Tuesday, October 5, 2010

once, twice, three times a lady

lady Macbeth is seeming like a bit of a cow up at this point in the play. the lead of which she has kept Macbeth on so far is getting increasingly shorter oddly as she gets more masculine. since the beginning with her stating to the spirits to "unsex me here" she has been more and more controlling and more and more disturbing. this has happened up to the point were she wants to "plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed his brains out" signifying her lack of maternal nature and rejection of femininity. i believe that it is here when Rather then transgressing from woman to man (like she wants to) she transgresses from woman to a supernatural or insane. i believe this because she starts to equivocate more, like the witches in act one, and her language becomes more deceptive "sleek o'er your rugged looks". she seems the more confident of the two at the moment and as Macbeth has doubts she tries to confront him "you must leave this", "be bright and jovial". this could be due to how she has become more supernatural and separated herself from her emotions and has become slightly more inhuman.

gutted Macbeth, your whipped!

Monday, October 4, 2010

Marxist reading of 'Dracula'

'Dracula' can be seen with a clear Marxist reading. In this novel the team of heroes rely heavily on the use of money to get information and power. Dracula himself is an aristocrat and uses his money and various alias’s to occupy London very quickly. It is due to his ability to buy lots of property quickly that he is able to have so many places to hide the boxes of earth around London, stalling the heroes. It is also safe to say with the band of heroes rely heavily on there money and Mina even states at one point in the novel “I am glad that Lord Goldaming and Mr Morris have so much money to spend”. It is due to there money that they can pay off the people at the boat yard, also due to there money that they can break into Draculas house and also due to there money that they can stall and have breakfast every chapter. The characters in the play that do not have the money and (at the start) Jonathon Harker who is stuck as a prisoner, and the gypsies who are a lot slower then the hero’s. it is for this reason that taking a Marxist reading of 'Dracula', it is money and class that determines the speed and ease that you can do things.