Blog Entry 3.2 Don't mention Macbeth - Blackadder - BBC

       This short clip depicts how great of an archetype Macbeth is, that even modern days comedians uses him as a prototype for their comedic relief sketches.  For many centuries, there is a meth that Macbeth's own superstitions became a curse for future generations of actors to come. Being curse by witches, Macbeth's followers became deeply superstitious about outtering the Macbeth's name.  During the reenactmnet of Macbeth plays, we can see how one of the actors knowingly plays a joke of the other actors by mentioning Macbeth's name. The belief is that, if an actor say the name out loud they will evoke the curse of Macbeth's and it brings back luck. From the sixteen centuries on, there were unfortunate circumstances were actors have gotten hurt on set, so from then on the actors would relate each situations with mentioning Macbeth's name. Therefore, rather than uttering Macbeth, they would say the "Scottish play". If anyone say Macbeth's name then they have to do a ritual to exorcise the evil spirits. In the above first scene one of the actor inform main character about the misfortunes that will follow if the actors says Macbeth name. The main character decided to play the joke on the king actors by mentioning Macbeth's name. Each time he say Macbeth, the king actors did a silly ritual to exorcise the curse of mentioning Macbeth.  This is perfect example of how the beliefs of witches, meths, and curses passes on from generations to generations.  Hilarious, take a look!

Blog Entry 3.1 Macbeth

MACBETH AND HIS WIFE

           My interpretation of this picture is that it depicts the power of  manipulation  which a woman can have a hold over a man. This image of  the Lady Macbeth and Macbeth is set in a ghostly setting which exemplify  pure evil. The black color could respresent darkness of fear and grey foggy color represent intense inflicted confusion. The knife in Macbeth hands, in this case threatens murder (taking a life).  One foot in and one foot out the door showing Macbeth debating his actions of killing the king. Her fingers on her lips symbolizes a knife like slicence, secret (never tell anyone or else) here I sense threats.  Lady Macbeth's eyes pops with a deadly stear, again in a treathening way. Macbeth's eyes shrinks with fear commanding to her devious wishes. I assumed Lady Macbeth's was challenging Macbeth's manhood, making him feel weak, powerless, and gutless for not acting in due diligence. Basically in my terminology she is telling him that he is a "wussy".  In lady Macbeth's subconcious mind she might be longing to become a queen and thought if the king was dead, along with his son's, then her husband would become king. Which would give her the power and privileges of a queen.  The picture also give me an outlook of what might be the image in Macbeth's mind of his wife pressuring him to kill.  Due to, intense intimidation and convincing from Macbeth's wife, he proceeds to do evil. The only rational way for Macbeth's wife to resolve her selfish desires' of becoming a queen is through death and if that means her husband has to commit murder, well at that time, so be it.  I choose this painting because it stood out for me and gave me a chance to explore my imagination by taking a closer look and conclude my our interpretation.

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Orphan
Children who are refers to as orphans comes from various situations. In addition, many of them might have lost their parents due to unfortunate circumstances such as war, sickness, disease and some are abandon for unknown reasons.

In this image, we can see a young boy fetching water from a well. I can only imagin what he is thinking. What I get from this is pure innocence from the boy and his way of life. It comes natural for him, everyone he knows does what he is doing. The yellow bucket color represent the sun and with the sun we get sunshine . With that said, the yellow indicate hope in the boy's life. Well, for myself I was fortunate to have both parents, but, this make me sad because it bring back memories has a child growing up in Jamaica. Even though I had both parents, I had vivid memories of living in my words, "slight poverty". Thinking back on my childhood living conditions, it was bad, but it wasn't the worst. Thanks to God. Anyway, their are people I know personally who were worst off, including those I have read about and seeing on television. One who read this should not be sadden for me, I was actually a happy child because that all I knew. I believe the biggest issue thats I can strongly relate to an orphan is a fear of abandonment.
Altruist

This is a person who is very selfless, kind, and always quick to give. People love to be around them and  definitely look out for their friend. Basically, with altruist personality these people always participate in charitable action.

In my opinion, Angelina Jolie is a great example of  altruist.
This is a picture of her star, she is an hollywood star. Angelina is consider the most respectable humanitarian heroine and was awarded the best celebrity humanitarian of 2007. Because of her continuous work as a U.N. goodwill ambassador, she command the greatest public respect of all the celebrity do-gooders. Angelina is an adoptive mother of three orphans, who she adopted from three different parts of the world. She constantly tries to raise awareness of the devastating suffering in Africa. To learn more vist the wedsite provide below.
In this image the (grey) color indicate her dedication and positiveness. The (white) color represent the pureness and genuine care  she has for the less fortunate. Her half naked shoulders signify hunger, pain and suffering for the needy children. The long steer in her eyes, depicts how long before people help these abandon helpless people. I agree with the results of me having an altruist personality because friends, family, sisters and brothers at my church can testify to that. I am kind, friendly,  great best friend, and I constantly spend a lot of time volunteering at church, events, the soup kitchen where we hand out food and sometime my personal belongings to the less fortunate. These are jus a few do-gooders things I am apart of and I can justify that  I have the personality of Altruist






en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan
http://www.lutheranworld.org/What_We_Do/DWS/Country_Programs/DWS-Uganda.html

Blog Entry 2.1 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

Christina was born in London December 5, 1830 by Italian parents.  Her father, aunt and uncle were poets and writers. She was one of four children and all her siblings were also poets and writers. She began to write at age 7 and at age 14 her dad became very ill which put the family in a huge financial depth. She quit school because she started to suffer from depression.  At age 18 she contribute to the literary magazine. In 1862, at age 31, she wrote the “Goblin Market", her most famous poem. Christina had volunteer at St. Mary Magdalene the house of charity from 1859-1870, it was a refuge for former prostitutes. She was known for her romantic, devotional and children's poem. She died December 29, 1894.  Christina interpreted her poem has an allegory about temptation and salvation, erotic desire and social redemption.  My interpretation after reading the Goblin Market is about drugs, lust, sex, death and redemption.

