Final Essay

             I still remember beginnig of the September like it was yesterday. I was so afraid of college. Especially of English class because I'm international student and last year I was still ESL student at High School. I thought I will not pass this class because of reading and writing about literature. I was scared I will not understand anything. After one month I started to feel more comfortable with those all assignments and homeworks we had to do. Introduction to blogs was for me a big suprise but in the same time a great idea. Now we have time where technology is so developed and teachers already use it for their lectures so why we students cannot use computers for more then only typing homeworks?
             At class we had to do a lot of blog entries with ours essays and research papers about world of Supernaturals.Those are faries, angels, ghosts, creatures etc. I wasn't maybe the happiest person when I heard about it. However I started feel better when I found out that we are going to do some psychology aspects. We learnt about archetypes and those lessons I enjoyed the most. And the movie "Spirited Away" was so wonderful. I have never been a fan of manga and those kind of things but this film just amazed me. I have never seen any cuter movie like that. That  was also helpful to see how archetypes of one person can change during different situation. From innocent and altruist you can chnage to warrior and opposite. Then we could test ourselveson that knowledge when we were talking about book "Coraline" which I really enjoyed reading too. That book was so different from all books I read so far however it was nice experience.
             From all blogs I really enjoy to visit Barbara's blog. I 'm not really sure If she is a student of  my Profesor because I can't find her on the list but once our Profesor recommend one of her post. I went there  and I really liked it. After reading some of her posts I think she is really smart, and has a gift for writing. Everything she is doing or writing is so creative and fresh and she find other way to look up on things or issues. I am so impressed.
              I don't regret I took this course. I will say one again that I really enjoyed that time. I will definately recommend everybody to take this class with my Profesor. He is so funny and he can bakes cookies by himself haha. I learnt a lot about things about nobody really could tell me in life. I am little sad that semester is over and everything it's finished.

4.2 ( 3.5) Coraline essay

When we meet new people we usually first judge them by look. If they seem  nice or interesting we are pretty excited to meet them. If they look sad or different from general moral rules we rather stay away. Judging anybody just after how he/she looks or even after first impression is not a good way because people are more than face and outfit. They can look weird but in the same time they can be the best match for you as a friend and even as a partner. We should always look for what is inside, willing to “meet” their character and what is common with character we can know their archetype. Knowing particular archetype we can understand person better. We will know why person behave in that and not different way. Also what can we expected after that person, what is she/he able to do for us, for others, how she/he treats other people etc. It’s very helpful to be even better friend.

According to psychologist Dr. Carol Pearson and her Personal Archetypal System which consists 12 archetypes I am Explorer. Going deeper explorer archetype has subtypes which are more specific. From four subtypes my one is a wanderer/seeker. In general I like to explore on my own. I like to discover places which nobody else is going to do. I am a little loner trying to do everything in my ways sometimes against everybody else. I am independent, I don’t need to other people approve what I’m doing or what I want to do. I will do it anyway somehow. Not rarely I’m taking risk with decisions about my life. If I have a problem I always try to find solution which is the best according to me (meaning for me). I like to thinking about psychology side of human being. This let me know myself better. Sometimes its just wasting time about thinking so much. I wish I could be more spontaneous, to just live present day. Also I isolate little from society. I am not so much willing to meet new people. They usually have to start conversation with me if they want to know me.

