Ben's+Babblings

Personal Pholosophy: To live everyday to the fullest. Remeber that there is always more to life. Don't take anything for granted, someone is always better/worse off and you need to realize that. I would say too put my philosophy in a quote would be from the movie Ferris Buller's Day Off. "Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it".(IMDB) My philosophy shows that people get too wrapped up with what’s going on today and they need to look at life in a different perspective. Just because you didn’t do well on a test or your relationship isn’t working out, doesn’t mean the world is over. In life if one door closes one always seems to open. I think if we live life too the fullest then there is no way we can judge the abnormal. If they are living there life the way they want to then we cannot judge them as any different than ourselves.

“I was so terrified and horror-stricken at the sight, that I hid myself in a closet, and dared not venture out till long after the bloody transaction was over” “I have seen him whip a woman, causing the blood to run half an hour at a time” “…reverberate with their wild songs, revealing at once the highest joy and the deepest sadness.” “…the whole village of Milford talked of little else than Parson Hoopers’ black veil.” media type="youtube" key="clldd6sGpCI&rel=1" height="355" width="425" “…and concealing every feature above his placid mouth, on which, at times, they could perceive the glimmering of a melancholy smile”. “I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil”. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given.” “the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart”. “I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepindancy—“ “and if I cover it for secret sin, what mortal might not do the same?” “At times I would rise up, a flash of energetic freedom would dart through my soul, accompanied with a faint beam of hope, that flickered for a moment, and then it vanished.” media type="youtube" key="-9G_BRk-K4o&rel=1" height="355" width="425"

media type="youtube" key="veTm1sZz2eo" width="425" height="350" Please start around 2:35

From Bohemian Rhapsody But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me He's just a poor boy from a poor family Spare him his life from this monstrosity Easy come easy go - will you let me go Bismillah! No - we will not let you go - let him go Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go Bismillah! We will not let you go - let me go Will not let you go - let me go (never) Never let you go - let me go Never let me go - ooo No, no, no, no, no, no, no - Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me for me for me “ My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled! Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar” “Her soul is taken surely.” “There was no sorrow or suffering for which she had not a tear.” media type="google" key="-5383101165309516491" width="400" height="326" “Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities.” “Bound to keep herself in the dark. Let your enemies make of it what they will, you cannot blink it more.” “…thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap while she called to Goodman Brown.” ‘“He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face”’ “…loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster…” “…shaking himself so violently that his snake-like staff actually seemed to wriggle in sympathy.” “…and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.” ‘“She is blacking my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold, sniveling, woman, and you bend to her!”’ ‘“Because it is my name! Because I will not have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies!”’ “ Father Hooper fell back upon his pillow, a veiled corpse, with a faint smile lingering on the lips”. “No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from it’s bloody purpose.” media type="youtube" key="IGiZWHL6wD0" width="425" height="350" Hotel California

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night There she stood in the doorway; I heard the mission bell And I was thinking to myself, 'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell' Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way There were voices down the corridor, I thought I heard them say... Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place Such a lovely face Plenty of room at the Hotel California Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place Such a lovely face They livin' it up at the Hotel California What a nice surprise, bring your alibis Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'.

I think this song greatly represents The Crucible. The whole song has ideas relating to the play but I think the chorus has the closest relating to the play. I think in the chours the Hotel California can parallel Salem very well. They make it seem like a great place with great people when the lead singer says such a lovely place. Also he is trying to show how innocent the girl is when he says she has a lovely face. Finally the last two lines shocked me the most when he says livin' it up at the hotel California it's much like the trials that when on. They sparked up the like of the town. Finally the connection about hit me in the face when he said bring your alibis. Many of the people of Salem had to use alibis and blame other people for witchcraft.The prostitute parallels with Abby because they are sleeping around with different people. She was the lovely face of the girl that enticed the singers to stop there. Finally at the end he says we are all just “prisoners of our own device”. I think he was trying to portray that in the end we just end up hurting ourselves. Much like John, in the crucible he knew that he was doing and it came back to hurt only him. Same with how the town viewed Abby.This song also demonstrates the feel that America was supposed to have on the slaves. Most directly connected when the lead singer goes into the chorus and says such a lovely face such a lovely place. This is connected to the thought of America and what it was founded on. Most people would say freedom but many people owned slaves still. So the thought of America was good but really we just had a good face or veil that covered up our true problems. Also as the lead singer says were all just prisoners here of our own device, that made me feel like slavery was our choice and now we our generation is still getting blamed for it. We had nothing to do with slavery yet the hate continues.

Conclusion: I must speak my heart, I think! Her soul, Her soul seems flown away. She sleeps and yet she walks. She cannot bear to hear the Lord's name, Mr. Hale; that's a sure sign of whithcraft afloat. I cannot tell. If she is truly in the Devil's grip we may have to rip and tear to get her free. She wants me dead. I knew all week it would come to this. I may blush for my sin. Because it speaks deceit, and I am honest! But I'll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free. She do not mean to doubt the Gospel, sir, you cannot think it. This be a Christian house, sir, a Christian house. You're hearing lies, lies! Do that which is good, and no harm shall come to thee. I think it must be broken sir. He bids her confess? Mr. Hale, as God have not empowered me like Joshua to stop this sun from rising, so I cannot whith hold from them the perfection of their punishment. Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him. From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom. It was just what I wanted.

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