Entry 3.2 Video for Macbeth

Macbeth (Polanski 1971) -- Witches Opening

                  
            These video is about witches and their reality.  If you watch the video you can see it first of all in the way they look – ugly women, old, and not pleasant at all. They are very weird with the things they are doing and the words that they are saying: “So wither’d and so wild in their attire”. We can see that they speak one by one and it sounds like a song, but not the pleasant one. It is one of the songs that make us feel danger.
            We can see that they are very wild of baring somebody’s hand and also putting the blood on the top. So it is some of connection with dark side of the other world.
            When the video starts we can see contract of different lights that mostly have dark colors. I think that this contrast of colors represent good with light colored and evil with dark colors. That is how we know from childhood that evil is someone who is dressed in dark ugly things and is very dangerous. So I can see witches here as a representatives of darkness. We see them in the middle of the night, and everything around them is unpleasant. So these thing make us believe and feel that evil is around.
            Who is a witch??? From our childhood we used to draw old women with dark cloth and ugly face, and who only scares people around her. And if we watch the video, we can see that the same image of witch is right there. From all the times witches were dealing with magic things, but very dark magic. And the same in video we can see that they are baring someone’s hand and singing weird words.
          William Shakespeare uses such things as dark night, deep water, black colors, and blood. So the same thing we can see in Polanski’s video.
          They are archetypes of goddesses and destiny. These three witches represent the destiny and bad dark world. They are tree women that are doing some dark magic and it is very hard to understand them unless you are one of them.
          I think this video is a good example of Macbeth by Shakespeare and you can see the witches in your real eyes.

Entry 3.1

On this picture that I have chosen, we can see 3 old women - the Three Witches or Weird Sisters. These women are characters from “Macbeth” written by William Shakespeare.
        The picture is very dark and has only black, grey, dark brown colors. So I think that it makes the picture look more mysterious and supernatural. I chose this picture because I think that witches play important role in Macbeth. They are mentioned many times in a play. They appeared the first of the whole characters, so that is how the play starts .Later they meet Macbeth and tell him that maybe he should be a king in future and they make him to have this idea of becoming the king. So we can tell that they are important characters in the play.
       From the picture you can see that they are doing something bad or mystery, that no one else can do and understand. It looks like they communicate with dark. So they are connected with dark, and that is what they like to do.
           They represent this darkness, so just looking at them, you know already that nothing good you can expect from them, only bad things. They are also representing something supernatural, because they deal with dark and mystery things. They live in both worlds: the real world and the other, dark one. So we don’t know who are they.
       
I think that this picture is a great one for these characters. You can see them in dark and mystery

 

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According to freedictionary.com ORPHAN means:

1. A child whose parents are dead.
2. A child who has been deprived of parental care and has not been adopted.
3. A young animal without a mother.
4. Lacking support, supervision, or care.

        I think that Harry Potter is the best example of orphan archetype.  He is always lonely and he is yang and doesn’t have both of his parents, because they died long time ago and all his life he was by himself.
          This archetype (orphan) is associated with sad pictures, where children are lonely, unhappy and poor, and they always try to find someone, who can give them love and happiness. So if you see the picture of Harry Potter, you can tell that he is very lonely and sad. And the own next to him is kind of friend, so he doesn’t feel that lonely.
         We can see the orphan archetype everywhere: in mythology, fiction, fairy tales, and even in history.
         The orphan is a metaphor for something that is very deep inside us, something that bothers us, something that makes us feel such feelings as loneliness, failure, and loss of someone very important in our lives. And many orphans don’t want to accept it, so they fight with reality. But we need to heal them and face the reality. So only after that we can start our normal life

           Second picture I picked up is the one from movie “August Rush”. This movie is about a yang boy Evan, who is 11 years old. He is leaving in orphanage and have no parents, but deeply believes that they are alive. So he decided to run away in order to find his parents. Music is a main thing in this movie that at the end brought everyone all together. So it is a good example of orphan archetype that represents a lot of kids that live in orphanages and are looking for their parents.
           We can see a lot of orphans among superheroes, such as Batman or Spiderman or even Superman. They are all orphans. Even in cartoons for kids such as Disney cartoons there are a lot of orphan’s archetypes:  Bambi or Cinderella
         So we can see that orphan archetype is everywhere

Blog 2.1 ''Goblin Market'' by Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet, who was born and raised in London. She was born in big family: she had a sister and two brothers. All her family was connected to poetry and writing. Her mother gave her education at home. Christina Rossetti was a devout member of Evangelical Church- her life was connected to church all the time. She is famous for her variety of romantic, devotional and children's poem. She started to write in early ages. Her famous poem was "Goblin Market". She wrote it when she was 31 years old. It appeared in her first poetry volume, Goblin Market and Other Poems, and was illustrated by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It is a long narrative poem that has irregular rhyme and meter.

