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.