Wow! Olivia must be some hot chick. Her mere presence takes diseases out of the air. I have two brothers and I love them dearly. But to mourn over them for seven years if one of them should die, I'm not sure I can do that. It's not normal and a little extreme. Hope I don't sound too mean.
Poor Viola. She's all alone. Hope her disguise works so she can get a job with the duke. And hopefully her brother is still alive.
Sir Toby should be ashamed of himself. An uncle is suppose to want the best for his niece. But he finds a drunk to court Olivia. No wonder Olivia doesn't like Sir Andrew. I would either. Let him go home like he wants to and stay there until he gets his drinking under control.
"The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul, being in heaven." Even Feste the fool thinks Olivia is kind of weird for mourning over her brother so long. If her brother is in heaven Olivia should be happy and rejoice.
Viola as Cesario finally gets Olivia to take her veil down. I think her cunningness and knowing what a woman likes to hear gets Olivia to put her guard down.
"Mine eye too great a flatter for my mind." Olivia likes Cesario! Olivia likes Cesario! Finally meets a man she ca give her heart to and Cesario is a woman.
"I do adore thee so that danger shall seem a sport, and I will go." Okay, let me get this straight. Now Antonio is in love with Sabastian. He's even willing to risk his life for someone he just met.
Ha ha ! this is too funny!! Viola realizes Olivia is in love with her. She better find a way to get out of this sticky situation or she'll be a woman married to a woman but wanting a man.
Malvolio is so full of himself and so gullible. The three stooges, Maria, Sir Toby and Sir Andrew, has him walking around acting like a fool. And the yellow stockings and cross garters has got to go.
They say love is love is blind and I guess deaf too. Olivia is not trying to hear anything Viola as Cesario is saying about not being a man.
Maria, Sir Toby and Fabian are so wrong. They know good and well Malvolio isn't crazy. Locking him up in a dark room will cause him to go crazy.
Sir Toby is such an instigator. But to his surprise he has to knuckle up and fight.
Poor Malvolio!! They are really pulling one on him. Feste has joined in on the prank and of all things playing a priest. God have mercy on Malvolio.
Olivia and Sabastian got married!!! He doesn't even know he! Olivia finally got her man, well kind of.
Finally the cats are out of the bag. Everyone knows Viola is a woman. Sabastian and Viola have found each other. Yeah!! And the biggest surprise of all... Maria and sir Toby gets MARRIED! Never saw that coming.
Malvolio suffers more than anyone. I too would want to seek revenge.
Twelfth Night was a fun story to read. I liked all the twists and turns. It made me want more. I too along with Regina wonder why Shakespeare would write a story like this. Makes you wonder what role homosexuality played in this time period.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Utopia- Book 2
So far Utopia seems like an okay place to live. I like the idea of everyone sharing in the harvesting, and that a city doesn't try to intrude on another city's property. One idea Hythloday tried to get kings to accept. However when I read that the house doors couldn't be locked and that twenty-nine other people would be in that house I started to have second thoughts.
A six hour work schedule doesn't seem so bad but I bet they work they butts off in those hours. I am also happy to see that everyone has a job but are these jobs appointed or can they choose. I also like the fact that they do daily maintenance of their city.
Children aren't born into slavery. But what happens to them? Does Utopia have an orphanage or does each household take a child.
One thing I wonder about is why are all the people dressed alike. I'm sure that there are people who want to show their individual styles and tastes. However when everyone dresses alike there is less chance of jealousy and competition to be like someone else. "KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES"
I am surprised to read that euthanasia was promoted in Utopia. In the United States that's very controversial.
I'm not sure about Utopia's peek policy berfore you get married. Some say it's not the size it's how you use it. Maybe if we had chaporoned dates there would be less divorce.
Wow! Fighters with a conscience. In today's war everything gets destroyed. Especially if the US has anything to do with it.
I'm also surprised to read that there are many religions. Everything seems so orderly and unified, I expected one religion.
