Literary Analysis "No Way Out"

Vinnie Cruz

No Way Out

1. No exit was a story about a a group of people who were trapped in hell, and claimed to not know why. They all refused to tell each other about what there background was in order to find out why they all were there. They had three different character, Garson who was the male who had sense of everything was around him, but also avoided issues with Estell an Inez. When they Inez would try to talk about everything Garson would sit back and just listen, Estell would sort of mock Inez. Once they found out what everyone had done to be in hell they started to argue. Estell kissed Garson, and Inez tried to stab Estell, when Inez did that to Estell the gates of hell opened, but they still stayed in hell.
2. The theme of No Way Out was that once you have developed your way of life, and decided to be a certain person, you will stay that way until you decide to change, so in your mind you are who you are in your mind, and that is how you will stay.
3. The tone of the Novel is irony, when the gates of hell open up and they were able to leave, all three of them stayed in hell. Inez was the one girl in the whole novel who wanted the peace, wanted everyone to work together, wanted them to figure out why they were all there, but then she tried to stab Estell for kissing Garson, and Inez was always trying to seem to be trying to cope with everyone around her but yet she always wanted to be looking at herself and always seemed all about her.
4. When the author focuses on a different character the syntax and diction stays the same, but the mood and tone chance. He wrote in a way that seemed to really express each character so that you not only were being told about the character, but you were also feeling the character.
5. The author uses dircect characterization when describing the setting of the story. The author uses indirect characterization to describe the characters state of mind. He also seemed to use a bit a juxtaposition to show the irony in a lot of the characters way of thinking. The authors syntax and diction was key in letting the reader know that every single prop in the play, or story, was put there because it held a significance, and with his yntax and diction, it left you continuin to think about why certain things were placed in the setting, and what they stood for.
6. When the author directly described the back grounds of each character, he tells you exactly what type of character they are by what they have done, which seemed to foreshadow each characters later actions. The author also directly tells us how there setting looks, they are in a room, dark, and alone with each other. The author used indirect characterization to show how the characters personalities were I ironic, Inez was wanting to solve the issue, shown by her drive to want to talk to everyone, but she was also self centered, shown through her obsession with her and a mirror. Also he used indirect characterization to show they are so in sync with there state of mind, when the gates opened up to lead them out of hell they still stayed in hell, because they were so use to the hell of there own state of mind.
7. The characters seemed very static and flat, because at the end of the story, they had a chance to change their ways, and walk out of the gates of hell, but chose not to, they chose to stay the same way.
8. At the end of the story I didnt feel a good connection with characters mainly because I am not very interested in knowing any character, or characters, like that in anyways, so I rejevcted them in a way.

Edit On Macbeth Literary Analysis

I have come across new information due to a public speaker in class. I read a lot online about it being about ambition, so I bit on that idea; however, in light of the speaker we had today, Quinn Mattfield, he enlightened me of an idea that it MacB is not about ambition, its about fear. As I made connections with this thought I felt more and more connection with this idea, when he is killed, it is by a man in fear of losing his family. When MacB runs to the witches to seehis future fate it is out of fear that he will be challenged for the throne and losing it to a new family. He kills several people out of fear of losing his throne, the play is themed of fear.

Thank you Quinn Mattfield :)

Thinking Outside The Box

Plato and Sartre describe the limitations of our think by showing the natural limitations we place on ourselves. Plato describes how we limit our thinking sometimes to just what we have been taught, or a sistem, or a type of routine in our life. We don't really try to break free from that, or do something outside of the norm, and its when we try to do that, that we become more open minded, and it is as easy as trying, "turning ur head" per say, to break free and become more open minded, or "walking into the light." Sartre compares the difference of pleasures, to what's important in life. They have several characters in a setting of hell. On person says hell is being surrounded by people, but when a male and a female start to kiss, a second female stabs the female kissing, and the door opens up to a bright light. In that he shows that doing something just because you are at the end of your road and doing what you can, or thinking the only way you think possible, doesn't mean that is what u should do. When eliminating that drive to do something that is pleasurable, and realizing that eliminating one cansourous thought, or person, it opens your mind up to new ideas.

Literary Analysis "Romeo and Juliet"

Vinnie Cruz

1) Romeo and Juliet is a story about two lovers who are not socially accepted they run away from their town in pursuit of happiness and love, and end up dyeing for each other.

2) The theme of the novel is nothing can break love, not even in death.

3) The tone of this novel was definitely disappointment. There were several examples shown in this novel, 1 would be when Romeo and Juliet were told they can no longer see each other. Another example would be when Juliet was told that Romeo had been sent away from the home town so she would no longer be able to see Romeo. Another example would be when Juliet found Romeo and thought he was dead so committed suicide, and then Romeo awoke from his sleep and saw that Juliet had committed suicide so Romeo committed suicide to be with Juliet.

