They have to accommodate to how little he is it's kinda cute how they have to move his little box because his little ears can't handle the music.

Well he is tiny so of course the world is going to appear more scary. His cowardly-ness is justified.

It must be so gross to see this happening. Being so small he gets to see small details that go unnoticed but are magnified to him.

He is mentioning that everything he says has a purpose, he is saying things for specific reasons and intentions. I think that's what makes the best writing, when everything serves a purpose, no gaps or any unnecessary information.

This comparison is so weird. So she screams because she is terrified. She is terrified because it is inferred that women scream out of fear of toads and spiders and not with joy. So it is comparing him to a toad or spider, that makes sense. But why does he limit it to only women in England? Could've just said "women".

Even though he doesn't have the strength to use his body to express how he feels, he does the bare minimum by just turning his head and that motion alone speaks for him.

He really saw his life flash before his eyes

I always think it's funny when in stories, movies, or real life when people tell stories when they decide to skip over things they present as unimportant yet they still mention details of it that make the listener sympathetic. It's like they don't want pity, but they really want pity.

social status really defines them and determines how they will be viewed and treated.

They seek individuals who believe in what they do in ways that go beyond just carrying out the task at hand.

This fills me with so much anxiety. I'm so afraid of open waters so to be in water and not being able to tell where the ground ends and ocean begins is so terrifying.

Horse latitude or latitude is 30 degrees both north and south from the equator. In this case it would be 30 degrees north since London is in the northern hemisphere.

The Old Jewry is a one-way street in London that has s dense history. In medieval London this street was known as a ghetto or slum. It also contained the site for the only permitted Jew burial ground. source: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol1/pp425-435

Newgate street was once used by the Romans as a fortress for defense. source: https://medievallondon.ace.fordham.edu/exhibits/show/medieval-london-sites/newgatestreet

The ship's name is The Swallow, and is where Gulliver served as a surgeon on for three and a half years.

This scene sounds so pretty. It reminds me of a scene from one of my favorite movies Labyrinth. There's a scene where the main characters are at a masquerade ball and the scene described in this story is so accurate to the setting of the movie with the colors and the music playing the whole spectacle of the ball.

Superstitions are not logical beliefs, religion is not a logical belief. A belief is a belief and people interpret them as their own which leaves room for deformity. But both of these things keep men up straight and obedient to the world around them.

"Everyone thought that he was capable of government, until he tried."

Not sure how accurate this translation is but it is the closest i could find, "I turned the so pleased with the works, which are made of his hand, he saw that they were all very good"

Women's roles are defined and predestined according to age group

This reminded me of "The Blossom" from the John Donne reading we did previously. It reminded me of the part where the man insists that his heart stay with the woman and that he go off with his friends and give his friends his mind and body.

I really enjoyed this reading! it was very dramatic and intense and beautiful. I think I enjoyed this so much because of the word choice. It seemed like each adjective had a purpose and served it well.

Apollo is the Greek god of prophecy, the sun, and archery. His name, the same in Latin as Greek, has the same roots as Greek word meaning to destroy or to excite. Apollo is also called Helios, Phoebus, or Phoebus Apollo. Phoebus means ray (as in sun). http://www.indepthinfo.com/greek-gods/apollo.htm

In classical mythology, Cupid (meaning desire in Latin) is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the war god Mars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid

Very dramatic but very real. Sometimes those tears be hitting different and that's when you know something bad happened.

This personification of nature is really beautiful. Sometimes we forget that nature is alive and that nature is a being all in her own and we don't really get a true sense of it until we immerse ourselves in nature and really recognize her beauty.

Bored of not knowing, wanting to know things. I feel like everyone experiences this, maybe ignorance isn't bliss

I do not understand this part at all. Each line of this seems to be focused on something different and it confuses me.

Loving was easy

noun. a ruler exercising authority in a colony on behalf of a sovereign.

It says she enjoys long nights and she thrives especially in long summer nights but summer nights are the shortest of the year since there are more hours of daylight in the summer.

I like this line a lot. I'm not sure what it literally means but I interpret it as a personification of mirrors. Mirrors see everything even when we aren't paying attention, and mirrors see things we don't see.

Pursuing love is a risk and some die with love and to others love becomes sort of cathartic.

I really like this line. It reflects a judgmental view on this certain type of love, but it also reflects their strong desire to pursue this type of love despite judgment and disapproval.

Speaker explains that love cannot be measured within the borders of time.

Seems like the speaker is trying to comfort them especially when mentioning that men can be trusted. Explains that not everyone has the same experiences with love.

Faustus has not done much with his power besides just asking questions that Mephist hardly provides answers for. It's sad that he really gave up his whole soul to have all these years wasted. And it is sad that he only comes to realize that it was a waste at the very end of his time.