A six hour work schedule doesn't seem so bad but I bet they work they butts off in those hours. I am also happy to see that everyone has a job but are these jobs appointed or can they choose. I also like the fact that they do daily maintenance of their city.
Children aren't born into slavery. But what happens to them? Does Utopia have an orphanage or does each household take a child.
One thing I wonder about is why are all the people dressed alike. I'm sure that there are people who want to show their individual styles and tastes. However when everyone dresses alike there is less chance of jealousy and competition to be like someone else. "KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES"
I am surprised to read that euthanasia was promoted in Utopia. In the United States that's very controversial.
I'm not sure about Utopia's peek policy berfore you get married. Some say it's not the size it's how you use it. Maybe if we had chaporoned dates there would be less divorce.
Wow! Fighters with a conscience. In today's war everything gets destroyed. Especially if the US has anything to do with it.
I'm also surprised to read that there are many religions. Everything seems so orderly and unified, I expected one religion.
Utopia - Book 1
"the advise of an outsider no matter how wise, would meet with disdain"
I agree with Hythloday's comment. If I had a problem and was seeking advise, I would listen to a family member or a best friend before I took the someone else's advice. I would listen and think about what the stranger said but like the princes follow my family or friends advice. And why work for someone when you can work for yourself and do as you please? Hythloday is right in not wanting to work for the king. If the king really needed Hythloday, the king could go to him and pay whatever Hythloday charges. But again, there's the question of taking the advice and doing something with it. Plus with Hythloday being so accustomed to traveling as he pleases, it would be hard for him to be stationary.
I've heard of cutting off a hand if you are caught stealing but put to death. That's a little extreme!! What happens when the victim catches the thief and kills the thief himself? The victim is now a murderer. Does he get put to death also? England was just a killing field. Hythloday gives the Cardinal ideas of ways to deal with the stealing but will the Cardinal persuade the king to implement these changes. Probably not!
"On the day that their king first assumes office, he must take an oath ... that he will never have in his treasury at any one time more that a thousand pounds..." That would never work in the United States. Today a thusand pounds equal $1860.70 US dollars. This is probably not enough to pay the bills at the White House let alone the people in Congress. Keeping a set amount wouldn't work here we have too many people eating support for their own policies and practices.
I don't think More realizes it but he is proving Hyloday's point that he should not be a counsel of a king. More, himself disagrees with Hythloday.
I agree with Hythloday's comment. If I had a problem and was seeking advise, I would listen to a family member or a best friend before I took the someone else's advice. I would listen and think about what the stranger said but like the princes follow my family or friends advice. And why work for someone when you can work for yourself and do as you please? Hythloday is right in not wanting to work for the king. If the king really needed Hythloday, the king could go to him and pay whatever Hythloday charges. But again, there's the question of taking the advice and doing something with it. Plus with Hythloday being so accustomed to traveling as he pleases, it would be hard for him to be stationary.
I've heard of cutting off a hand if you are caught stealing but put to death. That's a little extreme!! What happens when the victim catches the thief and kills the thief himself? The victim is now a murderer. Does he get put to death also? England was just a killing field. Hythloday gives the Cardinal ideas of ways to deal with the stealing but will the Cardinal persuade the king to implement these changes. Probably not!
"On the day that their king first assumes office, he must take an oath ... that he will never have in his treasury at any one time more that a thousand pounds..." That would never work in the United States. Today a thusand pounds equal $1860.70 US dollars. This is probably not enough to pay the bills at the White House let alone the people in Congress. Keeping a set amount wouldn't work here we have too many people eating support for their own policies and practices.
I don't think More realizes it but he is proving Hyloday's point that he should not be a counsel of a king. More, himself disagrees with Hythloday.
Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale
Hey everyone! Sorry for blogging so late but as we all know life is crazy.
