Soiloquoy of Acts I & II

Bottom:

That will ask some tears in the true performing of

it: if I do it, let the audience look to their

eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some

measure. To the rest: yet my cheif humour is for a

tyrant: I could play Ercles rarely, of a part to

tear a cat in, to make alll split.

The raging rocks

And shivering shocks

Shall break the locks

Of prison gates;

And Phibbus' car

Shall shine from far

And make and mar

The foolish Fates

This was lofty! Now name the rest of the players.

This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein, a love is

more condoling.

To get the technical language stuff out of the way, i believe this soliloquoy to have an iambic pentameter rhythm for the most part- every other word is stressed. I believe this soliloquoy to be a combination of blank verse and rhyme: as you can see in the first six lines and the last three lines, there is no rhytmical pattern whatsoever. But in this core of thisspeech, there is an interesting rhyme scheme occurring: a-a-a-b-a-a-a-b; and as it's stated in the study guied that most of Shakespeare's work consists of couplets, this particular soliloquoy actually kind of has a triplet feel. Plus, one can notice this by looking at the rhyme scheme.

To all of you, this may not seem like a soliloqouy at all and if it does, you may think it's not the typical eye - catching shakespearian tangent - that's the exact reason as to why i chose Bottom's spiel about the certain role he wants to play in this play. I love the playful and bouncey tone in the middle of this tangent (watching the clip definitely made me like it all the more!) I just think this whole rant is absolutely hilarious and rediculous. Bottom just reminds me of one of those over confident theater rats (Tabias on Arrested Development...anyone, anyone?) When watching the play and hearing Bottom speak, the image of the cowardly lion from The Wizzard of Oz popped up in my head. Ya know, the lion's who spiel about how he's so courageous. Also, i thought it was funny when bottom does his own impression of what a lion sounds like later on in that scene. But anyhoot, i really enjoyed the playfulness of this section...the other sections are just soo typical Shakespeare. All in all, i've enjoyed reading the first few acts of this play very much so.

Good 'Ol Shakespeare

          Though i really do not enjoy reading Shakespeare, Brown's version wasn't all the bad. The visual aids really helped to clarify Shakespeare's strong and poetic words a little bit.

          What caught my eye was the way in which some of the characters were dressed. It was interesting to see Hermia still wearing a greek - styled dress - that goes down only past her waist. I also thought it as interesting how Helena was dressed in the same type of a Shakespearian - modernistic style, but a little more hoish if you will. This particular style for these two girls actually set the stage and tone of this story. Hermia symbolizes the angelic girl (beautiful, shor white dress) and Helena represents the more promiscuous sister (boy crazy - those old fashion panty hoes?)

           Of course, i rather noticed that most of the male characters in this story had more of an emo/scene kid type of style. Also, a lot of the males appeared to possibly be wearing eyeliner - which is another cliche towards the scene kids. In sense this style of dress kind of depicts the over dramatized manner of this play. It is all kind of over the top in my book.

By the by: I am looking off of page 34 - different panels do a swell job in showing off the Shakespearian fashion

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Okay!, for page 8 (the jay leno sketch) : http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989987,00.html (monday, january 11th)





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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ejX0q3s0yY (TLC)





http://www.alternet.org/story/48280/?page=entire ( i like my hair...)





http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=42825764&Fmt=4&cliented=32427&RQT=309&VName=PQD (extra article...go to page 6 and seven!)

Page 14!

http://www.blackvoices.com/blogs/2009/03/20/michelle-obama-was-told-she-talked-like-a-white-girl/ (Michelle obama!)

E.E Cummings Untitled

"who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?"

First off, I rather enjoyed this peom's stream of consciousness vibe. I enjoyed the beginning as he went from one song to another idea to another American - Patriotic song. Now, i chose these last three lines because they were rather powerful. I don't know why, but these last three lines and the whole poem really remind me of the many hard fought battles of the Revolutionary war. Maybe im thinking out of context, but the first line of these three lines puts the image in my head of side of the army that has to sit and wait to be shot, or to survive. The rush of the lions occurs as both sides rush at one another after the "stand still and die" portion of the battle. As for the last two lines, i just feel that it's the voice of anti war advocates who think that any man having the desire to fight in a war is idiotic.

In concordance to Night, the line, "why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-iful than these heroic happy dead", it kinda reminds of when Eliezel and his father were running and running to get closer to the center of Germany and alls they felt was the wish to die. Like as they were lying in this snow, most alive people would hate to lay in the snow for so long, but especiallly Eliezel, he felt the snow as a warming blanket. As for the the three words: "heroic happy dead", i think of Anja. She was heroic in the sense that she survived the holocaust, so she should have been happy BUT in the end, she ended up dead. It's like she went through a tripple bipolar cycle, heroic - happy - boom! dead.

