Friday, October 22, 2010
Blog Entry 3.2 Macbeth, Sleepwalking Video.
Lady Macbeth sleepwalking scene is the archetype of light/darkness symbol, as a matter of fact The metaphors of light and dark is maintained throughout the play, because it is known that black desires are not sensed in the dark. Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking takes place at night under the veil of darkness. However in the scene she now regrets her desires of wickedness and longing for dark. So, she carries a candle to expel the fear of darkness and evil.
Additionally, the archetypal pattern of purification by water is also essential in the scene. Water symbolizes the removal of guilt and can symbolize the cleansing of a guilty conscience; Lady Macbeth repeatedly rubs her hands together. Lady Macbeth washing her hands represents the hopes to clear her conscience by removing the "spot" from her hand, as she says, “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” But no matter hard she tries to scrub the smell of blood, the stink remains.
Another symbol is sleep which represents innocence. Lady Macbeth can’t sleep because she have lost her innocence and is overcome with guilt. Also, Lady Macbeth speaks while sleep walking she is saying “what is done, can’t be undone” Her voice has an eerie and morbid tone, I think the tone expresses the deep anxieties that Lady Macbeth cannot handle any longer and is wrenched with guilt…
Lastly, as I searched on YouTube for scenes, I noticed that symbolism plays an important role in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. And I wish I had more time to read the entire play instead of pieces of a great story.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Entry 3.1 Macbeth images
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth was written in 1605 or 1606 and performed at Hampton Court in 1606 for King James I of England. Macbeth has a timeless tale of the human nature. There is greed for power, murderous evil scheming, and the fight for good and evil. No wonder the play has stood the test of time.
I decided to compare two images from the production of "Macbeth"; the images show a dramatic difference on how plays or anything in general can evolve from one era in history to the other. Additionally, the two very different images show how producers have their own interpretation of the classic “Macbeth”. The opposing opinions show two different archetypes of the "weird sisters", such as, the "goddess of destiny"(the young girls from the 2006 version) as compared to the archetype of "witches"(evil red creatures from the 1827 version).
have features like a hybrid combination of women with masculine characteristics with evil red skin. Also, the image makes it hard to figure out if they are female, male or somewhere in the middle. The illustration makes me think of creatures that would live in the bowels of hell that somehow made to the surface of earth just to cause chaos among the human race.
Three Witches in 2006 version of Macbeth look more like angels with young innocence. However, the teenage girls also have mischievous look that give me the impression that evil lurks under the innocent veneer. In other words looks can be deceiving.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
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Blog Entry 2.2: ALTRUIST
According to psychologist Carl Jung, the archetypes are preconscious psychic dispositions. Also, Jung states that they are innate with a permanent imprint of a possible type emerging at any given time in your life; and that they are the key to understanding human meaning and motivation.
The ways to unlock that elusive key is to see a psychologist and go through grueling hours of psychotherapy or just simply take the “The Heroic Myth Self-test”.
The ways to unlock that elusive key is to see a psychologist and go through grueling hours of psychotherapy or just simply take the “The Heroic Myth Self-test”.
I prefer to take the self-test, because I can’t afford the expensive doctor bills. The heroic myth self-test is based on Carol S Pearson “The Hero within, Six Archetypes We Live by” http://www.herowithin.com/index.html.. Pearson’s guidebook interprets the archetypes and attempts to give advice on how we can gain the archetypal advantage to align what is meaningful and motivating. So, we can better use our archetypes for the greater good of our society, the world and ourselves.
The heroic myth self-test has four parts: how I see myself, how others see me, the influence of my family of origin and the influence of my workplace. After I completed the test I combined my results and came up with Altruist being my positive and orphan my negative. However, in the interest of not making my blog entry excessively long and boring, I choose to write about my positive archetype only.
The definition of the archetype Altruist, is helping behavior that is motivated by a selfless concern for the welfare of another person. However, not all helping behavior is altruism, because there are a number of possible selfish motives to help another person, such as for monetary reasons or to get “brownie” points from your boss, loved one, God and even society (Politician). The act of selfless helping has to be a true concern of the welfare for another person and also to have joy while helping that person. In addition, the altruist must have the virtue of compassion. I believe the one true meaning that reflects altruist archetype is motherhood.
