Wuthering Heights (Berzi, Daniel, Manuel and Sean)
Summary: - Catherine gives birth to her daughter - Healthcliff said he will gain ownership Characterization: - Heatlhcliff: values his relationship with Cathy he comes to a point in which he can live without her - He becomes consumed by revenge, he doesn't regret anything Conflicts: - Man versus society- shows cathay nice clothes and heathcliff dirty clothes - Edgar has the looks and wealth of looking like he has a wealthy lifestyle compared to heathcliff - Man versus self: Healthcliff is scared to show his love to Cathy, because she chose lincoln. He described this between his life and soul, showing the conflict of healthcliff’s emotions Themes: - Judgment versus pity - Love brews hate- heathcliff's love for cath, makes him so obsessed in which he does bad actions. - Differences between superficial and emotional love - Cycle of hate- genrational hatred and tramua, healthcliff was tortured as he was ngrowing up. Which he ended up doing to his own children, he passes on this sense of hatred - Revenge- Healthcliff seeked out for revenge, trying to get both properties and wuthering heights. He uses his children as his own tools Book significance: - The dangers of taking emotions to an ecreme like love, revenge - The consequence of manipulation and action with selfish intent - Death and how a person’s actions in life influence, those around them in death
The Color Purple (Itzel, Diego and Adenira_)
Summary: - Celle’s early life she is 14 years old and she was raped by her father she gives birth to 2 kids, and they were taken away - Celle is introduced to Avery and become obsessed with her - Harpo deals with dealing with norm, such as being dominant in a relationship - Sofia depends on social status and does not let harp abuse her, - Harpo finds another companion named squeak or squawk? - Sofia is beaten and arrested - Cellie goes to a missionary trip to africa - Squeak decided to move to a house - Celle decided to create pants - Cellie gains a new level of self independence Characterization: (Celie) - In the beginning of the book she has a value of …, throughout the book she changes - She starts to stand up for herself - Towards the end of the book, she doesn't define God as a Man. She starts to see there is more to life, then being complacent - Towards the end of the book and opens their idea to what they are given by their interactions Complex: - Person vs person - mistreat of father and brother - Mistreatment by alphonso and mr albert - Celle has been controlled by men in her life, and after leaving her step father she continued to get the abuse of another man. - example, seeing Sofia's relationship, they get used to the abuse instead of challenging it. Celle decided to challenge the abuse, against alphonso (negative challenge) - Self vs society - “color”, “god” - Compliance to a god fearing society - She describes how to perceive the idea of god, you must be compliant to please god. Chug believes to enjoy God is to be happy and enjoy what they please. - To get the admiration of love and the beauty of herself - Self vs.self - Celle has perspective of herself - She is compared with people in the beginning of the novel, and when she meets chug shen darts to love herself - She starts to enjoy herself and independence - Celie feels dull - They had undeserving love and respect - She will then be able to love herself and her life Theme: - The pursuit of self independence allows for the formation of unconstrained thoughts and beliefs achieved through inspirations and motivations who have attained such independence. - A person can achieve self independence when the cellie starts to leave, sofia’s mental mindset to fight gives cellie a new viewpoint of the world. - Alter perception of god - Her growth is attributed by the people she met in her life - People who she didn't meet in her life and gave them the power such as the woman which helps PURSUIT self and independence - DEGRADED CELIE'S ROLE AS A WOMAN Importance: - Focuses on values and themes of self value - Takes on a story that represents the value of self love - And nonconformity leading to important ideas to understand their life The Color Purple (Marysa, Kamille) Summary: - A series of letters from the main character, celie, to god, but later shifts to na series of letter between celie and her sisters - Early life of Celie - Meeting shrug, Avery and Sofia, Leaves to Memphis Theme: - The author uses the characterization of Celie along with the jey conflicts of gender roles and power dynamics to reveal the theme if a lack of respect Characterization: - Values: religion no matter how horrible her parents treater her, she never retaliate against them or stood up for herself as she found it important to honor them according to the bible - Celie reflects on her own perspective of god: Values independence: since shug made celierelaize that there is more to god than the image of this higher power/old white man she’s had of for the beginning, she no longer values that notion. - Values: empathy and understanding: he never showed signs of caring about her - principle :forgiveness: she forgave him and through that power she could maintain a friendship with him, this friendship is something they never had Conflict: - Celie calls out her husband for the wrongdoing he has done to her, she calls him “lowdown dog”, and this can be a biblical reference of creation story-genesis 1 - After she found out her husband has been hiding the letter from her sister, she uses metaphors such as “lightning” Significance of the book: - Sense of self - Racism of sexism - Domestic violence warning - redemption,forgiveness,empathy
Their eyes were watching god (Maria & Ruby)
Summary: - Janie is mixed and got married to Logan for security - - Janie then chose to run off with Starks who became mayor of Eatonville. Florida - After starks died, janie chose to marry tea cake who treated her with respect Characterization: - Value of love (beginning) - principle of determination - Value of self expression (middle) - Principle of courage - Value of inner harmony (end) - principle of acceptance Conflict: - Person vs. Self - Person vs. Person - On trial for shooting Tea Cake after he got rabies and they were trying to prosecute her - Lesson: don't judge others by their appearance Themes: - In order to achieve self
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Anthony, Ram Reniel, Sohan)
Summary: - Act One: - ROs, Guild, Coin, Tragedians (The Player and Alfred) - Act Two - Hamlet, CLaudius, Murder of Gonzago, Stoppard vs. Shakespeare - Act Three - Boat, Letter, Switching the letters, “theatrical stabbing”, with the tragedians and mass demise of characters - They disappear and die Characterization (Ros/Guil) Act 1 - More reasonable actions - Showcases the norms and shows how he constantly rationalizes everything - Demonstrates lack of curiosity (Rosencrantz) - Reflects on the topic of death not showing the value was not dived deep Conflicts: - Person vs Society - Guil wants to go forward and realized he cut himself off most of the time - Very lost and a pattern in the play - Person Vs. Self - Find value in getting an audience with laking them - Values the players with the actors vs society - Improves their identity - Emphasizes their work and who they are with having an audience Theme: - Coming to terms with delusion in the present impacts one's values and identity - Clash of values - Adds purpose and relationship to the world - Has their own strand death - Overthinking was very impactful and the view was apart of the main character - He is the in actor and that is who he is although he struggles with finding an audience - Set on the idea on who he is - Valuing himself based on where his mindset is- on the idea of entertainment - Conflict of order vs other - Emotional values - Trust and relationships - Identity in finding themselves in the chaotic mess Importance: Has their own life and detail to the play - Commentary on Hamlet - Evaluates minor characters - Clash of passive order versus active intervention
Connie in Lady Chatterley and Cathy in Wuthering Heights Are Shown To Have Totally Rejected Class and Society's Expectations of Women and Thus Lose Much of The Reader's Sympathy.