Mephist yields evasive responses to the questions that Faustus asks. He seems to fluff up basic answers. Like his first response was just "Under the heavens" but this second response is the same exact thing but fluffed up. I wonder if Mephist does this so that he does not scare Faustus by telling him the truth.

His blood solidifies so that he can't sign the bill. This is the universe telling Faustus he shouldn't make this deal. His own body is telling him that he should't make this deal.

Faustus wants so much control over his own life and his destiny it's kind of concerning.

I don't think that giving your soul to the devil would be the best way to understand why someone would feel so passionately about being deprived of the pleasures of salvation, but that's just me.

Faustus knows everything there is to know about both law and physics and now wants to learn about something foreign to him which is magic.

he seems to be interested in only material things

Saying that this opinion isn't really an opinion at all, it is a fact. And is not as radical as it sounds as many others believe the same.

There's a movie called True Romance that this line reminded me of. There's a scene where the antagonist who is Italian kills a man who insults his Italian ancestors and mentions somewhere that Italians were in some way related to Africans, which offends the antagonist and which is why he kills the man. I'm not sure how historically accurate that i, if it is at all. The only thing I can think of is the Arab conquest where Arab was more of a blanket term for many different races that could have included Africans. But its interesting to see how in both this story and the movie Italians are being ridiculed in such a ridiculous way.

This seems to be the case for a lot of people who have religious awakenings. They come to find God and even though they are not a part of a specific church, the excitement of finding faith encourages them to heal themselves and spread the word to others that may be struggling to find faith themselves.

They seem to be very educated people as they never stop learning and taking in information concerning the world around them.

The utopians seem to be people of quality over quantity, which is ideal but does not exist in the real world as often

This is such an interesting way to live. The town seems so isolated from the rest because of the combination of forts, towers, and thorns that keep it separated. It is also weird how even though the town is so secluded, the inhabitants don't really have a place to call home. It's as if the land they are on isn't even theirs since anyone can walk into their home at any time and their homes change often.

What is Celestial navigation? Or astronavigation? It is a position fixing technique that helps sailors to know their position when they are deep in the sea. According to Wikipedia Celestial navigation uses "sights" or angular measurements taken between a celestial body (the sun, the moon, a planet or a star, whose coordinates are tabulated in the Nautical Almanac) and the visible horizon.

In other words, celestial bodies are reference points for sailors helping them to get to their destination.

Source: Physics of Astrology - Celestial Navigation and Astrology

Without any further hesitation or thought they are ready to live a holy life and follow where God tells them to and put their complete trust in him

To be forgiven Everyman needs to realize and become aware of their sins and so long as they feel worthy enough for redemption God will give it to them. God suffered painfully and would not any child of his to suffer in the same way especially if they are aware of what they have done wrong and are willing to change.

This is so scary. Our natural instinct as humans is to flee or escape any dangerous or threatening situations but when you are literally faced with death you can't escape you just have to face it and accept it as scary as it is.

Knowing that they are a child of God is enough to keep them satisfied

The seven deadly sins according to the Bible are: Lust (strong sexual desires), Gluttony (excessive eating or drinking), Greed (excessive desire for material items), Sloth (excessive laziness), Wrath (feeling strong hatred or anger towards someone), Envy (desiring someone else's possessions), and Pride (excessive view of one's self over others)

noun. a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.

She is grateful that God suffered sin as he is able to understand why people sin and does not blame them for it. She was a sinner but has remained devoted to God and He has forgiven her.

Afraid

God is happy to help anyone and everyone who needs it

People tend to surround themselves with temporary things in hopes that they will last permanently, but she is saying that God is the only thing that lasts forever and the only thing worth keeping in our lives.

between

This part confuses me? Why does she want to feel the pain that God feels?

This description is so interesting to me. She describes dying through a universal description, as she sees darkness and then a single white light. What's interesting is how she mentions that the light is the light of the cross. Even as she is leaving her body she does not forget her creator and finds comfort in that light so easily.

She has devoted her life to God and her death does not disturb her because she knows that her life will continue to be held by the hands of God.

The word truth is capitalized as a proper noun. To me the story is personifying the truth as a being that is a pure follower of God's word. The truth will make it to heaven because the text mentioned earlier that only those who speak the truth will obtain salvation

he boasted about his damnation

To me this makes it seem like hell is more populated than heaven

A winged angelic being regarded in traditional Christian angelology as an angel of the second highest order of the celestial hierarchy described in biblical tradition as attending on God.

An angelic being from Christian angelology noted as belonging to the highest order of the celestial hierarchy and is associated with light, ardor, and purity.

