My experience most of the time was easy with blogger. I did feel frustrated at times with blogger because sometimes my blogs wouldn’t post when I would press post and if I refreshed I would have to write the blog all over again, this happened once or twice so for the other I would type them up on Microsoft word and copy and paste to blogger so if the little incident would happen I had it backed up. I found it interesting working with Blogger because it was a new thing which I found rather fun and it made the class more interesting because you could speak your mind and not have to try to write like if you were writing a essay, it was my opinion and if you didn’t like it then you could either leave a comment or just move on. I liked how my classmates could interact through blogger and see if someone else had the same opinion as themselves.
Writing the entries were sometimes fun depending on the blog, like I loved when we would watch a video and then have to pick our favorite video, my least favorite blogs were one that were either one choice or the choices given were all boring wise. I liked entry question that I could use my imagination a lot. Writing at least 250 words wasn’t as hard as I thought sometimes I would have to stop and check how many words I had because my first blog if you were to look at it was huge because I couldn’t stop writing.
It was easy meeting the deadline for the entries because we were given a week to read the chapters and write about it but the part that was a pain was if we couldn’t go to the Thursday class we would lose points, I wished that I could still get the 10 points even if I couldn’t be in class by commenting them from my own computer. I do think it is fair to have a deadline on the blogs because it gives us a reason to do them when they are due then not have a deadline because most people would just leave all the blog for the end and they would forget what the play was about and they would write a poor blog.
My experience with other classmates blog were a good experience because I learn a few opinion and it gave me other people views on different blogs. I did learn something special doing the blogs then not having any blogs. I like this concept of blogs. I thought the comment weren’t that useful to me I guess because I would read them and then forget about it.
Blogging is so much better then writing an answer for a bunch of questions. I also prefer blogging then writing, because I can speak my mind without being wrong. I think I would keep blogging on my own, I used to blog when I was in high school on a site called xanga.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
blog 11
In video one, the actress Jane Lapotaire shows an of expression of insanity because she comes in looking scared but has this very crazy look that you would expect a psychotic person would have which in very little time her expression would go from smiling to sad to scared to happy and the expression would continue for a bit and she begins to show some expression of panic trying to rub her hands very roughly trying to clean them well and then she changes her expression to a look of bein afraid or scared that they can be caught or just haunted by the fact of what happened and what was done and she goes in a expression of guilt which then makes her try to wash her hands to get man’s blood off of her because she thinks her hands are covered in them, and then she expresses fear that the blood will always haunt her and that her and Macbeth will be caught or someone will find out of their crime that was committed and she also seemed anguish smelling her hands with such obsession that at a point she looked crazy doing it.
In video two, the actress Dame Judi Dench was showing desperation of washing her hands and at the same time crying because she couldn’t get a spot out of blood off her hands, she also began to perform resignation that the blood scent never leaving her hands, and then she begins to scream weirdly which is I feel is also grief that she is feeling because she doesn’t want to feel guilt because of the murder and now she is always thinking about it. I also felt that she also had desperation in her look because she was trying looking innocent to others and having no one point fingers at her or her husband.
In video three, the singer/actress Shirley Verrett is singing on the steps opera style and she is singing with a look of depression while looking at her hands because she looks to feel guilty of what has been done and also regret because it was done and now it is killing her and then had fear in her expression while walking down the stairs and looking at her hands and trying to rub them roughly and then she begins to get angry but then changes quickly into a weariness expression going back to her room and then confusion to go up the stairs because she seems to be confused for about a minute to go up the stairs or stay where she is, and she looks very anxious also.
I feel that video one works best for me because she shows so much expression and expression that I would think a person would have after her husband has killed or ordered to kill so many people. A person would be afraid that the time will come of getting caught and she is reliving the day that Duncan was killed and even if she is sleep walking she is expressing all the feelings that she has inside out to the world because it is haunting her inside. It works best for me because she is smelling her hands and have this look upon her face like she smells so badly even if there isn’t anything there and also how she keeps moving around nervously expressing her feelings.
