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Thursday, March 26, 2009

What do you find interesting about how Browning Presents The Poem To The Reader

What do you find interesting about how Browning presents the poem to the reader.

Fra Lippo Lippi:
In Fra Lippo Lippi the reader can immediately react to the pure length of the poem. The narrative is of a monk who has been found by the police, he is drunk and has just come out of a brothel. This in the first extract is interesting as we all know that monk's are forbidden from doing such things, i think he chose to start with this as it allows the reader to quite involved with the story.
Browning also chooses to express the oppression within the monastery about not allowing to do stuff that normal men and women could do like drink and have sex. By him leaving the monastery for even one night it is showing his needs to be free of the monastery as he never got the chance to do anything, as he was thrust into the monastery at such a young age. I think it is a good way of showing how Monks are not so free loving and godly they like to do "naughty" things as well.
In the poem i also think Fra Lippo Lippi comes across as rather self centered as he is talking about himself and how hard his life was and the only good thing he can do was paint, But as the character opens himself up the reader you start to feel sorry for him although he is being really self centered he is a character that you cannot help feeling sorry for.
I also think it is interesting as Fra Lippo Lippi starts to rant about how vanity will get the better of people and how that is why he won't be caught in his crime although he has been because he knows he belongs to a wealthy family and he knows that because he is a good painter he can get away with all the naughty things he does.
I think Browning presents an urge of freedom in this poem as for the monk to escape he had to climb down a rope made out of blankets which suggest to the reader that he was trapped within his wealthy family that do allow him to go out of bounds but they keep him locked away fro themselves so that know one else can have his art work.
In the poem Browning also shows a very religious view to the reader as he expresses his own feelings through Fra Lippo Lippi, about how no-one can change what god has created and how they shouldn't be painted any prettier or uglier then they are in real life , which is what the church where trying to do at this moment in time. He is saying that there shouldn't have to be a constant reminder of what god has given us, in vanity we want more, but to just live life and not expect anything more or less.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Chapter 179 - Curious Incident

In this chapter Christopher uses a lot of diagrams to help us see what he is seeing inside his head, this allows us to see that the inner workings of his mind are quite complex and his thinking is very logical as he uses a lot of maps and workings out to get places and to organise himself. In this chapter we also see a lot more references to Sherlock Holmes and how Christopher relates his own detectie and plan making skills to Sherlock Holmes. This is important becasue where his mental ability is less then that of someone who has fully functioning brain power he is exceedingly clever.

He also has to formulate a plan before he does something which shows that he needs to know everything. He can't just be happy-go-lucky. This is a good comparison to sherlock holmes as he also couldnt just do something of the mark he had to have a plan.

The strucutre of this chapter is a lot more like a diary then a book, as there are a lot of he said she said and a lot of examples of where he's been. We also get the main introduction to his plan, this is good as we then can conduct in our own minds what he is about to do.

Monday, March 2, 2009

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

So my favourite bits of the book are chapter 181.
I like the way the starts the chapter on page 174
"I see everything"
As creepy as it sound it is quite frank and too the point. I like the way throughout the book he is very blunt about his surroundings and the people around him. It allows us to understand him more.
The person i dislike in the book the most is Christopher's mother, is like shes forgotten who he actually is as a person and how he needs to understand everything and how he doesn't like to be touched. This annoys me because if she really did care she would make a effort to see him and not just write letters too him.

I also like the way christopher is explaining his emotions also as they aren't actually what he see's as emotions, they are just things he feel but they do not have a name.
I like the way the author of the book goes into so much depth of a person with asperger's syndrome. He had to of gone into soo much effort of finding information on how they think and feel.