Adams Center High School - Hourglass Yearbook (Adams Center, NY)

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SENIOR -XNNU AL Thus studx mg the drama from the polnt ot constluc t1on we recogmze an example w ell nlght perfect of Shakes peauan alchltectomcs It touches the summxt of mtense cl amat1c plesentatlon Macbeth IS a masterplece D HELEN HUNT IACKSON Helen Hunt Jackson one of the most famous women 1n the Unlted States w as boln ln the cultured town of Am herst Mass Octobe1 18 1831 She mheuted from her mothe1 a sunnw buoxant nature and from her father a strong ugorous mmd When Helen was twelxe both her father and mother dled leavmg he1 to the care of a grandfather She was soon placed 1n the school of Rex J S C Abbott of New York and here some of her happ1est dass were passed She grew to womanhood frank me1ry lmpulsxve bI'1ll13.Ht 1n com ersatlon and fond of socletx At tw entx one she was marrled to a xoung alms officer Edward B Hunt Thex spent much of thelr tlme at West Po1nt and Newport and the young wxfe mox ed 1n a fash 1onable soclal clrcle and won hosts of adm1r1ng frxends Now and then when M1 Hunt lead a paper before some learned soclety he was proud to take hls gaw and attract we wlfe w1th hxm Llfe seemed so full of pleasure for her but suddenly llke a thunderbolt from a clear skw the hapm l1fe was shattered Mawor Hunt w as lxllled October 7 1863 wh1le experlmentmg w1th a submaune gun of hxs own mventlon For months she shut herself 1n her own loom refuslng to see her nealest frlends -Xny one who lox es me ought to prax that I may d1e too she sa1d Hel phxs1c1ans thought she would d1e of grief but when he1 strong earnest nature had wrestled w1th 1tS8lf and become con queror she left her secluslon cheerful as of old The plc ture of her husband w as ex er beslde he1 and thls doubt less spurred her on to the work she w as to accompllsh Three months later she wrote her first poem Llfted Oxer The poem was wldelx copled and na mx mother were comfolted bu It The kmd letters she 16C6lX9d m consequence w ere the first gleam of sunsh1ne ln her dark ,72 . Av . N v' ' ' v 4 - -, 1 L 1 A - C ' I' n A 5. l'c ' . c . 1 . Y H. I. ., 22. v A , . 1 -l , . c . ' ' v . ' y - . , c. . , .., , . . . . . . . . , t c , c . , . lc , v 7 , 1 , c ' ' c c . se l . 1 ' y v . . . . . . 1 . v V , t . . . Y 1 . . . . 7 7 Y . 7 . Y . .I . v v- - ' v 4 y w K n. 1, 7 Y u 1 ty L K V s . Y Y. v . - , r . T e .. T , , . . . , 1 . 1 K . ' . Y. . . . . . , L ' ,vw Y . V . v Y. 1 t e . cl c -, .... , . L . K v ' , X V . . ' H , , v , . . . A , . v v ' 77 - ' - v ' ' 1 U y . .c . L R . y D . v 1 5' Y 9 ' 7 I Y V. ' C - 1 1 . . , L ., , . ' V v I 1 .'1 I L A 9 x ' nn L. V x 'Km 5 n 1 v U ' . c . . , . 97 . ' v ' V ' V K v V 2 Lv S - A V l . I . v l D V . l L n 5 '

