Which is the stronger emotion: love or jealousy? Do you think love or jealousy is a stronger emotion for the princess? Why?
I belive that these emotions effect different people differently.
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CHARACTERIZATION: What are some characteristics of the princess?
Jelousy
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CONFLICT: What is the young man accused of?
Having an unlawful affair with the king's daughter.
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3. Think about entertainment as a method of control in The Hunger Games. How does the king’s method of administering justice relate?
In both stories there is a king who punishes the people but gives them a way to survive.
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2. How might schadenfreude play a role in the king’s method of administering justice?
The people are entertained by the mysfortune of those who chose incorrectly.
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1. Is the king’s method of administering justice fair?
- No, the king's method of administering justice is not fair. His philosophy of fate deciding if he is guilty or innocent is completely ridiculous. There is no reasoning in the process. An guilty man could easily be rewarded.
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he opened either he pleased, without having the slightest idea whether, in the next instant, he was to be devoured or married.
There was an instant punishment or reward
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in which crime was punished, or virtue rewarded, by the decrees of an impartial and incorruptible chance.
This amphitheater has an element of chance in there trials that is impossible to corrupt.
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In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric.
In the olden times there was a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat progressive from there Latin neighbors, overly complex and unrestricted.
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carrying his grip-sack and umbrella
This seems like an odd detail to include.
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He stood amazed
Her sadness was so extreme that he was shocked to see her.
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he knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead.
This shows how broken she is after the news.
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except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her
Another example of her physical issues.
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physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.
This shows the physical issues she might have as a result of the news.
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There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair.
this sentence describes the setting.
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the terrors that distracted me
Could these terrors be the source of his madness?
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I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it—oh so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly—very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep. It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed. Ha! would a madman have been so wise as this
Why would the man be so kind to him before he inevitably tried to kill him? The purpose of killing a person is to well, kill them. Was being nice to the old man a way to somehow make up for murdering him because he knew that he would attempt to end his life regardless of how wrong he knew it was. Yet he still is trying to distinguish himself from a madman.
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It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.
This sentence proves that his madness was caused by a idea that he conceived. What could this idea be to effect him so much to driven into madness?
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The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them
What disease is the narrator talking about? Is it a real disease or a metaphor for how he feels about something?
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faces appear and an entire street be startled by the passing of a lone figure
This shows that he is different from those around him.
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the city at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November
This shows the time, location, and weather.
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