I was flabergasted to discuss in class the words HELL and DEMON in our protagonist names. I think it was very clever, but I cannot further the thought of those words actually meaning something in these characters.
I can only see that chaos in Iago. Iago's manipulation only gets better with everyone that he is trying to get to. He first manipulates Roderigo, then Cassio, and even his own wife Emilia. Iago practices his malice with almost everyone, he learns what triggers each character and uses it to his advantage.
Iago learned what triggered Othello despite the fact that he was a very calm guy. Othello's biggest flaw: being gullible and loving Desdemona so much that he no longer could think objectively.
Jealosy, as described it is a big monster that takes over the individual who feels that ugly emotion. Jealosy is triggered from insecurities that Iago was able to pick up in his speech of Desdemona's true nature. Iago casually tells Othello how he hopes that Desdemona does not go to her true nature: being with a venetian, high status position man, and a far skin man. Here we can observe that Othello has always been fearful of that, he himself found it almost a miracle that this woman fell in love with her, just like every one in Venice was.
Why was Othello so jealous when he was such a confident man?
Even so much love can blind you that much where your confidence can be knocked out.
Othello, while experiencing his first love, was very succeptible to Iago's words. When someone gives themselves unconditionally and completely the mere thought of the counterpart cheating is devastating and we can observe this in Othello's downfall.
again, I never understood why the man who was able to confront situations by just talking. Why didn't he do it with Desdemona? Why did he become so obsessed into finding an evidence of Desdemona's supposed cheating?
sábado, 20 de noviembre de 2010
Othello
I was very impressed by Othello's personality. I definitely admired his attitude toward controversy, it takes someone wise and with a level headed mind to not attack when they are being confronted. A trait that many humans must practice in order to diminish the uneeded drama that exists all around us, especially at the young adult life.
Othello spoke that he would have never married if he didn't love Desdemona so much. I believe that this statement that he gave when he was explaining himself, tells me that he is inexperience in the love area.
I believe that most of us have experienced an immense love for our first love. To the first love you give yourself blindly, unconditionally and without any boundaries. This is not a good thing to do, this is an assured death.
I did not think any further about the reason why the play took place in Cypruss. After hearing one of my classmates presentation I started wondering about this matter. As our professor said, everyone when going to Cypruss was alienated. If we think about Othello, he is not Venetian, he is a moor. He is also the only one with military experience and now he is isolating himself a lot more.
I foudn it very interesting that Desdemona decided to go with Othello in war times. I have not seen that in any movies or novels. Desdemona was definitely not lying when she said she liked adventures as well.
Iago's repulsive personalty must be commented. He knows exactly what he is doing and it upsets me to be confindent that there are so many people like him in our world today.
Othello spoke that he would have never married if he didn't love Desdemona so much. I believe that this statement that he gave when he was explaining himself, tells me that he is inexperience in the love area.
I believe that most of us have experienced an immense love for our first love. To the first love you give yourself blindly, unconditionally and without any boundaries. This is not a good thing to do, this is an assured death.
I did not think any further about the reason why the play took place in Cypruss. After hearing one of my classmates presentation I started wondering about this matter. As our professor said, everyone when going to Cypruss was alienated. If we think about Othello, he is not Venetian, he is a moor. He is also the only one with military experience and now he is isolating himself a lot more.
I foudn it very interesting that Desdemona decided to go with Othello in war times. I have not seen that in any movies or novels. Desdemona was definitely not lying when she said she liked adventures as well.
Iago's repulsive personalty must be commented. He knows exactly what he is doing and it upsets me to be confindent that there are so many people like him in our world today.
Hamlet is alive
Not only is Hamlet very passive and someone who is not taking action for being hurt as much as he is at this moment. He talks to himself about ceasing his existence.
In class we discussed that it was after he sees the ghost of his father that Hamlet finally decides to take action and vengeance his father's death. This was seen as a negative trait on Hamlet's part, that it is now that he decides to take action. However, he is in a difficult position, what is he supposed to do before learning that his father's death was not honorable? Kill his uncle for marrying his widowed mother? There is nothing that he can do except either accept what happened or finally leave Denmark and move on and become a respectable king.
Now that his dead father appeared he is given motivation, a motivation that Hamlet was lacking from the beginning of the play. Not even Ophelia is able to motivate Hamlet.
In class we were asked to think about how the ghost appeared. Why did she show up in a full armour suit?
It clearly shows that there was a barrier between Hamlet and her father. It seems to me that Hamlet's dad never really had communication with his son and perhaps it is now that they could start that father-son relationship after death. Going along the argument that Hamlet is dead, could his gosht father be a manifestation of his desire to build a relationship with his father?
