1984 and life today.

-Reduced freedom of individuals for the "good" of the country

-Increased public surveillance(buses, airports, trains, cameras)

-Increased private surveilance/ email, phone records, wire tapping) no privacy

-propaganda and how the country changes it's opinions and expects the people to follow their actions

-The media and how it distracts from what is going on in the country with sports and scandals

Study Questions

Book Two, Chapter 1 How does Winston react to the note from Julia before he reads it? -He thinks that she is the Thought Police and is trying to get him to kill himself or turn himself in. He thinks that she might be trying to trick him. How does Winston react to the note after he reads it? -He is sceptical but lastly he thinks that she could be telling the truth. Which he then starts to think about her. Where do they manage to talk for the first time? -In the Canteen mumbling words in between bites of food. Where do they plan to meet? -In the woods(Golden Country) meeting there after an intricate journey there so nobody can follow them. What do Winston and Julia do before they part? -They hold hands Book Two, Chapter 2 Why is Winston ill at ease once he is alone with Julia? -Because he is so much older then her. She is very attractive and youthful but he just isn't sure where this is going or what she wants from him. What does Julia bring with her that she has obtained on the black market? -Chocolate, good chocolate What are Julia’s ideas about the Party? -She doesn't like them. She believes that they are filthy swine that they do exactly what they are fighting against. They make themselves look alot better then they are. What familiar sign does Winston find? -The Golden Country. While he is walking through the woods on the beaten path. It reminds him of image he sees in his dream. Which could possibly be an image from his youth. Before Big Brother. What is the significance of the thrush music? - It is something that can not be heard in the city do too the machines. It is that of him being free. Like the birds in the trees or the brief instance when Winston and Julia are "rebelling" against Big Brother. What does Winston mean when he says that he loves Julia all the more because she has had scores of sexual encounters? -He means that he loves that fact that she rebels. He likes anything that is corrupt. In which the more she has done it the more he likes her.

notes

The king sends for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who are Hamlet's friends from when he was younger to spy on him and see what he is up too. Creating false statements for them to find out about.
Hamlet calls Polonius a fishmonger which is a metephor for the is a pimp but he doesn't exactly pick up on this. Hamlet knows that Polonius is calling him crazy and that he is asking questions to spy on him but he just goes along with it and actually pretends to be some what crazy or like he has lost his mind in order to spy on people around himself; trying to see how other people act to this.
metephors of prostition
themes of curruption and lying/ spying reappear.
hamlet is referred to as bad as he is used in a metaphor as a maggot where he says that the sun can bring the good as well as the bad.

scene 1.1

1) The intrest starts off when the ghost of old hamlet appears, their old king. Who when he shows up he is full armor gear which draws intrest because that was not his normal atire. Giving the question to those who see him. What is going on? What is about to happen? When the guards attempt to ask him questions he does not reply.
2) Given the fact that when they find out he is their dead king, he is in full armor which arises the question of why and what is going to happen. The guards tend to question what is going on and when they look at other nations and what has happened to them after the death of their kings.
3) When the ghost reappears the guards try to do anything they can to get his attention or to stay since he will not talk to any of them. They ask the ghost to meet Hamlet, which builds greater intrest.
4) Well being that a ghosts shows up and that he will not speak. No one knowing why he is there i would say the mood is Confused.
5) One reason is that the ghost is that of their dead king and being that he is in his armor that no good is too come. Second, is the fact that he wont talk and keeps showing up and know one knows why.
6) That he is there to warn them. That their current king will have no good to come from him.
7)guards: Horatio, Marcellus, Barnardo. and then the ghost of old hamlet.
8) He mentions that Old King Hamlet and King Fortinbras were enemies and that they once had a battle.
9) the son of old king fortinbras
10) That once Julius Cesar died that Rome had a similar thing happed to them. That they saw the ghost of Julius and later Rome fell. Causing them to think that their fate may be the same.
11) Horatio does not believe the ghost is real, but Barnardo and Marcellus do.
12) because they thought it would take someone who was smart to be able to talk to the ghost of old king hamlet and Horatio is a scholar. However they were wrong.
13) That the relationship with Denmark and Norway is similar to old king hamlet and king fortinbras.

