"to be or not to be"

Hamlet's soliloquies comprise an important portion of the reading. Discuss why they are important and what function they serve, based on your readings so far.

I think that it helps us understand what he is thinking. He can share his thoughts about love revenge and everything else without having to say it in front of the other characters.

Ophelia's Flowers

Rosemary--remembrance, to Laertes

Pansies--thoughts, also to Laertes

Fennel--flattery, to King
Columbines--thankfulness, to Queen
Rue--sorrow, also to Queen
Daisy--a warning to women who are too easily persuaded to love, to Gertrude
Violets--faithfulness, cannot give--explanation toward Horatio

Machiavellianism

Look up the term and discuss how it relates to the play.

The political doctrine of Machiavelli, which denies the relevance of morality in political affairs and holds that craft and deceit are justified in pursuing and maintaining political power.

this relates in the play because Claudius kills his own brother so he could be king.

act 5

Ophelias funural
Laertes blames it on Hamlet
they get into a fight over whos fault it is that ophelia died.
Gertrude dirnks from the cup and dies
laertes wounds hamlet
hamlet hurts laertes
hamlet kills claudius
They all die

act 4

Gertrude tells Claudius what has happened. they send Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to find the body.
when they go and talk to them he wont tell them were he has put it.
the king says he is sending Hamlet to england. He then tells that he is going to kill him.
Ophelia is mad about her father dying which makes Laertes mad because his sister is sad. Horatio is given a letter from Hamlet.
Claudius gets a letter too that says how he is coming back
Ophelia drowns.

act 3

they don't know what is wrong with Hamlet.
they have Ophelia talk to him. He tells her that he never loved her. and that she needs to go to a nunnery.
Hamlet asks them all to go to the play. He has the actors act out how the king killed hamlet. In the middle of it the king gets upset and leaves.
Hamlet mom wants to talk to him.
He goes and talks to her. poloinus is hiding and listening to their convesation. He yells for help and hamlet kills him..
Hamlet is going to kill the king but sees that he is praying and doesn't want to send him to heaven so he decides to wait until he is commiting a sin.

act 2

Polonius sends people out to check up on Laertes
As soon as he sends them off Ophelia comes and tells her father how Hamlet has gone crazy
Polonius sees that he is crazy because he can't see her anymore and goes to tell the king.
the king and queen get old friends of hamlet to spy on him. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Polonius comes and tells them that the reason that he is mad is because he cant see Ophelia
Hamlet comes and talks to Polonius and rosencrantz and guildenstern and he knows they are sping on him
A bounch of actors come and he tells them to deliver a speach
Hamlet tries to get them to act it out the next day

act 1

Barnardo, Francisco, and Horatio see the ghost. the ghost comes but wont talk to them. they think that it is the ghost of the late king hamlet.
King Claudius holds a meeting. He gives permision to Laertes to go back to France. Hamlet asks him for permision to go back to Wittenberg but the king won't let him.
Hamlet is mad because his uncle and his mom got married and it has only been one month sence his dad died.
Horatio, Barnardo, and Marcellus come and tell Hamlet about the ghost.
Laertes is saying goodbye to his sister and tells her that she shouldn't see Hamlet and that she shouldn't trust him. Their dad Polonius comes and says goodbye to Laertes. Then he also tells Ophelia that Hamlet isn't right for her. and she is ordered not to see him anymore.
Claudius is drinking and Hamlet leaves and goes with Horatio and Marcellus to go see the ghost.
The ghost comes and wants to talk to Hamlet alone the others tell him not to go with the ghost but he still does.
The ghost says how he is Hamlets father and how Claudius is the one that killed him.
He shares how Claudius poisened him. he tells Hamlet to remember him.
When the ghost leaves the others come in and want to know what happened.
Hamlet makes them swear not to tell anybody what they saw that night.

notes

they build herot and they make lots of noise and it makes grendel mad.
He comes and attacks them and eats them
Nobody goes to herot anymore because they are scared of grendel.
Beowulf comes and says that he will kill grendel for them.
they are happy and celebrate and that night grendel comes and they get in a fight
beowulf rips off his arm and they hang it up for everyone to see.
they are happy and celebrate but then grendels mom comes because they killed her son.
she kills the kings friend
beowulf goes to find her and kills her
He returns and gets all kinds of rewards.
then he returns home
and tells his story.

