Ryan Readinger, Alejandro Peltoniemi, Ian Hedstrom, Alex O'Brien
Ms. Peifer
English 10 IB Hour 5
January 29, 2009
The theme of the play is that of ones realization that you can't die with your peers or family, only your deeds follow you into death. In the play, Death is told by God to tell Everyman to go into Death, which is his journey. Everyman then tries to persuade all of his friends to accompany him on his journey, but to no avail. This is where Everyman comes to the realization that nobody will venture into hell with him, except for his friend Dr. Good-Deeds, which symbolizes his deeds, which are the only things that a man can take into death with him.
When Everyman tries to convince Fellowship to come into death with him, at first Fellowship complies with him, but soon after, he rejects Everyman's offer and decides not to. "[Fellowship] Yea, thereto ye would be ready;/ To go to mirth, solace, and play,/ Your mind will sooner apply/ Than to bear me company in my long journey./ [Fellowship] Now, in good faith, I will not that way./ But and thou wilt murder, or any man kill,/ In that I will help thee with a good will." This quote shows Fellowships unwillingness to die with Everyman. He tells Everyman that he will do anything else with him, just not die with him. This was the first of many let downs for Everyman. Everyman is disgruntled that no one will go on his journey with him, only Dr. Good-Deeds will go with him. That thought is the theme of the play.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Inferno Commentary
Ryan Readinger
10 IB English
January 8, 2009
Ms. Peifer
This passage is very important to the overall story of Dante’s venture into hell. When Dante talks to Ciacco, this is really his first view and understanding of how bad Hell really was to the people being punished in it. Dante gets that idea and feeling when he sees the misery of Ciacco and the others. When Dante engages Ciacco in conversation, Ciacco tells him that everybody on his level of hell endures the same pain as him, and that they all committed the same felony. Dante’s mistake, though, is his pity for Ciacco and the rest of those being punished “‘Ciacco, your agony/ weighs on my heart and calls my soul to tears’”(Dante, 56-57). He is later scolded for his pity by Virgil, and that’s what makes Dante have no pity for the rest of the doomed in Hell.
The language used in this excerpt makes the passage more in-depth and quite detailed. Dante uses more complex words to brighten, or darken in some cases, a sentence of phrase. He scatters these words thought the passage, using them to describe the situation or thing in greater detail. The way Dante constructs this diolouge throughout the story is quite interesting. Though not mostly in this passage, Dante uses phrases such as “ and I to him” and “and he to me”, but he does start to uses these in this passage. When Dante is asking his question to Ciacco, “’but tell me, if you can, what is to be/ for the citizens of that divided state, / and whether there are honest among them, / and for what reasons we are torn by hate.’”(Dante, 57-60) Dante makes you think about the question by not clearly defining what his asking. Though Ciacco knows exactly what he is querying about, the reader must think back to history and find out when the city from which both Dante and Ciacco came was fighting. It is a smart use of allusion.
The overall impact of this passage on the rest of the story is big because of the pity that Dante shows Ciacco and the scolding he shortly received after wards by Virgil.
10 IB English
January 8, 2009
Ms. Peifer
Dante’s Inferno Commentary
“’Your citizens nicknamed me Ciacco, The Hog: / gluttony was my offense and for it/ I lie here rotting like a swollen log. / Nor am I lost in this alone; all these/ you see about you in this painful death/ have wallowed in the same indecencies.’/ I [Dante] answered him: ‘Ciacco, your agony/ weighs on my heart and calls my soul to tears; / but tell me, if you can, what is to be/ for the citizens of that divided state, / and whether there are honest among them, / and for what reasons we are torn by hate.’” (Dante, 49-60 in Canto 6)This passage is very important to the overall story of Dante’s venture into hell. When Dante talks to Ciacco, this is really his first view and understanding of how bad Hell really was to the people being punished in it. Dante gets that idea and feeling when he sees the misery of Ciacco and the others. When Dante engages Ciacco in conversation, Ciacco tells him that everybody on his level of hell endures the same pain as him, and that they all committed the same felony. Dante’s mistake, though, is his pity for Ciacco and the rest of those being punished “‘Ciacco, your agony/ weighs on my heart and calls my soul to tears’”(Dante, 56-57). He is later scolded for his pity by Virgil, and that’s what makes Dante have no pity for the rest of the doomed in Hell.
The language used in this excerpt makes the passage more in-depth and quite detailed. Dante uses more complex words to brighten, or darken in some cases, a sentence of phrase. He scatters these words thought the passage, using them to describe the situation or thing in greater detail. The way Dante constructs this diolouge throughout the story is quite interesting. Though not mostly in this passage, Dante uses phrases such as “ and I to him” and “and he to me”, but he does start to uses these in this passage. When Dante is asking his question to Ciacco, “’but tell me, if you can, what is to be/ for the citizens of that divided state, / and whether there are honest among them, / and for what reasons we are torn by hate.’”(Dante, 57-60) Dante makes you think about the question by not clearly defining what his asking. Though Ciacco knows exactly what he is querying about, the reader must think back to history and find out when the city from which both Dante and Ciacco came was fighting. It is a smart use of allusion.
The overall impact of this passage on the rest of the story is big because of the pity that Dante shows Ciacco and the scolding he shortly received after wards by Virgil.
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