Month: November 2016

I’m interested in joining This Sixth form because I want to gain A-levels and advance on to university.  I would like to go to this sixth form because I think the environment would be beneficial to me. I know I can be a great addition to this sixth-form. At my current school I was involved in the rugby team and the school newsletter called Splash I also have a number of household duties. I can work by myself or part of a team these skills were further developed during work experience. Where I working for company Boots located in Brixton. At work experience I learned about how stores run. I want to take courses in Business , English literature , ICT and Psychology. I plan to get A-levels in these subjects and go on after University to do something in those fields such as a Business manager. I currently go to London Nautical School , I have recently done my mock exams and talked about it with my teachers and we feel that I didn’t perform to the best of my abilities in some of my subjects but all that is needed for me to do well is further revision. I currently do Geography , ICT , DT and Drama as well as the core subjects although I didn’t pick Business Studies I want to take it in Sixth-Form. My strong subjects are ICT and English. My weak subjects are maths and science , because I recognise this I have additional support in these subjects.  I am not a sporty person , more interested in computers and games but starting to go out more and more with my friends. I haven’t had a job but tried to apply for my work experience during the summer. I think soon I might have a job but I would have to make sure it doesn’t collide with my school studies as they are more important. I have an uncle who works in web design and I’ve talked to him about summer job working for him which will teach me a lot and introduce me to a lot of different tech. From this Sixth form I hope to gain as many A-Levels as possible. From there I hope to go to university to further my education.

The moments leading up to the Macbeth killing King Duncan he goes through a lot of changes. As he tries to make sense of his actions he imagines a dagger. We know it’s not real he tries to grab it and he can’t touch it. Macbeth is having hallucinations , his brain is trying to make sense of what he’s doing so he imagines things. He hears a bell and says it’s inviting him. He’s trying to move blame from him he also says that this is ment to happen as it was easy to set up. Going back to the dagger instead of realising it’s an illusion he says that he can only rely on his eyes and all his other sense are tricking him. Macbeth is trying to shed blame and make it right to himself. After he does the dead in the next scene Lady Macbeth says she would’ve killed the King herself only if he didn’t look like her father. She is also making up reasons as to why she couldn’t kill the King. Macbeth’s state of mind is deterioratenig. The witches can be said to be illusions but Banquo also saw them but the blade is an illusion and that really puts into question Macbeth’s sanity. He is about to kill a man who’s been good too him and (believed to be) chosen God. After the murder Macbeth refuses to put the blades next to the gaurds to frame them and spoke loudly of the crime like he wanted to get caught. Subconsciously Macbeth knows what he did was wrong and the only thing right would be to get admit the truth and take full blame. After doing the dead Macbeth cannot bless the body he says he couldn’t get it out. Macbeth feels like God has abonded him. Macbeth also imanged that a sleeping curse has been put on him and the tought the play he doesn’t sleep. Not sleeping can turn a person crazy as they need sleep and Macbeth can only go bad with this. Macbeth wishes he could go back and thinks himself q bad person who’s been abounded by God and worthy of punshiment.

Research information about Franz Kafka’s Life.

