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  1. Dec 2021
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    1. But look at Master Qin! Running a factory and getting ready to open a bank! CUI JIUFENG: With all his factories and banks, what can he do? He says he's going to save the country by industry and commerce. But who has he saved? Himself! He's richer than ever.

      I had a feeling that he was thinking above just everyone else because look where it led him to but he had the privilege of that money when he sold his estates. Now his wealth has increased and his business is making him more money and people start to perceive him as a selfish person. It's interesting how people of all levels of society are introduced in this play you have starving women selling their children for two silver currency and then you have a man that goes to owning banks and factories.

    2. Do you mean you're going to get rid of all your property, just for the sake of others, with no thought for yourself?

      This must've been a confusing thought for people of this time because it appears to be something where you are throwing away your money but it's a way on cleaning up poverty. If successful it builds up the wealth of the company and it gives people jobs. Qin Zhongyi seems to be smarter than the average person in the play.

    3. Don't be a fool! Think about it. Once she's married, she'll eat delicacies and wear brocades! I call that a lucky fate! Well, make up your mind, yes or no? Let's ge

      I find it pretty sad that in society there are people that would sell off their daughters because they are so poor. Do they believe that regardless of whoever ends up marrying her, would give her a better life than they ever could with them? Or was it like a preference of having sons instead of daughters?

  3. Nov 2021
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    1. HOMER: Nothing protects us son, nothing holds us nothing leads us on but we tumble ahead anyway we scrape we bleed we bite you're going to fight and fight -ITCHY & SCRATCHY are swept up in the enthusiasm. ITCHY: Fight and fight and fight and fight and fight! BURNS: Itchy!

      I didn't really get to see this scene but I can imagine it to be very dark and sounding like Burns is getting inside the head of Bart. Then it leads to Burns pleading that Bart kills him and he will still be around forever even if he falls into the river.

    2. r's like: "hey everybody -want to drive through that cactus patch?" and

      I think that was my favorite part of the episode because of how random Homer just wanted to go through the Catcus patch. I find it really interesting how they use cartoons to bond in a world where everything has went wrong and it makes them really joyful.

    1. My father was a peasant, an imbecile, he understood nothing,he taught me nothing, he just got drunk and beat me, andalways with a stick. And essentially I’m the same sort of

      The way he incorporated the story of his youth shows how Chekov is trying to show how in his perspective life can be pretty meaningless. This play is trying to show how normalized it is to face trauma with everyone having a story that marks everyone and defines who they are. Maybe going on the fact that everyone has a tough youth it's just about learning from it and making himself a better person.

    2. Weeps) If only God would help us

      I find perspective funny because here you have a middle class family asking for god to help them, when the solution is right infront of them. There are people that don't even have a home but you have this used to be rich family complain about how hard they have it and someone should loan money to them.

    3. No, there’s nobody, I imagined it

      The trauma she endured in her youth can be seen by how she imagines her mother still walking around the orchard that passed away long ago.

    4. The nursery

      I find it really interesting how Lyubov refers to the nursery room, with her emotions you can tell she has deep admiration for the home. They end up talking about the room and how they look the same and that nostalgic feeling is what keeps everything valuable to them.

    1. A: This interview makes my flesh crawl. Be good enough to cut your unwelcome visit short.

      This play does a really good job with making Melissa appear disgusted with the leader, she should be. It's weird that the leader asked her if she was disrespected by any of his soldiers like he even cares.

    2. He's somehow survived the malarial fever that's been devouring him, stifling him with an asphyxiating cloak of cinnabar red.

      I like how detailed the figure with the scythe is and how they make him seem so persistent when it comes to finishing the job. Its really detailed his astonishment with how he has survived so long with Malaria even though they were all confused to how he survived so long.

    1. Korean 2 commits hara-kiri. Korean 1 douses herself with kerosene and lights her-self on fire. Korean 3 stabs herself in the vagina with a knife. Korean-American does way too much cocaine. Korean 2 sticks a chopstick in her eye and pulls out her eyeball.

