Blog Manifesto

Hi all!
It's Rachel, Savannah, and Dany!
For our blog we plan on digging deeper into the theme of double identity. We have seen in poems thus far that when we read a poem, what we read isn't necessarily all there is. There are motifs, symbols, allusions, and other literary elements that can be seen in text only when observed more thoroughly. We want this blog to be a general blog, but we also want to tie in topics from the 19th-century British and American Anglophone literature. From previous classes and works of literature that we read, we have found that because hidden identities within the texts from the 19th Century era are still prevalent and relate to us today as well.
At the end of the semester, we hope that we learn more about the themes of race, social justice, ecology, and gender, which are explained, but we want to focus most on hidden identity. For our blog we hope to focus on hidden identity and how this can go along with other themes and how they may go together. We don't have a distinct audience that we are hoping to reach out to, but instead have it for people that enjoy literature and diving into books and what they have to share--instead of just the surface of the text. We want to reach out to an audience that wants to learn about themes and other peoples views on literature. Specifically the theme of hidden identity because we believe it is seen in many pieces of literature.
In Shakespeare hidden identity was a major theme in a good portion of his plays--Macbeth.  Macbeth at the beginning of the play learns from witches that he will soon become King. This idea of becoming messes with his head and he decides that he must kill the king. When he is explaining how he is going to kill the king though he is speaking in present tense as if he had already killed the king. He soon starts to lose his identity, his sense of self, and time. Hidden identity wasn't the only theme in Macbeth, the theme of time was also prevalent. With our blog, we want to explore hidden identity as well as see what other themes go along with hidden identity.
Each week, we plan on working as a group to complete the posts. We want to have all of our ideas be cohesive. Instead of having only one persons point of view on a topic, we want this blog to be about the groups collaboration and the diverse views each of us have.