I came across the beautiful poem "Mother, You Are the Greatest Gift in My Life" by Stacey Swayze. The words in the poem describe the unconditional most selfless acts one person can do for another human being. For instance, when a mother decides to make a selfless choice to become pregnant, does she not sacrifice her body for the growing fetus? Does she not give up drinking alcohol, smoking and ingesting other harmful substances, so, her child inside of her can grow and be healthy? Additionally, even though it is not common any longer as it was decades and centuries ago for mothers to die during childbirth, yet knowing that risk, the mother still would sacrifice her life for her child.
I Don't recall the first time you held me
Or when I first heard your voice
But from the first moment you held me in your arms
You made the most selfless choice
You chose to change your busy life so that my life could begin
You were my shelter from the rain, on you I could depend
You held my hand when I was afraid and helped me to mend my first broken heart
You bandaged my wounds, wiped my tears and kept me from falling apart
You loved me without question no matter what I did
You shaped me into a confident adult from such an awkward kid
Even though you're not always right beside me
Your love is matched by no other
And thank God each day for his greatest gift
Making you my mother
But from the first moment you held me in your arms
You made the most selfless choice
You chose to change your busy life so that my life could begin
You were my shelter from the rain, on you I could depend
You held my hand when I was afraid and helped me to mend my first broken heart
You bandaged my wounds, wiped my tears and kept me from falling apart
You loved me without question no matter what I did
You shaped me into a confident adult from such an awkward kid
Even though you're not always right beside me
Your love is matched by no other
And thank God each day for his greatest gift
Making you my mother
Moreover, it does not end with the painful childbirth, the selfless acts and sacrifices continue well into the child’s teen and adult years. For example, the mother has compassion like no other; if her child has pain physical or otherwise emotionally, the mother would literally give her right arm for her child’s pain to stop. I know I would. So, in my opinion the altruist is a mother.
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In addition, I made a collage that depicts the mothers’ undying devotion to her offspring. The photos were taken from Google images. The Archetype does not have to be of humans alone. In fact, most species from animals to the mythical mermaids will have the archetype of altruist.
Work cited:
The poem "Mother, You Are the Greatest Gift in My Life" by Stacey Swayze is from the Blue Mountain Arts publication For My Wonderful Mother
“mother, you are the greatest gift in my life”.squidoo,Web.08 October 2010
“mother, you are the greatest gift in my life”.squidoo,Web.08 October 2010
“Jungarchtypes”.iloveulove,web.08 October 2010.
http://www.iloveulove.com/psychology/jung/jungarchetypes.htm
http://www.iloveulove.com/psychology/jung/jungarchetypes.htm
“Six archetypes we live by”.herowithin,Web.09 October 2010.
“Mother and child”.googleimages, Web.09 October 2010.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Blog Entry 2.1: Symbolism and Archetypes in the " Goblin Market"
"Two Faces"
Christina Rossetti was born in London,on December 5, 1830 and died December 29, 1894. Rossetti was one of four children of Italian parents. Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti, her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti a painter, and she also had an older sister who was an Anglican nun. Rossetti was a devout member of Evangelical Church. She was twice sought after in marriage, but each time, because of religious reasons, she refused her suitors. In addition, she was a volunteer at the St. Mary Magdalene "House of Charity” a refuge for former prostitutes. Most of her poetry reflected topics such as death, unhappy love, religion, loss and grief. “Goblin Market”, was published in 1862.
To begin with,the plot of the narrative poem “Goblin Market” is of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. The poem begins with them strolling though the glen, and were being mocked by goblin merchant men with animal faces to “come buy, come buy” their luscious and tantalizing fruits. Lizzie is able to resist the enticement and runs home. However, Laura is weak and succumbs to the fruits; she pays with a lock of her golden hair and a pearl tear. Laura gorges herself on the temptations but her hunger increases, instead of being satisfied. The next day, while doing her chores, her mind wanders to the goblin men and the temping fruits, thus, she hurries to end her duties. Then, Laura sets off to seek the goblins and their exotic fruits. Except, Laura can no longer hear their cry of “come buy, come buy”; and from that day forward never hears that call again. Laura starts to have withdrawal symptoms just like a drug addict does when he is taken off narcotics, you can say the fruits was her drug. Every day that passes, she grows more and more lethargic, because she refuses to eat. Laura starts to age premature and Lizzie begins to fear the worst for her sister. So, Lizzie decides to purchase the “antidote” from the goblins. However, the men refused to sell her the fruits because she did not intend to eat it herself. The evil like goblins throw her money back at her and verbally and physically “rape” her, they smear the juice and pulp of their fruit on her face. Lizzie runs home feeling used from the ordeal but hopeful. When Lizzie gets home she tells Laura to suck the juices from her face and body and says the words “Eat me, drink me, and love me”. The antidote works. Laura and Lizzie both become wives and mothers and live happily ever after.
