A midsummer night's dream

Act 1 scene 1 and 2

In the plays opening scene we see that Theseus and Hippolyte are about to get married. I got the feeling that Theseus thinks love can only be won not earned. Theseus believes women must marry against their will who ever their fathers choose. He says “Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword and won thy love doing thee injuries, but I will wed thee in another key, with pomp, with triumph, and with reveling” (1.1) Should a queen of the Amazon be married to a hero of Athens? Hippolyta thinks it is a good engagement, how do you think their relationship will end? Would you be ok being forced to marry someone? Even if that someone was a perfect match? Just the idea of not having an option and love not earned but expected is an idea hard for me to grasp. What do you believe Shakespeare prefers? Arranged marriage or true love? Also how do you feel about Shakespeare putting a play inside a play?  “Here is the scroll of every man's name which is thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our interlude before the Duke and the Duchess on his wedding day at night” (1.2). Do you believe Shakespeare is giving a wink to the culture of his time or is it just something to do as entertainment so it fits the piece? 

Psychological view of death of a salesman

 The Psychological view analyze the fictional characters using the language they speak and methods of psychology. I am going to analyze Biff, the typical all American male. He is a jock, bad at math and is a people person. Also Biff surprisingly to everyone including Willy, stating “oh Biff! *staring wildly* He cried! Cried to me. *He is choking with his love, and now cries out this promise* That boy — that boy is going to be magnificent! (126). This scene showed that all american jock breaking down and crying to his dad. This shows how his behavior was so very drastically effected by how his dad was acting and the pain he felt inside. That pain build up of never being good enough, of not having a real father, of being misunderstood, of having a liar of a parent, and an immature child as a father. That pain would be unbearable. What kind of father tells their kid, “may you rot in hell if you leave this house” (122). Willy must have caused Biff some mental trauma as a kid if he is saying this to him now that he is older. Willy probably was the parent who acted like the best friend, then controlled every single decision that Biff tried to make. Decisions from what to do with his life, all the way to the specific detail on how he has to live his life. That kind of immature control that one would see in middle school, that passive aggressive you have to do it type control. Willy always turns his faults into someone else’s, as he “you’re trying to put a knife in me — don't think I don't know what you're doing” (123). Willy turns Biff into the one who is hurting him, when in reality Willy is the only thing hurting himself and his son. Willy does very selfish things because he feels lonely, which makes him lash out like a child who does not receive enough attention. Biff has to have a child try to parent him, the all American jock gets to have an immature child father. That explains why he left, went far from home and wants nothing to do with the world his dad lives in.