key facts

It is a poem. is written in old English in the time range of 700 to 1000 ad. it is in third person and in past tense. the setting of the story is at around 500 ad. and also inclueds earlier historical events. Is placed in Denmark.

protagonist · Beowulf

major conflict · The poem essentially consists of three parts. There are three central conflicts: Grendel’s domination of Heorot Hall; the vengeance of Grendel’s mother after Grendel is slain; and the rage of the dragon after a thief steals a treasure that it has been guarding. The poem’s overarching conflict is between close-knit warrior societies and the various menaces that threaten their boundaries.

rising action · Grendel’s attack on Heorot, Beowulf’s defeat of Grendel, and Grendel’s mother’s vengeful killing of Aeschere lead to the climactic encounter between Beowulf and Grendel’s mother.

climax · Beowulf’s encounter with Grendel’s mother constitutes the moment at which good and evil are in greatest tension.

falling action · Beowulf’s glorious victory over Grendel’s mother leads King Hrothgar to praise him as a worthy hero and to advise him about becoming king. It also helps Beowulf to transform from a brazen warrior into a reliable king.

themes · The importance of establishing identity; tensions between the heroic code and other value systems; the difference between a good warrior and a good king

motifs · Monsters; the oral tradition; the mead-hall

symbols · The golden torque; the banquet

foreshadowing · The funeral of Shield Sheafson, with which the poem opens, foreshadows Beowulf’s funeral at the poem’s end; the story of Sigemund told by the scop, or bard, foreshadows Beowulf’s fight with the dragon; the story of King Heremod foreshadows Beowulf’s eventual ascendancy to kingship.

Grendel Reading

I think that the author meant for Beowulf to be a hero just because he is driving and determand to kill Grendel.
One example is that when Grendel hears about how Beowulf is coming to kill him because he is suposaly a hero because he has killed monsters before and wants to keep that reputaiton

Quest for Immortality Presentation

Many people today wish that they could be immortal. The most common reason that people look for immortality is that either they are scared of what comes after life or as in Gilgamesh he wants to bring his friend back. There are lots of different ways that people seek immortality. For some it is as crazy as freezing yourself, some scientist actually believe that some day you will be able to freeze your self and come back to life. But most people realize that it isn't going to just happen and that scientist need to keep researching, but there are many things we can do to live longer. Some things that people do because they think it will add years to their lives are:

Eating healthy
Exercising
Taking supplements
This is similar to Gilgamesh because people want to be immortal. The difference today is that we realize that its not going to happen we can only hope by what we do we can add years on to our lives.
Gilgamesh was willing to die if he had to because he wanted the secret to immortality for his friend. Today scientist are willing to spend their whole lives working on immortality but know that they still may die and never get it.
In Gilgamesh when the people start seeking immortality the gods get mad because only they are immortal and humans can't possibly do what they do. So the flood story that often appears in books is how the gods react to the peoples quest for immortality.
There are lots of medicines and treatments for most diseases. But in the end those don't matter because when it is your time to die death will find you.

Literary archetypes

Hero:

The hero is Gilgamesh. He is godlike, he is 2/3 god and only 1/3 human. He sets out to fight Humbaba. He is the king and in the end there are walls to protect Uruk.

Antihero:

This is also Gilgamesh. He is the antihero because he sets out to find immortality but when he doesn't find it he gives up hope. He sees that he has failed so he sees himself as useless. He lays down behind the wall by himself because he has o hope left.

Wise fool:

The wise fool is Utnupistim. Society wanted immortality and he wasn't looking for it. So when the gods made the flood they chose him to survive. Now he has the secret to immortality and Gilgamesh wants it from him.

Devil:

This is Ishtar. She has a connection with both good and bad. She is the goddess of love and fertility but at the same time the goddess of war. She brings war and evil to everything she does.

Outcast:

The outcast is Iniku. He is an outcast in the beginning because he lives with the animals. Then when the prostitute comes the animals outcast him because he sleeps with her.

"His friends

Had left him to a vast aloneness

He had never felt before. The lions returned

To the mountains, the water buffalo

To the rivers, the birds to the sky (18)". 

Double:

The double is immortality. Immortality is both good and bad. The gods are immortal. It gives you a sense of your place if you know that you are going to die. It lets you know that you are underneath the gods. When people start to seek immortality the gods get mad because that is like the people are saying that they are just as good as the gods are.

