Thesis Possibility...

I haven't quite formulated a thesis quite yet...However, an idea I seem to keep coming back to involves a comparison between the two 'fathers' in the novel: Fydor and Father Zossima. The two characters extremely differ in their moral values and both their deaths cause a bit of crisis for the Karamazov brothers.

Test Questions

1. What is Father Zossima’s response to Ivan Karamazov’s condemnation?

2. All of the following are positive female archetypes except…Devouring Mother

3. What does ‘chthonic’ mean? Underworld

4. What in the story makes it possible for the town of Omelas to be as perfect as possible? Torture of a small child

5. Memorization – Fahrenheit 451

6. What is the most common argument between a man and a woman? You don’t know what it’s like to be me

7. What does Hera do to Tireisus after his response to her question? Strikes him blind

8. What is the first principle of Buddhism? All is suffering all is fleeting

9. What kind of pet would Garrett not cry over? Fish

10. Does Anton Chekov condemn the characters in his story? No. He does not judge them.

11. The answer to the red wheel barrel questions is the red wheel barrel

12. What archetype would Old Karamazov belong to? Trickster

13. What archetype does Grushanka belong to? Temptress

14. What macabre occupation did Annabelle belong to? Restoration manager

15. In a short story, a man puts his hand over that of a blind man to help him draw. What do they draw? Cathedral

16. What law does Antigone represent? The laws of the Underworld.

17. Professor Sexson has a colleague that travels, but does not…read

18. What poem lit up the professor’s face like a child on Christmas day? The one on the door: before you leave the classroom please turn off the lights, close windows, put desks back, pick up garbage

19. What is the difference between metaphor vs simile?

20. What is theodicy? An attempt to justify a god that permits suffering in the world.

21. Who in the Cathedral is the only one who has a name? Blind Man

22. How did Antigone die? She hanged herself

23. What is the object that made Dmitri in the Lady with the Pet Dog have an epiphany? Sturgeon

24. Who is the tragic hero in Antigone? Creon or Antigone

25. What is the Grand Inquisitor’s secret? The church has corrected the problems that Jesus had brought to the world. The church created miracle, mystery, and authority according to a character in Brother’s Karamazov. Freedom is the secret word.

26. Cliff notes are inadequate for Brother’s Karamazov

27. What does misogynist mean? Women Hater – Creon “There are other fields to plow”

28. Shakespearean vs Italian sonnet

29. Araby: Who was the one who inspire the boy to go to the marketplace? Mangan’s sister

30. Which character seems to “run away” from the author in the Brother’s Karamazov? All of them

31. In Antigone, who represents the gods of the upper world? Creon

32. Sonnet Therapy - "I wrote these poems to help people live their lives."

33. Foil - character in contrast to another to create tension in the work. Ex. Creon and Antigone

Tragic Sense of Life

I cannot honestly say I've had a bad day that has ever been darker than a day close to eight years ago. It was into the later days of summer vacation. I was enjoying yet another day of freedom, sinking into the cushions of the couch as I watched television with my younger siblings. My happy laziness was short lived, however, by a phone call that plunged my day and more to pass into a morbid darkness. A classmate delivered the news of a horrific car accident that had taken place in Montana only earlier that very day. A good friend of mine had been a passenger in one of the cars involved in the head-on-collision. While the other victims of the crash were able to walk away, my friend had died upon impact. Being age twelve at the time, it was the last thing I had ever expected or wanted to hear. I felt a great deal of sadness not only for the loss of my friend, but for her mother as well. Her only daughter had been taken away from her at such a young and innocent age. I could not even begin to fathom how much anguish and grief her mother was going through.

Found Poem

Inspiring line from precalc book: The "inverse-reverse" method is also known as "doing and undoing." The name "inverse-reverse" is short for "inverse operations in the reverse order."

Resulting poem:

Inverse
Reverse
Operations in order
Inverse
Reverse
short method
doing and undoing
Inverse
Reverse
Inverse
Reverse

Sonnet

Within your body no heart will be found
And yet it is you who can mark the time
To the beat of my heart within me bound
As though given talents of that of mimes.

Your voice of six strings knows no human words
Only chords of comfort when heartaches yearn
For temperate melodies of whisp’ring birds
When left in clutches of forlornness’ burn.

My hand on your neck and body in lap,
Let us be one when my fingers strum soft
So we flow in meter with one’s foot tap
And tune your voice to that of blue hearts oft.

For you, my sweet guitar, are heartbreak’s guide
To light of peace when you are by my side.





I know that my iambic pentameter is likely to be off and this is obviously not to a significant other or pet, but I do hope you enjoyed.

Shakespearean Sonnet

Following information found at: http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1316714-How-to-Write-a-Shakespearean-Sonnet

Two elements need to be considered when writing a Shakespearean sonnet: the experience (or message) within the words and the form to express that experience (or message).

A Shakespearean sonnet contains several key elements that should be present in it's form.
- Composed of 3 quatrains and ending in a couplet
- Each quatrain develops a specific idea related to the ideas in the other quatrains
- The rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg.
- All lines written in iambic pentameter. 10 syllables per line. A suggestion from the website referenced above is to read The Bard aloud to pick up on the short LONG short LONG short LONG short LONG short LONG pattern of proper iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter means 5 feet per line, written in iambs, with the accent on every second syllable. A foot representing a 2 syllable group of words with the second syllable of each pair accented. ("my SOUL does CRY") It's suggested to be careful when using trochees (type of metric foot where the natural stress falls on the first syllable as in DY-ing), anapests (word or word group with the accent falling on the third syllable as in uncontrolled or underneath) or dactyls (word or word group with the accent falling on the first syllable as in harmony or melody).

Scapegoat

Dictionary Definitions:
1. a person made to blame for wrong doings, mistakes, or faults of others for reasons of convenience.
2. (biblical, Lev. 16) goat sent into the wilderness after the chief priest symbolically laid the sings of the people upon it.

Scapegoating can also be a way to shift responsibility onto someone else. After a bit of googling, scapegoating is a psychological defense mechanism for those in denial of blame or responsibility.