The Great Gatsby

Chapter 1 Synopsis

        The narrator of the book is called Nick Carraway and in the beginning he commends himself and explains what he has learnt from his father who said, "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this would haven't had all the advantages that you've had". Nick speaks about himself at a very high standard and mentions that Gatsby represented everything he scorned but that he exempts Gatsby from such judgment and that his personality is nothing short of "gorgeous". 

Nick writes about the hesitation of his relatives to approve his decision to move but eventually went on  to West Egg where he worked in the bond business. From Nick's explanations of two cities East Egg seems to be more conservative while West Egg was home to the rich. Nick mentioned that his house was door to Gatsby's and that his house looked like an eyesore in comparison to Gatsby's.

One night, Nick drove to East Egg to visit and have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan and their house is observed with a level of poise, the yard, Tom standing on the veranda, his voice and mostly, inside the house which seemed to be the icing on the cake. Nick describes Jordan attitude toward him coldly as she did not even look in his direction when he entered the room. the conversation over dinner was on the Nick found hard to fit into as he said "You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy, cant you talk about crops or something?". Dinner was interrupted by a phone call for Tom which made Daisy also leave the room and in their absence Jordan tells Nick that "Tom's got some woman in New York" and insists that he quite's himself so that she can listen. Daisy shared with Nick what she had said after the nurse told her she had a daughter and as he left Tom and Daisy hinted for Nick to take an interest in Jordan.

Upon Nick's arrival home he sees who he assumes to be Gatsby but is reluctant to tell him hi because of  the signals he seemed to be getting from Gatsby.

The significance of the green light at the end of chapter one could be that it symbolized Gatsby's hopes and dreams, as Nick describes him as reaching toward it trembling as if he was trying to touch it to bring it closer.                                                                                         

Chapter 2 Synopsis 

There's a dump for ashes midway between West Egg and New York City that's overlooked by a man by the name of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg with various workers. Nick and Tom are passing that area when Tom forces Nick to see "[his] girl" and they hop off the train at one of the stops the train makes and proceeds to George Wilson's garage. Tom and George make small talk until Myrtle arrives and is clearly taken in by Tom  as she c,loses the distance between them. Tom and Myrtle agreed to meet "by the news stand on the lower level" and they all (except George) continue on to an apartment which Tom has put aside for his affair with Myrtle after doing some shopping. There was a small party with whiskey at that apartment to which Myrtle's sister Catherine was invited to meet Nick. 

On many occasions Nick tried to leave the party but was pulled back in his seat by the conversations taking place. Nick said that Myrtle seemed to have changed with her dress as she became louder with her conversations. At the end of the night Tom and Myrtle was seen arguing about Tom's wife Daisy, Tom was saying that she should not be speaking of his wife but Myrtle insisted that she could say Daisy's name as much as she wanted to until Tom Hit her in the face with his palm and broke her nose. Nick and Mr Mckee leaves, both seeming to be drunk and Nick waits for the 4 am train to arrive.  

Answers to short answer questions

Act 4, Scene 4
1)  According to Margaret's monologue, she "lurked in the shadows to watch (her) enemies downfall."
2) Margaret plans to go to France one most of her curse is fulfilled.
3) Richard needs to die for her curse to be complete.
4) Elizabeth asks Margaret to teach her to curse her enemies.
5) Margaret told Elizabeth that if she did not sleep at night, did not eat during the day, compared what she has lost with what she has suffered, remembered her children sweeter than they were, their murder worst than he is and by making her loss greater, it will make the person who caused it worst, this mind set would teach Elizabeth to curse.
6) Richard's mother, the Duchess, told him that "blood will be his end."

Act 4, Scene 5
1) Richard is holding Stanley's son, George Stanley hostage.
2) Stanley explains the hostage situation to Sir Christopher.
3) Elizabeth agrees to let Richard marry her daughter.
4) Richmond is at Pembroke or at Harfordwest in Wales when Stanley leaves Richard.
5) Sir Walter Herbert is a renowned soldier who has joined Richmond.
6) Richmond and his supporters plan to head straight to London if there are no resistance.

Act 5, Scene 1
1) Buckingham is executed in Salisbury.
2) Buckingham is executed on All-Souls' day.
3) Buckingham calls Margaret a Prophetess on his way to his execution.
4) Richard is who Buckingham wanted to speak with before his execution.
5) Buckingham talks to Sheriff right before he is executed.
6) Buckingham believes that he is being executed because he was false to King Edward's children and his wife's allies and that he got exactly what he wished for.

