domingo, 28 de febrero de 2010

Thy Worthy

Scenes 1-5

In Macbeth there are witches, back in the times of Shakespeare there was a great fear for the unexplainable and it was common to associate it with witches. There used to be a great influence from the king and the church back then. The church controlled the people with fear, fear of spending eternity in hell. This is why people gave so much to the church and the king was associated with god also to promote this same principle of respect and to keep anybody from rebelling. Witches were against god and promoted evil according to the king this is why also traitors and traitors and enemies were associated with wizards and evil.

Macbeth is told he will be king by evil “that shalt be king hereafter!” (pg.17). Can a man trust something strange, which is always persecuted. He was to question himself in my opinion because he had been told all his life that the sources or evil only deserve death. The witches have no option but to live in exile and never be accepted to the society forcing them to hide from it, this could be future for Macbeth if he kills Malcolm since it is not assured for him to be king.

As though this book is complicated we must place ourselves in the historical context. We must understand how the system worked in order for him to become king and why thing in this book are done in a certain way.

jueves, 4 de febrero de 2010

book review

The name Slaughterhouse- Five is very misleading, I dont think I would of ever read it if I didnt have to but I am glad I did. My fist impression was that the book was a bad Sci-Fi war book that never sold and became a cult and was lucky it ever got printed. I was completely wrong.

It's a marvelous book that talks about war in a very unique way. The main character Billy Pilgrim is a nice guy who doesn't really know what's going on and would be the complete opposite of what you think as a soldier is. We learn about his experiences of life, WW2 and Tralfamadore in a unique order of events which lead to the great image that the book creates. The book is just like Billy "spastic never knows what part of his life... was next"(23)

This book reinforced my anti war belief and did much more. It taught me about the beauty of life and those who are dead. People might think this is just another WW2 book but its not that its a masterpiece that portrays war from a normal persons life that was sorounded by tragedy but could still find happiness.

lunes, 1 de febrero de 2010

Anti Glacier

The Atomic Bomb was a big mistake and it has caused even bigger disasters. The science behind these destructive war machines is beautiful a true achievement of mankind. Hundreds of thousands have been killed by the atomic bomb and hopefully they wont be used again. Just like Dresden people have been killed in massive numbers.

There are enough nuclear warheads in the world to destroy the Earth six times over. But its not just nuclear bombs but also missiles, bullets, grenades and an endless list of destructive thing which with we harm ourselves and our planet every day. Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernovile and many more are examples of utter destruction caused by war. Many names of places are could still added to the list regularly.

Sometimes humans dont learn from their mistakes like we think we do. We only keep in mind certain incidents like the holocaust which is good but we ignore that five times more people died in Russia in that period. Billy wasn't only in contact with Germans but also Russian soldiers. People are still dying in the Middle East and the world because we constantly fight with each other for bad reasons. Billy never knew why he was fighting he just followed orders, a terrible mistake. Hopefully some day we will learn to live with each other in peace, because if not we will cause our own destruction.