So this is it?

I figure the Political Science Club people can follow me on this. I guess. Man I wish I understood technology.

BLOG 8 SORRY

For many years, The Tempest was not considered a "serious" Shakespearean play because of its subject matter and approach to its topic. Would you consider this a "serious" play, or a lighthearted diversion?
I thought the play was serious to a point. It talked about revenge, and innocence, and betrayal, and love, and all the stuff you expect from drama.
I liked it, but it isn't really my thing. But it was ok. That doesn't answer the question though. The play was kind of lighthearted though. Nobody died, and everything turned out alright, even Caliban. I thought that was a nice thing. I mean even the worst character ended up with an alright ending. The bad guys did too. Yay Prospero!


The Tempest by ~tartleigh on deviantART

Blog 8

Chapter 2 of Ivan Ilych opens with the narrative comment that "Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible." What does this mean?

Well, it means that nothing happened in it. There were no exceptionally happy moments, or sad ones. Sounds rather...boring. Really. Then again, that's how Ivan Ilych was. I liked the story really.
I tried to make this post boring, like Ivan. Did I manage it?

Blog 7

"Oedipus"--is Oedipus really a tragic figure? Why or why not?

Well. It's tragic what happened. I mean you are born to live out this horror. That's pretty sucky. He doesn't has a choice. I mean, even if his parents hadn't abandoned him on a mountainside, it probably would have still come true. That's what you call UNFAIR. I mean honestly, who wants to do the dirty with their mother? EWWWW.

Poor Oedipus. I mean sure, he kept asking questions, and was stupid sometimes but he was doing it for the good of his people. Stupid people, go catch the plague or something, this is all your fault.

Blog 6 A Doll's House

What themes from this story have we encountered before? How would you compare the way these themes are treated in this play to the way they are treated in short stories or in poems?

Well I've encountered sexism, feminism, stupidity, and characters that make you want to smack them in everything. The themes in this play are treated more subtly and at the same time more extreme than in the short stories/poems we've read. I mean we see different character interaction in this play, instead of a one-sided narrative(A Rose for Emily, Yellow Wallpaper). It was more radical in the way the problem was solved, I mean Nora was like FU Torvald and ditched. I thought it was funny. So she actually did the opposite of being crazy like in Wallpaper, Emily and Chrysanthemums.

Blog 5

I didn't really encounter any problems turning a moral issue into a drama. I have enough friends to cite as an example. It's certainly more fun than a lecture, lectures make me sleepy if it doesn't have something interesting. I don't really know what you mean by "How does it work as a drama?". How does what work as a drama? The lecture? Well, you just run around and use common knowledge then blow it way out of proportion like 2012. It's funny.

Ulysses who?

So for our poetry explication assignment, I decided to do the poem Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson. Its not a very long poem, and its an easy to understand poem, and the whole poem COULD be an allusion to Ulysses S. Grant, instead of Odysseus aka Ulysses. That's how it caught my attention. It doesn't have too many strategies other than symbolism, but luckily, there is a TON of that. A person could actually go into a deep psychological explanation of this poem if one wished, which is actually one of the only really promising options to follow. Good thing i'm going to be a psych major eh?

Odysseus Vs. The Cyclops by ~ApneicMonkey on deviantART