new vocab

Apparition-noun
a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, esp. a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith
- I thought I saw an apparition learking around my yard, it turns out it was a regular person.
Calumnious-adjective
of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory
K.C. got busted using calumnious language this morning and will be getting detention.

theme

One theme in Hrolf Kraki is that of the revenge between King Helgi and Queen Olof. As King Helgi discovers he would like to marry Queen Olof and as he goes to marry her he ends up getting far too drunk and makes himself look stupid and he is shaved, tarred and feathered while everyone laughs. He is then stuffed into a sack and sent back home. He then sent back out to her. He dressed as a beggar and asked her to follow him into the woods to find and claim some tressure. Where he then raped her and went back home. She ended up having his child, a daughter named Yrsa. However King Helgi never knew he had a daughter nor did he ever see her. time passed. King Helgi again went to see Queen Olof, where she then tricked him by dressing her seductively and she got his a attention and she happily went back with King Helgi where they then had a kid of there own. Fueled with rage, Queen Olof went to King Helgi's place and told Yrsa of that he was actually her father and she returned back with Queen Olof. Which plessed her greatly that she finaly got back him and that he was now alone.

characters

Halfdan - King of Denmark gets killed by Frodi and has two sons who grow up to be great.
Frodi - king at the beginning of the book, Takes away Denmark from his brother
Helgi - son of Halfdan, hides for the first part of his life, then becomes a king and sleeps with Olof who wants revenge and so gets him to marry his daughter. Then after that he has a kid with an elf and doesn’t hold up to his end of the bargain so may be cursed.
Hroar - son of Halfdan, hides with Vifil, then hides with Jarl Saevil and Signy, kills Frodi, marries Ogn, gets ring from Helgi, cuts off Hrok's feet after he throws the ring, killed by Hrok.
Signy - The wife of Jarl Saevil, recognizes Helgi and Hroar
Regin - Hides Hroar and Helgi and helps them burn the man trying to kill them.
Vifil - Warlock who hides Helgi and Hroar and helps them escape.
Olof - Queen of Saxland, she tricks Helgi and gets revenge for him pretty much raping her.
Yrsa - Hroar’s daughter who he marries and hads a kid with.
Hrok - son of Saevil and Signy, wants the ring from Helgi, tries to get the ring from Hroar but he can’t have it so he throws it into the ocean.
Adils - King of Sweden who kills Helgi and marries Yrsa
Skuld - Helgi's half-elf daughter, she is slightly evil.
Svipdag - Great warrior who joins Hrolf after being kind of betrayed by Helgi.
Svip - father of Svipdag, Beygad, and Hvitserk, has a dream and sends the brothers to help Svipdag.
Bjalki - one of Hrolf's men.
Bera - Falls for Bjorn and has three kids with him. They all have animal parts but they are fierce warriors.
Bjorn - son of Hring, falls for Bera and gets turned into a bear by an evil sorcerer Hvitt. Killed by some men after getting Bera pregnant.
Bodvar Bjarki - Normal looking son of Bera
Drifa - daughter of Hrolf.
Elk-Frodi - Half Elk doesn’t like his inheritance so he leaves his family and becomes an outlaw.
Hjalti/ Hott- once was the weakling of group until he supposedly kills the dragon.
Hjorvard - marries Skuld.
Hring - King of Norway, father of Bjorn, marries Hvit.
Hvit - Forced to marry Hring but is not happy about that. So she tries to tempt Bjorn but he rejects her and she turns him into a bear.
Skuld - Helgi's half-elf daughter, she is slightly evil.
Yrsa - Hroar’s daughter who he marries and hads a kid with.