Act 5, Scene 2
1) This scene is taken place near the town of Leicester.
2) Richmond wants to take over the thrown of England to bring everlasting peace to the violent war.
3) Richmond says that Richard's supporters support him because they are afraid of Richard.
4) Richmond is a day's march away from Richard when he receives Stanley's letter.
5) Richmond describes Richard's reign as wretch and bloody.
6) In Richmond's speech he mentions that "hope is swift."

Act 5, Scene 3
1) Richard orders for his tent to be set up in Bosworth Field.
2) Richard lifts his troops spirit by mentioning that their troop is three time the size of Richmond's.
3) Stanley camps out in his regiment.
4) Richard orders someone to wake Stanley when the cock crows.
5) The first ghost to appear to Richard in his dream is the ghost of Prince Edward, King Henry VI's son.
6) According to Richard's almanac, the sun should have risen an hour ago.

Richard's development since act 1

       Richard's way with words has no doubt been on point since the onset of this play. He could talk his way through everything and that is exactly what he did. In act 1, all Richard spoke about was his plan and the audience could see that he already has it on the way. As soon as King Edwards died he sprang into action so that no one could get in his way of the crown killing who he had to to keep them quiet or just out of his way and of course lie. Lying seems to be the most prominent characteristic of Richard but not just lying but lying as if it were the only truth he knew, knowing exactly how to form the words and bring them across so as to not mess up himself in the long run. Of course Richard had help from his friends but his heartless characteristic was proven yet again when he treated Buckingham as a stranger begging for bread for thinking twice before carrying out his request oh murder. Richard advanced from brother of the King to Protector of the young Prince to King with the use of his smarts, charms, authority but mostly by his will power.        

Act 4 - Dramatic Significance

       In act 4 of Richard III the overall dramatic significance is suspense as Richard has proven his crafty ways in act 3 and finally got the crown for himself. In scene 1, at the very beginning we find the women most important in the princes lives on their way to see them but were later told that they could not  and that Anne is to be married to Richard and become queen. As the reader read this, the only question that would be going through their head is "What is Richard doing?" They would be eager to see what happens to the young princes, if Anne would suffer as she wished Richard's wife would or if her curse words would pass over her because of her regret.    

       In scene 2 or this act Richard is brought in as king and is speaking with Buckingham. Again the reader is kept in suspense as Richard talks of Prince Edward still being alive causing them to wonder if Richard will really be that heartless as to kill them after promising them so much. The reader would have been on their toes to see if Richard was really going to kill the Princes but also to know if Buckingham would do it after is reaction to Richard wanting them dead (he became distant). The reader would then question why is Richard in such a rush as he does not even wait for Buckingham's answer he just hires someone else and then afterwards he ignores Buckingham upon return. Richard is also planing to kill his wife as he spreads news about her being sick and near death and plans to marry Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth's daughter.

       In act 3 the reader wonders if Tyrant actually did the job because of the beginning of his speech and the remorseful tone of the rest of it by his hired men but then the reader would shake their heads as Richard seems to have none at all.

       "Will Queen Elizabeth turn into the woman Margaret is now?" This is the question hanging in the mind of the reader now in scene 4 as Elizabeth, the Duchess and Margaret talk about all the wrong doings of Richard . Although, Margaret is basically rubbing her revenge in the face of the two mournful women. Elizabeth wants to be like Margaret in order to curse Richard because of all that he did to her and asks Margaret to teach her. When Richard passed, the two women spat words upon him but Richard was able to hush them and spoke to is mother. afterwards he addressed Elizabeth about marrying her daughter and was successful. The reader would be in awe at this but also, it poses the question, "Will Richard really keep Elizabeth's daughter alive?" After the women are out of the way, news is brought about Richmond and his battle ships. Around this area there is the most suspense yet as Stanley is suspected of being a traitor and one messenger after the other comes in to inform Richard of bad news until Richard reaches his climax and strikes one out of frustration. this shows that Richard was becoming afraid but was too proud to show it. There was one good news in this scene and it was the news of Buckingham's capture.

       Scene 5 puts the reader in their toes in every way as Stanley is seen writing a note to Richmond which proves that he is on his side and not Richard, it makes the reader anxious to see how the war will go with all of this.