Scapegoat:

The scapegoat is Eniku. He is the scapegoat because the gods chose him to die because one of them needs to die and Gilgamesh is part god so they wont kill him. Society isn't ready for him. They think he is weird because he is like an animal.

Temptress: 

This is the prostitute. She goes to Eniku. She is unknown and he doesn't know how to act. She destroys his relationship with the animals because they sleep together. The prostitute turns him into a man and he meets Gilgamesh and ends up dying. She temps him to go with the humans and it ends up destroying him.

Good mother:

Ninsun is the good mother. When Gilgamesh has dreams he goes to her and she tells him the meanings of it. She gives Eniku and Gilgamsh guidance and encourages them to do what they believe in. So she helps them get the stregth  to go off and fight Humbaba. 

4

he realizes that it is pointless so he goes back to Uruk. he asks a blind man if he had heard the name Enkidu and he said no.
So he goes by the wall and lays down out of site of everyone else.

3

he is sad that his friend has died. He wanders off to the desert. he was all alone. he went insane. he desided that he had to find the secret of eternal life and bring it back to his friend. He sets out to talk to Utnapishim the one who servived the flood.
He goes to the Mashu mountains. the scorpion people can kill you just by looking at you but because he is part god they let him go through.
He then makes it to the road of the sun where he wandered through the dark repeating Enkidus name. He evenutaly comes upon a valley. In the valley lives a barmaid named Siduri and she sees him and lets him in. he tells her what the two of them have been through and how he has died and he is out to find the secret of imortality to bring him back to life. She tells him that he needs to talk to the boatman Urshanabi and he will tell Gilgamesh how to get to Utnapishim.
he finds some stones and smashes them into a thousand pieces. Urshanabi tells him that those were that sacred stones. He explanes to Urshanabi why he needs to get to Utnapishim.
he tells Gilgamesh that he needs to get a boatload of long treess and he will use them to push himself across the sea of death.
He is not to let his hands touch the water just keep using different poles when one gets rotted by the sea of death.
Utnapishtim is at the other side of the sea and Gilgamesh is sleeping when he shows up. utnapishtimis wondering who he is what his proplem is and what happened to the sacred stones.
Gilgamesh tells him about Enkidus.
Utnapishtim sees to things of hope in Gilgamesh. one is that he went that far for a friend and the other is that he knows that you must borrow light from the blind.
He tells gilgamesh that love is the only way to enternal life. you will have it forever.
In Shurrupak all the gods; anu, enlil, and ishtar made a plan of a great flood.
Ea is scared of the winds and goes to Utnapishtim and tells him to tear down his house and build a boat and bring with him the seed of all the living cratures. He got the boat all ready and the rains came. the rain came for seven whole days. he saw all the people die and only wanted to help their loved ones and bring them back.
he falls asleep when they go back to Utnapishtims house and his wife bakes bread for everyday that he sleeps. when he wakes he learns that he has slept for 7 days.
he yells across the sea to the boatman to let him get home untired and be young again.
they burn his things because they just remind himl of his dead friend.
There is a plant in the river that will bring Gelgamesh new life.
He makes it back to the other side and rest in the pool, but when he gets out he sees that his plant is gone so he starts to cry.

