We could always read it bit by bit, and discuss each act, scene or what ever way it has been split up, accordingly. What do you guys think?
We could always read it bit by bit, and discuss each act, scene or what ever way it has been split up, accordingly. What do you guys think?
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Scene 1 to be read by sun 16th.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Just read it about an hour ago. I was shocked at Shemus striking his wife. I think I need to re-read it. I'm not sure why he did that.Originally Posted by Niamh
Scene 1 to be read by sun 16th.
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Well if thats the case if anyon else has read it, feel free to post you opinions regarding it. I gave a nice time span incase people are a bit busy. I'm off to read it now.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Okay so i just read scene one.
Shemus hits Mary because she does not what what he bids of her.
Think about it this way; Its the Potato famine. People all across the country are dying of starvation, and some people are driven to doing crazy things out of desperation. People even drank the blood of cows (a fact that inspired Bram stoker while writing Dracula). Here we have Shemus, Teig and Mary who are bordering starvation; shemus and Teig are desperate, so desperate they are willing to sell their souls. Leaving the door open is an invitation. Mary wants to close it and shut out the misery of the outside world but Shenus wants it left open as he is willing to invite the devil himself into the house in order to eat. She tries to defy this and he hits her.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
I just read the first scene! a bit late maybe...
I think that Shemus hits Mary because she doesn't agree with him, Teig (how is Teig pronounced?) and the idea of selling their souls in exchange of food.
Shemus and Teig are starting thinking that praying is useless (am I right?) and that the best solution is what they decided finally.
But there are some things that I don't understand...
What do the demons ask apart from their souls? or is something we will find out later?
Mary faints (is it a symbol or not?) and the first merchant says: "Our faces go unscratched, for she has fainted..." I don't understand what he means...
And then the end of the scene I is that Shemus and Teig give the fowl to the demons but it is the only thing they had for dinner.
Does the Countess have any meaning in that scene? could it be the contrast between poor people and rich ones?
I also have some problems with vocabulary, but I think I've understood the scene.
I like it!good choice!
"De primer van foradar-me les orelles
i de llavors ençà duc arracades.
No prengueu aquest bosc per una alzina."
Maria Mercè Marçal
Can anyone help me?
"De primer van foradar-me les orelles
i de llavors ençà duc arracades.
No prengueu aquest bosc per una alzina."
Maria Mercè Marçal
I think It is mainly just an introduction to the countess in the first scene, and that the scene itself is there to show the distress that the country was going through at the time of the famine. The greedy merchants had everything, and the poor gave them everything in hope that they will help them feed their starving families. But they were devils to the poor as they took from them everything the had for little or nothing and out of depersation, the poor obliged. Most of the time it was the ruin of the families.They would have sold their souls to the devil for food. I think this is an issue that Yeats is trying to point out.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Everyone has their version of history/religion. Yeats believed that there was such a thing as "historical gyres"...If you were to draw a gyre, you would draw a twister like spiral until it comes to a point, then draw an upside down twister until it gets bigger again...Each twister represents one "gyre" He believed that every 26,000 years there was a new turn in history and that each gyre took 2,000 years. He was referring to a changing point in our history/beliefs/religion. He believes that history collapses itself and it is re-born again every 2,000 years or every "gyre"...For example: there was the Roman-Grecko Gyre (related to his poem Leda and the Swan) at 1 A.D, then at 2 A.D there was the Christian Era (read the Second Coming)...Pretty neat! Hope that helps.
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