Christian and heathen are two polar opposites but they are similar in how they both have religious connotation.

Desperate to know God and wants to be saved

I interpret this as just because you are alive does not mean that you are truly living. To be truly living you need to feed your soul, not just your body.

noun. a vertical wooden post or plank in a building or other structure.

noun. a valley, especially a broad one.

It is sunrise, as the sun rises in the east

stating that a woman's love is toxic to man and only makes him weak, neglecting all the good that comes from love and only focusing on the negatives. this portrays women as evil and men as saints who have fallen prey to women and have obtained an inescapable fate by falling in love with a woman.

To me this explains how some men will express how they view women beyond physical attributes and will instead focus on the personality traits or the talents and abilities women posses. However, at the end of the day men like women because they are women, not because they can dance.

adjective. bold and without shame.

archaic. —used to express sorrow or lamentation.

God is a woman

Even though she remarried which was not ideal in God's eyes she redeemed herself in how she ended each marriage appropriately

God has not set any example for women as to how to care for their virginity so he cannot ridicule or judge. It seems like men have set their own standards and men ridicule and judge because it was assumed that we have the right of judgement if God does not.

nobody can keep track of the number of men she has been married to and it is talked about often as people tend to speculate without really knowing

The text states here that here is only one saving grace. This explains that people cannot be their own saviors and that their own actions will not serve as proper acts of redemption. According to the text, in order to be truly saved and holy one must seek God and confide in God.

People easily slip up and when they do someone will always be there to watch it happen

wants to be saved even if it brings financial hardship unto others

noun. an unprincipled person (often used humorously or affectionately).

noun. a situation characterized by lack of progress or activity.

Giving your soul and your mind one can be promised salvation

He is aware of his own abilities and wants to make the most of them. The abilities are linked back to God and utilizing their gifted abilities from God serve as their sole purpose for doing things. Almost as if they are giving back to God.

noun. gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire, need, or habit or a person with such a desire, etc.).

noun. a senior Christian cleric (in the early Church a deacon, in the modern Anglican Church a priest) to whom a bishop delegates certain responsibilities.

noun. a fine-grained, translucent form of gypsum, typically white, often carved into ornaments.

noun. a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way.

existentialism and becoming aware of man's two true fates

This is all very dramatic but it explains the emotions felt so incredibly well. Weeping and wailing are elicit so much emotion from me as a reader. Especially when pairing the feelings of loneliness and heartbreak.

adverb. secretly

Seems less of an agreement if he was forced into it, but I suppose it had to be done

They loved each other so much and grew so close to one another that they would visit each other in different worlds of the afterlife. That is a very close relationship. Death could not do them part.

verb. be of the opinion; think or suppose.

he was comforting the women as his duty as a knight

begging for empathy, for an understanding of what the women are enduring

adjective. deserving or arousing pity.

This description of the woman's lifeless face makes her sound insincere

extremely powerful cry

noun. a formal procession of people walking, on horseback, or riding in vehicles.

Maybe the new queen changed the kingdom's view of women

He was a wealthy man and very well off as it seems he never had to worry about being short of anything. "He was in his own country" to me translates to he lives by his own rules. It makes me thing back to colonial times where wealthy landowners had control of government since they were the only individuals allowed to be politically active.

I really like this example of how pristine and proper this woman is. The writer uses an example that I feel many people wouldn't use to show how a person is so clean. By using something so common like drinking from a cup I think it makes the reader's view of her more detailed.

I really like how the story began with a broad introduction of the setting describing the town and taking note of the season. Now we get to know more; we are going to be introduced to the people and the characters. This kind of introduction makes it easier for me as a reader to understand exactly what's going on in the timeline of the story.

Spring brings new life into the world and this line makes me think that spring is almost rejuvenating for these people

weighing down and heavy on him

in accordance with what is required or appropriate; following proper procedure or arrangement

he is not very affectionate or expressive with his emotions

she is very like-able, it would be ridiculous to not be fond of her

a steep or rugged cliff or rock face

Green has been a primary color and main element in this story. It is interesting to see how the fading of this color here changes the mood of the character.

This is such an elegant scene to imagine

I love these alliterations. They are so effective not only here, but throughout the entirety of the story in creating imagery for the reader.

Folly: foolish, Fain: please/pleasure, Behoves: responsibility/duty He would be happy to fulfill the foolish request

this line is confusing to me. I looked up the definition of each word. Wax: to cover and Wrath: extreme anger. Could this mean he is hiding..? Hiding out of anger??Humiliation?? How does this compare to wind?