2

Gilgamesh tells Enkidu that they need to go to the forest of Humbaba to kill humbaba, the evil one.
Enkidu is scared but agrees because Gilgamesh and him are friends and he said that they would always stay together no mater what the obstacle.
Enkidu is scared that they are going to die. but Gilgamesh tells him that he shouldn't be scared of death because it is going to happen only the gods are immortal.
They went to talk to the elders to tell them that they are going.
They get their armor and leave. When they are leaving the people are yelling to let Enkidu leave because he knows the forest and the one in the front will die and save the other.
The visit Ninsun before they leave. She asks the gods to protect him and she gives Enkidu a charm around his neck so he can be protected as Gilgamesh is.
They travel for three days and get to the gates of the forest. Enkidu touches the gate and his hand goes numb.
They go into the dark forest and find a place at the edge of the forest to sleep that night.
They have a hard night and neither of them can really sleep. they have bad dreams and Enkidu is in pain. He wakes up and says that in his dream he learned that only one of them would make it out alive.
at dawn Gilgamesh starts to cut down a great cedar and Humbaba comes after them.
He strikes enkidu on the back and makes him fall to the ground.
Gilgamesh gets over him with his ax right before he kills Hambaba Hambaba tells him that if he does't kill him he will serve them like he sirves the gods but Enkidu ells Gilgamesh not to trust him so Gilgamesh kills him.
Ishtar comes and tells Gilgamesh that he should marry her, but he tells her no. He calls her a fat whore .
She goes to her dad Anu and tells him that they need to send the bull of heaven to them.
The bull goes after Gilgamesh and Enkidu tries to help his friend and grabs the bull by the tail and stabed it in the neck.
the stands on the walls of Uruk and yells "grief to those who have insulted me and killed the bull of heaven"
Enkidu heard it and through the thigh from the bull at her face and said that if he could he would kill her too.
Enkidu woke and told his friend that he has to die because of what they did. He said the gods wont kill Gilgamesh because he is 2/3 god.
Shamash said that Enkidu is innocent and all the gods started to argue
At the end of chapter 2 Enkidu dies.

gilgamesh 1

The people of Uruk are getting tired of Gilgamesh ruling.
Gilgamesh keeps having dreams. He has one about a star falling and another about a ax. When he has these dreams he goes to his mother Ninsun. She tells him that a stranger is going to come.
Enkidu is a man that lives with the animals. he is like their family he eats drinks and lives with them. The hunters set traps up to catch the animals but if Enkidu sees that he will try to help them get loose. The hunters son saw that and told his dad. the hunter sent his son to Uruk to ask Gilgamesh to send out a prostitute to sleep with Enkidu so the animals would leave him.
the prostitute takes him to a shepered home where they clean him up and make him look like a man. one day when they are there a man who was going to get a bride from Uruk came.
Enkidu didn't think that it was the kings birthright to be able to sleep with all the virgins.
When the prostutite leads him to Uruk people start cheering for him and that makes Gilgamesh mad so they get in a fight.
When they get up they look at each other and see themselves.

Immortality

Five Steps to Immortality
1. A healthy Diet
Eating a healthy diet wont stop you from dying but it may incress your natural lifespan.
Eating a healthy diet could add up to 20 years to your natural life.
but even then some people eating a healthy diet can still die before they get to 100

2. exercise can help you live longer. some think that you don't need to be active if you eat good but others think that if you don't have a good diet it doesn't matter as long as you exercise. but if you put both of them together it is a great combination.
You can't just be active physicaly but you also have to be active mentaly. If you have a purpose of being here you will live longer. You need to get involed in something and keep.
When it comes to your brain you either use it or lose it.

3. Taking Supplements
There are many things that this consist of. There are nutritional supplements, drugs, and others.
They are good for you but a healthy diet without supplements is still better than a nonhealthy diet with supplements.
Supplements can give you more nutrints then can be found in nature but they can't stop you from dying.

4.Rejuvenation therapies
The tecknowlagy that we are using to keep us alive is probably the most important step.
we don't just have one treatment that will add years to our lives but instead we treat problems one by one.

5.Cryonics
its not going to happen in our lives but immortality will happen.
You can freeze yourself and come back to life. though critics think that when you try to freeze the body the cells will explode.
It is becoming more efficint and safer.

Antigone "Conscientious Objection" GRADE THIS ONE

Conscientious objection is when you object to something because of your beliefs. You go against the law because you are supporting your beliefs and what you think is the right thing to do.
Antigone shows conscientious objection by burying her brother. She knows that it is wrong and Creon said that he is to be unburied while his other brother is buried. She knows that the right thing to do is to honor Polynices. She knows that if anybody else would die like a husband or a child she could always get new ones but this is her brother she can never get another brother especially one like him. She has to honor her brother and will risk her life to do it. After she gets caught barring him in the sand by the guards Creon banishes her to a cave to live by herself until she dies. She will never be the wife or the mother that she wanted but she doesn't care because she honored her brother, she did what she thought was right. "Gods of our fathers, my city, my home,
Rulers of Thebes! Time stays no longer
Last daughter of your royal house
Go I, his prisoner, because I honored
Those things to which honour truly belongs (151).
The whole time she knew that she was going to be punished because she was breaking the law but she knew in her heart that she had to honor her brother so she risked it all and buried him.
I think that she did the right thing. She honored her brother and her family. She did break the law but she had to because that is what she believed was the right thing to do and she could have never lived with herself to know that she had let her brother just sit there and rot. I think that she is brave because she stood up to the king and told him that it was wrong to leave him there.
In the 21st century I think that people would have agreed with her and supported her. Buring him doesn’t affect anyone else and she thought that it needed to be done so she should be able to do it. She would somewhat be considered a hero because she is standing up for her family and her believes.

