I am worried that the critical theory that we choose will not relate to King Lear at all. There are not any obvious connections that I can see between our research and notes and the play. If we are going to find conduction I think we will have to use the Marxism Theory in a very broad term. Maybe we could assess the differences between the joker and the royal family or the rise and fall and then rise again of Edgar. How he starts off as the eldest legitimate son and then loses it all and then latter regain the title and station he originally possessed and more. Or that fact that the family that cared for the lords land assist him when he is blind and no one else will help him. Marxism in what I understand from the articles we read is about the power struggle of different economical classes. However in King Lear there is mainly one class , the highest class on the food chain so there is not a large range of people to look at. And those of a lower class have very minor parts or are more in with the court then the regular lower classes of the time. After the death of the Fool things started moving quickly and became difficult to understand to I started to fallow along on spark notes to get a better understanding of the piece.
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/lear/
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My group and I are really anciouse or intrested to watch the plays. I think we are hoping that after watching it we will have a better graps on what kinds of conctions we can make and what kinds ofquestions to ask/ answer. We finished the notes rather quikly I think by Wednesday we had answers for everything and thrusday was mostly spent reading the nothes you left and tweeking it abit. I think the reson for this is that we are more acustome to the way we take notes in this class wich is rather different to other classes we have had because its all online and more self gudied. Although the self guided par is alot like APUSH but faster. Also don't know if Im going to like group work I found tha I really like working on my own with the tragedy project.
Also when looking though the different theroy opption the femminist critacal threy mathched really welol with what I'm trying to do for my SSR presentation so Im going to try and ues the questions it has as a helpful gude line. For exapmle one of the questions was "How are women depicted, treated or discussed in this text?". In Daisy Miller I notice how at the very beganing ther is a significan differences in how they intoduse the two main charaters. Winterbore an male is noted for his place of educatin, hise mannerismes and inetlexul qualitys they never mention his appernce or it is very berif and undsribtive. Howevery when we first meat Daisy Miller the first thing that the writhr talkes about is her apperence, susifcaly her clothes, and ger hair and later her face and complection in great detail. Witerborn refuers to her as "The pertty American girl" in his head. And when they describer herfeteds it not something like "intelagent eyse" or something at all the relats to the fact that she is a perssone who has the combasity to have deep intalextual thoughts. Latere winter bore juges hermaned to see if they fallow sociatal norms or rules for that matter. Also the writing is alot like Frankenstien in the sences that they use alot of natuier and that its nore about what people are saying and how they interact wher as the last fw book I've read like The portiat of the artis as a yougn man have been more abot one bersons imteral thoughts and feelings, this new book I there for esar to undersatnd becauwe what ther saying is closer to what hey mean. Starting up the POWs againg, something I like them ,most of the time ,usally if I don't inshaly conect with the poem and can't form Ideas about it its hared for me to witrs about them. Thats likely becuses I can be too crital of thing when I don't undersand which I suppose Is a human falt. Anyway i like bothe of the pomes this week and could see how they conected with there pordxes and ideas on time and death and forgetting lifes, It took longer though whe writing my pice to comect them exspcally when we haven done it in awhel and also I couldn't remeber where to find that actual question / promt for the POWs so I when off memory. http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap12_english_lit_q1.pdf http://www.critical-theory.com/ I think the reading proposals will be interesting. I thinks we will all learn something more about the subjects we picked and the one that other students chose. Its unlike other projects we have done in this class so far because we get to pick the subject we are presenting on. I think when you are more interested in a subject you are more willing to look into it and find reasush and want to share what you have found. Also when everyone is presenting the same subject(s) it gets rather repetitive and you lose interest in the presentations. I'm excited to look into my subject which is the evolution of female roles in literature. I don't have a crystal clear idea of where I'm going to go with it but I think that might be better because then I will be more open to the lecturer I read and can be more honest to the work. Where if I had a clear and concise Idea all the way through then I might struggle with the pieces I chose if they didn't completely match up with what I was trying to say. Also with the type of style we are going to be presenting in I think I will do better than I did in my last presentation because there are not supposed to be any words in the slides and last time Cailin and I had too many long paragraphs when they should have been short bulleted sentences. helpful exampels of the type of persention we'er doing http://www.pechakucha.org/watch http://plaza.ufl.edu/jess16/MultiplePerspectives/ |
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