In video two, the actress Dame Judi Dench was showing desperation of washing her hands and at the same time crying because she couldn’t get a spot out of blood off her hands, she also began to perform resignation that the blood scent never leaving her hands, and then she begins to scream weirdly which is I feel is also grief that she is feeling because she doesn’t want to feel guilt because of the murder and now she is always thinking about it. I also felt that she also had desperation in her look because she was trying looking innocent to others and having no one point fingers at her or her husband.
In video three, the singer/actress Shirley Verrett is singing on the steps opera style and she is singing with a look of depression while looking at her hands because she looks to feel guilty of what has been done and also regret because it was done and now it is killing her and then had fear in her expression while walking down the stairs and looking at her hands and trying to rub them roughly and then she begins to get angry but then changes quickly into a weariness expression going back to her room and then confusion to go up the stairs because she seems to be confused for about a minute to go up the stairs or stay where she is, and she looks very anxious also.
I feel that video one works best for me because she shows so much expression and expression that I would think a person would have after her husband has killed or ordered to kill so many people. A person would be afraid that the time will come of getting caught and she is reliving the day that Duncan was killed and even if she is sleep walking she is expressing all the feelings that she has inside out to the world because it is haunting her inside. It works best for me because she is smelling her hands and have this look upon her face like she smells so badly even if there isn’t anything there and also how she keeps moving around nervously expressing her feelings.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Blog 10 What a real man should be
I feel a man should be loyal, respectful, strong minded, confident, smart, cheerful, honest, educated, a man who fight for what he wants, reliable, and loving.
I feel that the qualities that would be applied to Macbeth are confident because in the play when the witches tell him about him being king, he began to think about it and believe he would he felt like he would be a great king and that he could and would do anything to succeed, which also leads to the other quality that I feel would be applied to Macbeth is a man who fights for what he wants, which in the story he killed or order to have people killed so he would be able to be king and keep his throne that he believed was his. The quality that would apply to Macbeth also would be reliable but I feel this quality would only apply for certain people and sometimes because in act 2 he was reliable about succeeding in the killing of Duncan but he was so afraid and guilty of what he did, he didn’t do what he was suppose to do and it was to leave the daggers that killed Duncan in the guards hands so the guards would look guilty and no one would suspect anything on Macbeth or his wife. I also feel that the quality of strong minded would be for Macbeth because he is confident in what he wants and he will do anything to get it and also he thinks alot about what he has to do and how it should be done.
I feel that the qualities that would be applied to Macbeth are confident because in the play when the witches tell him about him being king, he began to think about it and believe he would he felt like he would be a great king and that he could and would do anything to succeed, which also leads to the other quality that I feel would be applied to Macbeth is a man who fights for what he wants, which in the story he killed or order to have people killed so he would be able to be king and keep his throne that he believed was his. The quality that would apply to Macbeth also would be reliable but I feel this quality would only apply for certain people and sometimes because in act 2 he was reliable about succeeding in the killing of Duncan but he was so afraid and guilty of what he did, he didn’t do what he was suppose to do and it was to leave the daggers that killed Duncan in the guards hands so the guards would look guilty and no one would suspect anything on Macbeth or his wife. I also feel that the quality of strong minded would be for Macbeth because he is confident in what he wants and he will do anything to get it and also he thinks alot about what he has to do and how it should be done.
Monday, November 17, 2008
blog 9
Hamlet's mood contrast with his mood earlier in the play because earlier in the play he was feeling disgust on his mother's marriage to his uncle Claudius and he was just angry and disgusted because he's mother moved on so quickly after his father pass and now his mood is being angry at his mother for marrying a murderer and also hatred towards Claudius for killing his father and he also he revengeful towards Claudius on part of himself and his dead father, he is also more blunt on being disrespectful towards Claudius and also sarcastic also. Earlier in the play he was just to himself really was not speaking his mind as much but after being visited by the ghost, he started to scream out what he felt even if he hurt some that didn't need to be hurt.
