Hafiz' Online Journal

Mr hale is nearing forty, a tight skinned, eager-eyed interllectuall

concieive the devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology

orwell describes life in Paris slums as dangerous ‘policemen would only come through the street two together’ which shows how many dangers there are if a policeman is by himself. ‘Chairs and occasionally revolvers’ this shows the war has been escalated by using fire arms occasionally to kills other human beings. Rackety place Orwell states this place as a noisy place and an unorganised place.

My interpretation is that in the yellow Palm is that there conflict is never ending and no one can stop the conflict in Palestine “too sacred to clean the blood off/pointless this quotation shows

The Yellow palm shows ideas about conflict as it talks about the war in palistien between the Muslims  “blood on the walls and the muezzins eyes were wild with his desire” this tells me that even the mosque has been affected which in Muslims eyes is the house of God which should not face any type of harm or sinful act the purpose of their language

How are love and/or hate presented in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and a range of poetry you have studied ?

Robert Browning shows us there is a thin line between love and hate in the ‘Laboratory-Ancien Regime’. I will be exploring this theme and the relationship between three people, two women and one man, who are in love with each other. The poem is told to us through the voice of a woman, who is now jealous and obsessed with her ex-lover. In the poem we discover why she now has very strong feelings of jealousy and hatred for the man she once loved so much. These feelings have been caused by her ex-lover cheating on her with another woman while they were in a relationship.’while they laugh, at me,at me fled to dear empty church , to pray god in for them i am here. This qoute indicates to me that she is overthinking about killing her ex’s lovers lover, as she is saying this she is repeating herself using words that start with the same letter and ryhme with the previous word. She comes across as a calculated killer who is a mischievous women.

Whilst we are reading the poem we realize she is in A Lab making a poison and chanting a spell while she prepares the ‘potion’ which she hopes will kill her rival that took her ex-lover away from her. Her love has turned into a revengeful and bitter hatred for her ex-lover. In stanza two the bitter women tells us that she believes the couple think she is crying ‘they believe my tears flow while they laugh, laugh at me’ and is praying for them but  she is not. She is having revengeful and hateful thoughts towards the couple and planning to poison the woman who in her eyes stole her ex-lover ‘I am not in haste…I am here…to carry pure death’.  She is not in a hurry to kill her ex-lovers lover she is taking her time to make this poison because she knows she is going to kill her regardless.

In Porphyria’s Lover the man is obsessed with the woman. When she walks into the room the atmosphere changes, ‘she shut the cold out and the storm’. This shows that she changed the mood and the feeling and mood in the room for him implying that she lit up the room with her beauty, ‘the cheerless grate Blaze up’ this quaotation shows how passionately in love he was with his lover sating that she even when she wallked in she made the fire blaze up which shows his deep intreest to her by using a metaphorical language to describe the way she changed the atmosphere of the room.

She tells him she loves him, ‘she too weak for all her heart’s endeavor’, which leaves her no strength to resist her feeling towards him. The man then realizes she is deeply in love with him ‘at last I knew Porphyria worshiped me’ and that she is dependent on him and gives her life to him ‘that moment she was mine, mine’. He doesn’t want her to experience this deep love about anybody else and be obsessed with another man. So the man decides to kill her ‘I found a thing to do’ he says and strangles her with her ‘long yellow string’. ‘i wound three times her little throat around’ which means he wrapped her hair around her neck three times before he strangled her just to make sure he was going to kill her.  ‘. He feels like he has given her a wish to be with him forever ‘and thus we sit here together’ because of her passion he had to kill her so they can be together forever and forever she will belong to him only, because she is dead she cannot love anyone else making the man her last lover.

Robert browning presents that love can make you commit violent acts in this poem The story is about two lovers who are deeply in love and obsessed with each other . The man is mentally ill and is so obsessed with his lover that he kills his lover by strangling her with her own hair. In both browning’s poems we see similarities of how strong feelings of love make you commit hateful and violent acts towards your lover. In both poems In ‘Porphyria Lover’ the man is deeply obsessed with his lover which is similar to the ‘Laboratory-Ancien Regime as the woman is obsessed with her ex-lover but feels he has been taken from her and plans to kill her ex-lover’s lover in a fit of jealousy.