Despair in The Theban Plays

dispair is to give up hope or be hopless. this is shown in both the plays. In oedipus he gives up hope when he finds out what he has done. he stabs his eyes out and banishes himself from his own country.In antigone she gives up hope when she can't burry her brother and she gets banished to the cave to die or live the rest of her life alone.

Ignorance vs. Guilt

I think that if you don't know that it is a crime you should still get blamed because you did it. ignorance is not an excuse.
I think that he did the right thing by banishing himself because it shows that he is true to his word. he killed the king and just because he didn't know that it was is no excuse.
in a modern day trial you would still get punished even if you didn't know that it was wronge so i think that he desirved to get punished.

antigone

ismene and antigone are talking and antigone desides that she will burry their brother. she knows that she will get in truble if she does it but she thinks it is worth it to honor her brother. The king had said that he was to be left there to rot and be eaten by animals. Sentry comes and says how the guards had fallen asleep and that the body had been covered with dirt.
the king tells them they need to find the one that did it.
they uncover the body and Antigone comes back and they catch her.
the king is mad and says he will kill her.
ismene comes and tells them that she helped even though she didn't because she didn't want to live without her sister.
Haemon comes and supports the king, even though he thinks what antigone did was right.
the king sentences antigone to be locked in a cave untill she dies.
Haemon is sad that she is being locked up so he kills himself.
when his mother finds this out she also kills herself, so the king is left all alone.

King Oedipus

Creon comes and tells Oedipus that there was a leader before Oedipus and his name was Laius. He says that Laius had a horrible death and that only one person survived. They were attacked by robbers.
Oedipus became the leader because he solved the riddle.
Oedipus says that if you did it come forward and you will just be banished. and if you know who it was and come forward you will get a reward.
Nobody admitted to killing him.
Teiresias comes in and tells them that he is the cursed polluter of this land. She says how he is to go blind. he was born killed his father married his mother and fathered his own syblings.
It goes on and he finds out that his mother hurt his ankles and left him for dead. A shepherd came along and found him and gave him to the messenger to care for.
The shepherd comes and tells the story.
Oedipus relizes that it was he who killed his father and married his mother.
Teiresias hangs herself because she relizes what she has done.
Oedipus then takes a brooch and stabs himself in the eyes so he can never see again.
and lastly he is led away because he banished himself before he knew his story.

introduction to the thebean plays

Tragedies were presented in the Athenian theatre at certain annual festival. the theatre would hold up to 17,000 spectators. the orgins of the art of drama, the roots lie not only the human instinct for narrative and impersonation, but also the instinct for the ritualistic expression and interpretation of the power of natual forces, the cycle of life and death, and the nexus of past, present, and future. and its prime function is the expression of the feelings and reasonings excited by man's battles with the eternal forces that appear to govern his life.
The chorus has a double function, it is a actor and a commentator.
religion is a major characteristic in Greek Tragedy
these plays are hard to analyse, impossible to translate.
you cant find english substitutes for Greek idiom and terminology is difficult enough in prose more difficult of all in drama
the meanings of god and king has changed greatly
the theatre was an open air area with a couple entrences.

book 23

this book is where O tells P that it is him. she doesn't believe him at first because she has waited so long for this and doesn't want it to not be true.

book 22

this book is about the fighting. O and T kill all but 2 of the suitors. he then makes the unfaithful maids clean up the mess and then took them outside and killed them.

book 21

is the archery test. all of them fail except O. he wins and it make the other suitors mad because they have been there for years tring to get P and he just walks in and gets her.

book 19

is about when they get back to his house. Ts nurse also finds out that is is O because of the scar on his foot.
They come up with a plan and move the wepons in this book too.

book 16

T comes to the house and talks to the "stranger". o tells him that he is his dad and T is happy.
they come up with there plan to get into the kingdom without the suitors knowing.
Anthena comes and tells them to leave

book 15

Anthena tells him to leave and go back to his land. but she tells him that the suitors want to kill him.

