Children of the Night Episode 3
Amado, Ethan, Aden, and Shilo
Infectious Dracula
In this episode we discuss the reason why Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. What he intended Dracula to represent to how people preserved it and how it was later interpreted in modern day society. We discuss how diseases were common during the era of Dracula and how vampire culture came to be. Along with the whole monster genre in general.
Pg. 40
Pg. 41
One main choice we decided on was to have the doctor and gentlewoman looking at Lady Macbeth from a desk in qan official way. We decided to do this because we thought that in reality shows people often talk behind people’s backs to observe them and so that Lady Macbeth could have a space to herself. It looks like a professional consultation with the doctor and gentlewoman looking at Lady Macbeth from the side. Lady Macbeth is constantly moving around the room and she is even on the ground at this point. This happens to dramatize her movements since reality shows are often dramaticized to be more interesting to the audience. Lastly, we added a "recording" filter over the video to enhance the reality show theme.
On this week’s podcast, we unfortunately come to a close on our reading of the Cat’s Cradle. We attempt to discuss the ending without spoilers, and not surprisingly, fail. The theme of this episode is Author’s intent, and come to a conclusion that Cat’s Cradle was a critique mainly on the conversation of science vs religion and the development of nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Lastly, we discuss the winners and losers of the book and our major takeaways.
Some evidence we used
“I bought myself a job, just the way you bought yourself a tomcat husband, just the way Newt bought himself a week on Cape Cod with a Russian midget” (243)
“When there are such men as Felix Hoenikker to give such playthings as ice-nine to such short-sighted children as almost all men and women are” (245)
“The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die.” (273)
“He always said he would never take his own advice, because he knew it was worthless.” (273)
“and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who” (287)
Members: Wes, Tai, Lei, Waverly
Episode Title : Alas!
In this episode of our podcast, we discuss the nuances of the novel with regards to how Yaa Gyasi intended the book to be read/interpreted. We have disagreeing dialogue about the book not having any true good people. We also briefly discuss our impressions of the book as a whole.
Akua and Fire - page 177
Death of Akua’s mother - page 180
“Wicked Man” - page 181
“War may be over” - page 158
“We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?” (256)
“To cure you! To make you sane! Will you understand, Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands uncured?” (261)
“The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.” (261)
“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them” (261)
“It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, hower secret and powerless it may be” (263)
“They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal” (272)
“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution to safeguard the dictatorship” (272)
“It is not enough to obey him; you must love him” (292)
“Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!” (297)
“Sometimes they threaten you with something—something you can’t stand up to, can’t even think about. And then you say, ‘Don’t do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to so-and-so.’ And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself, and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way.” (302)
“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me” (304)
Song names 1.Double Thane 2.ẗhe moon was high 3.the king 4.the lady 5.death of Banquo 6.Ducan’s Deeds 7. Macduff’s Victory
