Barnaby's English Journal

I cant seem to access the homework on The class page, as every time I click onto “year nine- Mr north” it goes to year 8. Does anyone have the homework table?

George Orwell uses language devices such as empathy to make the reader put themselves in each others shoes and feel for the characters.

‘they had no reason for thinking that it would be within their own lifetime,’

This example shows that what they are doing may not even be for the animals own benefit, which can be sad, but also shows that the animals are willing to sacrifice themselves for others, a quality not normally seen in farm animals. This is usually seen done by humans, for example humans have made roads. These roads were built by people that would not necessarily benefit from it. Yet they let others come along and use it for free. Animals have made great things as well, such as nests and dams but they generally only benefit the builder. This shows that George Orwell has also used personification to present the animals.

1. Whatever goes upon four legs or has wings is an enemy.

2. Whatevever goes upon two legs is a friend.

3. A human with an oppertunity must harm or kill an enemy.

4. No human must be found portraying animal instincts.

5. All humans are equal- in different ways

6. No human shall consume any animal product.

7. A human found disobeying any rule will be punishable by death or exile.

The thoughts behind my commandments:
As George Orwell made the commandments for the animals against humans, so I decided to convert them from human commandments to animals commandments and then back to human. So the commandments will be assumming that at the end of the story the animals win, and the humans that are surviving are forced into labour (although this does not happen). So the humans make commandments against the Animal race. But the humans are slightly more severe in their commandments…

“Two legs good, Four legs bad!”

My initial idea for my dystopian novel was not a very good one in my opinion, so I have a new idea. There has been a scare around for a long time that if the bottom of the food chain were to become extinct the other animals would also die. This is what gave me the idea for my story: the seas have become so polluted that fish can no longer survive, this leads to other animals dying. The human race has become extremely unhealthy, and selective breeding has come into place, so people who are unhealthy are discriminated, so that they will end up dying. But this means a lot of cross breeding ends up taking place…

The style that he writes in:
-first person
-letting you know what is is happening while the main character doesn’t
-the way he writes reflects the age of the character
-he talks in the past and reflects his past youth
-he writes In a dystopian style

Writing in a dystopian style:
-to write like this- finding a thing people either take for granted or think nobody could live without. -> ideas: nobody allowed to communicate with anybody else and are not allowed to leave the place that they were born (no migration, with all Internet and phones scanned for traces of trying to escape).

Plot: before this happens there is a family,and one of their parents has gone away to another country for work, and ends up stranded, not able to communicate. The government has put these rules in place, to supposedly stop the problems of terrorism, and illegal migration. But this means that no country will let people into the country, so one of the parents cannot get back…

Hi guys I will not be there on the day of performance, so Arthur will have to take the place I was practicing last week.
Bruke – criminal
Arthur – policeman
Meshach – shop keeper

Begins with:
meshach robbed by Arthur – arthur tries to catch him but instead catches bruke.
bruke chases arthur with meshach following behind. get to a pillar, do the look around pillar scene with mechach pointing out. bruke goes round back and the everyone starts to congo. arthur realises who he is but bruke grabs him and starts to dance with him.

When I was younger I used to pretend to be an explorer. I would dream of discovery, of lands far and shining, waiting for them to be found. It was much doubted by everyone else that these far lands existed, but to me there were as real as the problems that faced my family everyday. People wanted to find more land, food, and a new place to start again. So the logical solution for was to discover a new place all together, investigated or even another place habited!

The first people set out early in the year, people waving there goodbyes, and wishing them farewell. I was only 8 years at the time and so I had a growing curiosity of the world and so asked many questions about where they were going, what they would find and so forth. For the Elders, who everyone knew had the wisdom, the places where they where going to were inhabitable and had no interest to such a man willing to seek his fortune somewhere else, but could not describe what it was actually like. So when I told them I wanted to find out what it was like, all my father did was refuse, and that was that. There was No use arguing with my father, I always lost, usually ending with me locked inside my room and not allowed to go out and play for a few days.