O is still at the house and he learns about how E got to be there.

book 14

O visits Eumaeus in this book. he tells him that O is coming back but Eumaeus doesn't believe him.
Then they have a meal. Eumueus tells O about the suitors and the kingdon and how he really wishes that O would come back.

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macy garwood said...

i do not like the suitors. i think that they are just out to get the money and the house. and i think that if penelope isn't ready to move on then they should just leave her alone and let her be. i don't think that it is fair for them to go in T's house and eat all his food and try to take his mom away. Then when T tells them to leave they think that he is crazy and that if O comes back they can kill him so they can get Pemelope.

i think that she is smart. i think that if she really doesn't want to get remarried she shouldn't have to. she was smart to weave the shround for her father and undo it at night because it gave her more time.

T is changing because he is becomeing a man. he had to grow up wihtout his father. and now he is having to find out if his dad is still alive or if he is really dead. He has to find out and then he has to get his mom remarried. He is a brave man now because he sets off on an adventure and doesn't know what hes going to find.

book 2 is prety much about how Anthna came and told him what he had to do the night before. so he is calling a meeting and everybody is telling him that he is crazy and that if his dad is alive it won't matter because they can take him because there are alot more of them then just his dad. At the end T is leaving.



in book 5 Odysseus and Calypso are on an island. they have been there for 19 years. Calypso is a sex godess and she offerse O imortality if he agrees to be her husband. He says no because he would rather die then have to spend forever without his wife. even though he does stuff with Calypso he still loves his wife, he crys all day because he misses her and feels guilty.

I think that Odysseus is a good man because he stays comited to his wife and marriage with penelope.

Poseidon is mad because all the other gods chose O's fait without asking him, so he trys to stop O from getting home.

The end of book 5 is when O swimms to Phaeacians and covers himself with leaves.

macy garwood said...

I think that big O is a bad leader.
He ony looks out for himself. he lets all his men get killed.
His plans never work out and he ends up losing his men
Like when he tries to talk to the cyclopes he loses six men.
He also takes them to circle where some of his men get turned into pigs.
thats y i think that Big O is a bad leader.

macy garwood said...

O is just out to get goods and riches from people. He stole the ram and is now trying to sacrafice it to Zues. He doesn't accept it because it isn't his ram.
He is very gredy and is just out to help himself and get more riches for himself. His selfishness is what keeps getting them in truble and gets his men killed

The ritual he does is he sacrofices the ram. he does it several times so he can get closer to the gods. He does it once and zues doesnt acept it.
he digs a pit and puts milk honey then sweet wine, and pure water. then he promises that when he gets to Ithaca he will sacrifice a splended barren heifer and precious gifts.
he then slits the throat of the ram over the pit so the spirits can drink it and he can talk to them
some of the shades he talks to are:
his comrade Elpenor. he asks T to burn all the belongings of his so he can lift his spirt.
theban tiresias. she tells im how he can make it home. she gives him advice so he can make it without getting in trouble. she pretty much tells him his future and says just listen to her and he will be ok.
his mother is probably the most important person he talks to. she tells him that he is still the king and that penelopi is still there waiting for him.
he learns that he will be ok and make it back safly.
i think that he is a hero because he doesn't give up. he is doing whatever it takes to get back to his wife and family. he is also becoming a better listener to the gods.


Eumaeus is a nice man. he takes in O and gives him food and lets him stay in his home even though O is a complete stranger.
we find out that Eumaeus used to work for Odysseus. he was the nices master that eumaeus had ever had. and he wished that he could come back.
i think that he desguised himself because he isn't ready to reviel himself yet. he needs to make it back home and get into his kingdom because he cant go in as himself or he will be killed. He has a plan to get back in and his meeting with Eumaeus proves that it is going to work.
Eumaeus treats him realy well. he was treated well by his master and wants to do the same to others even if it is a stranger.