The things that have happened to Hamlet that have made him feel this way are his mother marrying his own uncle not long after his father passed and also Hamlet feels and acts this way is because when his father came to him and told him what really happened and what the cause of his death (king hamlet) which was disturbing for Hamlet to hear and this is when Hamlet started to act more crazier in many ways. Also when he would disrespect Ophelia making her seem like a piece of garbage and also making her feel horrible even if she didn't do anything wrong to Hamlet but Hamlet saw all women were worthless because of what his mother did
I think it was important that hamlet feel the way he felt moments before he gets his revenge for his father and then die himself because he felt like he accomplished what he felt what needed to be done and also he felt like he did justice for his father by killing his father's killer which ended up being his uncle.
The things that have happened to Hamlet that have made him feel this way are his mother marrying his own uncle not long after his father passed and also Hamlet feels and acts this way is because when his father came to him and told him what really happened and what the cause of his death (king hamlet) which was disturbing for Hamlet to hear and this is when Hamlet started to act more crazier in many ways. Also when he would disrespect Ophelia making her seem like a piece of garbage and also making her feel horrible even if she didn't do anything wrong to Hamlet but Hamlet saw all women were worthless because of what his mother did
I think it was important that hamlet feel the way he felt moments before he gets his revenge for his father and then die himself because he felt like he accomplished what he felt what needed to be done and also he felt like he did justice for his father by killing his father's killer which ended up being his uncle.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
blog 8
Hamlet has gone beyond mad when I encountered him today. He has no recognition of me. When asked if he knew who I was, he replied that I was a fishmonger and when told I was not then he replied “ then I would you were so honest a man” which I don’t think is as mad as what he said next, when I agree that honest men are picked out of ten thousand, he just begins to say “for if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion” and after that that he how I know he is mad because when he asked if I had a daughter and I replied yes, he begins to say that she is going to get pregnant, for which I know my daughter would not do, so this has given me the proof that he has gone mad because of my daughter Gertrude rejection, but this is normal for a young man like Hamlet, but I feel that all young men have acted very close to this behavior but then he is acting a bit more crazier then others also. He might have never been rejected and now that he has been rejected he is now going to hold on to the person and go mad because he cant have her. When asked what he was reading, he replies that he is reading false reports and also old men but what I thought was mad was he considers himself a old man and I a young man. Which I feel that he was trying to insult me in whichever way possible, I feel he is mad but I also think he is a mad fool.
Monday, November 3, 2008
blog 7
In video 1, I see that hamlet is frustrated because he begins to move around a lot fighting with himself and starts to points to things while moving showing how frustrated he is with his father. You can also see how frustrated when he says the lines “a little month, or ere those shoes were old with which she followed my poor father’s body like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she..” and then he begins to shout “OH GOD, a beast that’s wants discourse”. in this video you can also see his disgust that he has for both his mother and uncle and now his new step father, he starts to say that they couldn’t wait a month after his father died and they are marrying each other and he also is disgusted that his mother married her husband brother after the death. You can see the anger throughout the video how he moves and his face expression shows that if he could he would never let any of that to happen because he feels that it is wrong in many ways. I feel that in this video Hamlet is feeling grief because he feels that his mother was just playing a role when his father died acting like she was really sad and he also remembers how his mother would act when his father was alive and the affection she would show to Hamlet’s father.
In video 2, I can see that hamlet is depressed because his tone while the people are in the room is very depressive and he begins to cry after he is alone asking God for help. I also see anger come into his body after he begins to speak about his mother marrying his uncle after a month of his father death. When Horatio comes into the room and tells Hamlet that he came to see his father funeral but also his mother wedding you can hear sarcasm in both of their voices, like when Hamlet says “ …do not mock me follow student” and then Horatio says “…it followed hard upon” which I take that they both mean that Hamlet didn’t care for the death and she just needed someone to be married to.