It was only when I had come of the age of fourteen that I dared to try again. I could not stand to just wait around all day doing normal jobs, I wanted to discover. “Axel you may not leave,” my father said,” there are things out there that you don’t know of, you may be possessed by the Blasphemies”. There was much alarm about blasphemies recently as a few months earlier the number of them increased dramatically, people believing that they might overtake the human race and repopulate the earth with their devilish nature. My brother told me “Axel if you leave you will be completely consumed and will not realize that they are wrong and become one of them.” Nobody wanted me to go. I took my chances and hired out a boat with money I had, and did not come back till years later…

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Why do people portray Richard III as  horrible man?

-Shakespeare made big impact. Shakespeare made all monarchs like villains because at the time a lot of them were killers and conquerors. Shakespeare exaggerated a lot, especially about his hunch back.

Did The Real Richard III Resemble Shakespeare’s Horrible Creation?

-A lot of what he described was not factual and there is not enough evidence to state that he was that bad

source- bbc 3/ radio 3

In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare explores the in many ways. He uses it to communicate his idea of how everything is set up in plan for Romeo and Juliet’s life, and god is in control of it, and not them. In this essay I will explain the ways in which he uses them and what effect they have on the audience of the play, and explains how you supposedly cannot escape fate.

One of the ways that he communicates the idea of fate is in the chance meeting of Romeo and Juliet. From Romeo seeing the invitation for the party to him falling in love at first sight with Juliet it could not be a coincidence. They were meant for each other, they were star crossed lovers and god had decided it should be that way. When Romeo stumbles across Peter in the street Peter happens to not be educated. The Capulets could have chosen any man go and deliver the invitation yet still the man that they sent happened to find help from Romeo. Also in real life it is not usual to suddenly see someone and both people fall in love at the first sight.

William Shakespeare also demonstrates the use of fate in the chorus. The chorus is used to narrate what is happening, and so in the intro he tells everybody what is going to happen: Romeo and Juliet are going to kill themselves.

“A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.”

William Shakespeare does this to demonstrate that characters cannot escape their own fate. This also gives the audience a fell of power and awareness over the characters lives. The audience throughout the play hope that Romeo and Juliet will not die, so this gives suspense throuout the play.

Another use of fate is where the characters themselves unconscionably predict there own future. For example:

“JULIET (gesturing towards Romeo)

What’s he that follows there, that would not dance?

NURSE

I know not.

JULIET

Go ask his name: if he be married.

My grave is like to be my wedding bed.”

In this text Juliet describes how if Romeo were to be married then her ‘grave shall be her wedding bed’. She Is therefore predicting the future, as her grave does turn out to be her wedding bed.

Using words again to explore fate, Shakespeare uses Metaphors. The metaphor is a very powerful use of language, but is not always noticed when reading or watching a play.It is where certain words are used to make a picture of something -in this case- that will happen in the future. For example:

LADY CAPULET
What say you? Can you love the gentleman?
This night you shall behold him at our feast.
Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face
And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen.
Examine every married lineament
And see how one another lends content,
And what obscured in this fair volume lies
Find written in the margin of his eyes.
This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
To beautify him only lacks a cover.

All of these word in bold have something to do do with books, suggesting again that he play is a book and the fate of Romeo and Juliet cannot be changed. Also when Lady Capulet says “To beautify him only lacks a cover.”, she is implying that Juliet needs a man- that she should marry Paris, she is hinting to what will happen later on in the book. There are many of these metaphors in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and they all have something to do with what will happen.

As well as the wording and text of the play there is also use of fate in the actual events. At the end of the play, Romeo is banished from Verona and when Friar John goes to tell Romeo about the plan to get back Juliet he manages to get caught up in a quarantine and so cannot deliver the message, meaning that he thinks Juliet is dead. Likewise, the same happens, when Friar Lawrence does not make it to the tomb in time. Both of these things lead to Romeo killing himself which made Juliet kill herself. They would not happen on an ordinary ocation, and so plays it’s part in fate.

William Shakespeare uses all of these things to play their own part in fate, and together they show how god is in control and how you cannot change your fate. Athough if Romeo has killed himself- which is the most terrible thing to do as you are taking the decision of your life into your own hands- then how can it be his fate that he takes the decision about his life away from God?