My two best posts-sem 2 2007-

• S4 Week 9 Orwell

• Virginia Woolf

 
Anissa, your journal has had the power to inspire me yet again.

I am here nodding my head as I read through your post. I too believe that women are women’s main enemy. We put on friendly faces but spend the majority of time judging each other.

My friend has just pulled out of a mothers group for the comments and pressure put upon her when she ( Read more... )

 
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Carmel’s journal and thoughts on “Shooting an Elephant”.

I am interested in how many of us in class feel that Orwell had no choice but to shoot the elephant in the story. I feel that he did, but he sucuumed to the pressure of expectation from the people. Unlike Orwell’s Winston who endured weeks, months of horendous torture before he ( Read more... )

For me the most essential insight of Orwell’s 1984 was the realisation of the power that language has to control and convince groups of people. Individually Winston fights within himself to retain elements of truth and pure emotion, while the world and those around him becomes more and more condensed, losing all sense of emotion as the words are ( Read more... )

The writer out of the three listed that has most played on my mind over the last few weeks has been Virginia Woolf. We talked in our tute about “Modern Fiction” p2087, with particular regard to the idea of casting all else aside and forcing to the forefront your own creative path. There is no time for the mundane, no time for the battles and the ( Read more... )

I find the emptiness of industrial areas on a Sunday afternoons haunting. The often ramshackle sheds and buildings crammed together. Oil stained cement, dirty faded paint, sign written 30 years ago smearing the landscape. Pieces of rusted iron barely holding on to the roofs they are meant to cover. The smell of diesel, of oil, of dried sweat, aged ( Read more... )

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Tamara’s entry resinated with me. Gerald Manley Hopkins’s poems have sort of snuck into my consciousness also.

“However, I believe that this is the first time that I have truly reflected on the words of the poem and the beauty that they are able to convey. Sounds contrived perhaps, but as I read over the first two lines I can feel the ( Read more... )

Over the first two weeks of class for this semester the poem that has left the greatest impression on me is ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ (It is sweet and decorous to die for one’s country) by Wilfred Owen p1974. I have found myself thinking about it several times over the past two weeks for a few different reasons and ways.

The very direct and shocking ( Read more... )

CRITICAL COMMENTS

21st May

7:52 pm - Anna in the Tropics

I went to see Anna in the Tropics at the Belvoir St Theatre on Sunday night. The play was written by Nilo Cruz and this version was directed by Nicholas Papademetriou. Set in Tampa, Florida in Tampa, Florida 1929 in a cigar-rolling factory the workers lives are changed when the new man employed ( Read more... )

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