Born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle. Writer Franz Kafka was the eldest son of an upper middle-class Jewish family who was born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, a kingdom that was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Tragedy shaped the Kafka home. Franz’s two younger brothers, Georg and Heinrich, died in infancy by the time Kafka was 6, leaving the boy the only son in a family that included three daughters (all of whom would later die in Nazi death camps or a Polish ghetto). Kafka had a difficult relationship with both of his parents. His mother, Julie, was a devoted homemaker who lacked the intellectual depth to understand her son’s dreams to become a writer. Kafka’s father, Hermann, had a forceful personality that often overwhelmed the Kafka home. He was a success in business, making his living retailing men’s and women’s clothes. Kafka’s father had a profound impact on both Kafka’s life and writing. He was a tyrant of sorts, with a wicked temper and little appreciation for his son’s creative side. Much of Kafka’s personal struggles, in romance and other relationships, came, he believed, in part from his complicated relationship with his father. In his literature, Kafka’s characters were often coming up against an overbearing power of some kind, one that could easily break the will of men and destroy their sense of self-worth. Kafka seems to have derived much of his value directly from to his family, in particular his father. For much of his adult life, he lived within close proximity to his parents. German was his first language. In fact, despite his Czech background and Jewish roots, Kafka’s identity favored German culture. Kafka was a smart child who did well in school even at the Altstädter Staatsgymnasium, an exacting high school for the academic elite. Still, even while Kafka earned the respect of his teachers, he chafed under their control and the school’s control of his life. After high school Kafka enrolled at the Charles Ferdinand University of Prague, where intended to study chemistry but after just two weeks switched to law. The change pleased his father, and also gave Kafka the time to take classes in art and literature. In 1906 Kafka completed his law degree and embarked on a year of unpaid work as a law clerk. After completing his apprenticeship, Kafka found work with an Italian insurance agency in late 1907. It was a terrible fit from the start, with Kafka forced to work a tiring schedule that left little time for his writing. He lasted at the agency a little less than a year. After turning in his resignation he quickly found a new job with the Workers’ Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia. As much as any work could, the job and his employers suited Kafka, who worked hard and became his boss’s right-hand man. Kafka remained with the company until 1917, when a bout with tuberculosis forced him to take a sick leave and to eventually retire in 1922. At work Kafka was a popular employee, easy to socialize with and seen as somebody with a good sense of humor. But his personal life still raged with complications. His inhibitions and insecurities plagued his relationships. Twice he was engaged to marry his girlfriend, Felice Bauer, before the two finally went their separate ways in 1917. Later, Kafka later fell in love with Dora Dymant (Diamant), who shared his Jewish roots and a preference for socialism. Amidst Kafka’s increasingly dire health, the two fell in love and lived together in Berlin. Their relationship largely centered on Kafka’s illnesses. For many years, even before he contracted tuberculosis, Kafka had not been well. Constantly strained and stressed, he suffered from migraines, boils, depression, anxiety and insomnia. Kafka and Dora eventually returned to Prague. In an attempt to overcome his tuberculosis, Kafka traveled to Vienna for treatment at a sanatorium. He died in Kierling, Austria, on June 3, 1924. He was buried beside his parents in Prague’s New Jewish Cemetery in Olsanske. While Kafka strove to earn a living, he also poured himself into his writing work. An old friend named Max Brod would prove crucial in supporting Kafka’s literary work both during his life and long after it. Kafka’s celebrity as a writer only came after his death. During his lifetime, he published just a sliver of his overall work. His most popular and best-selling short story, “The Metamorphosis,” was completed in 1912 and published in 1915. The story was written from Kafka’s third-floor room, which offered a direct view of the Vltava River and its toll bridge. “I would stand at the window for long periods,” he wrote in his diary in 1912, “and was frequently tempted to amaze the toll collector on the bridge below by my plunge.” Kafka followed up “The Metamorphosis” with Mediation, a collection of short stories, in 1913, and “Before the Law,” a parable within his novel The Trial, written between 1914 and 1915. Even with his worsening health, Kafka continued to write. In 1916 he completed “The Judgment,” which spoke directly about the relationship he shared with his father. Later works included “In the Penal Colony” and “A Country Doctor,” both finished in 1919. In 1924, an ill but still working Kafka finished A Hunger Artist, which features four stories that demonstrate the concise and lucid style that marked his writing at the end of his life. But Kafka, still living with the demons that plagued with him self-doubt, was reluctant to unleash his work on the world. He requested that Brod, who doubled as his literary executor, destroy any unpublished manuscripts. Fortunately, Brod did not adhere to his friend’s wishes and in 1925 published The Trial, a dark, paranoid tale that proved to be the author’s most successful novel. The story centers on the life of Joseph K., who is forced to defend himself in a hopeless court system against a crime that is never revealed to him or to the reader. The following year, Brod released The Castle, which again railed against a faceless and dominating bureaucracy. In the novel, the protagonist, whom the reader knows only as K., tries to meet with the mysterious authorities who rule his village. In 1927, the novel Amerika was published. The story hinges on a boy, Karl Rossmann, who is sent by his family to America, where his innocence and simplicity are exploited everywhere he travels. Amerika struck at the same father issues that were prevalent in so much of Kafka’s other work. But the story also spoke to Kafka’s love of travel books and memoirs (he adored The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin) and his longing to see the world. In 1931, Brod published the short story “The Great Wall of China,” which Kafka had originally crafted 14 years before. Incredibly, at the time of his death Kafka’s name was known only to small group of readers. It was only after he died and Max Brod went against the demands of his friend that Kafka and his work gained fame. His books garnered favor during World War II, especially, and greatly influenced German literature. As the 1960s took shape and Eastern Europe was under the fist of bureaucratic Communist governments, Kafka’s writing resonated particularly strongly with readers. So alive and vibrant were the tales that Kafka spun about man and faceless organizations that a new term was introduced into the English lexicon: “Kafkaesque.”The measure of Kafka’s appeal and value as a writer was quantified in 1988, when his handwritten manuscript of The Trial was sold at auction for $1.98 million, at that point the highest price ever paid for a modern manuscript.The buyer, a West German book dealer, gushed after his purchase was finalized. “This is perhaps the most important work in 20th-century German literature,” he said, “and Germany had to have it.”

1. During 1883-1910
2. Kafka had a bad relationship with his father , he thought he was all of these things :loudness of voice, eloquence, self-satisfaction, worldly dominance. His childhood was lonely as on working days both parents were gone. This could leave a child lonely and feeling isolated from the world , it can have a bad effect on someone.
3. He might be saying that people are greatly influenced by there families and they make a person and break a person. Him turning Gregor to an insect could be him saying they’ve burned him out and broke him. He was never happy in the play , overworked and underappreciated. This play shows how selfish people can be. And there are a lot of similarities between Gregor’s family and his. His mum was shy and quiet like the mu=other in the play ,  the father is a dominating and angry man also selfish which is how Kafka has described his father. And he has a servent girl in real like but a sister in the play. Gregor is also like Kafka.