Personal Response
Girl Against the Jungle Personal Response
The plane crashed and Juliann was thrown out into the open air. She lost conscious senses. There were moments where I really admired Julienne. Even though she was 10 SST in the Amazon Jungle, she still remained calm and determined. When she woke up a after the explosion, she was alone, she had no despair and had no fear. She looked are undo calmly and was ready to find a way out of the jungle. In the next day, she was badly sunburned and was attacked by many mosquitoes and horse flies, but she did don’t care, he was determined, she continued to think that there will be a way out. She reminded calm and was not disheartened by the fact that she was not seen by the plane that just flew past. I was really surprised on what she was thinking. Sometimes I actually wonder how Julienne survives everything. She fell 2 mile s off the sky and had injuries. A bone was sticking out from beneath her neck.
Madame Bovary Personal Response
In part two of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert we see Emma’s development as a character in a negative way. Emma’s development is seen as she embarks on a path to moral and financial corruption all for a search of love and passion. The passion and love Emma seeks cannot be found in the reality of that time causing her to feel imprisoned in society with Charles whom she has no passion or lust for. To Emma love is defined as lustful, spontaneous action which she only reads about in her romance novels. SHe learns to fulfill this inner lust by undertaking in adultery with different men.Throughout this section of the novel we see the emotions Emma encounters, guilt, anger, lust, passion and spiritual longing.
“The more Emma became aware of her love, the more she suppressed it. She would have liked Leon to guess at it… ” [p. 86] This quote shows the change is Emma’s character from part one due to the fact that in part one she only longed for such a relationship and what she read in books and took pity on herself while now she has taken action by committing adultery. When Emma first meets Leon there is a spark and common interests emerge unlike between Emma and Charles.
This is seen in the quote “Their Eyes indeed were full of more serious conversation; and, while they were struggling in search of banal phrases, each felt assailed by the same langour; it was like a murmur from the soul… ” [p. 88] Emma’s Lust for Leon is an example of the commencement of her thoughts of adultery actions, once Leon leaves she becomes even less satisfied by Charles than before and continues to seek for that same love she had for Leon. She goes to such extremes with love due to her idea of love coming from novels, this is seen when she considers ruining after Leo after he had left for Paris.This part of the novel is seen as Emma’s attempt at filling an empty gap in her hear in search of romance that she has always longer for yet never grasped.
She seems to do this by committing such unfaithful acts. “… but i always relish the upheaval; I do love being on the move. ” This quote emphasizes the fact that Emma cannot stay with one decision or be in one place for a long period of time because she is easily bored and dissatisfied. Once Leon leaves Mme.
Bovary has an understanding of her feelings for Leon and her regret for not pursuing these feelings. the bad days form Tostes came back again. ” [p. 114] Emma then realizes the option of adultery and Leon was the one to open this idea up to her.This is what leads her to commit adultery later on in this section of the novel. The second major development is the love affair between Mme. Bovary and Rodolphe.
This love affair fulfills the dream of the romance she has always longed for from the books that she has read. “She merged onto her own imaginings, played a real part, realizing the long dream of her youth, seeing herself as one of those great lovers she had so long envied! ” [p. 51] This quote emphasizes Emma’s happiness and sense of accomplishment that she feels during the affair. This is a development in her character because this can be compared to previous areas in the book where she was bored and unhappy waiting for something to occur this sudden even has now changed this view on life to a more happy one.This is because there was now an aspect of excitement that allows her to experience her dreams that she has so long longed for which causes her to isolate herself from reality. This is seen when she wants to run away with Rodolphe “Take me away! ” [p. 80] This also shows Emma’s selfish behavior because she is acting only to please herself while Charles sacrifices his love and lets Emma be with Rodolphe to treat her depression (illness).
The final major development in Emma is when she is plunged back into reality with the letter the Rodolphe sends her. This letter allows her to realize the difference between the romantic novels and dreams and reality. The fact that she had so many ideas to pursue with Rodolphe such as running away which she though would allow her total freedom.However these longings are all crushed and the caged feeling from before begins to come back again. why have not done with it? Who was to stop her? She was free” This quote shows her thoughts of running away with Rodolphe and how she want to be free. In conclusion these major developments such as the love for Leon and the introduction to the idea of adultery as well as the affair with Rodolphe and the longing for freedom show Madame Bovary’s change throughout part two of the novel. One is also able to see the constant unstable actions of Emma and her decisions.
She is one to go from being spiritual to wanting to commit suicide, then desiring a proper family household and yet none of these make her happy for very long.
Eavan Boland Personal Response
The poetry of Eavan Boland is clear,relateable and realistic. The stanzas in her poems are terse,but she manages to evoke strong feelings in the reader,e. g. the sense of apathy in “The War Horse”. Her poems are relateable because she is a contemporary poet and her themes generally involve the suburban culture. Her poetry is realistic because she elaborates and paints evocative pictures of ordinary sights like “the harsh shyness of the Atlantic light” (White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland).
In the following,I will express in more detail of my personal response to the poetry of Eavan Boland. The theme of War and Human suffering is very powerful and appealing to me. In “The War Horse”,she shows how people living in suburbia can turn a ‘blind eye’ to the war and suffering of others. The apathy of the people made the poet angry,she was sarcastic in the lines – “Why should we care/If a rose,a hedge,a crocus is uprooted/Like corpses,remote,crushed,mutialated? “-it shows the nonchalance of the people towards the distant suffering of others.
In emphasis of the theme of war,the poet uses the horse as a metaphor of violence – “[the] iron of his shoes as he stamps death/Like a mint on the innocent coinage of earth”. The size,weight and force of the horse causes some damage and destruction,imitating the raw violence that is happening to those distant in Northern Ireland. As the horse leaves,the poet “breathe[s] relief” – this reminds her of her ancestors and she feels ashamed of herself as she is just as apathetic as the people in her neighbourhood,because she is also only observing the horse coming into her neighbourhood.
Her “blood is still with atavism”,for a fleeting moment she is reminded of her ancestors whose lives were threatened but they fought back and had passion for the safety of others but she is ashamed for she “use[d] the subterfuge of curtains” and became just as bad as her neighbours. The theme of war is further emphasized in “Child of Our time”. This poem deals with the tragic loss of life caused by war and conflict and it shows how all too often,it is the children who suffer.
The child’s “final cry” is one of pain and anguish. “We”,the public,the adults,the society should have made possible and supported a safe environment for that murdered child – “We should have known how to instruct” – have failed. The fact that we cannot guarantee safety forour children is all the more frightening. The poet knows that she and others “must learn from you dead” in order to “rebuild” society. Out of the destruction of the child’s death by bombing,the poet grasps the possibility of learning and rebuilding.
This one act of violence becomes a symbol for every act of violence in which innocent people are killed. Thus,sosiety is held responsible for the child’s death – “Our times have robbed your cradle”,but if a “new language” can be found then the child may not have died in vain. So,in my opinion,Boland effectively gets her point across to the readers – the theme of war – and I for one,also believe that most people are apathetic towards war and that a “new language” should be found. (etc. )
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