For some reason this line makes me think of reincarnation. The words "all were fair folk" seem to me as if the narrator is saying that these people were successful in their first attempt at life."in their first age" implies that there were no wrongs in their life that they needed to be reincarnated for. They did not need to live another life correcting their mistakes from their past lives. The line that follows mentions how they are "the happiest under heaven" which to me makes sense as a soul that only goes through life once will be the most at ease, the happiest souls.

What is the significance of the Round Table being capitalized as a proper noun?

It seems as if she is riding slowly because she is aware of her beauty and wants others to marvel at her beauty so she provides ample time for observers to take in all of her features and admire her

It seems as if they already know the answer to their decision and are going through actions to further prove their point even though it isn't absolutely necessary

It would be a group decision rather than a biased one side decision which is nice

This is such a lonely thing to imagine

He disregards any romantic relationship they had or any affection they shared and wants the bare minimum of her friendship, shows how much he really needs her.

This line is very cheesy but I think its cute how much he appreciates her company and how much he adores her.

He went to eat

Why is there a need to state that the water is clear? Is this any sort of symbol?

This has to be the harshest friendzone. They spent the night together "embracing" each other just to be called a "fair friend"

Does this have anything to do with the two halves of the brain. The right side of the brain does not deal with too much logic. Maybe Launfal was not thinking too much into the actions of the king.

Most likely an elite group

There are dead bodies in the fairy kingdom? It says that all who died were brought to the fairy kingdom. This makes me question if people get killed in the fairy kingdom? Or if the fairy kingdom is the place people go after they die?

Even though they did not speak to each other, the fact that he has seen her finally after ten years makes his suffering worth it.

This part breaks my heart. It s as if nobody understands the pain he is going through by losing someone who he loves so deeply, all the advice he receives just seems "dumb".

Are the fairies scary beings? I still am not understanding why she hurt herself so badly during a dream about fairies. I'm also curious as to why she is chosen to go to fairy land.

The terror she is feeling is told through such simple language but it creates a gruesome image of a woman literally beating herself up and pulling out her hair. I think the simple language and vivid imagery is effective here since the story thus far has felt very whimsical and cheerful and now it takes a sudden turn and it does so in just a few words.

The imagery of the dream seems so beautiful. Why did she wake up so violently then?

The terror she is feeling is told through such simple language but it creates a gruesome image of a woman literally beating herself up and pulling out her hair. I think the simple language and vivid imagery is effective here since the story thus far has felt very whimsical and cheerful and now it takes a sudden turn and it does so in just a few words.

We should all work to maintain the reputation and the positive influences of those who lived before us. It is told here as an unwritten rule of society that should come naturally out of simple respect for previous generations.

This is a sad image, but it reflects how Beowulf really impacted people.

This means to deny or to contradict

Beowulf fought until the very end. He died a legend. Ties it back to the description of a great leader in part I of the story where a great leader must fight and protect.

This beautiful description makes the death seem all the more tragic.

I wonder how different each battle would be if he had fought without magical weapons to assist him. If he were to rely on his natural strength and abilities would he appear as less of a hero or more of a hero?

Beowulf lived the human experience. He arrived, he did good, and he left an impression.

I'm curious as to what this means. Usually when faced with death or grief the world seems small when one is existentially thinking of their position in the world. Or maybe this is viewed from a divine perspective where they are aware of the greater world above them.

Through fear he prepares for a fight. Though not optimistic, he is accepting of his fate.

This was interesting to me because usually he finds solace in the power of God, but here he is comforted by his own abilities.

How does the reputation of the sword undermine his heroism? To me it makes his battle seem less significant as the text states that others have fought similar battles.

Only God can judge him

Their world is controlled by a divine power where fate is predetermined.

Appears to be hell personified

Does this imply that the "Heathoreams" were dangerous so he is lucky to be alive? Or that the "Heathoreams" were allies.

Religion keeps them safe as if it is all they need

I find it interesting how there is the emergence of fantasy beings as well as religious beings

One of the themes of this writing questions what it means to be human. These lines serve to define the human experience. We are brought into the world alone and we leave the world alone. The times in which we come and go are times that we do not ponder often as we are constantly focused on the present. This leads me to ask; are great leaders are more human than the rest of us? Leaders have more than just the present to leave an impact on, they also need to ensure that their roots present them as admirable, and that their legacy reflects their accomplishments. As average people, we don't question every move and wonder how people may perceive us for it after we die. How does awareness affect the human experience?

To me this line hints to a time when the world will be without their beloved leader. After a great leader passes, it is important to keep their legacy alive. In this case the people are willing to fight for themselves as their leader once fought for them.

Here the narrator defines what constitutes as a good king. This observation of good leadership will later affect how readers will interpret the leadership values of Beowulf and determine if he is a good king.