One of the most famous book of British writer Neil Gaiman is “Coraline”. Title is also a name of the main character. She is small girl and she experience big adventure  just after moved to new house with her parents. On the beginning of the story we can see that Coraline even she is a child she is pretty brave girl wants to explore new places. Its seems like she is already explorer archetype but in her is still child so also orphan archetype. When she moved it was still summer and still couple of days till go to school. Coraline was bored. Even she did all things which her parents proposed her she was still feeling bored. She met  her neighbours Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and this old man with rats. They paid attention but not for so long. After a while she discovered secret door in drawing room. She bothered her mom that long that she went there with her daughter and unlock the door using very old key she found in the kitchen. Mrs. Jones showed her that nothing is there but Coraline knew it’s not true. In next day she visited their neighbours who warned her to not go to this door because all she will meet is trouble. Bored Coraline did not listen. After her mother went to shopping she came to drawing room and decided to see what wait for her after the door. She went there and journey started. Where I see in Coraline explorer archetype? Almost everywhere. For example when she for the first time on the other side of the other world she wanted see everything from inside to outside. We can see that in Chapter 3 after she explored all room inside and visit her the other old man with rats she told him “I’m going outside to explore”. But real adventure started in  Chapter 4 when she met talking cat. He was kind of guide in this world for her. Then she visited the other neighbour Miss Forcible and Miss Spink. However the flat was empty but finally she found them in one of the room which looked like stage. Then they forced Coraline to performed on the stage. “The little dog next to Coraline nudged her with it’s front paw(...)Coraline stood up, and walked up the wooden steps to the stage(...)She led Coraline over to a board by the side of the stage, and put a balloon on top of Coraline’s head”. Other example is when she was in real world she went to drawing room ans see that in the mirror are her missing parents. They couldn’t say anything but she saw that they were very unhappy (chapter 5) “In the mirror Coraline’s mother and father stared at her. Her father opened his mouth and said something, but she could hear nothing at all. Her mother breathed on the inside of the mirror glass, and quickly, before the fog faded, she wrote HELP US with the tip of her forefinger”. After that she came back to the other world, she wanted to find out where her parents are, why the other mother kidnapped them?, how she can save them and come back with them to the real world forever?  

Utopia is an imagined perfect world

4.1 Progress with final project

            I didn't write for long time because I was working on my final project. I didn't come to the class last time  because I felt like I can do the same things at home and it's more comfortable for me.  My project wasn't maybe too hard and it's little different then I originaly planned. I didn't do travel agency offer, I just did simply video about Utopia...pictures, music, little information. My work on project in steps:

1) Research what is Utopia according to sources like wikipedia
2) Choosing pictures
3) Putting everything together in mind....then in Windows Movie Maker

            I had some troubles with last step because even I put everything together after all I see still many mistakes like texts is cut....but I didn't have time to fix it so I will ask Prof to give me more time till next week. I need that time to prepare also short speech to present my project in front of class. I will not hide that this is the worse step for me. I hate public speaking.
I hope Prof. will understaand and give me extended time.

Final Project

Like I posted before I stay with the same idea. I want to make a youtube video or slide of offert of travel agency to the Perfect Happy Land called Utopia.

3.3 Ideas for final projects

           So far I have only one idea for final project. It's idea of create Utiopia. Utiopia it's something like happy land. It's a place where everything is perfect. No problems at all. No one is suffering, crying, dying, being sick. It's just perfect world for everybody. It's maybe something like heaven but on the earth and with other rules. I thought about to create travel agency who is one in the world who offer that kind of trip. The trick is that nobody knows where this place is except the agency and only the agency will picked up people from millions offer to go there. This trip is not for everybody, is only for picked people. Everything depends if you are good person or bad and what did u've done for others and for those who are very hurted by life it will be a  good prize.

3.1 Mackbeth Image

             This is one of the "Fifty Great Illustrations of the 20th Century" presented by National Society of Illustrators in 2003. This collection include works of the biggest artist inter alia author of this image Jone Jude Palencar and what suprise me he is really popular in the U.S and Europe. He created illustrations for the most famous book like couple covers of Stephen King and also in 2003 for Eragon. Even a lot of private and corporate collections use his illustrations.
             I chose this illustration because it fits to the theme of the lesson and contain symbols. It's pretty scary but in other hand intresting. When we first see this art  we first pay attention for this face. It's like evil face or dead face. Anyway it's remind us something very bad. This is the face of Macbeth. This i a face of morderer. He wanted power so much that he could even kill to just achieve his goal. He took lives of innocent people. Those who didn't do anything. Those who in according to Macbeth were able to have more power of those who knew too much. He even killl his best friends Banco. Other symbol in this pic is crown. Crown means power,king, commands, wealth, decisions. He wanted it all. After meeting with witches and knowing the future he became so selfish and bad. He wanted to eliminate all of those who can possibly take his place. We can see that on the crown is something more. Those are small bodies of his victims. The are put on the crown because that means that he had to eliminate them to be a king or this is the price of this power. His jacket or whatever he wear symbolise that no matter what he was a human. He was a person who act like he is an evil who cause death of innocent people.



