Blogg..pretty much.

Okay so so far Ros and Guil show alot of individuality and revolve around the aspect of acting. when the characters talk directly to one another they do so in a quick manner speaking short and fast. The two have two distinct characteristics in the play. When the characters are not around other characters from Hamlet their identities can be revealed and they can be seen from a new perspective taking on their own individual characteristics.

The characters including Hamlet and Ophilia are very un developed and not much can be seen about their character. It is alomst like two separate realms. In Hamlet, the characters have individual qualities and personalities that build their character, while ros and guil and slightly underdeveloped. Upon stepping into Ros and Guil are dead the reader takes on the true aspects of ros and guil and the characters from hamlet are slightly blured.

Thats all i got.

The modern translation of Hamlets soliloque:
There is but one question. Should i do something or should i not? Would it be better to just suffer in silence, or stand up for myself and fight for what is right? Should i die, should i sleep and rest in hope that i may dream and have it come true and reduce what has become a nightmare of my life? For so long this burden has been set upon me. Who believes in me and what exactly does life truely have to offer me. How corrupt is the world truely? Laws are not followed and the world goes about its wicked deeds with no mercy on the righteouss. What of the lonely man who is righteous and hardworking? He is cast aside and sticken with hate and a heavy burden. Who shows him respect he will simply be cast aside and trampled on. Our minds and our thoughts consume us and weaken us. But Ophelia, what about you? you are so kind and gentle yet the world could be so easily stricken on you. you shall not be involved in this corruption and dispicable consipracy. go, escape and be not a part of this mess that has become my life. I will take care of it since it is my burden.

1. Exigence — What needs doing at this point? In other words, what is compelling Hamlet to speak at this moment in the play? “He knows that it is time for him to step up and do something about what has happened and what is happening. He can no longer suffer in silence and it is his duty to show everyone the truth.”

2. Audience – The audience is comprised of people who can in some way act on this exigence. Who is Hamlet’s primary audience and how does that influence his choices? Who is Hamlet’s secondary audience and how does that influence his choices? [Hint: they are not on the stage] “Im not too sure about the audience but it seems as though hamlet is talking to the people under his fathers rule, telling them that what has happened is not right and that he will be the one to put an end to it.”

3. purpose What is the purpose of Hamlet’s speech? “The purpose of Hamlets speech is basically pretty obvious. Hamlet wants to avenge his father and his speech is building him up to act. The speech shows his emotions and how he is feeling at this point in the book, and it helps give the reader persective on where Hamlet is coming from.”

4. Appeals: Which appeal(s) does Hamlet use to convince and/or motivate his audience? Reference specific lines. “He uses depressing diction and visualy expresses his thoughts and how he portrays them. By telling the reader what he feels and visualizing it he can motivate the audience and gain their support”

Ethos: Appeal to the character of the speaker “it is clear that hamlet feels lost and alone and that this matter rests in his hands. He must avenge his father and stand up for himself and for what is right.”

Pathos: Appeal to the emotions or interest of the audience “This speech also motivates the audience into believing in Hamlet and gives the audience encouragement in Hamlet.”

Logos: Appeal to logic “A man who has commited murder is now seated at the throne, he has married the wife of the man he has killed and Hamlet is the only one who knows the truth. It is clear that he must defend his fathers honor and reveal the king.”

5. Figures of speech, imagery, diction, syntax: What literary devices does Hamlet employ? Where do you see him making comparisons? Which tropes–similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, etc. does he use? How do these comparisons relate to his rhetorical purpose? What particularly vivid images stand out? What effect do these images have on Hamlet’s rhetorical purpose? “Who would fardels bear, to grunt and sweat under a wearylife. (displaying the stuggle he is undergoing and how it weakens him.) The conscious does make cowards [of us all] (we are rules and weakened by our thoughts and must fight for what we believe in or they will overpower us.”

6. How do you respond to Hamlet’s soliloquy? In other words, what do you think of him right now? “Hamlet is gaining courage to stand up for himself and he is becoming more and more brave as the story unfolds. at this point in the book the reader begins to side and relate to hamlet rather than simply feeling sorry for him and his situation.”

Well so far Guild and Ros seem to be energetic and humorous friends. I like the tweetledee and tweedledum analogy by Kelly, but it is true. The men talk back and forth with each other quickly and the language of the story helps display the humore of it. The bowing was weird and i didnt really understand it. But Ros and Guild are on to the case of solving why Hmalet is troubled and somehow they die “according to the title”, i guess we’ll find out.

The first scene has much representation and examples of postmodernism in it. The characteristics of the main characters can be seen in the way they act and the coin tosses are reflective of each of their personalities. The setting is not given to the audience and readers are expected to know of hamlet and ophilia (representative of the time period, everyone knew of Hamlet). The characters are all post modern and their personalities are viewed also as very post modern. the story line is very strange at first giving off a sense of mystery. Thats all ive gathered so far.

Instead of making up stuff or going on google for a half hour, im going to redirect this post (hopefully that will count as being creative) to what i would “like” to learn about drama. Obviously it involves staging, setting, emotion, and entertainment/proformance but i would like to learn more of a historical approach. For example, around the time drama became most popular, famous idols pertaining to drama, and what it was mostly about. Hamlet, clearly, pertains to drama (otherwise we would not be readining it right now). Of our first reading of hamlet i gathered that the main focus was on the atmosphere, emotion, feeling, and settings. I someone think that the drama we are studying pertains to peoples emotions under certain circumstances, how they deal with them, what they feel, and how they express it. This makes sence due to the fact that drama nowadays pertains to the same idea except slightly more modernised. Reading and discussing hamlet will hopefully give us a better idea about drama and what its historical and cultural influences were.