Testimony to argument in act 1 scene 3

        Queen Elizabeth is speaking with Lord Rivers, Lord Grey, Buckingham and Stanley about the King's condition and Elizabeth's fear of Richard, who is antagonistic toward her and her family, looking over her son if the King dies, for her son if too young to run it on his own, but they tell the her to have faith that the King will make a full recovery. Buckingham also informs the Queen that King Edward would like that everyone got along.
        Richard enters the room enraged because he believes that someone is telling the King wrong about him, he asks if he cannot live in peace without people harassing him. The Queen tells him about how he treats her brothers, children and her and that the King called him there on his own accord in a rebuttal to what Richard has said about Lord Grey ill-treating him. Richard accuses Elizabeth of sending Clarence to the tower but she deny's having anything to do with it and in fact, was on Clarence's side. She says that she will inform the Kind of the way Richard is treating her and adds that she rather but a country servant than a Queen under such conditions.
        Margaret enters and during the conversation or argument be Richard and herself, Richard reveals Margaret's wicked past (the people she killed and boastful nature about it) and Margaret is presented as a more daring character than Richard. Margaret accuses Elizabeth of stealing the thrown from her and wishes that she lives to see someone take her place just as she has, Margaret says that Richard killed her husband and son, telling him that he was and always will be a murderous villain after Richard tells Elizabeth that she was once fighting for the Lancastrians before she married his brother Edward and even before Edward was king so she must remember where she came from. Margaret wishes evil on everyone in the room except Buckingham because he is not a part of the royal family but he disregards what she says and at that point it is clear that no one in the room had no sort of respect toward Margaret.
        In Richards aside as the others leave in response to what Lord Rivers says about praying for the people who do them wrong Richard mentions that of course he prays for them because it is he who commits such acts and if he were to curse the wrongdoers then he would be cursing himself. He explains that he does wrong and is the first to start a quarrel, he does evil in secret and blame it on others and that he cry's about what he's done to Clarence and lastly he quotes scripture to make himself look like a saint but this is a contradiction to the real Richard.

        The dramatic significance of this argument is to build the suspense in the play, to make the reader hold on to see if Richard's plan is really going to work now that he's proven his cunning attributes to the reader. It also shocks the reader as women in Shakespeare's time were obedient and almost invisible, but Margaret is the exact opposite as she did so many evil acts in her past and she curses both man and woman in the room with no remorse at all blaming everyone but herself.






   
       

Richard's opening speech in Richard III

The war is over and Richard begins by describing the atmosphere at the present time compared to when the war was going on. He describes it as joyous and uplifting but a more dampened mood was used to portray the time of the war. Richard looks down upon himself as he explains how how his deformity affects him and adds that his life will take more of a villanous turn with his love life being omitted. He then speaks about the first stage of his awful plan. This begins with getting rid of his brother Clarence.

Manipulated

Have you ever been manipulated by someone?
The biggest lies my parents tell are the ones I look forward to the most. "If you get such a grade for such a subject you'll get something you want or go to an event." Of course those aren't the exact words but you get the point. The test comes, I get the grade they wanted yet there is no gift or on the night of the event they find the most random excuse for me not to go (example, "you didn't wash the dishes on Wednesday" but there were no dishes in the sink to was on wed...) I'm still trying to find a way to get back at them but...well obviously I've had no luck with that.

Have you ever manipulated someone?
I did not want to wash the dishes so I promised my niece candy if she did it for me, of course i had to give her more than one (and it hurt my heart so much) but at least i got out of my Saturday chore at the time.

Name someone you know that has a deformity.
My cousin Sally developed a deformity some time last year due to a deficiency of iodine in her diet.

Define deformity.
From society's point of view, a deformity is a state of not being "normally"  shaped or formed assuming that the general body structure is "normal".

Can people's deformities play on our emotions?
Yes, anyone with a heart would be moved to some level of compassion when they see someone who seems to be less privileged than they are whether it be to play sports, read or write.