Sources:

1) http://www.uvu.edu/museum/exhibitions/2003_exhibit_archive.html
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jude_Palencar

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In all of us is a little bit of Wanderer. Especialy when we are growing up. We create our little own world to have a chance to get know ourselves better. And it depends only from us to who we will give the key to this door, too how many people to what kind of people.

2.2 Wanderer

         According to "THE HEROIC MYTH SELF-TEST"  my archetype is aWanderer.

Wanderer is a person who doesnt need to belong or who wants to belong but can't find any group to fit in.  It's individualist who like to explore alone. He likes to looking for things nobody else is intresting. He has his own ways to do things.Sometimes he chose harder or longer way to achieve something but the most important is that he is doing this by himself and different than others. He is a loner who has the biggest trust to himself. This is why people call him recluse sometimes.

    
RESOURCES:

http://martinmora.aminus3.com/image/2010-07-13.html

http://www.mayyoubehappy.com/111thewanderer.html

2.1 Symbols and Archetypes in "Goblin Market"

                 Christina Rossetti was one of the most popular English poet in nineteenth- century;born in London December 5th in 1830. She rised in artist family. Her father was an Italian poet and one of her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti became a poet and a painter. Already as child she struggled from depression. It was caused by mental and physical problems with her father.She published her first poem at the age of 18.Her the most famous work collection  "Goblin Markets" and other poems appeared when she was 31. Her work was the best known from romance and devotion. In her late life she was suffering from Grave disease and in 1893 she developed breast cancer what caused her death in 1894.
                  The poem "Goblin Market" it's pretty much about power of sisterhood. Two sisters Laura and Lizzie lived together without parents. One evening they heard Goblin's cries and screams  calling "Come buy! Come buy!". They begged to come to their market and buy their wonderful fruits. Laura even tough her sister was warning her of goblin men telling the story about girl Jeny. She ate the fruits from goblin's market and after some time she died. Laura's want was stronger. She went to the market and there bought  fruits. She didn't have money so she paid by giving them her hair's band. However, when she sarted eating, she wanted to eat more and more.
                   The next day she felt like she miss to eat Goblin's fruit but she noticed that she cannot hear their calling anymore so she cannot buy it. Along with the time she started to feel very bad physicaly and mentaly. Her health was that bad that her sister decided to go to Goblin's market and buy for Laura fruits which could make her get better. Lizzie took with her silver coin to pay for shopping. When the goblin men noticed that she just went to buy their fruit and she is not going to to eat anything they got angry. They started to fight with her trying to put fruits to her mouth. She run away from them to home very fast to let her sister drink the juices of fruits from her body.  Thanks to that after some time Laura started to feel better.
                   "Goblin's market" is a gold mine if we want to talk about symbols and archetypes. We can even specify them under some types. The most important here are fruits. They are special type of symbols in that text. At first because they are occupy 3/4 of poem. The other reason is that they have a lot of meaning, depend with which words they are complied. In general fruits according to Rossetti means women's desire. You try something what "taste" good and you want more. However it's not always good for you but even that you miss it and If you don't get it again, you feel sick. That situation was showed in very metaphorical way. Laura tasted forbidden fuits even her sister was warning her. We can see that from line 48 to 80 that Lizzie is even begging her to do not go to the market ("No", said Lizzie, "No, no,no. Their offers whould not charm us. Their evil gift would harm us". When somebody start to eat fruits it hard to stop because you want to more and more. When you don't get more you feel sick. After long time you can even die. Fruits are symbol of sexuality. Other type of symbol in Rossetti's poem are flowers and money. Laura paid to Goblin man hairs band.(line 116-125), "Buy from us with a golden curl". Other money in the poem is silver coin which had Lizzie.
                Rossetti in her work also shows archetype both places and people. Market is one of them. Its always symbolize place when people shop and talk , important meeting, money, trading. Goblins we met many times in different stories. They usually means troubles. However one of the goblins in "Harry Potter"  was friendly. He wanted help to wizard.
               "Goblin's market" refers to the very past years, to the times of Adam and Eve. Eve torn the apple from the banned tree even tough Jesus warning her. They could eat fuits from all trees they want except this. But she eat from this one which they couldn't. People' nature is that they get more excited to do things which are banned for them. If they don't get catch they want to do it again and again or they go even further with that. Eve got catch by Jesus  and together with Adam they had to suffer the consequences. In this case it was not worth it because Jesus actually didn't ask them about big thing. It was just one tree. Here we have situation where wants or curiosity or desire won with the obedience and loyality to God.