The Wife of Bath is certainly a lively one! The prologue starts with her stating she was twelve years old when she got married for the first time and then proceeded to have four more husbands. She clearly uses God's command of "Be fruitful and multiply" as a way to justify her many marriages. I thought that meant to replenish the earth with people and animals. Of course marriage is a way to replenis the earth but Wife of Bath never mentions having children. I agree with the Wife of Bath when she says there no given number for the amount of times a person can get married. During a wedding ceremony the vow is "until death do we part" and the Wife of Bath's husbands all died before she married the next. As a result no moral law has been broken. Her actions were just at a time when women were looked upon as being meek and submissive. In the prologue, theWife of Bath talks about sex in great detail. She is a woman determined to be sexually satisfied in her marriages. I like how she says that ' the least her husbands can do since she's giving up her material possessions. Too bad she has to go through all those husbands to find her true love, Jankin. And unfortunately, they had such an abusive relationshi. I believe Wife of Bath met her match with Jankin. Wife of Bath is truely out of her element. She is an assertive strong willed woman when she should be obidient and loyal to the male sex.
THE TALE
Knights are seen as rightous trustworthy men. Tis knight is neither these things. Noble men do not go around raping women. I think King Arthur is just in wanting to have the Knight killed. What I can't understand is why the queen wants to spare the knight from death. The queen has truely lost her mind. She gave the knight a year and a day to save himself from death. What's going to happen if he doesn't come back?! And what a task - find out what women want. I'm amazed the knight is actually tryingto find the answer to the queen's question.
The knight agreed to the old woman's deal without hearing what she wants in return. Not a good idea!!!! But he got the right answer. Yeah!! Unfortunately he has to wed the old ugly woman. Should have gotten all the info. to the woman's deal before agreeing to give her what she wants. The knight is so sad he's married to the old woaman. But when asked if he wants a beautiful and untrusting or old and trusting, he tells his wife "what ever she desires". I don't think he really cares at this point. He's wallowing in self pity.
The wife is beautiful and young!!! Did she turn beautiful physically of did the knight just overlook her ugliness. It is not clear what actually took place. Anyway the knight got what he wanted.
The Wife of Bath Tale was a good story. I think it was a comdy as well as suspenseful. You didn't know what would happen next.
The Wife of Bath is certainly a lively one! The prologue starts with her stating she was twelve years old when she got married for the first time and then proceeded to have four more husbands. She clearly uses God's command of "Be fruitful and multiply" as a way to justify her many marriages. I thought that meant to replenish the earth with people and animals. Of course marriage is a way to replenis the earth but Wife of Bath never mentions having children. I agree with the Wife of Bath when she says there no given number for the amount of times a person can get married. During a wedding ceremony the vow is "until death do we part" and the Wife of Bath's husbands all died before she married the next. As a result no moral law has been broken. Her actions were just at a time when women were looked upon as being meek and submissive. In the prologue, theWife of Bath talks about sex in great detail. She is a woman determined to be sexually satisfied in her marriages. I like how she says that ' the least her husbands can do since she's giving up her material possessions. Too bad she has to go through all those husbands to find her true love, Jankin. And unfortunately, they had such an abusive relationshi. I believe Wife of Bath met her match with Jankin. Wife of Bath is truely out of her element. She is an assertive strong willed woman when she should be obidient and loyal to the male sex.
THE TALE
Knights are seen as rightous trustworthy men. Tis knight is neither these things. Noble men do not go around raping women. I think King Arthur is just in wanting to have the Knight killed. What I can't understand is why the queen wants to spare the knight from death. The queen has truely lost her mind. She gave the knight a year and a day to save himself from death. What's going to happen if he doesn't come back?! And what a task - find out what women want. I'm amazed the knight is actually tryingto find the answer to the queen's question.
The knight agreed to the old woman's deal without hearing what she wants in return. Not a good idea!!!! But he got the right answer. Yeah!! Unfortunately he has to wed the old ugly woman. Should have gotten all the info. to the woman's deal before agreeing to give her what she wants. The knight is so sad he's married to the old woaman. But when asked if he wants a beautiful and untrusting or old and trusting, he tells his wife "what ever she desires". I don't think he really cares at this point. He's wallowing in self pity.
The wife is beautiful and young!!! Did she turn beautiful physically of did the knight just overlook her ugliness. It is not clear what actually took place. Anyway the knight got what he wanted.
