Sheet on films, novels, and poems

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[...] Sheet on films, novels, and poems Handmaid's Tale Themes control of womens bodies theocracy ⇒ reinventing sayings Marx + Bible Motifs Sexual Violence Gilead to protect women from rape Religion soldiers = angels + local police = guardians of faith stores have religious names ⇒ loaves and fishes Symbols Harvard University center runned by EYES (secret police) symbol of knowledge and truth Red clothes blood of fertility The Eyes God's eternal watchfulness + totalitarian state Characters Offred has flashbacks of life before + husband luke and daughter Commander starts playing scrabble with Offred Serena Joy gospel singer + traditional values + suspects fred of sterility so asks Offred to sleep with nick Moira independent + lesbian feminist + escapes red center but found and works as prostitute Aunt lydia indoctrination at red center Nick sexual affair with offred + helps offred escape + is either from the Eyes or the resistance Ofglen member of Mayday resistance + found out and suicides rather than being tortured A Streetcar Named Desire Themes New VS old south innuendos VS direct Fantasy over Reality lies + fantasy to escape and save herself Shep Huntleigh Blanche's fear of aging / death lies abt age + doesnt appear in bright light Dependence on Men Stella and blanches only means to achieve happiness is mariage stanley, mitch, shep Motifs Light blanche avoids light to hide her aging traits scene 6 blanche tells mitch that since Allans suicide she cannot see light scene 9 mitch confronts her Bright light = youthful sexual innocence Poor light = sexual maturity and disillusionment Bathing baths calm her nerves + cleansing herself from past Stanley also showers after having beaten stella = calms him Drunkenness Stanley + Blanche drink excessively Stanley drinking is social : while with friends, bar, poker etc he is then violent Blanche hides her drinking and lies abt it leads to her insanity Symbols Shadows and cries shadows in scene 10 while fighting jungle noises while she begins to descend into madness Varsouviana Polka her and alan dancing on it before he suicided + ends with gunshot + plays increasingly often + represents blanches loss of innocence plays everytime blanche feels remorse Scene 1 ⇒ when S + B meet and he ask abt her husband Scene 6 ⇒ when blanche tells mitch abt him Meat Stanley throws meat at stella which marks his proprietorship over her Characters Blanche Dubois Mississippi + High school teacher + fragile women stuck in the past Stella Kowalski New Orleans + torn btw B and S + denies reality + pregnant Stanley direct + cruel to blanche + no remorse after raping blanche + beats stella + he is a proud family man while blanche is an outcast to society Mitch courts blanche + deceipted after she lied to him + is sad when she is taken to asylum Things Fall Apart Themes Change and tradition okonkwo's opposition to christians Masculinity wealth + success + anger is the only emotion he should show Generational Divide okonkwo vs unoka + okonkwo vs nwoye Pride and Honor O is successful + his pride makes him quick to disdain others + exiled - loses pride Repression shows no emotions to be not weak + kills ikemefuna fear of being w Motifs Chi personal god that determines your life Storytelling shared identity among listeners Animal Imagery reflects the environment in which they live + Tortoise shell became bumpy + sacred python Symbols Locusts foreshadows arrival of white ppl + huge that break tree branches like christians break igbo culture + plagues of egypt = invasion of locusts Fire okonkwo is fire : destructive and dangerous - physically (ikemefuna + Ogbuefi's son) emotionally (ike + ezinma) Yams vegetable : how much you have is how success you are + o's domination Characters Okonkwo successful + fear of looking weak + bad actions lead to his downfall + suicides because he fears he will be emasculated by all for his killing of messenger Nwoye first born + deception for o as he likes art and reminds him of unoka + Isaac Ezinma only one of 10 children of second wife (Ekwefi) to survive + wish you were a boy" + she is similar to Okonkwo Ikemefuna adopted + is a good son + okonkwo hopes his manly attitude will change nwoye + killed because oracle Mr. [...]

[...] water and drowning ferdinand "dead" drowned + prospero will "drown" his book sounds "full of noises" + "thunder and lightning" + ariel's magic music + music during the banquet Symbols the tempest symbolizes all the suffering of prospero + his magic, power, strength and potential evil side game of chess one of them has to kill the other king + game of rivalry + "you play me false" like alonso cheated his way to power + the whole capture was game of chess - the end miranda is just another pawn in prospero's game ? [...]