4) The author uses tone to describe how the characters are feeling in certain situations. The author uses indirect characterization to show how complex his writing is and how much he wants the reader to analyze his work.

1) In Shakespeare's work he doesn't use much direction characterization, but throughout his novel or play he uses all kinds of indirect characterization from his explanations 2 characters such as Romeo's looks, Juliet’s looks from their lives, all the way to how they feel about each other.

2) The author’s syntax and diction stay the same when describing or talking about a character because most of his writing has to do with dialogue and direct characterization.

3) The main character is definitely static and flat. Throughout the novel he continues to love Juliet and drive to see you’re just as much as he does at the end of the story.

4) Considering I didn't much like the book I can't say I felt like I really got 2 know I the character but by the end of story I was definitely aware I was reading a book and didn’t feel much of a  connection to the main character at all.

Allegory of the cave sonnet

Locked up, chained up, stuck in darkness all alone

Close minded, scared of the light, turn your head

Walk towards what is bright, think clear, be free, live a live

Being free is easy, you just have to try

Walk free, see beyond the dark cave called your mind

Losen up, be you, think clear see the light

All it takes is effort, the light is bright

When you find yourself enlightened its a sight

Feeling new, free to think beyond a black room

Terrible lonelyness is ound is darkness

Sadly finding a mind a lone and inclosed

Systems, all you know is what you have

Being taught to think in a certain way

What a life, let me go, run from this darkness

PLATO Questions

1)  Allegory was a comparison against people who were trying to become intellectuals and people who are intellectuals.

2) Prisoners represent the non intellectuals, light shows discovery and knowledge, one long extended metaphor. People in a cave are becoming intellectuals, and people who leave are intellectuals.

3) It shows that's he believe different from education is getting brand new information

4)  Shackles and the cave show that difficulties in life may seem stronger and more difficult to over come then they truly are, and that all it takes it's effort.

5) discouragement and sadness shackle the mind, knowledge shackle the mind, anything that limits your mind of thinking beyond the normal.

6) the free prisoner was much more open minded and wanting to do something that was out of the norm as opposed to the prisoners who did not want anything to change.

7) one eay is not know what you really know, and the other is not going towards what you want to know.

8) Prisoners get free simply by trying and following there curiosity. If you want to be free, try.

9) I do agree, reality goes beyond appearances are, people put on faces all the time, they fake how they feel, and what they think, you appear one way, but think the other

Macbeth Literary Analysis

11)      Macbeth is about a man who was deceived by witches. He was obsessed with power and it eventually killed him. Witches told him he was to become a king, he was called the future thane of coward. Once he was told that he was to become king and killed Duncan because that who the witches said must be killed for him to become king. When Macbeth found a way to kill Duncan he hallucinated daggers with blood, which gave him motivation, once done he said he will never have clean hands. He became king. Banquo started to realize that Macbeth was the murderer; Macbeth insists Banquo come to Macbeths feast. When Banquo was on his way to the feast he had him killed. When Macbeth went to the witches to see why he started to see Banquo's ghost. When he was there he was told to fear Macduff, no one borne of woman can hurt him, and he was told that Banquos children will be king. So he goes to kill Macduff and his family. When he heard people were going to fight for England, war broke out, the war was futile because everyone turned on him, Macduff went out to kill Macbeth, and because he was taken out by C-section he kills Macbeth and takes his head. He takes the head to Malcolm, and Malcolm becomes king.

22)      The theme of the play is Ambition

33)      The authors tone is regret. Macbeth regrets killing Banquo which is why he sees his bloody ghost. When Macbeth was going to kill Macduff he is full of regret and sees bloody daggers, and says he will never get his hands clean. He starts to get scared once his army turns on him and realize he is defeated when Macduff says we was a C-section and regrets his previous actions on Macduff's family.

44)      The author uses tone, indirect characterization, paradox, mood,

11)      Direct Characterization is very few in Shakespeare’s plays, but in describing Banquo’s ghost, and describing how Macbeth felt after seeing the witches and hearing about how no woman borne child could hurt him.

22)       The syntax and diction does not change, 98% of Shakespeare’s writing is dialogue. When describing a character it is mainly through indirect characterization in conversation between two characters, or through indirect characterization with conversation with that character.

33)      The character is flat, Macbeth is very self-centered and all about personal gain, he is static, he has moments of showing change, but he goes right back to his normal ways.

44)       I didn't feel like I actually met someone because, everyone died, that had been a long lasting character, and Macbeth was someone I would never want to meet.