          The poem is about two young sisters, Lizzie and Laura, who were closed to each other, and about goblin men, who were selling fruits: “Come buy, come buy” their luscious and tantalizing fruits”. Lizzie didn’t listen to them and run home, but Laura was weaker  and wanted the fruits very bad. So this bad men  got her attention and she got too weak and decided to buy fruits. But because she didn’t have any money she paid with a lock of her golden hair and a tear that is more rare than pearl (127). Next day she wanted to have more and more fruits, but she couldn’t hear their voices anymore:”Must she no more pasture find, gone deaf and blind?”(258-259). Laura started to have withdrawal symptoms just like people who are on drugs do. Her hair started grew thin and gray and she refused to eat. Lizzie began to fear that something bad can happen to her sister and she decided to go to them and buy the fruit in order to save her sister’ life. Carrying a silver penny, Lizzie went to them and wanted to buy a fruit with the money. Goblins didn’t like it and smeared the juice and pulp of their fruit on her face. Lizzie ran home and with her  kisses saved her sister. And after years they both were married and lived happy lives.

          This poem has a lot of symbols. Like we see two sisters are the main characters, and of cause they are symbols. I can compare these two sisters to Adam and Eve from the Bible. Lizzie was warned by Laura not to eat the fruit.and we can see that in a Bible  Eve was warned by God not to eat the fruit from the Tree. Laura, who didn’t listen is a symbol of victim .She eat the fruit ,so she did did forbid thing. Her sister Lizzie is a symbol of Adam, who tried to warn her sister not to take these fruits: “Their offers should not charm us, their evil gifts would harm us” (65-66).She is also a symbol of an angel, who is always next in order to help. In her sacrifice we can also compare Lizzie to Christ. As Lizzie took the fruit to save her sister’s life, the same  did Christ. He offered himself to take our place and saved all us. Goblin men are symbols of Satan, who try to do everything to make the girls eat the fruits.

                 There are a lot of fruits mentioned in the poem: ”Wild-free born cranberries, Crab-apples, blackberries, apricots, strawberries…..”(5-15). Fruits have different types of symbols in this poem. The goblins' fruit   symbolizes temptations of Adam and Eve from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  There are forbidden fruits ,that girls should not taught, just like in a Bible story, the only fruits were forbidden. I  can also see the forbidden fruit  in order of  female sexuality. In some way it also related to  females, their knowledge about the world.
            I can also see the symbol of sisterhood: we see the  comparing  of  two sleeping sisters to a pair of "pigeons in one nest." (184-186).We also can see some flowers here. Flowers in "Goblin Market" are something beautiful and pure ,something that is opposite to goblin’s fruits

            This poem has also archetypes that are very clear to see. Lizzie represents pureness and innocence; she is willing to help her sister no matter what. She behaves only in the best  way she can and she is like Jesus or even a  hero, because she saves her sister. She is also an angel, who always next to her sister, and always there to help her. Laura had the archetypes of the weakness and victim. The goblin men had the archetypes of many evil faces, such as Devil and  death, something bad. Fruits are sins that are following us all our life and if we are weak like Lizzie we are most likely have them a lot.

              I understand this poem in different ways. First of all I see here a bible topic of the Garden of Eden, because it has two main  characters just like in a Bible story and it shows us, what can happened to you if you are trying to do bad things. Also I see this poem about sisterhood and family, how it is important to have ones that care about you and can save you no matter what. I personally believe that every person should have someone who cares of you and there are no closer people than your family.

           I also can  see here a topic of sexuality. All these fruits are different kind of people that we meet in your life journey, and every person is different ,just like fruits. This poem teaches you to be very careful of picking up people in your life and specially bringing them close to you . It is also about personalities and how all people are different.

Work cited:
1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti
2.http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/rossettibio.html
3.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_Market