How do you respond to Miller's presentation of Abigail in The Crucible?
How did William Blake and Grace Nichols present a place they know well?
The ways in which Blake and Nichols present a place they know well are completely different, one is seen as a horrible place and is told to be a horrible place, but the other is seen as paradise, the best place on earth, with sun, sea, great views, the lot. Throughout the whole of the poem ‘London’ we can see Blake is telling us the miseries of London, what a horrible, dreary, miserable place it is, ‘In every cry of every man, in every infants cry of fear’ this is a horrible place where even the children cry, and what on earth would a child have to cry about, all the time! It is similar in Nichols portrayal of the Caribbean, everyone thinks, even me, that the Caribbean is a wonderful place of joy, of comfort, of relaxation, but really and truly, according to Grace Nichols, it is a place of death and discomfort, a place to worry, the place to be nervous, ‘These islands not picture postcards’, surely that is suggesting towards the fact that unless you’ve really experienced the Caribbean, you don’t know what is hiding within the heart of the islands. No poet does anything, leaves anything to chance, so why has Blake written this poem, is it to show the public how to change, how to stop the city, the country turning into a plague ridden country, where nothing stays alive and happy, for more than 30 years, or is Blake trying to say, these streets may be owned, ‘each chartered street’, but, as people, we are not Blake must be trying to get the message across that if everyone were to stand up for their rights, then surely, they could prevent the country’s turmoil, because if the people, and the citizens don’t want to live than the country shall die with them. Nichols, however is trying to show that the Caribbean is past that stage and is already going towards turmoil, towards death, ‘these islands split bone’. How can an island split bone, either the islands man too much to her and the fact
The ways in which Blake and Nichols present a place they know well are completely different, one is seen as a horrible place and is told to be a horrible place, but the other is seen as paradise, the best place on earth, with sun, sea, great views, the lot. Throughout the whole of the poem ‘London’ we can see Blake is telling us the miseries of London, what a horrible, dreary, miserable place it is, ‘In every cry of every man, in every infants cry of fear’ this is a horrible place where even the children cry, and what on earth would a child have to cry about, all the time! It is similar in Nichols portrayal of the Caribbean, everyone thinks, even me, that the Caribbean is a wonderful place of joy, of comfort, of relaxation, but really and truly, according to Grace Nichols, it is a place of death and discomfort, a place to worry, the place to be nervous, ‘These islands not picture postcards’, surely that is suggesting towards the fact that unless you’ve really experienced the Caribbean, you don’t know what is hiding within the heart of the islands. No poet does anything, leaves anything to chance, so why has Blake written this poem, is it to show the public how to change, how to stop the city, the country turning into a plague ridden country, where nothing stays alive and happy, for more than 30 years, or is Blake trying to say, these streets may be owned, ‘each chartered street’, but, as people, we are not Blake must be trying to get the message across that if everyone were to stand up for their rights, then surely, they could prevent the country’s turmoil, because if the people, and the citizens don’t want to live than the country shall die with them. Nichols, however is trying to show that the Caribbean is past that stage and is already going towards turmoil, towards death, ‘these islands split bone’. How can an island split bone, either the islands man too much to her and the fact