Sources:

1)http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENGL624-nf/goblinmarket/book%20images.htm

2)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_Market

1.3 Poem

Edgar Allan Poe- Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,

   In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

   By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

   Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

   In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love—

   I and my Annabel Lee—

With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven

   Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

   In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

   My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsmen came

   And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

   In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

   Went envying her and me—

Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,

   In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

   Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

   Of those who were older than we—

   Of many far wiser than we—

And neither the angels in Heaven above

   Nor the demons down under the sea

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

   Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,

   In her sepulchre there by the sea—

   In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Edgar Allan Poe – one of the greatest American writers, was born in 1809 in Boston. His life wasn’t the happiest. He became an orphan at the age of two (his mother died and his father abandoned family).  He didn’t have money to finish University so he decided to find his place in military. After his brother’s death Poe started his writing career. He is known from his poems and short stories.  His works are famous from mystery, dark side. They seem like a horror. Motive of death is in his works very popular. “Annabel Lee” is the last complete poem written in 1849, shortly before Allan’s death. This poem became an inspiration for other artists. One of them is Vladimir Nabokov and we can see effect of “Annabel Lee” in his poem “Lolita”.

Symbols in poem

KINGDOM

1.       Denotative-a territory, state, people, or community ruled or reigned over by a king or queen      Connotative- in Poe’s poem it was “a kingdom by the sea”- the place where he and Annabel Lee met and fall in love with each other. This sentence appears in the poem in five from seven stanzas. It means that is important for the author. This is the place where everything started and ended. It’s the place where he will always feel this love even she is already dead.

                MAIDEN

1.       Denotative- An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid; Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused

2.       Connotative- his lover is his first woman, without any sin, she is the first for him, she had no experience, he is her first experience in psychical and physical way, he will see how she will become woman from a child. I think he plays a role of guardian a little for her. 

CHILD

1.       Denotative-A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.

2.       Connotative-innocence, pure, young, laugh, getting first experiences in life, play, happiness,

THOUGHT

1.       Denotative- The act or process of thinking; cogitation   

2.       Connotative- conclusion, knowledge, experience, longing, decision; In Poe’s poem “And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me” it means that Annabel Lee was thinking only about him, he was filling all her thoughts, he was the most important in her head, she was not bother by other things than by thought of loving him and thought to be loved by him. She was living to love him.

MORE THAN LOVE

1.       Connotative- obsession, sacrifice, no freedom, one heart, , envy, no compromise, pain, tears, passion, control, danger

SERAPHS

1.       Denotative- a member of the highest order of angels, often represented as a child's head with wings above, below, and on each side

2.       Connotative- “With a love that winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me”- in this sentence seraphs who are usually symbolize something good, helpful, pure, here they act badly. Poe’s and Annabel’s love is that big and strong that even angels are jealous. They want to take away girl with them to separate lovers. Here it cans means that between love are sometimes some obstacles. Sometimes is family or cultural, religious or age issues.

REASON

1.       Denotative- a statement presented in justification or explanation of a belief or action

2.       Connotative- this reason in the poem is the strong love, this time action is taken by wind. Their love even is beautiful and strong has to deal with some distractions. Now Annabel is taken by the wind and then “so that her highborn kinsman came and bore her away from me”. This kinsman means relative. It can mean that she was a daughter of father who had high status or she was from rich family from upper class and they according to her family didn’t fit to each other. Whoever it was that person wanted them to separate so much.