      This whole scene shows such a weird style of plays because it kinda feels awkward in a way when you see it in the play. The playwright wants the audience to feel some type of way about this scene and it could be about the violence they experience from Americans but not directly. The scene is meant to be weird but its to make the playwright point memorable.

    2. KOREAN 1: I don't care, I like having sex. I like having sex for money. KOREAN 2: For money! Mook-Jong, have you become a prostitute?

      This was what White Americans used to believe in the 20th century when Asian immigrants would be coming to California and other states. They seen the men as as workers that came from Asia but the women that come with those men to America were seen as sex workers and prostitutes. It was a belief that a lot of racist Americans used to have in those times and sexualize women of Asian descent.

    1. ne. Get your ass outa this dump and take

      I really like how they did this scene the old American accent that they gave for Orin made it seem like he's really a business man. He tries to convince Seymour to sell his plant to some botanist or some place that they will give him a lot of money. Orin sounds extremely convincing but they make Seymour sound very hesitant to selling the plant.

  5. Oct 2021
    1. ER. I've never seen anything like it before. SEYMOUR. No one has. CusTOMER. Where

      I love the irony it makes the musical really funny with the introduction of the suspicious looking flytrap. Mushnik was proven wrong really quickly and the music behind the story of how Seymour found the plant makes it really intriguing. I listen to the audio version as I read the play and I find it to be really useful.

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    1. You are not eighty years old.

      I relate to the feeling of being older than what one really is I don't know where exactly it originates from but I understand some of the things she says. I feel like this is something useful to read even though it makes some uncomfortable because it talks about suicide, it helps with portraying the mind of a depressed person to a standard individuals.

    2. I can't make decisions I can't eat I can't sleep I can't think

      I find the repetition very useful for emphasizing the mental health issues that the protagonist has. By doing this the audience can see the pessimistic point of view that feeds into her depression and leading her to make decisions like she says a few lines under about hanging herself.

    1. RYPHAEUS: The hungry birds are tearin~ Polynices's corpse to pieces. That's why they're screaming. They've eaten the flesh and blood of a dead man in the fray

      The imagery is important because the audience can only imagine how the body is being tore apart as if the person wasn't human. That shows how this adaptation of the play does a good job at portraying the importance of these people ti receive a burial even if the government denies it. The imagery is to make the audience feel sick to the way the Argentinian government treats its people.

    2. They say that Eteocles and Polynices were to share the crown-one year one, one year the other. But power tastes sweet. Sticks like honey to the fly. Eteocles didn't want

      I like how they explain why Eteocles wanted to kill Polynices they were going to take turns on who was in power. Human nature came in the way and one took the others life because of how they wanted to have all the power. It's understandable why Antigona wants to bury her brother but it doesn't make sense why her other sisters did not want to help.

    1. I seek God's protection.

      The people of this town are extremely religious and scared of the government. The people in power purposely inflated their currency and the only hope they have is that God will protect them from their abusive government. All the food they used to buy will no longer be affordable to them and they seem to not be in an extreme state of chaos.

    2. And I will not be surprised to see you hanged for political reasons. Have you forgotten that that the gallows of Baghdad are only used to hang men for political reasons?

      Their form of government sounds very cruel in my opinion. For disagreeing with what people in power have to say you will be sent off to a place where people get hanged because of politics. Mansour is portrayed as having this great fear of the people in power. This shows how maybe people like listening to the storytellers stories because it may distract them from the corrupt government surrounding them.

  7. Sep 2021
    1. I realise that the soldier's life is a pleasa

      As they converse about what it means to live the life of a soldier and the persuasion of Gary to pretend to be a soldier to trick the sergeant. Exposes to Galy Gay's to the realization that taking on Jip's life as a soldier is a better life than what he originally had for himself. A very good example of Brechts style is shown here because the audience is really convinced that the soldiers are going to pull this off and it will work, even though it may seem silly.

