Friday, April 24, 2015

Act V Scene IV

Malcom is telling his soldiers to camouflage themselves so that Macbeths army can't see how many of them there are. 
I don't think that it will effect Macbeths decision. 

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Just a little more (research) on my Masterpiece

Now it is still unclear to me to what exactly I would like to do but this is some research onto how to achieve my goal.

Flow: the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity of energized focus, full movement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.

  • focused motivation. There needs to be some sort of drive that one has to be in "the zone"
Hyperfocus: "bad flow." Hyperfocus is more of an addiction that a state of mind. People often become controlled by hyperfocus when flow is supposed to be the other way around.

Flow Theory says that there are three conditions that are usually met:
1. The activity at hand must have a clear set of goals.
2. Clear and immediate feedback.
3. Good balance between perceived challenges of the task at hand and their own perceived skills.


TPCASTT Poem Analysis of I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain by Emily Dickonsen

Title: I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain - she is losing her mind. Just through what a funeral represents which is the loss of something you love and the synonym for brain which is mind. 
Paraphrase: 
  • "and mourners, to and fro, kept treading - treading - ..." - anxiety and pain keep coming into her thoughts.
  • "and when they all were seated," - the anxiety and pain all came to a halt.
  • "and then a plank in reason, broke, and I dropped down and down" - the foundations on which her sanity is built on collapsed under her and she fell into the darkness of insanity. 
Connotation: 

Attitude: The attitude of the character/author is very panicked and scared. She is afraid that she is in fact going to lose her mind and go crazy. My attitude towards the character is empathy and benevolence. I can understand, maybe to not entire this extent but to some degree, of what it feels like to have your mind and soul trying to leave you. 
Shift: I think the shift is somewhere between the last stanza and the one prior to that. When she says "Wrecked, solitary, here - ... and then a Plank in Reason broke."
It goes from her feeling all alone as if no one could come help her while she's hanging on the edge of her sanity, to the point where she could hold on anymore. 
Title Revisited: Instead of losing her mind i believe she has lost her mind. That's obvious to me now because you don't go obviously don't go to a funeral to mourn someone dying. 
Theme: Don't take what you have for granted.