SEPULCHRE

1.       Denotative- a tomb, grave, or burial place.

2.       Connotative-“to shut her up in a sepulcher”- this “person” who wanted separate them caused her death. It can mean that she died physically but also that she died mentally.  However it can mean that she committed suicide. She didn’t want to live without his lover. She has no other reason to live, in her heart and in her head was no space for somebody’s else.

This poem tells a story about big strength love. It seems like its first love because they know each other from childhood. As kids they were friends but with the time they became lovers. They knew everything about each other from the beginning.  They didn’t see future without being together. They were two person but they had one heart only. One half of heart couldn’t live without other half. Unfortunately they were some reasons that they couldn’t be together. It was a close person of Annabel who made them separate and unhappy. In this story is no happy ending. Separate from lover caused death of the girl. However, boy believes that even they are separate, she is dead and he is alive, even that, their love is as strong as was and nobody and nothing will ever take this feeling from them

   “But our love it was stronger by far than the love of those who were older than we/Of many far wiser than we/And neither the angels in heaven above/Nor the demons down under the sea/ Can ever dissever my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee”.

Sources:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=174151

 http://dictionary.reference.com/

1.2 Internet research

For me, interesting thing in the supernatural world is mythology. Especially Greek myths. One of my favorites is the myth about Prometheus. To find out more about the story I started my research at Google where I found a great link. It’s said that this website is a good guide for teachers and students. It’s called http://www.studyguide.org/prometheus_myth.htm. The website provides the whole text of the myth written in simple language so you won’t be confused by any writing style from past. To help myself I also used http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/Creation_of_Man_by_Prometheus/creation_of_man_by_prometheus.html .  There we can read the story again just to make sure the events are all the same.

Prometheus was one of the Titans, son of Iapetus and the Nymph Asia. He had three brothers: Atlas, Menoetius and Epimetheus.  Their father was fighting with the Gods. Atlas and Menoetius decided to help him.  Prometheus and his twin were for the other side- they helped the Zeus. During the war Atlas and other brother died.  

Epimethus with the Prometheus created from clay the figures and Athena gave them breath to live. Prometheus shared with Man his huge knowledge. However, the figures were still weak and they didn’t know how to deal with nature. Prometheus knew that his people needed to have a fire. However, Zeus didn’t like that idea because he didn’t want them to have a power.  Prometheus loved his “children” so much to he sacrificed his good relation with the biggest God of Olymph.  He stole fire from the Gods and gave it to Man.  When Zeus found out about this behavior, he was very upset. Zeus stated that humans needed to sacrifice a portion of all animals they had to the Gods.  Father of Man defended his offspring and prepared a surprise for Zeus. He asked him to pick up one of the two piles of meat. This was a trick because one pile was of bones covered by rich fat and the other one was of meat covered by thin skin. Zeus of course picked up the first one with the rich fat and was surprised when he saw the bones. He got really pissed off. He planned revenge.  He created the first female named Pandora. She was a very beautiful woman. However it was a trick because she was holding the box with the most horrible things inside. Zeus hoped that Prometheus would fall in love with her and open the box. However, like was said before, Titan was a very clever guy so he refused a gift from the God.  Zeus was furious for all Prometheus’s tricks and now for the refusing the “gift” so he chained Prometheus to the rock in the Caucasus Mountains. He couldn’t in any way escape because the chain was unbreakable.  Every day a great eagle came eat Prometheus’s liver. It was a never-ending punishment because at night the liver was growing back and next day the big bird was eating it again. This schema was repeated day after day for a very long time. 

Sources:
1.http://www.studyguide.org/prometheus_myth.htm
2.http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/Creation_of_Man_by_Prometheus/creation_of_man_by_prometheus.html
3.http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/TenThings/986

1.1 About Me

       Hey, my name is Paulina. I' m originaly from Poland. I just started collage however  I'm pretty new in United States. I hope I will be fine with my imperfect English. Except school I also work part time. Fortunately I still have time for hobby. I'm really interested in psychology. I read many articles and books about this subject. Important for me is also music. However I can't sing but I started to learn on the guitar. Recently my passion become cooking. I'm trying to make healthy but  delicious meals. I hope you guys will like my blog. See you soon;)