Well another month has gone by since we have written our last response to course materials, and we have pretty much been deciphering only one piece of work this entire time: Hamlet. This is such a long play, and for me, it was very difficult for me to even get sort of an idea of what the heck Shakespeare is trying to say. Maybe I should have taken brit lit after all, but even that probably wouldn't have given me all the help I seem to need. I do admit though, going through the first time and having Ms. Holmes there to help explain to us each scene was VERY helpful, and I wish I could have just had her there the whole time while I was annotating! Watching the movies has also helped, sort of. The first one was kind of very boring for me to sit through, and it only dragged on for about two weeks it seemed. I think this was because of the boring scenery and lack of true emotion. As we all saw in the second film we watched though, the emotion was 100% there. No doubt about it. We saw the sorrow in the ghosts eyes, and we saw the craziness in Ophelias cries. If we would have watched that one first all the way through and the older one second, I think that would have been a lot more bearable for me. I can honesetly say I'm kinda glad we're almost done with it though! But we all know what that means...
Finals. They are about to kill my grade. That terms test was the death of me, and that's pretty much what our final is going to be composed of (yay). Luckily for me, I realized I needed to change how I studied for it the second time around, and what I did helped! So if I just do that on steroids, I think I will be maybe okay, maybe. Hopefully.
Finally we have started class off with a new exercise. I enjoy looking at pictures and making our own descriptions of them, even if our class does do it a little too analytically ..I think they are more exciting and capturing, and I hope we keep doing them for a while! They also help more with our writing, because before all we really had to do was write a sentence or two, these require full paragraphs. Ms. Holmes helps us see what we do wrong too and how some words we choose falsely represent the word we have chosen, and that is a great help to all of us.
Hmmm, I found your interpretation of Hamlet to be rather interesting. Personally, I rather liked the first movie we watched better; the second Hamlet bothered me because he was so extreme.
ReplyDeleteFinals... Oh, I was glad they had nothing to do with the terms test. I actually did worse after studying hard, weirdly enough. I hope you did well though!
Mmmm, I'm not sure I really like those exercises. I mean, I guess they help, but my class spends a lot of time debating and I'm not sure it's worth THAT much time.
Anyway, I like how you wrote down what you feel and you covered a lot. Keep up the good work!
I agree with Martina that you covered a lot here and you were very thorough! I get what you mean about the first Hamlet movie being a less than exciting with it's lack of scenery; but I think it provided a really great insight into what the play would have been like in Shakespeare's time.
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