Ive decided to change things up with my free post this week..instead of raggin on life ive decided to blog on something different. Life is pretty chill when you really think about it. We are always complaining, myself included, but at this age we can do whatever we want. Our limits are what we make them to be. If you know where you want your life to go, then do it. Sitting back and complaining is simply a setback. Without realizing it, we believe that our poor acomplishments cause stress when in reality it is the other way around. Complaining about test that are soon approaching and what a busy schedule you have is what causes the emotional shutdown and, as a result, causes failure. To put things simply, just relax..having a plan for yourself and following it is what leads to success. Me personally, i know exactly what i want and how to get it and i plan on achieving it. No, im not going to write about it but im a stubborn person and when i want something i get it. Summary of todays lesson: Know what you want, stay focused on your goal, stop complaining, dont let anyone change your mind, and just do it bro. Be easy

So i have chosen a harder, more unique approach to this assignment. I have chosen to read a new piece of literature and write about it. I will have the book read by tonight, yet i dont know exactly what im going to write about. As I read the book i cant stop asking why this piece was so revolutionary to its own time and culture. I cannot grasp what it was within the book that made everyone so interested. Youth nowadays have become so uninterested in literature and its historical importance. Reading a piece of revolutionary literature has done nothing to me other that make me slightly tired. Are we missing something? Are the writers words no longer able to reach out and root themselves within its reader? What has changed between the generations to cause this effect? Why am i asking so many questions and procrastinating reading? Does it bore me? Am I hungrey? Am i going to continue reading? yes, yesm and yes. Ill have it read by tomorrow Mrs. Duke. Laterr

Well it’s that time of the weekend again. so heres whats going on. Im getting a car pretty soon except im not excited at all anymore due to the fact that i have been waiting for one since i turned 16 now im almost 18 and i could care less. I need to decide on LSU or UT. I would much rather go to UT but as my grades are..im probably going to have to go to LSU. My laptop is amazing, Chelsea “my longboard” has just been cleaned and oiled, my phone would be cool if it didnt have time restrictions on it, I still have alot of homework to do before i go to bed tonight, wakeboarding is life, i need to go skimboarding (im having withdrawls), and i want to start soccer again.
This weekend was pretty good i got to go to the river and wakeboard, friday did a bunch, and today nothing but bloggggg. So thats it for the free post now on to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

As far as the CT presentations go, The Wife of Baths was by far the greatest. I wont spend to much time discussing my own project because i just stood up in front of the class for a half hour doing that but basically we reviewed that the Wife of Baths tale was an apologia. She used biblical reference to support her opionion on marriage, sex, and love. She believed that virginity could be easily taken away by rape so why not just give it away. She also believed that you should only give your virginity once you are married, thus it is not a crime or offense. Basically the Wife of Bath promoted sex and examples from biblical text to support her beliefs.

The pardoners tale was lectures very well. From what i have learned through the presentation, the pardoners tale is ironic to the lifestyle he himself lives. While he sells indulgences to forgive others of their sins he is committing them by profiting off others sins. He tells of the 3 greatest sins and tells the tale of the men who were overcome by greed and died from it. The pardoner is a hypocrit and a lier and blatenly goes against all that he is suppossed to be preaching against.

The Millers tale is about a woman who is married to a carpenter who is much older than she is. She has been flirting around with Nicholas and together they come up with a plan to get rid of him so they can be together. The Millers prologue starts out by him interupting the person in front of him showing his rudeness and complete disregard. I believe this interuption could be argued that it is an emergence of the lower class and their attempt of heiarchy. The Miller is a disrespectful character but also very amussing.

Finally we have the Franklins tale. The Frankin is an innocent man and tells the tale of a women who is deeply in love with her husband. This tall is much different than many other courtly romances due to the fact that both the man and his wife agree to remain equals throughout their marriage. The husband leaves his wife for some time during which the wife becomes greatly depressed. Her friends attempt to cheer her up by taking her to the shore where she is even more greaved by the rocky coast. She believes the coast will sink her loved ones ship. She makes a sarcastic deal with a man that she will be his love if he can make the rocky coast dissappear. The man decieves her in making the rocks dissapear as her husband returns. The husband tells her she must keep her promise so she goes to him. He is moved by the twos love and breaks the promise and everyone lived happily ever after. The story is a happy tale and shows much about the Franklins emotions and his character.

All in all these presentations have helped alot in revealing more about the tale that you did not pick up on by simply reading them. The fact that they were presented by classmates helps to relate more to what they are saying rather than if a teacher had been talking.

One of the biggest problems i have with blogging is there really is not much to talk about. We could all simply tell everyone how our lives are going but, in all honesty, nobody really cares. People need entertainment, and without it blogging will be reduced to nothing more then a sunday chore. For example, if saturday morning you woke up and knew that something big was goin down on the EDUblog page wouldnt you run to your computer? Blogging should promote happiness, fun, entertainment, excitement, and other emotions to fill the body and mind with a sense of passion for education. Without these vigorous attempts towards reform, the blogging society as we know it will surely crumble.

Now i wish to broaden your view on the subject of blogging. Is blogging just “another homework assignment”, or is it more than that? What if the true purpose of blogging was for some benevolant dictorial figure to leech from us our charished emotions and ambitions? Tell me, does it not feel so much better when you achieve something you have been working for, then it does when you simply type about it? It feels almost to take the emotion from you, stealing it from without you even noticing. All you may notice is a simple boredom, but unfortunately the happiness and joy has just been withdrawn right from your soul my friends.

Surely I will be persecuted, but this is a small price to pay for the freedom of my fellow classmates emotions, ambitions, and dreams. Be free my friends take my words and profit from them, express your emotion freely on your blogs, amuse and entertain, and let your spirits run free.