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This is Kharishma's Page for the 12th grade English Literature Class, hope you guys will find my stuff interesting!

Fall semester- 1st grading period (Sophocles: The Complete Plays) ==="Until you make the unconscious conscious, ===

it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
---Carl Jung  Oedipus has always been a blind man, but it is not his fault.

In this paper, I have used several arguments to defense for Oedipus and point out why I think he shouldn't be fully responsible for the tragedy. Some main ideas are listed: How his environment shaped him as an royalty, he has been living under a huge lie for his entire life and how this tragedy is simply an ignorance issue. I have cited a couple academic journals and critical papers which are about how Oedipus should deserve his punishment as he committed parricide and went against the natural law which lead to his own hamartia. Though i do not absolutely agree with their supporting arguments and perspectives, some of my statements are inspired by my disagreement with their work. Most of the evidence that i used to back up my ideas are from the book we read in this grading period and i wish some of you could share my ideas while reading my assignment.

2nd grading period (Hamlet Plays) "**To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.**" ---William Shakespeare THE JUSTICE IN REVENGE; FATE; APPEARANCE OR REALITY It wasn't easy to read Hamlet at first as most of us weren't familiar with Shakespeare's metaphorical language. But after class discussions and guide activities, I started to appreciate this great literature work in various perspectives. In this group project, we modernized the play, //Hamlet//. Kim and his wife (Wendy) have a son, Hank (Kharishma),suspected to be mad for Olivia (Leslie). Paul (John) is Olivia's father and Kim's best friend, who also worries about Hank. In the original play, Young Fortinbras was planning to invade Denmark. We portrayed him as a teenager partying next door who disturbed Kim's life greatly.The link of our short movie and our script is provided below and I hope you will enjoy it.

3rd grading period (Satire) ** "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions . **" ---Thomas Jefferson Exaggeration; Parody; Reversal; Incongruity



▲ <span style="color: #3d1c04; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.73px; line-height: 23.595px;">**Political Cartoon** <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 新細明體,serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ Political Cartoon is one of the more straight-forward ways to understand satire. Each of us was assigned to analyze a political cartoon and discuss our analysis in our groups.

<span style="font-family: 新細明體,serif; font-size: 9pt;">← This one provided beside is what I chose. I found this political cartoon fairly easy to understand. There is no framework or background which draws the focus right to the main objects. There are captions on the objects which make interpreting their relationship much easier. I personally think that this cartoon is portraying how education doesn't guarantee one's future. Another problem also revealed in this picture is the expense of obtaining good education. My analysis is provided below. Thanks for coming to my page :)

<span style="color: #252525; font-family: 新細明體,serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ <span style="color: #3d1c04; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.73px; line-height: 1.5;">**Power Point Presentation** <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 新細明體,serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ Recently, we've read a satire story written by Voltaire, which is called //Candide.// In the story, many of the philosophical mindsets of the characters are influenced by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who I introduce in the power point provided below. Leibniz was one of the greatest thinker in the seventeenth to eighteenth century. He is known as a successful philosopher, physician, mathematician, inventor and scholar in various other fields. In the history of philosophy, Leibniz is credited for coming up with the theory of nomads and the best of all possible worlds. Through reasoning and seeing the best in all creation of God, Leibniz is categorized as believing in optimism and rationalism. His theories later influenced many philosophers and writers like Voltaire. In our book, the theory of the best of all possible worlds and the logic of cause and effect is most obviously revealed by the main character, Candide. In my power point presentation, I will introduce who he is, explain his theory explicitly and reveal how he responded to his opponents.

<span style="color: #252525; font-family: 新細明體,serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ <span style="color: #3d1c04; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.73px;">**What is Enlightenment?** <span style="color: #252525; font-family: 新細明體,serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ This is my response after reading the article written by Immanuel Kant, "What is enlightenment?". In the essay, Kant criticizes how being coward and lazy cause people to lose the ability of thinking. Following the guardians, citizens think not upon their own judgement but the authority's opinions. Different from them, the independent-minded scholars have their own perspective and only take the public use of reason as references. The only way to avoid being bounded by others' opinions and develop the private use of reason is to have freedom. Free from restricted mindsets will naturally lead citizens to think on their own and establish their own methods from reasoning. In my short essay, I will discuss these following questions: What does he warn against? What is the difference between a citizen and a scholar? What are the conditions for a society to be enlightened? What is my opinion on his ideas?