Now lets take the argument that Hamlet is not dead. Clearly Horatio was able to see the ghost. Horatio was the first one to see the ghost and tell Hamlet. I would think Hamlet as crazy if he was the only who saw the ghost. If Hamlet told Horatio that it was the ghost that nobody has seen made him kill his father, I would think that Hamlet was out of his mind.
As my previous post states, I think that Shakespeare was able to read people very well. The fact that in his play he had Hamlet create a play which showed how his father was killed was brilliant. He wanted to see the reaction of his uncle, how more psychological can Shakespeare get?
In class we discussed that it was after he sees the ghost of his father that Hamlet finally decides to take action and vengeance his father's death. This was seen as a negative trait on Hamlet's part, that it is now that he decides to take action. However, he is in a difficult position, what is he supposed to do before learning that his father's death was not honorable? Kill his uncle for marrying his widowed mother? There is nothing that he can do except either accept what happened or finally leave Denmark and move on and become a respectable king.
Now that his dead father appeared he is given motivation, a motivation that Hamlet was lacking from the beginning of the play. Not even Ophelia is able to motivate Hamlet.
In class we were asked to think about how the ghost appeared. Why did she show up in a full armour suit?
It clearly shows that there was a barrier between Hamlet and her father. It seems to me that Hamlet's dad never really had communication with his son and perhaps it is now that they could start that father-son relationship after death. Going along the argument that Hamlet is dead, could his gosht father be a manifestation of his desire to build a relationship with his father?
Now lets take the argument that Hamlet is not dead. Clearly Horatio was able to see the ghost. Horatio was the first one to see the ghost and tell Hamlet. I would think Hamlet as crazy if he was the only who saw the ghost. If Hamlet told Horatio that it was the ghost that nobody has seen made him kill his father, I would think that Hamlet was out of his mind.
As my previous post states, I think that Shakespeare was able to read people very well. The fact that in his play he had Hamlet create a play which showed how his father was killed was brilliant. He wanted to see the reaction of his uncle, how more psychological can Shakespeare get?
Hamlet
Our dear prince of Denmark does nothing but mourn the death of his father in the first acts.
In class we discussed what we thought about Hamlet's personality, and thought he was a very passive man that is just there. He does not take any action on regards to his father's death.
from the very beginning of the play we can foreshadow the mystery that we hope it will be resolved as we read on. The play starts with "who is there?" Definitely gives a sense of intrigue, at least it did in me.
Not only was the opening line of the play intriguing, is the fact that the ghost of the dead King did not want t speak to Horatio. I believe that Horatio has good people skills and social cues to assume that the only person the ghost would lie to speak to was his beloved living son. as the audience we can tell by the description of the setting to be cold, foggy and dark. It can represent that there is something not exactly right in Denmark.
Why did Shakespeare decide to have this play take place in Denmark? In class we discussed that it was best for fellow English people to never think England could ever go through the same struggles. It is very clever of Shakespeare to to choose the settings wisely. Not only is Shakespeare an outstanding writer, I believe he had a psychological understanding as well.
It has hard to not notice the juxtaposition between the first two scenes. The first one is dark and cold as mentioned above, when the second scene has a happier sense especially when a new king is being crowned, Claudious. I believe these two big differences is exactly how Hamlet feels, is he crazy? is he not crazy?
I definitely do not blame Hamlet for feeling upset about his mother's prompt marriage after her husband's death. It makes her mother seem like she never loved her husband.
Will Hamlet now take action? Now that he is aware of his father's ghost and the fact that his mother is married so suddenly to his uncle?
In class we discussed what we thought about Hamlet's personality, and thought he was a very passive man that is just there. He does not take any action on regards to his father's death.
from the very beginning of the play we can foreshadow the mystery that we hope it will be resolved as we read on. The play starts with "who is there?" Definitely gives a sense of intrigue, at least it did in me.
Not only was the opening line of the play intriguing, is the fact that the ghost of the dead King did not want t speak to Horatio. I believe that Horatio has good people skills and social cues to assume that the only person the ghost would lie to speak to was his beloved living son. as the audience we can tell by the description of the setting to be cold, foggy and dark. It can represent that there is something not exactly right in Denmark.
Why did Shakespeare decide to have this play take place in Denmark? In class we discussed that it was best for fellow English people to never think England could ever go through the same struggles. It is very clever of Shakespeare to to choose the settings wisely. Not only is Shakespeare an outstanding writer, I believe he had a psychological understanding as well.
It has hard to not notice the juxtaposition between the first two scenes. The first one is dark and cold as mentioned above, when the second scene has a happier sense especially when a new king is being crowned, Claudious. I believe these two big differences is exactly how Hamlet feels, is he crazy? is he not crazy?
