Journal 3 TWD

Themes and ideas

So for in the wild duck there are a few reoccurring themes/motifs and ideas that are repeated. The first one being lies. It seems that throughout the play so far, lies tend to be kept from one another to either protect a person or use that lie to use against someone. Lies to me tend to be seen as something that are bad something you would use to make someone happy because you don't want to see them sad or just to keep something really hurtful away from them. Also with the theme of lies there are secrets which could be related to that also. There is the reoccurring motif of a wild duck. This could probably show how Hedvig is isolated off from the world just like the wild duck because her parents want to protect her because of her eyesight. Isolating her allows them to manipulate and condition her the way the want to but the main reason they keep her so coped up is to protect her in general.  Also there is water. Water could represent and relate to like a sailor out at sea. Like the family they are like a sailor at dock. They seem to be isolated which could be a good or bad thing depending on the situation. Anyway by being isolated it allows them to solve all their problems right then and their without causing other reprocutions from anything. So as a sailor moves out to see I see that as the family having to let go of their lies and secrets and finally come clean of what they done. Finally when the sailor is out and sailing across the ocean it shows how the family is free and careless of what has happened in the past but now they are looking into the future.

Journal 1 Oedipus

Point of View/Characters

In Oedipus The King Sopheocles seems to use 3rd person narration throughout the first part of the play. By using this 3rd person perspective it shows how the characters are speaking indirectly to the audience but not to each other. Using 3rd person speaker there doesn't seem to be a narrative voice to it in the background. It's just blunt straightforward text between the people who are talking to one another. In the first part of the play the characters get to know a little bit about each character who show up. Each are presented in a different way. One may be introduced through dialect of a character who describe them or they just up and one must assume who the character is and the main role they play throughout the play. Through the tone that each character presents I think that is how the author tries to convey them to us on whether we should like or not like them. Depending on our first impression of them, if we decide to like or hate them that is completely our opinion due to the context of the book. What the author writes and how we may interpret it, one person may like, for example, Oedipus as being King and others may say why is Oedipus King? I don't even like him the way the author is trying to convey him.