The Wife of Bath Tale was a good story. I think it was a comdy as well as suspenseful. You didn't know what would happen next.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Study Guide
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html..... i posted this website on there because i found some information about the readings and the time periods. i thought that you guys might want to check it out. i still going to do my job with the poems. i just thought that it might help....thanks!!!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Part 3 & 4
I think it’s really funny that the host wife goes after Sir Gawain and tries to get him to sleep with her. I’m glad the Sir Gawain stuck to his nobility and didn’t do anything with her; I guess that’s why he was a noble knight on King Arthur’s table. For three days the porter went out hunting and every one of those days Gawain got what he caught out in the woods. The first day it was deer, the second it was a bore, and the third day it was a fox. I didn’t even think of what each animal stands for as I was reading this story, but I think it’s very clever that the author put these animals in for their symbolization. While the porter was out hunting, Sir Gawain was receiving kisses from the porter’s wife, and then everyday when the porter came back from hunting, Sir Gawain would get the animal, and the porter would get a kiss!!! That must have been so weird. I mean for both the porter and Sir Gawain, because Sir Gawain had to kiss a man, and then the Porter had to receive the kisses, because that was part of their deal. I think after the first day, I would have been like, okay, what’s going on?? Who kissed you, but the Porter didn’t even ask any questions. He just took them. Then the wife gives Sir Gawain a green girdle that will protect Sir Gawain from harm, but he doesn’t give that to the porter, he keeps it! Why would he keep that?? So at the end of the story he only gets a cut on his neck, because he told the porter about everything except the Green Girdle, so he didn’t get that bad of a punishment. But Sir Gawain punished himself enough, he was ashamed of himself for not telling the Porter about the Green Girdle and felt like a failure. When he gets back to King Arthur he tells them all about what happened, and he tells them about the Green Girdle, and how he failed. So after that King Arthur decides that every knight should where the Green Girdle. But why exactly did he decide this?? I mean Sir Gawain could have done a lot worse, than just not give the porter the green girdle that the wife gave him; he could have slept with her!!! But he didn’t, and everyone seemed to make a big deal about the Green Girdle!
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Part 1 & 2
This whole story is really weird. We begin with King Arthur and his knights sitting around the round table and they are having a party, since it was the holidays. Everything is fine and going good, and then Green Knight shows up, first off, why is he Green?? Wouldn't that spark up some questions, just to start with?? Anyway, he wants to play a game, and asks who's in charge, he says, "Who is the captain of this crowd"? No one answers they were all looking around, I think no one answers at first for a couple of reasons…first, this stranger that no one knows disturbs their party and wants to know where the king was…how did he get in, didn't they have guards or anything outside the castle, or wherever they were?? I mean the King was there with them, so anyone could just walk in?? and I also don't think anyone wanted to out the king, I think they were all waiting to see what he did, and let him speak up for himself!! Cause who knows if you would have gotten in trouble for outing the king if anything happened to him, you probably would have been put to death.
King Arthur finally speaks up and says he's the king and then the green knight tells him he wants to play a game!!! I would not even consider playing a game with this guy, but it said in the story that Arthur likes games and stories, so he's up for it. He tells them they get to chop his head off and then a year and a day later they have to find him and he gets to chop their head off. So the King wouldn't have to do this, being the noble knight that Sir Gawain is, he says he will play this game. I can't believe no one else stepped up and volunteered!!! So he chops off the knight's head and then the knight picks up his head, and rides away!!!!! HELLO, wouldn't he be dead!! How does that just happen, he doesn't even say anything, he just picks up his head and leaves, and that's the last time they hear from him.
The time comes that Sir Gawain has to go find this Green Knight, he searches for the Green Knight. Eventually he comes up to this place in the woods; the guys name is Peter and is the porter of the place. Eventually, the porter tells Gawain that whatever he finds in the woods he will share with Gawain, and Gawain must give him everything he is offered. Sir Gawain of course agreed to this! Just another game for Sir Gawain to play!!
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