A Moral Pyromaniac?

Iago is the logs from which the fire of Shakespeare's Othello burns. He provides the irritation and the fuel to push Othello deeper into the realms of jealousy.

The beginning of the play is swimming in imagery and references to war. The actual war in which the Italians are fighting with the Turks is only the most obvious. There are many other personal wars boiling. "Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (Shakespeare Act 1 Scene 1), Roderigo snivels this to Iago under the cover of a tree, thus in the first ten lines hatred is brought to the light. Roderigo is fighting an unknown war with Othello, while trying desperately to hide behind Iago whom is using him only for his money. Iago mentions war in his first major speech to Roderigo "But he, as loving his own pride and purposes/ Evades them, with a bombast circumstance/ Horribly stuffed with epithets of war" (Shakespear Act 1 Scene 1). Within this samee speech he refers to the battles he has been in with Othello, thus announcing his personal war with Othello. His first speech gives his reasons for the actions in the play.

Pilate's freedom

1. FACT: Pilate roamed the countryside looking for her "people".
2. Pilate's understanding of love is her freedom.
3. Magic, for the people who have accepted that it exists, creates an understanding of complicated things. Pilate's posthumous connection with her father molds her understanding of love.
4. "She sighed, 'Watch Reba for me.' And then, 'I wish I'd a knowed more people. I would of loved 'em all. If I'd a knowed more, I would a loved more.'" (Morrison 336).
5. Pilate loved everyone who entered her life, no matter what they had done or who they had done it to. By understanding what love is Pilate has freedom, she is able to live without the conatraints of society and be happy.
6. I find Pilate to be the most intriguing character in the book. Her ability to have the freedom that people long for now, is just incredible. Toni Morrison has given the world a way to find the freedom it so craves in one character.

Love and Hate in LA

Love is inherently built into everyone's genes. It may be destroyed by experiences but it is there when one is born. Society only enhances these feelings. Little girls dream of a knight in shining armor and happily-ever after; while boys take a little longer to get past loving someone for just one night and movng into loving them for a lifetime. They say it's a beautiful thing when a man finds beauty in a woman's heart instead of her body. When a boy finally becomes a man, he moves past lust and into a feeling that buries itself deep within his soul and tugs at the strings of his heart.

This feeling is something that every person believes in and strives for. Love can make it through anything. Love is stronger than any army. Love will keep us together. Love makes the world go round. The sayings go on and on and on. This tiny four-lettered word has caused death, destruction, sadness, but most of all it creates happiness. It causes families to hate each other, people to kill eachother, and people to stare into each other's eyes for hours finding new portals into each others souls.

Love is something that can infiltrate your entire system; one feels it mentally, physically, and emotionally. When love is lost these systems begin to shut down. Mentally you begin to reconsider all of your decisions. Physically you can perform the same but you don't find the joy in just laying your hand around their shoulders. And emotionally you are shattered. The world turns her back on you and you fall into a dark rocky place, that you can't seem to climb out of no matter what new drugs the world tries to find for you. Brokenhearts are not fixed by anti-depressants or street drugs, only time can heal the damage love leaves behind. It comes through like a tornado, spectacular as it approaches leaving devestation in it's wake.

It also likes to rip your heart out at the most unexpected times from the most unexpected people.

Oh the choices!!

I think I would have to die... old!! Really, I think it might just be a guy thing to want to die young. As a female with emotions, I need the satisfaction that I am loved by people and I have spent my entire life being loved and loving people. If I was going to die for something I truly believed in then I would rather die for that than to live into obscurity. If that made me insanely famous then I would die young. But would I die young just to be insanely famous? No.

Life in War

--my ring- it's a good luck charm that I take everywhere with me
--something soft and childish but small
--nail file clipper thing
--a journal and a supply of pens
--many cartons of cigarettes
--a lot of marijuana
--extra socks
--extra blankets
--a horseshoe
--hair things lots and lots of hair things