In Julius Caesar Shakespeare also shows there is a thin line between love and hate. Love can make you commit violent acts which is presented by the relationship between Brutus and Julius Caesar. I believe love and hate changes depending on the situation. In act 3 scene 1 Julius Caesar is killed by the group of conspirators. Brutus gives Caesar the fatal blow even though Brutus saw Caesar as a fatherly figure and Caesar saw him as his son. Brutus killed Caesar because he and the conspirators hated the fact Julius Caesar was getting this power and the believed he would have become too ambitions and arrogant because of the power he was going to get. Cassius has jealousy towards Caesar which leads him hate Caesar as he is jealous of the position and respect that he has in Rome. Cassius believes Caesar is seen as a god and others are slaves to his command ‘this man has now become a god, and Cassius is a wretched creature and must bend his back If Caesar carelessly but nod on him” Cassius doesn’t want Julius Caesar to be more powerful than he is, and believes Caesar’s name should not be more loved or respected than his or Brutus’s ‘Why should that name be more sounded more than yours.’  this quotation states how Brutus began to show signs of hatred for Julius Caesar “not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more”.

Shakespeare presents Cassius’ relationship with Julius Caesar to be jealous of Caesar because of his status and power. Cassius strongly  believe that his name should not be spoken more highly than he’s or Brutus ‘what should that name be sounded more than yours’? ‘ weigh them, it is as heavy’ Cassius is trying to manipulate Brutus by trying to show him that Caesar is not above him and deserves the same amount of respect and status as Julius Caesar receives. Cassius dislikes the fact that Julius Caesar has he’s own statute ‘walk under his legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves’

Shakespeare presents Julius Caesar relationship with Cassius to be a lack of respect for Cassius as he embarrassed him in-front of his peers.’youn Cassius has a lean and hungry look, he thinks too much:such men are dangerous’ this shows Julius Caesar he has not a single fragment of respect for Cassius as he states what he feels about Cassius openly. Anthony disagrees with Caesar then tries to be polite and defends Cassius saying ‘ fear him not, Caesar he’s not dangerous.’ he is a noble Roman and well given.’ Cassius is very manipulative this is show frequently in the beginning of the play. ‘ i see thy honorable metal may be wrought… for who some firm cannot be suduc’d?’ Cassius justifies the murder by saying that he is stopping a tyrant taking control of Rome but infact we see lots of evidence that he is ambitions for power himself ‘ the fault is not in our stars but in our self’s that we are underlings.’ Cassius is jealous of ceasar and uses the language of seduction to get Brutus to join in his sin full plot.

Dear John Humphrys,

I am writing a response to your article where you argue that texting is apparently “wrecking our language”. I think you are overreacting. You argue that texters are “vandals” and are doing to the English language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. You claim that texters are “pillaging our punctuation, salvaging our sentences and raping our vocabulary”, taking the English language and stripping its richness and complexity and turning it into an illiterate and broken form of communication. I personally agree that texting could affect some individuals with their punctuation, but I disagree with the statement where you claim that abbreviations develop mental laziness for every individual. Many people find it easy to abbreviate languages for one minute and then the next minute speak or write in a correct context when obliged to do so.

Mr Humphrys, you believe searching for a word in the dictionary is ‘a small voyage of discovery”. I strongly disagree; in my own experience I believe that using the internet allows me and others to save time. Searching for a word on the internet has benefited me many times and has helped me not to be forgetful of what I wanted to write. Therefore I think it reduces time and stops the hassle of going to a dictionary. From my own experience, I would say that searching for a word on the internet gives you a clearer definition of it due to the fact there are multiple up to date definitions. Rather than the one way or old fashioned definition-based dictionary, which can limit some people’s understanding of the subtleties of a word. Online dictionaries can give you an instant history of a word and how it’s changed, and hyperlinks can make fascinating connections between different works of literature. Online dictionaries are much more reliable at documenting slang and colloquial language.

Mr Humphrys, you claim that we do not use hyphens anymore due to the OED saying that words without hyphens are not spelt correctly. You also suggest the claim that people not having the time to press the hyphen key is “daft”. I have to say I politely disagree with your statement as many people do not use this symbol because they are still able to recognise the word without the use of this symbol. It makes no difference in the word with or without the hyphen as the meaning is self evident (or should i say self-evident).