Goblin Market depicts two young beautiful sisters name Lizzie and Laura, whom in which they live alone in poverty.  Every evening before dawn they would go to the river and fetch water. The goblin market is filling with men who usually try to convince women to buy their forbidden fruits. They would call out to women who passed by to come buy their fruits. Lizzie would often warned her sister Laura that the goblin men are evil; the fruits they sell are forbidden.  During a regular routine, Laura passes by the goblin men, somehow, was manipulated and persuaded in to buying their fruit.  Subdued by the goblin men, Laura was unable pay for the fruit because she had no money, so, instead she took a lock of her beautiful hair.  Eager and worried Lizzie waited for Laura to return home.  When Laura finally came home, she informed Lizzie on what she have done.  Lizzie was totally upset at Laura and reminded her what happen to Jeanie who refused to take heed  and bought fruits from the goblin men. Jeanie got very ill and died and no one cared. The next day the sisters when about their daily duty to catch water from the steam and Laura physicality was unable to keep up with Lizzie's. Laura began to get weary and sick. Lizzie started to notice how ill her sister was getting, feeling helpless, she cuddle Laura and  they slept in each other harm's. After days, Laura realized she could not hear the goblin men while Lizzie could. Her long beautiful black hair grew gray, has her appearance started to widow away.  Poor Laura, did not listened and obey, now she starts to suffer the consequences of her actions. Laura needed more fruits from the goblin men to regain life because her addiction grew, as well as her symptoms. Lizzie wanted to desperately save Laura, so she risked her own life and went to get fruits from the goblin men. During the transaction, the goblin men realize she came with money therefore they got angry and vigorously assaulted her. Those monstrous men inflict force to get Lizzie to eat the fruits. Lizzie happen to escape after they dose her with fruit juices. Devastated and weary, Laura drank the juice off Lizzie and slowly transformed into a newly woman. In the end they both lived and reformed Laura got to tell her detrimental story to her children.

 The goblin market is closely related to the story in the Bible about Adam and Eve. For those who are not formula, it is first story in the Book of Genesis about the first two people God created. Adam and Eve who were casted out of the garden because they were warned by God not to eat the apples, but they did anyway after the devil in the form of a snake tempted them to do so.

Lizzie Exude innocence and pureness. She obeys and resisted temptation when pretentious presents itself. She is more like  God's Angel in the situation. "We must not look at goblin men, we must not buy their fruits: who knows upon what soil they fed"(42-45). "...No, no, no; their offers should not charm us, their evil gifts would harm us"(64-66).  Lizzie is strong emotionally and does not subdue to negative things/temptations.  Flood  destruction, power, danger, uncontrollable "white and golden Lizzie stood like a lily in a flood"(408-409). As destructive, powerful and dangerous as these men were, Lizzie stood her grounds to be strong and refused to eat or try their forbidden fruits. Laura is a young girl, who seems misguided, naive, looking for love, quickly influence, just like Eve. Her curiosity got the best of her. "Laura rear'd her glossy head, 'look, Lizzie, look, Lizzie (52-54)...' curious Laura chose to linger, wondering at each merchant man"(69-70).  With money to buy the fruits, Laura, clip a precious lock, referring to her sexuality that relates to virginity , indeed something she will never get back. She had sex which basically sells her soul to those nasty evil men.  The fruits, apple, oranges, grapes, etc in this case are considered the forbidden fruits, "who knows upon what soil they fed their hungry thirsty roots" (45). To eat the unknown or forbidden fruits, will resort to fatal and deadly consequences which happen in Laura's case. Goblin men represent the snake, evil doer who gets people to do devious things which kill their soul. The market is where the evil men sells their forbidden fruits and utter words "come buy, come buy"(4) words of temptations, "sweet to tongue and sound to eye; come buy, come buy " which are words to salivate which equal to irresistibility that Laura falls for. Flowers usually represent beauty, fragility, love, pureness, affection and womb with a sexual connote. But these were poisonous and dangerous. "Ate their fruits and wore their flowers pluck'd from bowers" (150-151). Those evil men took advantage of Laura's innocence and harm her.  Fire refers to her lost of essence, light, reaction, birth, life, and death, “To swift decay and burn her fire away" (297-280).  Laura became ill, her essence of life begins to dye, she lost her temperature and became cold. She could no longer see the light she saw when she was born, only darkness and death reigns.

In concluding, I believe this poem is actually about two sisters whom Christina Rossetti encountered in the refugee home in 1859-1870. Christian's acquaintance with the two sister must have given her the inspiration to write "Goblin men". One  sister got caught up with drugs, results in exchanging sex for the forbidden.  I am assuming they were abandon or runner ways at that time whom in which they lived among prostitutes, pimps and drug dealers. One sister values her moral's to stay away from deviant behavior.  While the other curiosity landed her into a life of destruction. Basically, the true love of one strong sister conquered evil and redeemed her sister soul back.  Growing up, most young teens are rebellious, curious, eager to try and influence easy by negative force. Christina left reader with a message that their will be temptation of peoples faith thats include drugs, lust, sex and death.  Unfortunately, the weak will crumble, but, there is always salvation and redemption.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina Rossetti