Hw given on the 17th

Elements in drama include:
1 Act - one main division of a play (example, act 1 in Richard III).
2 Scene - a division of a play or an act of a play (example, act 2 scene 1 in Richard III).
3 Exposition - the part of a book that sets the stage for the drama to follow (example, the begining of the story "The Three Little Bears").
4 Conflict - antagonism or opposition (example, a robbery, gunfight or family feud).
5 Complication - An intensification of the conflict in a story or play. Complication builds up, accumulates, and develops the primary or central conflict in a literary work (example,
6 Climax - the highest or most intense point in the development of a piece of work (example, the battle in Richard the III).
7 Denouement - the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel (example, when the man with the flute saved the town from the rats).
8 Peripeteia - a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work (example, in the poem "South" the persona's mood changes from sorrowful to hopeful).
9 Characterisation - the way in which a writer presents and reveals a character (example, Richard is presented as a malicious character in Richard III).
10 Protagonist - the leading character, hero of drama or other literary work (example, spiderman in the movie "Spiderman").
11 Antagonist - a person who is opposed to, struggles against or competes with another; opponnt; adversary (example, 'sandman' in the movie "Spiderman").
12 Main plot - the most prominent plan od scheme in a storyline of a literary or dramatic work (example,
13 Subplot - a second or subordinate plot as in a play, novel or other literary work (example,

Forms of drama include:
1 Comedy - the characters in dramatic comedy experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better. In comedy, things work out happily in the end.
2 History - a continuous narrative of past events relating to a particular people, period, person or country.
3 Tradegy - the characters experience reversals of fortune in this which is usually for the worse. In tragedies, catastrophe and suffering await many of the characters, especially the hero.
4 Romance - a novel or other prose narrative depicting heroric or great deeds.
5 Tragedy comedy - literary work combinding both tragic and comic forms either as a tragedy with a happy conclusion or a tragedy with enough comedy to lighten the overall mood.
6 Theater of the absurd - A form of drama that emphasizes the absurdity of human existence by employing meaningless dialogue, purposeless and confusing situations, and plots that are unrealistic or lack logical development.
7 Satire - literary work that criticizes human misconduct and taunts vices, stupidities, and follies.
8 Farce - a comical play in which the plot depends upon a carefully exploited situation rather than the development of character.
9 Modern drama - Modern drama is the western development of drama beginning in the late 19th century. the role was for both examination and examination which was traditional society and critical of dictatorial morality.
10 Melodrama - a dramatic form that does not establish a relationship between actions and events and that over does emotion and adds emphasis plot or action at the expense of characterisation.

Features of drama include:
1 Monologue - when a character reveals their innermost thoughts and feelings through a peom or speech (example, in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" after Oberon observed the lover's situation he vows to help them).
2 Dialogue - a conversation between characters in a novel or drama (example, "Miss
Minne" the conversation between her and her son).
3 Soliloquy - an utterance by a person who is talking to him or herself or is disreguardful or any hearers present (example,
4 Aside - an actor's speech directed to the audience usually to let them know what the charcter is about to do or what they are thinking (example, in an original Antiguan play, a character speaks to the audience about the "old days" between flashbacks)
5 Set - the place and time where the events of the drama take place (example, Raymond's apartment in "Miss Minnie").
6 Stage directions - this indicstes how the dialogue should be acted out, how the characters should be positioned against one another and the set (example, "Guards enter").
7 Stage conventions - commonly followed practices the recur over a number of works within a specific genre (example, the curtain raising and falling before and after plays).
8 Chorus - A group of characters in Greek tragedy who comment on the action of a play without participation in it (example,Tennessee Williams's Glass Menagerie contains a character who functions like a chorus).
9 Dramatic unities - the combination of time, place and action observer in classical drama (example,
10 Disguise - to conceal or cover up the truth or actual character by a counterfeir form of appearance (example, an Asian male makes up different personalities to find love).

Literary devices include:
1 Imagery -  a pattern or related connected asects of language particularly in images in literary work.
2 Symbolism - representing thing with the use of symbols or investing things in a symbolic manner or character.
3 Tragic irony - the use of dramatic irony in a tragedy so that the audience knows that the end result will be fatal while the character theirself is unaware.
4 Juxtaposition - placing close together to show comparison or contrast between the two.
5 Moive - an incentive for a person to act a particular way or do a certain thing.

Literary context include:
1 Social - how writing is viewed from society's point of view.
2 Historical - how situations and events were understood in the time that it was written or published.
3 Political - how literature is understood from a political perspective such as with Elizebeth and James.
4 Moral - how literary work is seen as it pertains to a person's values.
5 Religious -  where religion affects how a piece literature is seen.
6 Ethic - a complex or moral pretext or rules of conduct followed by an individual.
7 Intellectual - a person's level of intelligence will guide how they will understad and analyze literature.
8 Cultural - literature may be looked at differently according to a person's heritage.