Sunday, November 30, 2014

Hamlet essay

"To be or not to be, that is the question." Spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare comes into the play right before the midpoint. Hamlet at this point just found out about his fathers death and Hamlet expresses his mixed emotions in his first soliloquy. Hamlet is very unsure about what he wants or needs to do to avenge his father. He is unsteady about his life and the people in it. At this point in the plot Hamlet has to make a decision which sets the tone and evolution of the play. This start to the soliloquy is so important because it distinguishes Hamlet's state of mind and that he is truely human. The character understands what he must do by the end of his statements to avenge his father. As the quote shows his firt debate with what is important to not only his father but his people. The quote shows the audience that Hamlet is relatable in this instance and throughout the soliloquy. 
 The symbol of what the quote nearly means is human and internal struggle which not only makes him relatable but also intelligent to think out what he plans to do. The audience as of what I have gained from the play find this quote to be most important and memorable because it stands for the greter being of a man. In which he finds truth and realization on what others are doing and what must be done in order to re-establish a kingdom of honesty and nobility. 
 The quote is indirect on it's intent with figurative language and emotion. The language of the soliloquy creates an intelligence to Hamlets character and to the plot. As in the Preformitive Utterance depicts the piece establishes the ground for Hamlet to grow and change into the round character he becomes. At the end of the play the quote is again implied with his actions and emotions in these otherwise horrid scenes, but these were explained earlier as a foreshadowing moment of what was to come of Hamlets entire family. 
 It is important to understand the meaning of Hamlet when he is quoted, "To be or not to be..." Because it showes the audience and establishes the characteristics of Hamlet in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. As many find with Shakespears works, plans don't unfold for the antagonist as they are planned to and the ends of his stories are absorbed with death. From this experience we see that Hamlet with his questioning of himself was already planned for the dark side. In a sense I mean that Hamlet was bound to unleash his wrath on his family for killing his father and sinning in every direction. In the quote we see this very flowery language that creates an atmosphere of emotion and understanding throughout the rest of the play. 

Monday, November 24, 2014

Immigrants in Our Own Land BY JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA

The poem I mmigrants in Our Own Land by Jimmy Santiago Baca relates to Righetti because we all come from different places and different families. We don't know what goes on behind someone else's door. Do you know what goes on behind mine? However we are tried to keep seperate between ap classes and regular classes, seperating the "good" from the "bad" or whatever they call it but we all have some bad and some good in us. Did we see what happened to Saint Joseph a couple years ago? They claim they are elite beings but they had accusations of unreported rape! There is cold hard proof of "bad" in the middle of good. Or take for example Pioneer Valley and there girls basketball coach. Yes he was "let go" but the good is the girls basketball team went to CIF and were league champions, the good out of the bad. Does society only look at the bad in anything and call them bad? Why not look past the differences and the small group of people in our small community of Righetti and look at all the good Righetti produces? We have students going to college getting into world class programs. There is good in everything, let's look for it. 

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Hamlet Essay

My essay wasn't posting and then deleted so this is what I have done so  far.
In progress... Again.

Hamlet is honestly a man of pure intelligence and strength. I say this because hamlet is not a mad man but rather a human. In this case and in history we see only strokes of genius coming from the people who are underestimated or misunderstood. Take for example Walt Disney, he was seen as crazy to dream of a place like Disneyland, however he created not only a magical atmosphere but the Happiest Place on Earth. Although these characters are rather quite different we see that Hamlet was acting in the way he wanted others to perceive him and keep him under the radar before his attack. With the high IQ and double meaning words, Hamlet is obviously not a crazy person. 