In video 3, Hamlet shows disappointment by showing face expression by looking into the camera and explaining how he feels and what the reason of it and you can also see the anger he has for his mother by calling her a beast because she married his uncle and he shows the disappointment that his mother would do this to him.
In video 4, Hamlet shows how disgusted he is feeling because he first just start calmly but still speaking insults about his mother and uncle and he also shows how disgusted he felt when he saw his mother kiss his uncle and they ride off and Hamlet is speaking how his mother is frailty and slams the window close because he doesn’t want to think about it no more.
In video 5, Hamlet looks very destroyed because he is slamming himself into the gate and rolling all over the floor shouting to himself, while I do not understand what he is saying you can understand that he is upset, angry, disappointed, and is going crazy inside because what is happening, you can see that he is in pain because of betrayal because how using his hands grabbing on to the gates like if he was trap in there. He also looks like he is going insane.
The video that I like best is the Video 1 because it shows alot of expression in a little amount of time. He shows disapproval, frustration, betrayal,disgust, anger and grief. It also looks real and doesn't look like he is acting.
In video 2, I can see that hamlet is depressed because his tone while the people are in the room is very depressive and he begins to cry after he is alone asking God for help. I also see anger come into his body after he begins to speak about his mother marrying his uncle after a month of his father death. When Horatio comes into the room and tells Hamlet that he came to see his father funeral but also his mother wedding you can hear sarcasm in both of their voices, like when Hamlet says “ …do not mock me follow student” and then Horatio says “…it followed hard upon” which I take that they both mean that Hamlet didn’t care for the death and she just needed someone to be married to.
In video 3, Hamlet shows disappointment by showing face expression by looking into the camera and explaining how he feels and what the reason of it and you can also see the anger he has for his mother by calling her a beast because she married his uncle and he shows the disappointment that his mother would do this to him.
In video 4, Hamlet shows how disgusted he is feeling because he first just start calmly but still speaking insults about his mother and uncle and he also shows how disgusted he felt when he saw his mother kiss his uncle and they ride off and Hamlet is speaking how his mother is frailty and slams the window close because he doesn’t want to think about it no more.
In video 5, Hamlet looks very destroyed because he is slamming himself into the gate and rolling all over the floor shouting to himself, while I do not understand what he is saying you can understand that he is upset, angry, disappointed, and is going crazy inside because what is happening, you can see that he is in pain because of betrayal because how using his hands grabbing on to the gates like if he was trap in there. He also looks like he is going insane.
The video that I like best is the Video 1 because it shows alot of expression in a little amount of time. He shows disapproval, frustration, betrayal,disgust, anger and grief. It also looks real and doesn't look like he is acting.
Monday, October 27, 2008
blog 6 choice 3
If I were to be Desdemona and Othello were to speak to me like he is speaking to her in this act, I would be truly affected and hurt. Especially in line 38 when he tells Desdemona that she is lying that she doesn't just belong to him. I know that Desdemona must of felt horrible because she is being told by the man that she has fallen in love with and has married against her father consent and now she is being treated like a dirty “whore” which he keeps calling her a whore to Emilia. Also I would feel betrayed and disgusted because he is asking other people if Desdemona or if I was Desdemona, was flirting with Cassio or having little secret between them. If I was Desdemona, I would defend myself as much as I could and also I would try to show that I have only been with Othello and no one else, I would try to find people that have been with me and then have them explain to him that I have had no sexually connection with Cassio or any other man. I would neither toss my wedding sheets on the bed nor walk out the door because I believe that if I were to toss the sheets on the bed, it would show evidence that I was a virgin when you had me but it is not enough to show that I am have been faithful to him. I would not leave neither because that can show that I am guilty which I am not so I would speak to him and if he would not listen or understand I would have someone close to me that he knows would not lie to speak to him the truth which I know would be a problem at this point because of all the lies that Iago has fed Othello about Desdemona having a affair. I don't think Desdemona has any choice then to stay and hope that everything cools down because she does not know what is being told to Othello which if I were in her shoes I would have tried to find out from Othello or people around him.
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