He lies to her because he isn't ready to tell her. but he tells her that he has met O and that he is alive and well and will be returning very soon. She is starting to get tired of waiting for O because she just misses him so much. she is getting tired of all the suitors taking advantage of her son because she doesn't want to marry any of them.
Eurycleia is cleaning his feet off and she sees the scar and knows that it is O. she is so happy and exited that he is back. she is like his mother she raised him and has been there since he was born. O tells her that she can't tell anybody because he doesn't want the suitors to find out. I think that she is a very nice and caring person. and she keeps his secret because she doesnt want anything to happen to him. she is like part of the family.
on page 398 Penelope says that the first person to shot arows through 12 loops in a row she will marry him.

i dont think that the women are important in this story. the only girls that you hear about are his mom and his nanny. women don't really seem to get a choice. like how penelope has to get married. i think that they only really care about the godesses.
We are leaning that she is finally starting to give up on O. he is right there she just doesn't relize it. i don't blame her or think that she is a bad person because she waited 20 years for someone who everybody told her was dead. i think that she is strong for waiting that long.
i think that all the suitors are very disloyal to him. even if they think he is dead they are in his land and taking stuff from him. and then they make fun of him before he does the chalange even though they don't know its him.
I think that Penelope, T, and eurcila are loyal to him. they never stoped beliving in him.
i think that in the next book there will be a fight because the suitors have been there for years trying to win penelope and now a stranger just walks in and wins.


In this book O kills the suitors. he shows no mercy towards them he doesn't like that they were there taking advantage of his son and trying to steal his wife. O, T, E, and Phil only have little wounds. they killed all but two of the suitors.
then after they kill them they make the unloyal maids clean it all up. after it is clean they take them outside and hang them all.
I think that T and O are still heros but i don't think much of them anymore. they didn't need to kill everybody. i know they were mad but there was better ways they could handle it. Back then it didn't matter and it made them look like heros because it showed that they were strong and powerful and that nobody can mess with them.
and it just shows how things have changed since then.


i think that she is just scared to acept it. she has had to live without him and now she thinks the gods are tricking her. she also wants O so bad she doesnt want to get happy and have it not be him and have to lose him again. She probably feels bad for giving up on him at the end. she waited for him for so long then agreed to marry someone else so she feels guilty.
this has to deal with emotions because she is so happy that it would hurt her so bad if it ended up not being true.

book 10

In this book O contiues to tell his story. It tells how he reached Aeaea, isle of fairhaird circe.
It also tells how the others get killed.

book 9

O starts to tell his story to Emual. he tells about how when he leaves the war. it tells how two goddesses wanted him as their husband. he told them no because he is staying loyal to his wife.
it tells how they get in the fight with the cyclops and how some of the men are killed.

book 5

Clypso is told that she needs to let O go. It tells how O stayed there and cried all the time because all he wanted was to go home and see his wife and family.
Calypso had offered him to be immortal if he stayed with her but he would rather die then have to spend forever missing his wife.
Calypso helps him build a ship and gives him gifts and food and send him off.
On his way home posiden gets mad because the other gods didn't ask him what he thought, so he makes a huge storm to try to stop O.
Ino comes and gives him the shaw of immortality so he can swim on to land. he throws it back when he gets to the land.
at the end of theis book he covers himself in leaves and goes to sleep.

book 2

T calls a meeting and tells them that he is going out to find his dad. They tell him he is crazy that his dad is dead so he shouldn't bother. T says that his dad is going to come back and the other suitors will have to leave because P only wants O.
They say that if T and O comes back they will kill them because it will be all the suitors against the two of them. at the end he leaves

book 1

All the gods have a meeting and Anthena tells them they should let O go. Zues tells her no and she tells him that it is the best thing for T.
T is having a feast for all the suitors when Antena comes as mentes and tells them that O is not dead and will get free soon and come back to his land. then T tells her that she is wrong. she wxplans how the suitors are just using him for his money and mom . he says that if his dad was alive he would be back. they already have a tomb for him, he is dead. Anthena tells him to go get the suitors out of his house and look for his dad. If his dad really is dead he can come back and marry off his mom.

heroes and themes

hero qualities:

a hero needs to be brave. if they arent brave how can they face all the tasks and test that they need to for their goals.

they need to be strong. if a hero isn't strong they cant reach their goals. they don't just have to be phisicaly strong but mentaly strong too because if you don't believe in yourself you cant acive what you set out to do.

a hero needs to be independent. they need to be able to rely on themself and get through their own problems. they can't just have someone else do their work for them

a hero needs to be smart to figure out how to beat the bad guy and face any problems that might get thrown at them along the way.


theme possibilities

one possible theme would be bravery. they all had to be brave to go against darth vader. they risked their lives to save princess leia and the others from darth.

another one would be adventure. this whole thing is an adventure with different struggles along the way.

lastly it could be death and reserection. there are lots of parts were you have to die to move on as a stronger person. like when obi wan died so that he could come back stronger and better then ever with the force.

