Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

To live or to die that is the option, whether it is more noble to suffer. The pain of misfortune or to take action, against your own troubles which may End them. To die and to sleep and nothing more. By death you can end all heart aches and thousands of troubles that everybody is…

Act one Scene one summary: Hamlet begins on the outer ramparts of Elsinore Castle. It is dark and late and a guard Francisco is waiting for Bernardo to relieve him from his watch. Francisco is becoming nervous as the night goes on as the last two nights on watch he and Bernardo have seen a…

There you stand in the cold silent night. You can see your wooden cabin in the distance; its hard for you to see in the night. Up in the mountains the moon hardly shines, a ghostly layer of clouds make it hard for you to see. As the night goes on it becomes colder, each…

“Wake up!”. I got up with a sudden bang, and awaited another day of “school”. Slowly, I walk into the kitchen and surprised to see dinner made by the latest T700 bot, these days machines took over a majority of human life, or what used to be human life. After finished eating, I put on…

The second novel of my reading journal was “A dance with dragons” which is written by George R Martin and is the last book in the series of A song of Ice and Fire. The kingdom is war torn, and there is conflict between the powerful families of Westeros. It has a complex story line,…

My first book for the reading project was “A clockwork orange” by Anthony Burgees. The book revolves around a young teenaged boy Alex, who often commits in really violent crime with his group of friends. The book is set in a dystopian setting in an English society which has Russian influencing. During the book Alex…

The poem is by Edward Estling Cummings who was born in 1894 in the US. He had a highly religious upbringing and grew with a middle class family as his father was a professor at Harvard University where Cummings later studied himself. Cummings was a Pacifist during World War One, so he became a member…

Poppies is a poem written by Jane Weir. Armistice Sunday is a tradition which marked the end of World War one in 1918. It was set up to remember the thousands of men that died in the fighting, even though their names will still be lost. So the period which the poem was written was…

A way that Harpee Lee shows life in town like Maycomb is through symbolism. The mockingbird is a recurring motif through out the story, and it represents the destruction of innocence in characters such as Atticus and Tom Robinson. Atticus says in one part of the book “Shoot all the blue jays you want, but…

In “To kill a mockingbird” Jem begins to see how there is segregation in society, as he says “There’s four kinds of folk in this world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbours, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and…