Macbeth

Feelings and Emotions

Feeling and emotions are a big part of Macbeth. From Macbeth himself feeling unsure about killing the king, to lady Macbeth wishing to have her emotions removed so that they can kill the king, to at the end, Lady Macbeth going crazy with guilt and remorse for what they have done and killing herself. 

Questions from John Bloom

1. What emotions brought on the hallucinations and sleepwalking?

2.What emotions were Macbeth and Lady Macbeth feeling at the end when everything was crumbling around them?

Answers

1. I would say that guilt brought on the hallucinations of the dagger, the ghost and sleepwalking

2. I'm honestly not sure of what emotions they were feeling at that particular time, but i can say that it was more than likely a mix of guilt, remorse, and a feeling that they had done this to themselves.

The Yellow Wallpaper

Having read this story just lasxt semester for Comp class, I already had the basic story figured out and getting to look over it again helped pull some new details out of it, the main one being the ending, which i apparently just skimmed through. The part where she starts thinking that she is actually one of the women in the wallpaper who has escaped from her wallpaper prison and refuses to go back in was new to me and i'm not sure how i missed it the first time through. One of the best points that was brought up was, if her husband and his sister do not want her to write, what is the likelihood that they would have left anything in there for her to write on and if they didn't do that, then what is she writing all this down on? she notices areas where the wallpaper has been torn off and thinks that the women behind the wallpaper keep moving it at night because the pattern starts looking different, but i think its because she keeps removing pieces of it to write on.

The Tell-Tale Heart

this story is told from the perspective of the killer. He decides to kill the old man because he hates his eye and throughout the entire tale, he tries to defend the fact that he is not a madman because of the amount of cunning and thought he put into what he was doing. one night when he is opening the door to watch him he makes too much noise and the old man wakes up and after and hour-long standoff, the old mans heart starts beating faster and loud enough for the killer to hear it while he stand in the doorway, Afraid that the neighbors might hear it as well, he decided now is the time to kill the old man. After killing and hiding the body of the old man, the police come because of a report of a disturbance the night before and as they are there searching, the killer starts to hear the sound of the old mans heart again and it keep getting louder and louder until he can't take it anymore and confesses his crime.
Having already read it before, it was nowhere near as suprising as it was then, but it was still kind of a shock. I think it shows that even though you may have committed the perfect crime, the guilt of what you did will catch up to you eventually. also, I find it kind of funny that throughout the entire story the killer is trying to convince us that he is not mad, but in the end he is the only one who hears the sound of the beating heart of a dead man.

A Rose For Emily

the story, A Rose for Emily, starts with the town gathering for her funeral and flashes back to some other interesting points in her life before returning to the funeral. the funeral is being held at her house and as the guests are walking through they discover a room that contains the decomposed body of her love interest from forty years before laying on a bed and they notice a single gray hair, perfectly matching Emily's hair, laying on the pillow next to the body. during the story they were talking about the smell coming from the house and my initial thought was that she was actually dead, then i switched to thinking that her fathers body was still in the house but i was rather surprised that it was her lover from years ago. I thought it was kind of an interesting story and it had a good twist at the end and it kind of left the reader hanging at the end but, all the clues needed to figure it out were given.