I definitely do not blame Hamlet for feeling upset about his mother's prompt marriage after her husband's death. It makes her mother seem like she never loved her husband.
Will Hamlet now take action? Now that he is aware of his father's ghost and the fact that his mother is married so suddenly to his uncle?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
the play that bottom and company and company performed made me laugh. They were too afraid to take risks that decided to tell the audience who was performing who, even though it was obvious.
The fact that Bottom was turned into an Ass was the climax of my laughter. Maybe I am stretching the following thought a little too far, but the fact that Titania fell in love with an ass can represent today's world. I have heard so many times that girls tend to fall in love with 'jerks'(asses), with men that do not treat them how they should, and I have even heard the ridiculous comment of "it is an inevtiable force" that women do not go for the 'nice' guys.
Thesus says:
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
such shaping fantasies, that apprehend.
...
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
One sees more devils than vast hell ca hold:
That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
...
the form of things unknown, th poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. (V.i.7-17)
This is such a magical passage about lovers all around. Who has not experienced, or seen someone go through that "love" stage, you see them irrational. Usually the people involved in the relationship are not able to be objective, and sometimes cannot even see that perhaps they did not choose the right partner by the arguments that they are having. That comparison has really stuck to me:
a lover, a lunatic, and a poet are all the same. They are all crazy. The lover goes crazy when he/she cannot get the love that he/she wants. A lover ALSO goes crazy when he is where he/she wants. There is no doubt that a poet is crazy with or without his/her muse.
Is it worth falling in love? Isn't that the question we all have in such a modern society where it is prefered to avoid the pain of the 'falling out of love' (long) stage.
The fact that Bottom was turned into an Ass was the climax of my laughter. Maybe I am stretching the following thought a little too far, but the fact that Titania fell in love with an ass can represent today's world. I have heard so many times that girls tend to fall in love with 'jerks'(asses), with men that do not treat them how they should, and I have even heard the ridiculous comment of "it is an inevtiable force" that women do not go for the 'nice' guys.
Thesus says:
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
such shaping fantasies, that apprehend.
...
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
One sees more devils than vast hell ca hold:
That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
...
the form of things unknown, th poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. (V.i.7-17)
This is such a magical passage about lovers all around. Who has not experienced, or seen someone go through that "love" stage, you see them irrational. Usually the people involved in the relationship are not able to be objective, and sometimes cannot even see that perhaps they did not choose the right partner by the arguments that they are having. That comparison has really stuck to me:
a lover, a lunatic, and a poet are all the same. They are all crazy. The lover goes crazy when he/she cannot get the love that he/she wants. A lover ALSO goes crazy when he is where he/she wants. There is no doubt that a poet is crazy with or without his/her muse.
Is it worth falling in love? Isn't that the question we all have in such a modern society where it is prefered to avoid the pain of the 'falling out of love' (long) stage.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Love love love love....
What an irrational feeling full of so many different emotions: Hate, indifference, passion, lust...
I think that Helena's character's it is seen very often, however not so direct as she is with Demetrius.
It is interesting that when someone is interested in someone else the more they are being ignored, the more they like that individual. It seems that when we are told "NO" the more we want it, just like Helena. Is it a thrill? Or do we enjoy throwing ourselves into what never happen?
In class we were told to pay attention to the wordiness of their speech. For example, when Hermia is planning on leaving with Lysander she says that in about 8 lines. As I was thinking about that question, I thought perhaps that by adding so many words to what can be said in 5 just adds to the comedy. Adding so many words adds ridiculousness making this play funnier.
The fight between Oberon and Titania does not only add more humor into the play, but magic. Puck is a clever little evil man, despite his evilness I enjoyed reading about his reputation and his
mischief. It definitely told me that he has nothing else to do but to mess with other people's lives.
What an irrational feeling full of so many different emotions: Hate, indifference, passion, lust...
I think that Helena's character's it is seen very often, however not so direct as she is with Demetrius.
It is interesting that when someone is interested in someone else the more they are being ignored, the more they like that individual. It seems that when we are told "NO" the more we want it, just like Helena. Is it a thrill? Or do we enjoy throwing ourselves into what never happen?
In class we were told to pay attention to the wordiness of their speech. For example, when Hermia is planning on leaving with Lysander she says that in about 8 lines. As I was thinking about that question, I thought perhaps that by adding so many words to what can be said in 5 just adds to the comedy. Adding so many words adds ridiculousness making this play funnier.
The fight between Oberon and Titania does not only add more humor into the play, but magic. Puck is a clever little evil man, despite his evilness I enjoyed reading about his reputation and his
mischief. It definitely told me that he has nothing else to do but to mess with other people's lives.
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