James Castle's room and went
in and locked the goddam door and tried to make him take back what he said but he
wouldn't do it. So they started in on him. I won't even tell you what they did to
him--it's too repulsive--but he still wuldn't tke it back, old James Castle. ...a skinny
little weak-looking guy, with wrists about as big as pencils. ...Finally, what he did,
instead of taking back what he said, he jumped out the window. I was in the shower and
all, and even I could hear hm land outside. ...I ran downstairs too, and there was old
James Castle, laying right on the stone steps and all. He was dead, and his teeth, and
blood, were all over the place, and nobody would even go near
him."
On page three there's
an example of attention deficit, when Holden leaves the equipment for the fencing team
on the subway, resuliting in forfeiture of the match.
I was the goddam manager for the fencing team.
Very big deal. We'd gone in to New York that morning for this fencing meet with McBurney
School. Only, we didn't have the meet. I left all the foils and equipemnt and stuff on
the goddam subway. It wasn't all my falult. I had to keep getting up to look at this
map, so we'd know where to get otff. ...The whole team ostracized me the whole way back
on the train.
In Chapter 6
there's an example of weeping:
"I just lay theere on the floor for a while, and
kept calling him a moron sonuvabitch. I was so mad, I was practicaly
bawling."
Also Chapter 6,
Holden becomes enraged over the prospect of Stradlater "giving the time" to
Jane:
Give
her the time in Ed Banky's goddam car?" My voice was shaking something
awful."What a thing to say. Want me to wash your mouth out
with soap?""Did you?"
"That's
a professional secret, buddy."This next part I don't
remember so hot. All I know is I got up from the bed, like I was going down to the can
or something, and then I tried to sock him, with all my might, right smack in the
toothbrush, so it would split his goddam throat open. Only, I missed. ...Anyway, the
next thing I knew I was on the godam floor and he was sitting on my
chest,...
As a post above,
says, Holden is a poster boy for PTSD.
Could Mayella from To Kill a Mockingbird be a symbolic mockingbird?
While some critics suggest that Mayella could be a
symbolic mockingbird because of her father's abuse of her, she possesses some striking
differences from Tom Robinson, one of the novel's figurative mockingbirds. Tom is
completely innocent of manipulation or any wrongdoing. In fact, his very goodness is
what leads him to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mayella, while
admittedly innocent in the situation with her father, intentionally lures Tom into the
Ewell home (she even saves up money so that her siblings will be out of the house during
her attempted flirtation). Even though Mayella did not premeditate the framing of Tom
for rape--that seems to be an act of self-preservation on her part--she does continue
with her false story even when treated respectfully by Atticus and even when she knows
that a man's life is at stake.
For critics who view Boo
Radley as another mockingbird, Mayella does share some similarities with him. Both made
poor choices (Boo's pulling a teenage prank, and Mayella's attempted seduction of Tom)
which led to life-changing consequences. Both are awkward socially and elicit a fair
amount of sympathy from the reader, and both have been mistreated by their fathers.
However, Boo is a better fit as a mockingbird because he harms no one yet endures the
ridicule of many. In contrast, Mayella is partly responsible for a man's
death.
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Provide a character sketch of Della in "The Gift of the Magi."
Della is a loving wife. She is beautiful and her hair is a
prized possession. She is frugal and saves every penny she can when buying groceries.
She desires to please her husband...
She lets down her
long, beautiful hair for one last look before she sells it to buy Jim a platinum chain
for his valuable gold watch, the watch given to him by his father and
grandfather.
Every day when Jim comes home, Della lovingly
greets him with a a great big hug:
But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Young came home
and reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs. James
Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Della. Which is all very
good.
Clearly, Della is a
loving wife. She cooks delicious meals for him. She does everything she can to make him
happy.
Now, it is Christmas and she has very little money
to buy Jim a present. She loves him so much until she sells her long, beautiful hair for
20 dollars...and she buys him the platinum chain for his
watch...
Della is ecstatic and nervous at the same time.
What will Jim think of her hair being gone? She desires to please Jim, and she knows how
he loves her long, beautiful hair...
Della is sitting
anxiously by the door when Jim comes in. On the stove, the frying-pan is hot, ready to
cook the chops. The coffee is made a 7 o'clock...Della is quite organized and efficient
as a homemaker.
Truly, Della is a giving wife...she
sacrifices the ultimate sacrifice to please her husband...she dotes on him and puts his
happiness ahead of her own...she is an ideal wife...
The operation intersection on sets has an identity? True or False?Justify the answer by giving proofs or example
The intersection of two sets is also a set that comprises
all common elements to both sets.
We can state this
assumption using logical connectors, as it follows:
x
belongs to the set A∩B,if and only if x belongs to A ^ x belongs to B. The logical
connector "^" represents a conjunction and it could be replaced by the word
"and".
We'll analyze the intersection between the sets A =
{1,3,5} and B = {3,5,7}.
A∩B =
{1,3,5}∩{3,5,7}
The common elements to A and B are those
elements that are in A and they are in B, too: {3,5}
A∩B =
{3,5}
When two or more sets have no common elements, they
are disjoint and the result of intersection is the empty set.