I believe Rossetti wanted her readers to see the sacrifice that is similar to Christ's redemption of humanity's sins with Lizze being the Christ-like figure.” Eat me, drink me, love me” / Laura, make much of me” (471-72). Eat me refers to the host (body of Christ). Drink me is the the wine (blood of Christ). Furthermore, the goblins' fruit symbolizes temptations of Adam and Eve from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The fruit is detailed and is described as luscious and tempting. (5-30), the goblin is the serpent (Satan) that convinced Eve to eat from the forbidden tree. It is known that Satan has many faces just like the goblins (71-76).
At first I did not “see” the archetypes, but when I read the poem again, all of a sudden they were there... I think that Lizzie was pure and innocent, she had the most because at different parts of the poem she would act like: the virgin, exorcist, angel, guide, heroine, Samaritan, martyr, Jesus the savoir and of course the healer. The goblin men had the archetypes of many evil faces, such as, the devil, saboteur, trickster, the villain and death. Whereas Laura had the archetypes of the weak, for example: the addict, prostitute, victim, materialist (gluttony) and the shadow.
Additionally, the poem has many ideas and many different directions which made it difficult to come up with one opinion. For instance, the poem had many sexual overtones and exchanges of goods and money; which lead me to believe that Rossetti has written about prostitution (she was a volunteer in the “House of Charity” a refuge for prostitutes). Also,the poem had the biblical tale of Adam and Eve‘s temptations of the forbidden fruits (Rossetti was a devoted member of Evangelical Church).
Conversely, after reading the poem again for the third time and then taking a break from the “Goblin Market”. I went to my other studies; it just so happens that I have an exam on Developmental Psychology this week. As I was reading about Sigmund Freud, it dawned on me that the poem “Goblin Market” is about the id, ego and superego.
For instance, the characters Lizzie and Laura are one person (184-198 and 202). Laura is the Id. The id works in keeping with the pleasure principle, which Freud calls them instincts, sex drives and also wishes. The id is the devil on our shoulder. (the bad, in all of us). Lizzie is the Superego. The superego is the conscience of inner feelings like pride, shame, guilt, punishments and warnings. The superego is the angel on our shoulder (the goody, goody in all of us). The ego, unlike the id and superego functions on the reality principle. According to Freud, in a healthy person the ego is the strongest so that it can satisfy the needs of the id and also the superego, and still take into consideration the reality of every situation. But, if the id gets too strong, sexual impulses and self pleasure take over the person's life.
Finally, the entire poem seemed like struggle between id sexual urges and the superego Christ-like morals. However, in the end the ego did “restore one’s lost estate” and Laura/lizzie’s ego immerges, awoke as from a dream, and once again the personality is balanced.
Work cited:
“Character-archetypes”.” Listology,Web. 03 October 2010.
http://www.listology.com/list/character-archetypes.
“Jungarchtypes”.iloveulove,web.03 October 2010.
http://www.iloveulove.com/psychology/jung/jungarchetypes.htm
“Christina Rossetti”. Poets,Web. 02 October 2010.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/716
“Christina-Rossetti”.Britannica.Web.02 October 2010.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/510180/Christina-Rossetti
“Psychology 101”.Allpsych.Web.02 October 2010
http://allpsych.com/psychology101/ego.html
“Adam and Eve”. Wikipedia.Web. 02 October 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve
Christina Rossetti was born in London,on December 5, 1830 and died December 29, 1894. Rossetti was one of four children of Italian parents. Her father was the poet Gabriele Rossetti, her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti a painter, and she also had an older sister who was an Anglican nun. Rossetti was a devout member of Evangelical Church. She was twice sought after in marriage, but each time, because of religious reasons, she refused her suitors. In addition, she was a volunteer at the St. Mary Magdalene "House of Charity” a refuge for former prostitutes. Most of her poetry reflected topics such as death, unhappy love, religion, loss and grief. “Goblin Market”, was published in 1862.