Maus Pt. II

The panels that i find interesting in the second part of Maus are panels 3 - 5 on page 242. The whole reference to a dog gone mad is an interesting metaphor.

In my opinion believe this could be a metaphor of how the Jews struggled to survive by every last role or twitch of life. In another sense, this could be another metaphor as to how the Jews have been dehumanized - since they were treated like dogs, they were killed like dogs. In fact, maybe this...the Jews cry for hunger or cry of hate for the German soldiers sounded like barks to the Germans - an annoying sound that doesn't shut up. In another way, Jews are like dogs in that of a begging sense. I know i have spoiled my dog with human food so now she's always hounding for something else. So i guess, Germans see the Jews as beggars of the riches.

Vladek was talking about a "mad" dog that was biting. The only way to terminate a made soul is to kill it. So like a crazed dog dying - the devilish souls leaving their souls is the rolling and twitching....just like the Jews. The Germans thought, in a way, Jews were the devil

Thesis for Research Project

Now, as Shannon proclaimed in her "example projects", in a multigenre research paper, there isn't an "in your face" thesis. Plus, my thesis' are usually awkward. But anways, I shall do my best.

background information of my idea: i was originally going to write my paper on jeanette Winterson's tale and focus my theme around the relationship between homosexuality and religion but thinking in a multigenre context, I kept on coming up with ideas for The Bluest Eyes. Quite the ADD huh? ANYWAYS this is my new and for real idea. Throughout The Bluest Eyes, Toni Morrison presents the reader with all the different struggles with self - image. Now for my paper, I'm going to focus on Pecola. For my paper, i may create a modern version of Pecola (With all the beauty enhancment products of today...you'll see what i mean on wednesday when we have to post some articles that we may use in our paper). But now for the thesis (just to let you know, the thesis is the last thing i write..i just go off the main ideas of my body paragraphs...wierd i know). But based on the end of this story, the thesis that I am bringing to you is as follow: from the ideas of Toni Morrison, self image is a struggle within itself. To live a life searching for the better you is a waste a time - for what you see in the mirror is what you get. If one cannot shut the door on the ignorance of the world and cannot see the he or she is beautiful, then blindess is the only cure.

Please PLEASE feel free to make edits.

Spiegalmen is yet another comics author to prove to the ignorant...

Art spiegelman is another accomplished comic author that has begun to open the eyes of ignorant readers when it comes to reading comics. In fact, while listening to the introductory interview Spiegelman mentions that the instance that inpsired the most to write his comic was when he was in his fourth grade class - he saw a girl reading a romantic comic and she started crying. Even Spiegelman thought that it was quite a riot that a comic, a "funny" could make one cry.

But in the earlier stages of this interview, Spiegelman states that a lot of readers would rather prefer to look rather than to read. In my opinion, when it comes to the Holocaust, i couldn't agree more. Throughout my English and history classes i have read stories upon stories of this horrific era; and while the words were heart crushing, it wasnt enough. It wasn't until i saw Schindler's List for the first time during my world history class of my senior year of high school, did i realize how horrific it truly was. It's the whole concept of "seeing is believing".

I also enjoyed learning about how Art made this comic book: through a musical group of three German Jews and three Arians and the voice of Vladek's story. How both the music and Vladek's voice were blended together provided a kinda made my skin stand up...it was just so erie to hear Vladek speak in such a withdrawn voice. But, this withdrawn voice is what made this book such a success. Vladek said just how it was...nothing less.

Maus Pt. I

For one thing, i think it's refreshing to read a story that has very little emphasis on the typical stereotypes of Jew.

Some panels in particular that interest come randomly throughout pages 138 and 139. The whole use of the pig masks is an intriguing concept. Obviously on the cover, there is the cat (Germans) and a mouse (Jews). Obviously, the Holocaust was very much like a extreme EXTREME version of cat and mouse - the Jews always trying to escape the wrath of the Nazis by hiding in secret, usually man made hideouts. But anyways, back to the pig masks.

What do these pig masks represent? Do they represent the Jews faking as Heiler Hitlers? But when Anja and Vladek are looking for a place to stay on page 139, a pig - faced lady threatens to call the police. In any case, I believe that the pigs could symbolize the Catholic religion maybe. In essense, if we look back at history, Roman Catholicism has dominated most of the cultures and has been the least threatened religion. To further extend this idea, since the roman catholic religion has always been dominant, the "pigs" could symbolize that ignorant riches of the people of this religion.

Possibly another idea or question i should ask about the pig masks is: could it be that the pigs are Jewish Germans? Yeah, these are just some questions I have. Whoopdy doo!

And after talking with my peers, the pig masks represent the regular polish people and how anja, vladek or any other Jew is trying to be like the regular Jew or trying to act German and the like.