[...] Shiraha moves in and they pretend to be a couple + she stops working at the store bc he asked they go in a conv store + she re- arranges everything + shiraha angry + she says this is her purpose she finds herself a new store to work in when nephew is crying : looked at the small knife we'd used to cut the cake still lying there on the table: if it was just a matter of making him quiet, it would be easy enough." Never Let Me Go Themes passing of time and inevitable loss kathy is 31 and soon going to die + all her friends of hailsham dead + only has memories + all destined to die young bc they donate organs power of memory her coping with pain through her memories + her desire to hold on + the only way she can hold on to what/who she lost + memory incomplete and forgetting + fragile and powerful Motifs Copies clones copied from outside models + students imitating each other + kathy finds a copy of her tape while looking for ruth's "possible" Pretending & fantasy hailSHAM is itself an elaborate act of pretending : not telling the students about their future + imagined plot against miss geraldine = fear of lies and loosing favorite guardian + ruth dreams of working in an office Lost and found Norfolk is "lost corner" + finding lost objects there is a childhood comfort for the students + if loss is inevitable it can always be found again + K can only recover loss in her memories Symbols open plan office 3 times + first in a magazine which ruth refers to as her dream future + second while they're looking for ruth's possible woman in there is not ruth possible so indicates the impossibility of her ever working here + open glass bc u can see but not participate + on billboard reminder of past dream The song "NLMG" symbolizes depths of human love and fear of losing loved ones + kathy thinks its a woman scared to loose her child the crumbling boat symbol of mortality + time passing + trip to the boat reminds first trib but 2 are missing/completed + ruth is weak + boat reminds them of hailsham Characters Kathy 31 y/o + making sense of her childhood memories + nostalgia and desire to hold on to memories + unreliable narrator = forgets and is subjective Ruth friend + pretends to have special knowledge to stand out + temperamental personality + manipulative and cruel but can be very caring at times + fights a lot with kathy Tommy lack of artistic abilities and mocked + becomes violent but is able to control that later Miss Lucy, Emily, Geraldine--> guardians all sympathetic Madame hailsham benefactor + comes to take the most beautiful artworks + cold and distant A Small Place Themes tourism's ugliness morally and physically ugly + they use poorer ppl for their pleasure + shows how when tourists are happy abt sun etc there's also water scarcity Admiration and resentment of colonizer admires the quality of education here + she believes antiguans now are less educated than her when under colonization + before obsessed with britain ⇒ raised to admire ppl (england) who once enslaved them corruption she says it's the continuation of colonialism + british supposed to bring civilization but only brought exploitation therefore once british leave, antiguans follow the same example Motifs direct address to the reader accusations + emphasizes that reader will not be seen as individual but as generalized stereotype + kincaid says the alienation the reader might feel is part of her plan Symbols library's sign "repairs pending" + library as metaphor for island library destroyed around when colonial left ⇒ damaged goods of colonial structure remains but antiguans can't repair it Japanese cars car ownership partly owned by gov ppl + money making scheme Characters VC Bird first prime minister of antigua + airport named after him + corrupt gov and son became minister after he died Jamaica Kincaid personal experience + anger and intelligence The Tempest Themes revenge and justice many colonization prospero colonizes the island + stephano and trinculo treason brother betrays brother + plotting to kill etc monstrosity Caliban is a monster as well as Ariel power hierarchy prospero controlling all Motifs masters and servants relationships of power + boatswain with nobles + prospero and caliban/ariel etc . [...]

[...] people want her to have a real job and marry She copies her coworkers' way of speaking, dressing and acting and notices that she is accepted faster when doing this. [...]

[...] beauty of balloons shift and become dangerous wildlife fleeing Themes tradition death and destruction fear & delicacy of human condition Techniques alliteration + consonance + assonance enjambement + caesura simile + metaphor Sandpiper Structure 5 stanzas rhyme scheme Summary sandpiper seems disoriented + running to the water looking for smth he looks at the sand closely + he is confused birds obsession with the sand Themes idea of perspective Techniques exagerations to emphasize immensity of ocean use of ordinary words contrast Filling Station Structure 6 stanzas no rhyme scheme Summary describes a speaker's initial reaction, and later feelings, about the value of a dirty filling station. [...]