To begin with,the plot of the narrative poem “Goblin Market” is of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. The poem begins with them strolling though the glen, and were being mocked by goblin merchant men with animal faces to “come buy, come buy” their luscious and tantalizing fruits. Lizzie is able to resist the enticement and runs home. However, Laura is weak and succumbs to the fruits; she pays with a lock of her golden hair and a pearl tear. Laura gorges herself on the temptations but her hunger increases, instead of being satisfied. The next day, while doing her chores, her mind wanders to the goblin men and the temping fruits, thus, she hurries to end her duties. Then, Laura sets off to seek the goblins and their exotic fruits. Except, Laura can no longer hear their cry of “come buy, come buy”; and from that day forward never hears that call again. Laura starts to have withdrawal symptoms just like a drug addict does when he is taken off narcotics, you can say the fruits was her drug. Every day that passes, she grows more and more lethargic, because she refuses to eat. Laura starts to age premature and Lizzie begins to fear the worst for her sister. So, Lizzie decides to purchase the “antidote” from the goblins. However, the men refused to sell her the fruits because she did not intend to eat it herself. The evil like goblins throw her money back at her and verbally and physically “rape” her, they smear the juice and pulp of their fruit on her face. Lizzie runs home feeling used from the ordeal but hopeful. When Lizzie gets home she tells Laura to suck the juices from her face and body and says the words “Eat me, drink me, and love me”. The antidote works. Laura and Lizzie both become wives and mothers and live happily ever after.
I believe Rossetti wanted her readers to see the sacrifice that is similar to Christ's redemption of humanity's sins with Lizze being the Christ-like figure.” Eat me, drink me, love me” / Laura, make much of me” (471-72). Eat me refers to the host (body of Christ). Drink me is the the wine (blood of Christ). Furthermore, the goblins' fruit symbolizes temptations of Adam and Eve from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The fruit is detailed and is described as luscious and tempting. (5-30), the goblin is the serpent (Satan) that convinced Eve to eat from the forbidden tree. It is known that Satan has many faces just like the goblins (71-76).
At first I did not “see” the archetypes, but when I read the poem again, all of a sudden they were there... I think that Lizzie was pure and innocent, she had the most because at different parts of the poem she would act like: the virgin, exorcist, angel, guide, heroine, Samaritan, martyr, Jesus the savoir and of course the healer. The goblin men had the archetypes of many evil faces, such as, the devil, saboteur, trickster, the villain and death. Whereas Laura had the archetypes of the weak, for example: the addict, prostitute, victim, materialist (gluttony) and the shadow.
Additionally, the poem has many ideas and many different directions which made it difficult to come up with one opinion. For instance, the poem had many sexual overtones and exchanges of goods and money; which lead me to believe that Rossetti has written about prostitution (she was a volunteer in the “House of Charity” a refuge for prostitutes). Also,the poem had the biblical tale of Adam and Eve‘s temptations of the forbidden fruits (Rossetti was a devoted member of Evangelical Church).
Conversely, after reading the poem again for the third time and then taking a break from the “Goblin Market”. I went to my other studies; it just so happens that I have an exam on Developmental Psychology this week. As I was reading about Sigmund Freud, it dawned on me that the poem “Goblin Market” is about the id, ego and superego.
For instance, the characters Lizzie and Laura are one person (184-198 and 202). Laura is the Id. The id works in keeping with the pleasure principle, which Freud calls them instincts, sex drives and also wishes. The id is the devil on our shoulder. (the bad, in all of us). Lizzie is the Superego. The superego is the conscience of inner feelings like pride, shame, guilt, punishments and warnings. The superego is the angel on our shoulder (the goody, goody in all of us). The ego, unlike the id and superego functions on the reality principle. According to Freud, in a healthy person the ego is the strongest so that it can satisfy the needs of the id and also the superego, and still take into consideration the reality of every situation. But, if the id gets too strong, sexual impulses and self pleasure take over the person's life.
Finally, the entire poem seemed like struggle between id sexual urges and the superego Christ-like morals. However, in the end the ego did “restore one’s lost estate” and Laura/lizzie’s ego immerges, awoke as from a dream, and once again the personality is balanced.
Work cited:
“Character-archetypes”.” Listology,Web. 03 October 2010.
http://www.listology.com/list/character-archetypes.
“Jungarchtypes”.iloveulove,web.03 October 2010.
http://www.iloveulove.com/psychology/jung/jungarchetypes.htm
“Christina Rossetti”. Poets,Web. 02 October 2010.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/716
“Christina-Rossetti”.Britannica.Web.02 October 2010.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/510180/Christina-Rossetti
“Psychology 101”.Allpsych.Web.02 October 2010
http://allpsych.com/psychology101/ego.html
“Adam and Eve”. Wikipedia.Web. 02 October 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve
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