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Class notes of the utterance

- discussed the topic of how Polonius and hamlet are two different sides of people and Claudius is in the middle.
- was Claudius actually guilty in praying and wouldn't have been saved? 
- could hamlet have killed Claudius then and Claudius not go to heaven, or was this an act of nobility and not killing Claudius when he was down on his knees.
- hamlet didn't want to seem cowardly for doing that to Claudius when Claudius did that to his father by pouring poison in his ear while he was asleep.
-talked about Shakespeare and what kind of person he was, goes into the forms in which he wanted to show to his audiences. 
- what kind of characteristics hamlet has in the story, why Shakespeare tries to change the audiences perspective.
-Shakespeare's characters would not be as complex if he did not use this method.
-talk about the play in parts, an important utterance is how he play is being unfolded.
- he just wants to be happy Claudius and is only praying because of this 
- moral is that acts come back and they keep getting worse and worse.
-you are as good as a chous 
- they foil Polonius and hamlet are people of words they are close foils. 
- see herself for what she really is 
-No guilt from killing Polonius 
-death bring out the true colors of people 

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The Performative Utterance in Hamlet

- Hamlet is considered a man who can not make up his mind
- in reality he is a man of dedication to enact his crime, even though he doesn't so it until the very end of the play.
-Austin says that acts are being spoken but not necessarily preformed.
-talks about language and how tones effect the play, or "surrounding reality".
-what hamlets performative acting tells us about the character
-hamlet is a complex character that many people do not understand or relate to. 
-the invention of the human by bloom,says that Shakespeare does a method of self-overhearing in which the characters learn a self knowledge for hearing themselves speak.
-talks about Shakespeare and what kind of person he was, goes into the forms in which he wanted to show to his audiences.
-Shakespeare's characters would not be as complex if he did not use this method.
-talk about the play in parts, an important utterance is the communication between the ghost and hamlet.
-states that hamlet never actually swears to avenge his father. 
- he said evenge which doesn't have the same meaning 
-knowing the author and what the author meant makes the utterances easier to understand and know because they are broken down into each section the 

Act III

Act III 
Scene 1
-Direct characterization, hamlet has a crazy madness Rozencranze 
- much forcing the disposition, hamlet is forcing his actions 
-devotions visage-can act it pretend to be good so people believe it
- Claudius is starting to feel guilty
- Ophelia is being reported to talk to hamlet 
- Rozencranze and Guildensturn are on claudius's side. 
- where is ophillia coming from? 
- easier to be beautiful than to have honesty.
-hamlet is upset at everyone, i am imperfect put I'm better than these people, damns Polonius, calls Ophelia two faced put on make-up. Saying women corrupt men. 
- madness can imply being angry or crazy. 
-Polonius and Claudius over heard the Ophelia and hamlet conversation.
- Claudius wants to remove the threat and take him to England 
- Polonius never going to disagree with Claudius, let Gertrude be alone with hamlet, he will be with them, but not in the sight of hamlet but will listen. If a threat then send him away or In jail. Polonius wants to be right. 
-Claudius treats Polonius as a respected person.

Scene 2
- wants them to act naturally, hamlet is the director
- second part don't underplay, have integrity make it seem real, 
- how he wants the play to come off, isn't a mad man because this is logically designed, 
- Shakespeare is talking about the play as a total. 
- hamlet says don't improvise. 
- he is telling Horatio what he is going to do, and to watch claudius's reaction. 
- players act out the play, hamlets talking to ophilia is acting strange.
- when the players act out the part of the poison in the ear, king Claudius flees the room, showing his guilt. 

Scene 3 
-Claudius thinks hamlet is behind it all and now thinks he is dangerous. 
-Claudius expresses his guilt. 
-starts to pray, hamlet sneaks in and wants to kill him but refuses to let him go to heaven.
-Polonius goes to listen in on hamlet and the queens conversation. 

Scene 4
-Polonius and Gertrude talk about hamlets behavior and Polonius says that she has to be sturdy. 
-hamlet is very angry tells her what he is planning on making her suffer. 
- Polonius yells from where he is hiding and hamlet stabs the curtain thinking it was Claudius.
-sees that it is Polonius calls him a fool, continues to tell at his mother. 
-the ghost suddenly appears.
-hamlet tries to tell his mother to see his father and change herself.
- she promises to keep the secret and he leaves 

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Friday in class

We weren't able to connect onto the computer for our presentations due to some difficulty. Due to the difficulty we couldn't take notes on each other's hamlet interpretations after the journal. 

Hamlet Interpretation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0ATO1N5KmUU#t=0

We did a video in silence with added features of music because emotions can tell you more about an event than actual words can. The music is addedd to enhance understanding about what is happening in the event such as sadness or anger.

Hamlet Soliloquy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1WuGR3EAeAw