Tuesday, December 9, 2008

'Reflection on Blogging'



Honestly i kinda liked blogging in this class just because it was something new and i had never done it for a class before. When the professor said in the beginning of the semester that this would be a requirment for this class i thought it was strange cause i'd never heard of that before. At times, it did start to get a little lame to me because i didn't always feel like doing sometimes because of the fact that i always couldn't get one because my computer would act up and that got me frustrated. them but i tried. The most part that i liked about blogging this semester was that i got to read other people's responses and to see what they were thinking. That was pretty cool.

Also the comments were cool to. Some of the comments i got were kinda helpful and others were just there just to be there. What i didn't like is that we had a deadline because i think we should have a little more freedom with that but i did like that we could choose what we wanted to write about because everyone might not have anything to write about just one specific thing some people are more creative than others and other people do better with writing facts and explaining things.

The fact that the professor had some blog choices where you could draw things or come up with your own twist on things was good. Everybody doesn't wanna write about the same thing as eachother all the time because you end up getting the same responses repeated over and over again I don't think that i will be blogging on my own after this. I've never been interested in it before, it's just not my thing.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Deception

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair" (1.1.12)
This quote was made by the three witches who are chanting around a steaming cauldron in a desert. This line sort of sets the tone for the play basically saying that foulness or bad doing is fair and can be justified. These lines are like a eye opener to make the reader a little more interested and focus on what might happen or to hint that something foul is about to go down sooner or later in the play.

This line also relates to the quote in 'Hamlet' "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" because it also meant that something was really wrong or someone did something wrong in Denmark and was one of the important themes in the play which was stated in the first act of Hamlet.


"There's daggers in men's smiles" (2.3.)
This line was said by Malcom, one of King Duncan's sons and he says this because everyone is claiming to be loyal to the king and his sons but you can never really trust anyone at this point in the play. This is bascially saying that people can be very fake, behind their friendly smiles but really they want to stab you in the back.

I really think that this qoute would refer to Hamlet's uncle Claudius because he was truly a backstabber when it came to him and Hamlets father. Claudius pretends that he's a good guy when we see him become king but really he is the villain for killing his brother/Hamlet's father in the play but no one knows it until the ending. There were daggers behind Claudius's smile...in his case poison.

murder
"Nothing is what but what is not" (1.3.141-142)

Macbeth says this quote and he makes this remark because he's talking about the subject of murder and imagining horrible things. He also states that the thought of murder "ratteles his nerves" and talks about how the predictions that the witches have made and told him, frighten him alot.

I don't know how this can realte to Hamlet but i'm guessing it would in some way go with the murder of hamlets father and Claudius and Hamlet.




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