    2. Don't damage the temple, though.

      They're trying to loot the temple and get loads money off of it without destroying the actual temple. It's a group of soldiers that are not satisfied with what they normally get paid and are going to the extremes of looting an old Indian site. It is a temple that is filled with traps but they have to be aware of them and also not damage the actual temple. This will show the lengths humans would go to so that they can fuel their sense of greed.

    1. dey's getting too numerous round and dis property needs clearin'! When I gets time, I'm gonna have to kill some of' em fo' sure! GEORGE. But weren't they all born on this estate? PETE. Dem trashy darkies? Born here? \1vhat? On beautiful Terre-bonne?! Don't believe i

      With this comment you can really see how they really believe that just because of their skin color they claim them to be animals. How Pete says to "Kill em" the reader can hear the accent and imagine it to be coming from a very racist white man. It's interesting how in this act they use a lot of words that really show the energy and anger white people had towards people of color just because they were considered "different" and should be serving them.

    2. I'm writing a fucking play about my issues with substance abuse ;ar;d then I am attributing the dialogue to a fucking fox and a fucking rabbit ro protect identities! Fuck you!

      He's trying his hardest to tell a story about his drug problem and everyone constantly intrudes and believes it's about something else. The problem I see with this is that the same thing happens in todays generation there's a lot of people the have sense of entitlement. The problem is that people have to understand that some people have a long list of trauma that runs deep in some people.

    1. SMAILAIJSON. Is that all? BRUCE. What? Oh, yeah. Small Alison leaves the embalming room and. fetches her diary. She writes. Alison reads over her shoulder. AIJSON. "Dad showed me a dead body today."

      I really don't like how poor little Allison in her youth was exposed to dead bodies. Their home is definitely not a "Fun Home" and the more I read I realize the type of trauma that she has experienced. With her father killing herself and after that living in a funeral home where she is constantly surrounded by death was very traumatizing.

    2. JOHN. Probably his head was hanging from his neck and then he couldn't see, and he couldn't eat or anything and then he died from not eating and running into things.

      The way the John describes death is very interesting he does it in a way where the kids do not fully understand it, and makes them less scared. He makes it seem like the way the man died was that he hit his neck and then couldn't see and because of that he starved and died. This is a concept that would normalize death for children and is a very good way of not making death so gore and violent.

    1. DRUM MAJOR. And you're a Hell of a woman. By God, we'll set up a stud farm for drum majors, eh?

      The Drum Major makes a joke that also goes a long with the theme of the play where humans are compared to animals. When he was talking to Marie he says how she is an amazing woman and would help make a family of studs. He portrays her as something they can use to produce more male offsprings to show how there is a constant relation between humans and animals throughout the play.

    2. CAPTAIN. Woyzeck, you look so hunted A decent man doesn't, a decent man with a good clear conscience ... Say something then, Woyzeck! \Vhat kind of weather it is today

      I feel like the Captain is judging Woyzeck because he does not think much about the world. He tells him that in order to be a decent man he must keep busy and have a clear conscience, because he thinks too much on his own. The captain uses the specific word choice of "hunted" as a symbol to how he is like an animal that is the prey for a higher being. This goes a long with the overall theme of the play where there is constant reference to animals and how they relate to people. Emphasizing how his lack on understanding of the world generates his lack of morality in the Captains eyes.

    1. A few lines before this the reader can see Jean's demeanor, he has like a very modest and an educated persona. He confesses who the person he is in love with is her when she continues on to ask him to tell her as friend. He tells her a story about himself and how he grew up poor and gives her an example of how there are some perspectives that she will not understand. With his storytelling Miss Julie was able to see his level of education and he says he acquired his knowledge from novels and theater. Author did a really good job in creating this character so that the audience can really understand who he is in the play.

    2. Très gentil, monsieur Jean ! Très gentil!JEAN. Vous voulez plaisanter, madame!MISS JULIE. Et vous voulez parler français!

      I enjoy how in the play there is this sense of romance it makes it very appealing to read. Including a little bit of French which is naturally a love language creates a sense of emphasis to the tension that grown between Jean and Miss Julie. Their conversation is about how the coat he is wearing is very gentle and where he ended up learning the French to be able to respond to her compliment.