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SENIOR -XXXL -XL Hence hor11ble hadoxx un1eal mockerx hence' The fall of a d1ama 1s cont1nued act1on 1n dechne The fall of Nlacbeth max be dlxlded 1nto two pfuts the c n pearance of the wltche and the appearance of Lennox sold1er xxho IS mob111z1ng folces to malch agamst Nla beth to restore the kmgdom to 1ts lawful hen The wltches are holdmg councll w1th xl lcl eth thex tell hlm to beware Macduff '1 noble and lox l Scotfhm n Then thex sax that he would h 1xe sox erexgn rtll P IN XX ood should moxe to DLlflS1llll'lC Hlll wherc ll cbcths castle lS sltulted Thls 1exel1t1on glxes M lcl cth 1 sense of securltx fO1 he thlnks the wood xxlll nex 61 moxe and he also thmks he can haxe 'Hacduff kllled Then Macbeth sends soldlers to 'xlacduffs castle to mu1de1 h1m and h1s farmlx Because Nlacduff IS 1n England at thlq t1me hc escapes the cruel tragedx and thus ends the fall of thc plax The catastrophe of anx dramm should be natuml and rap1d although not abrupt The catastlophe of Macbeth the su1c1de of Ladx Macbeth caused bx unendu1able re morse and later 1ns'1n1tx One nlght Lady Macbeth call out 1n her sleep and seems to be holdlng councll xx1th Mac beth Yet here s a spot Out damned spot out Hell IQ murkx' Flel mx lord F1e' A soldler 'md flflvlldq What nced xxe fear who lmnox s lt when none can call om power to account? The second peut IQ the mulder of Nlfxcbeth At the clo e of hls career hls deeds lax heaxx on hls soul He thmks of the murder of Dunc xn B-xnquo 'md then the Macduffs and then he curses himself for h'1x1ng pud heed to the w1tches ln deep despondencx he sfzvs I haxe l1x ed long enough mx xx ax of hfe ls fallen 1nto the sere the xellow leaf -Xnd that xxhlch should frccompanx old age -Xs honor loxe obed1ence troops of frxencl I must not look to hfxxe but IH thelr stead Curses not loud but deep mouth honored b eath Whlch the poor he'1rt xx ould fam denx but dale not At th1s tlme '1 serxant enters and tells Nlfmcbeth that Blrnam XR ood IQ moxed to Duns1nane H111 Macbeth be gms to prepare fO1 battle Nlacdufl' -xgamst xxhom hxs greatest c11me has been comm1ttecl marches to h1 cfm tlc and kllls h1m YN 1th thls rclgn of tenor IH Scotland ended Duncan s son IQ gn en h1s law ful place a klng A. A .A 21 A L' ' ' . ' ,, , rea, - ' s, a . ' . ' ' ' ' . 1 ' . f... - , . . . . . c I A c ' . ,V A , c c I fl . f Tcl . A U' s j ' 1 ' .1 ' sway ur ,r ' nm v 1 - 1. f . v 15 ' 1 ' . , . 1 ' A rc me . v ' 1 1' . ' . . , 1 ' ' . 1 . , . A . . 5 A . C . A I A C nj L I A s A. A . I .v.. . , , nv S v .L 1 A 4 Q 1 ,Q 1 Q 4 . l .Y u L, A C n , . U , . .. , V C n C 7 1 1 IS also d1v1ded 1nto two general parts. The first part 13 ' ' 1 7 1 - Ac Uv. V Y c S v x x V ' ll ' 7 ' . . . . , , , . L . . .V .4 , . A ., , c 1 c . c A . I . . - A XJ: ' 1 - I 2 ,K . v 7' . . ' . C . 1 L C A 4 I . , 'f .' .' .j L 'j A s . 2 , . , C P 1 1 11 . 1 vl 4 I ,, . , . . . , ' .' V' fc .V ff U v ' v . v v v ' f v c 9. I y v n . ., , t c , A Y n C .dv Q A A , ' , . . S, . , , , , , ,. . , , A - . v . . ,, c sy, , . c 1 . vc A A A r 1 t L K n A ' ' 4 , ' v . . c . A , c c . ., ' . , 1 s is 1 . . ,. .N . H . 9 ' ' v 's . N ' v . c . ., c c 5 .

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SEYIOR -XXXL AL 23 ened l1fe If she were domg ex en a l1ttle good she could hxe and be strong And then at thlrty four began her llterary work She stud1ed the best models of composxtlon and took as her model the wr1t1ngs of Wentworth Hlggln son Her first prose sketch appeared 1n The Independent September 13 1866 and from th1s tlme on she wrote for that 1ournal three hundred and sexentw one artxcles In 1869 she traveled abroad pr1nc1pall5. IH Germany and Italv wr1t1ng home several sketches In Rome she be came so 1ll that her llfe was de palred of Nl hen he had partlallx recoxered and went away to regfun her srength her fr1ends 1I1SlStCd that a professxonal nurse should go w1th her but she took a hard workmg young Ital1an g1rl of slxteen to whom the vacat1on would be a blessmg On her return 1n 1870 a l1ttle book of verses was pub llshed Llke most beglnners she was obl1ged to pav for stereotyped plates The book was well recexved Emer son hked especlally her sonnet Thought He ranked her can men Fame d1d not come at once to Helen Hunt It came after years of work after It had been fully earned The road to authorshlp IS a hard one and only those should attempt It who have courage and perseverance Aga1n her health falled her but not her cheerful sp1r1ts She t1 ax eled to Colorado and wrote a book ln pralse of It Everywhere she made lfvstmg frlends In 1876 eleven years after the death of Mawor Hunt she marr1ed lVIr VX 1ll1am Sharpless Jackson a Cuaker and a cultured banker Her home at Colorado Sprlngs became an 1de'1l one and It looked toward the Carden of the Cods The tlnae h ad now come for her to do her last and perhaps best work She could not w11te w1thout a definlte purpose and now the purpose that settled down upon her heart was to help the defrauded Indlans She behex ed they needed edu catlon and Chr1st1an1zat1on rather than exterm1nat1on She left her home and spent three months ln Astor L1brarw ln New York wr1t1ng her Century of Dlshonor showmg how we haxe despolled the Indmns and broken our treat1es w1th them 'Xt her own expense she sent a copy to each member of Congress Its plfun facts were not rellshed 1n some qual ters and she began to taste the cup that all reformers haxe to drmk but the blaxe woman nexer fl1IlCl'16Cl 1n her n 4 v . v . , . 7 v . . 1 o 3 ! v ' ' . I ' . ' ' , ' .' ' S S . ' S f vs 3 - a .Y . .V I , V Y N. . I 9 . 7 L k, v ,. ' . -n I Y Y ' - M ' ' ' Y 4K Y? , . poetry above that of all American women and most Amerl- ? . , . , K S. r Q r 'A' A I . In I 1 .v K ' s . 4 ' , ' L , . . . C , ' , ' It I , . , Z ' C . . , v T v a 1 KK L n ,y uv' A . s 3 I v v Y s l 'C ' S . . . c ' D I . '- . h ' ,, . v v C v ' '