Another outrageous statement you make is when you say texting is ‘pillaging our punctuation’ and ‘savaging our sentences and raping our vocabulary’, implying that texting is completely ruining the English language and turning it into an illiterate, primitive and basic form of communication. Mr Humphrys, once again you are over-dramatizing and making a huge deal out of nothing; language should be able to change or adapt to different times and environments. For example, Mr John Humphrys, when you are speaking to your friends or colleagues do you honestly use the correct term of written English? Texting is a real quick instant type of communication like chatting. So why should you question when ‘texters’ abbreviate words which still get the message across, just in a much simpler context which is shorter to read (unlike your article).

 To sum up, your views and your article are out of touch and out of date. You set yourself up as someone who has authority to dictate how the rest of us should think, speak and communicate. language should be allowed to adapt in the different types of surroundins and people like you should not be allowed to intervene.

Ten Years On

I’m sitting in the devastation that used to be London. Right here where I am sitting now used to be Stamford Street; where there is uncertainty if you’re going to survive, there used to be a Pret A Manger; where there are heads on spikes in the zone of execution, there used to be a nursery playground surrounded by railings and bunting. I remember it so well – the innocent expressions of the smiling children. Even the birdsong – it’s just a distant memory now. I would give anything right this minute  to have back the ordinary dull smells of the city, car fumes mixing with the freshly baked bread from the supermarket round the corner mixed with rain. Now there is this impenetrable fog that stinks: it’s everywhere and anywhere, and you can not get away from it. Then there’s the rotting bodies turning rancid in the heat.

Ten years ago, before this world turn’t corrupt because of the big war that caused a massive destruction and thousands of deaths, I was still at school. I was on my way to a degree in medical care. Then the bomb wiped out everything.  Homes, lives and families were decimated in a matter of seconds . The aftermath was worse : people became savages, doing whatever it took to survive, even if it meant sacrificing their own family. London was now a place full of war, torture and suffering. How can a human being endure such pain ? I can see a scavenger stumbling across the wasteland that was London Nautical School, limbs lost and scars all over them ; it just comes to mind how incredibly resilient the human body can be under such extreme circumstances with all the beating we’ve endured through the never – ending ten years of corruption. You can’t trust nobody around here :civilization is destroyed forever. The conflict is unrelenting ; citizens are killing each other and stealing from one another – it’s become a way of life . Bullets are flying everywhere and you can never be sure if you’re safe due to the corrupt so called Metropolitan Police abusing their power – assaulting, abusing, taking money from the citizens. The police will kill anyone with no remorse because they have the power and the heavy machinery and the high-tech gadgets making them invincible, untouchable. Anyone can get away with any crimes as long as they have enough ration cards (money) to bribe the police. They’re impossible to get hold of.

I can just dimly remember when I could wake up from a sleep not thinking that my life was in danger due to the constant gunshots and bombings, ‘civilians’ killing and torturing, screaming in fear. I would give anything just to wake up and listen to the beautiful singing birds and feel the warm windless sunshine. Instead I look through my window and see destroyed vehicles and buildings ready to crumble apart. This place is a war zone, friends and family fighting each other for survival in this corrupt inhuman depraved wasteland. This country used to stand for  Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness but instead it’s just another fallen idol.

Miss Maldives view of maycomb is that she believes that maycomb is a safe city ” maycomb is the safest city” I believe maycomb is not the “safest city” because if you don’t agree with maycomb society rules and views life would not be easy for you if you disagreed with maycomb views on certain aspects of life. An example is racism atticus fought the case for Tom Robinson

” I pushed my way through dark smelly bodies and burst into the circle of light .” This quotation shows tension because they had to go through bodies in the dark not knowing the danger surrounding.

because it was dark they had to walk to the Circle of Light.

How is Calpurnia identity shown in ch 12 of tkam Calpurnia has Shown identity by living a “double life” she lives with the finches whilst looking after a family of hers. She also is quite educated and teaches her son (zeebo who is her eldest son) from what she has learnt. Calpurnia made zeebo read a page of the Bible every day.