Sunday, February 22, 2015
Response to Course Materials Feb 22
The last time we did one of these was forever ago, but because of 7th grade camp and all our long weekends, I don't have too much to report on. We started out by doing final exam projects. My group picked characters from Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, and The American Dream that related to each other and could work as foils. We mainly focused on which characters died and what aspects of their personalities and lives led to this. When we first finished the video I don't think any of us really thought we had learned too much from it, but when discussing what we were going to say in the class discussion, I realized what common themes all the works we've read have had. After this, we moved on to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Although I like this plays connection to Hamlet, and the conversation it opens up about it, I did not enjoy the play that much. I definitely think part of that is because I missed all of the movie and some of the discussion days so I don't feel as comfortable with it as the other works. I'm hoping that coming up with a theme will help me with this. We have been annotating articles on Ros&Guil, several of which have been about whether it is part of Theater of the Absurd. I do not think so because it is not cyclical and it does not seem to convey the message that life is meaningless.
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Good job going over what we did over the past couple weeks, which wasn't much! Haha. The one thing I think you can do better is elaborate more. When you're talking about your finals project, what aspects of their personalities where you specifically looking at? What did you learn from the class discussion that you didn't know before? What common themes did you see from all the different works?
ReplyDeleteHey Alice! I really liked your final exam. I thought it was fun and did incorporate some of the motifs from the respective plays very well. As for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, I can totally relate. Personally, it seems that not only are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern very ambiguous characters in general (even in Hamlet), but Stoppard's language throughout the play makes it even more confusing. Good post!
ReplyDeleteA good summary of the past few weeks. That sounds like a cool exam project! Wish we could have seen other class's. I would recommend going back and watching the movie, if you have time. It clarified a lot of the book, and it was also very good movie. It was hilarious.
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