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.

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.

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.