language in literature; Midsummer Night's Dream at 11:50 AM

How happy some o'er other some can be!
Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;
He will not know what all but he do know:
And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,
So I, admiring of his qualities:
Things base and vile, folding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity:
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:
And therefore is Love said to be a child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
So the boy Love is perjured every where:
For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne,
He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.
I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:
Then to the wood will he to-morrow night
Pursue her; and for this intelligence
If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:
But herein mean I to enrich my pain,
To have his sight thither and back again.

Jealous Much?

She considers herself to be as beautiful as Hermia, but who cares?...if Demetrius doesn't think so, which is all that matters, it doesn't matter. his mistake is obsessing over Hermia, her mistake is obsessing over him.
Love makes the worthless, beautiful. love is blind. and unjudgemnental, as a child. it makes bad choices.

Midsummer Night's Dream at 5:13 AM

As indicated by the title, Dreams are a key theme for Midsummer Night's Dream. They are linked to the bizarre mishaps in the forest. This theme of dreams reoccurs throughout the story/play in a way for the characters to explain the strange happenings that are occurring. The entire plot of Midsummer Night's Dream is questioned to be real, and considered to just have been a dream.

"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
no more yielding
but a dream..."

with a small amount of restored confidence, and even a slight amount of hope, a persons entire outlook can change. contrast the panels on page 188 vs the panels on page 194. in the first panels we see vladek stripped of all his belongings, all of his possessions, and all of his hope. he admits to himself that this is the place he will die. life is horrible. there is no light at the end of the tunel....by page 188, although he does not have much, he does gain a new level of confidence. depicted by the way he stands, and is depicted in the pannels as sharp and more sophistocated. even as a pow, he mannages to still generate a enduring character. he is only given clothes that fit, and and some food, but this seems to be everything to the man who has nothing.

i chose to read the short exert written by spiegelman called "Getting in Touch with My Inner Racist" ....
i find that he has a point with this article; not all racism is intentionally taught to future. children unintentionally learn it from popular culture and the world around them, automatically placing themselves into a racial stereotype. Spiegelman's first hand witnessing of this with his children, causes him to think of his parents struggles through the holocaust(MAUS). even with the effect his parents struggle, his children still are effected by the racism in culture today.

Spiegelman use of animals in his graphic novel may seem superficial, but it helps his works to show the stupidity of classifying people on race, gender, nationality, or faith. his 'comic' representation of different people as animals shows how ridiculous the idea is. The Jews for example [represented as mice] can be seen as the helpless 'victims' of the Nazi' regime. The Nazi's threatening appearance [of cats] add to this satire. the jews, in order to hide themselves from the Nazis, wear the mask of a normal polish person... pg66.. Spiegelman even goes as far to Americans represented as dogs, adding to the satire of the idea, which breaks down towards MAUS II; when the reporters are depicted wearing masks of race [nazi, jewish etc]...pg202...



...i actually found a web resource that talks about the unrest of some polish people as being rendered as pigs; turns out that the representation should be seen as a comical 'miss piggy' style.