Why did Shakespeare’s plays appeal to “groundlings, royals, and everyone in between? What elements assisted him in doing that?

In Shakespeare’s plays, there is always a "Queen" or "King". This is keeping the audience aware of where it took place at and the time period of the play. The plays were filled with dramatic endings. It always had some form of love, death, and that one huge surprise that change the entire flow of the story. Shakespeare plays were always in old English form. Shakespeare plays were mainly for royalty. He wrote plays for people who serve the queen and king. He also wrote plays so that the audience can understand how it was back in the 1500s. Shakespeare’s plays were so appealing to the royalty and groundlings, because they could relate to it.

Queen Elizabeth I was the unwanted child of Henry VIII. Why?

Although Queen Elizabeth was a great leader, she was an unwanted child of King Henry VIII. Not because he didn’t like her as a person, but mainly because of her mother, Anne. Henry hatred towards Anne was so compelling that he had her beheaded, because she was accused of adultery, witchery, and incest. Henry was also expecting a son (that was promised by Anne) to take over his throne, but instead, he had a daughter. It is an unreasonable situation for Elizabeth; she didn’t ask to be put in this scenario, but considering the fact King Henry being an antagonistic and selfish individual it is not a surprise.

How do I demonstrate that I am open-minded enough to learn from my experiences?

An individual demonstrates that they are open minded enough to learn from their mistakes when they are mature about scenarios they are wrong in. Whether it is something major or something that may seem irrelevant too another person, it still take maturity and courage to admit when you are wrong. As a young African American growing up, I know I have made plenty of mistakes, but also as a sophisticated, intelligent young man I can admit I was wrong. Once I admit I was wrong, I try to view how the mistake affected my life as a whole. Then I figure out what I could have done differently. Once I completely understand the mistake I have made, I learn from it. I begin to comprehend that I need to do things differently, and everyone start to see the demonstration of my open mind to learn from my mistakes I have made in the past.

Then there is the topic of staying open minded to the experiences that I benefited from. Firstly I see how it affected my life. I also see how difficult the experience was. If it was something easy, I say to myself; it would not hurt me to continue to practice these good habits. If it was more of a troublesome situation, I try to understand that everything in life does not come easy. I learn to understand that something is not worth having if you do not work for it, so there will always be something that may seem difficult at the time, but at the end it will all be worth it.

Overall, I often try to show my teachers and peers, I learn from my past experiences. If I usually wait to the last minute to finish a valuable project, and do not get a satisfying grade, I learn from it and manage my time more strategically. If I studied extremely hard for a midterm, and got an A on it, I will learn that I need to continue studying. When an individual is open minded enough to learn from past experiences, they are constantly trying to better themselves as a person, and that is exactly what I am trying to do.

Chapter 20

Chapter 20 Quote 1

"Dey gointuh make ‘miration ‘cause mah love didn’t work ... lak they love, if dey ever had any. Then you must tell ‘em dat love ain’t somethin’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch.

Janie lectures Pheoby that love is not a fixed thing that is the same for everyone who experiences it. Instead it is as fluid and changing as the sea, only shaped by the shores (or men) it meets. Society has a normative and inflexible idea of what love is, when actual love is different for everyone.

Chapter 20 Quote 2

Janie mounted the stairs with her lamp. The light in ... her hand was likea spark of sun-stuff washing her face in fire.

Janie is so immersed in thoughts of Tea Cake, her son of Evening Sun, that she thinks of the lamp in her hand as a spark from her love, lighting her face and her path so that she can see.

Chapter 19

Chapter 19 Quote 1

When they were alone Tea Cake wanted to put his ... head in Janie’s lap and tell her how he feltand let her mama him in her sweet way.

Tea Cake, in times of distress, wants Janie to take on an ultra-feminine role and comfort him just as a mother would. While men often put down women’s "weakness," in times like these, they define the same softness as "sweet" and tender. But his disease begins to takes effect.

Chapter 19 Quote 2

Tea Cake began to cry and Janie hovered him in ... her arms like a child. She sat on the side of thebed and sort of rocked him back to peace.

Tea Cake is able to show his vulnerability to Janie, but not to other men. Interestingly, we only see him show his vulnerability when Janie takes on the role of mother, rather than that of a wife. This is probably because he feels the need to protect a wife, but feels comfortable being taken care of by a mother.

Chapter 18

Chapter 18 Quote 1

"We been tuhgether round two years. If you kind see ... de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all. Ah wuz fumblin’ round and God opened de door."
He dropped to the floor and put his head in her lap. "Well then, Janie, you meant whut you didn’t say, ‘cause Ah neverknowed you wuz so satisfied wid me lak dat."

Even in the face of death, Janie doesn’t regret anything she’s done with Tea Cake, even if doing things differently might’ve saved her life. For Janie, loving Tea Cake, even for only a short two years, has made her life worthwhile and satisfying. She characterizes Tea Cake as the sunlight in her life and Tea Cake is amazed by the intensity of her love and devotion.

Chapter 18 Quote 2

Janie achieved the tail of the cow and lifted her ... head up along the cow’s rump, as far as she could above water. The cow sunk a little with the added load and thrashed a moment in terror. Thought she was being pulled down by a gator. The dog stood up and growled like a lion, stiff-standing hackles, stiff muscles, teeth uncovered as he lashed up his fury for the charge. Tea Cake split the water like an otter, opening his knife as he dived. The dog raced down the backbone of the cow to the attack and Janie screamed and slipped far back on the tail of the cow, just out of reach of the dog’s angry jaws. He wanted to plunge in after her but dreaded the water, somehow. Tea Cake rose out of the water at the cow’s rump and seized the dog by the neck. But he was a powerful dog and Tea Cake was over-tired. So he didn’t kill the dog with one stroke a he had intended. But the dog couldn’t free himself either. They fought and somehow he managed to bite Tea Cake high up on his cheek-bone once. Then Tea Cake finished himand sent him to the bottom to stay there.

Tea Cake jumps in the water to defend Janie, his true love, from the mad dog. As a result, he is bitten and eventually dies from rabies. Thus, his gallant act of love for Janie results in death. Tea Cake dies for love of Janie.

Chapter 17

Chapter 17 Quote 1

Pretty soon the girl that was waiting table for Mrs. ... Turner brought in the order and Sterrett took his fish and coffee in his hands and stood there. Coodemay wouldn’t take his off the tray like he should have.
"Naw, you hold it fuh me, baby, and lemme eat," he told the waitress. He tookthe fork and started to eat off the tray.

Coodemay takes advantage of the waitress’s position as a woman and servant to her customers by assuming she will not complain about holding his plate for him while he eats. This thoughtlessness shows how deeply the stereotype of female inferiority was rooted in the society depicted in the novel.

Chapter 17 Quote 2

Mrs. Turner saw with dismay that Tea Cake’s taking them ... out was worse than letting them stay in. She ran out in the back somewhere and got her husband to put a stop to things. He came in, took a look and squinched down into a chairin an off corner and didn’t open his mouth.

Mr. Turner acts in a decidedly non-masculine way, refusing to defend his wife’s honor and taking a passive role by sitting down silently to watch the fight rather than participate in it. Mrs. Turner, by default, is forced to take on a stereotypically masculine role and fight for her own honor.