Thursday, April 25, 2013

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll - Dissected

Read the poem if you haven't already: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/jabberwocky/
Check out different lenses that poems follow: http://comosr.spps.org/Lit_Theory.html

Picture obtained from:
http://www.jabberwockybooks.com/
Jabberwocky is a poem that is a prime example of the Narratology lens. The boy who's perspective the story is told from is your classic hero on a quest to slay the "evil beast" which in this case is the Jabberwocky. It also makes the hero seem strong and more powerful than anyone else because he was the only one who was able to slay this beast, leaving him as the great savior. The villain being the Jabberwocky starts off as being this great beast that should be feared and avoided gets slain at the end as most Narratology story end; with the hero beating the villain that no one else could defeat. The final stereotypical even it follows is the hero going off on his own to handle the issue by himself in a heroic effort. This is common among these types of writing, in which the hero usually handles the problem at hand by himself or sometimes with a "sidekick"

This poem also contains a trace of gender criticism with the hero being the classic great warrior male. In most Narratology stories the hero, if a warrior type person, would be a male because they are perceived as the physical stronger gender and the ones fit for slaying dangerous beast or achieving near impossible tasks.

Jabberwocky is one of the easier poems to dissect into the different lens categories because for the most part they follow the basic/common events that occur in each lens.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The Iron Lady Response

        After watching "The Iron Lady" in my opinion Margret Thatcher was a good leader. I liked her willingness to stand up for whats right and not to give in to enemies demands. When the Soviets tried to get her to appease them and everyone was telling her to do it because it was risking not to but she didn't because she didn't believe that was the right decision.
Picture obtained from :
http://fashioneditoratlarge.blogspot.ca/2012/01/trend-trash-get-margaret-thatcher-look.html
      Her decisions seemed to be based on what she believed to be the right thing to do even if it wasn't the decision that the public wanted. This is my guess to why some people absolutely despise her while others praise her; very few people could have a weak opinion on her choices and that resulted in a group of people would agreed with everything she did and others that were the exact opposite.

     Many political leaders today are so worried on being re-elected that they are scared to take risks and follow their heart. We need more leaders like Thatcher, even though she didn't make all perfect decisions she made the ones she believed in.