Star wars analysis

Cycle of the hero:

Call to adventure: is when Luke sees the message that princess Leia put in R2D2. He knows he has to go out and help save the princess because she is in trouble. Then when he has to go to find R2D2 and gets taken out by the sand people. Oby-wan Kenobi comes and saves him and tells him what the message is about and gives Luke the lightsabor and tells him about the force. First Luke doesn’t want to go along and he just wants to go home but when he gets there he sees his family is dead so he goes along with obi and the ways of the Jedi to Elderon

Helpers: R2-D2, C3PO, and Obi Wan Kenobi

Threshold of adventure: is when Luke, Obi Wan, R2-D2,and C3PO are at the bar. They meet people that have been out there and back. They find Han Solo who has a plain that they can take to Elderan. Han only is in it because he wants the money. So then Luke, Obi Wan, R2-D2, C3PO, Han, and Chewbacca( Hans companion) all leave on their way to Elderan. As they leave they also get cased and have to get rid of them on their trip to Elderan.

Tests: First they have to get to Death Star. When they get there they have to find and save princess Leia. Once they get her they are being shot at and in there attempt to make a quick get away they fall into the garbage shoot. It starts to close in on them but they stop it just in time before it squished them.

Helpers: Han Solo and the other pilots

Triumph: First princess Leia gets in charge of the Rebel Base and their attack on the Death Star. They are able to fight off the plains and blow up the Death Star. But they are not able to kill Darth Vader. This is also where Luke gets the full power of the force, Darth Vader even says, “the force is strong with this one.”

Flight: is just the flight back to the Rebel Base after they destroy the Death Star.
Threshold Struggle: is when they are back but R2D2 was hurt. They say that they can fix him right up so it’s not that big of a deal.

Elixir: is when Luke and Han get their metals from Princess Leia and are heroes.



Literary Archetypes

Hero: Luke is the hero. He is the first one to set out to help the princess and stop Darth Vader.

Antihero: Han Solo because he is just in it for the money but in the end he helps Luke and becomes a hero.

Wise Fool: Is Han Solo because when he first agrees to help he is just in it for the money. He then realizes that the force is real and he saves Luke from Darth Vader.

Devil Figure: Darth Vader because he is trying to take over the whole galaxy. He is an evil man.
Outcast: is C3PO because he is a robot so nobody really pays attention to him even though he as good ideas.

The double: is the force because it is all the good and bad in the universe. It goes both ways because Darth was once a Jedi and now he is evil. And Luke is a good guy.

Scapegoat: Obi Wan Kenobi because he knows that he will be able to help Luke more after he is gone. So he lets Darth Vader kill him while Luke is watching.

Temptress: The dark side because it pulls people in and makes them think that it is great.

Good mother: Is princess Leia because she is a nice nurturing and enabling woman. She is also strong willed and can stand her ground. She is smart and a good leader because she took charge of the Rebel Base.



The tragic hero: Darth Vader

Belief in his own freedom: he believes that what he is doing is right as long as he has power over others it doesn’t matter what he does, even if that means killing and fighting poor Innocent people he will because he wants power.

Supreme pride: Darth thinks that he is a god. He believes that he is better than everybody else. He thinks that nothing can get him because he is amazing and he is arrogant.

Capacity for suffering: he knows what he is doing is wrong but he doesn’t care because he wants power. He doesn’t care who he hurts along the way as long as he is the most powerful person out there. He knows the force is real and that he is on the bad side but that doesn’t stop him.

Sense of commitment: when he sets out to do something he does it. If he wants to take over a place or people you better believe that he will try even if it kills him. He is very committed to his goal of taking over.

Vigorous protest: he is mad that Luke has come with the force and is threatening his power. He gets mad and if the littlest thing goes wrong he will kill the person in charge.

Transfiguration: When he goes to the dark side. He used to be a Jedi but now hes on the dark side and want to take over the universe.

Impact: he is impacting everything because he is killing people and blowing stuff up. He is also representing the dark side and if there was no dark side the world would be out of balance.