Well considering I have been absent three out of the five days in this week, I will write about my experience with my Shakespearean drama project instead of reflecting on the past week as a whole.
Studying Shakespearean drama was as complex as it was enlightening in its own respect. I think the most confusing part for me was understanding the old English and how it went together in context with each other. But that was also what was so enlightening about it. I liked being able to watch a movie with old English and learn what meant what and how people used to speak, rather than in acronyms the way people communicate now. Everything seemed very formal and well thought out compared to the way everyone says things now without thinking.
I wouldn’t say the project as a whole was my favourite, simply because it took so long for me to completely understand the language alone. However, I did not hate it. Like I said previously, it was as complex as it was enlightening. I enjoyed the learning aspect of it while it frustrated me at the same time.
It was interesting analyzing characters that were as different as Edmund and Cordelia. I could understand where Cordelia was coming from about not wanting to suck up to her father about her love for him. I could also understand how Edmund would want to create a different name for himself besides just the “bastard son” that his father was so disappointed in. What I didn’t understand about Cordelia was why she did not at least explain to her father that she did love him, she just did not feel it necessary to extend it out so long and exaggerated. What I did not understand about Edmund was his constant indifference to others’ feelings and emotions as he played even his own brother to get to the top.
Studying Shakespearean drama was as complex as it was enlightening in its own respect. I think the most confusing part for me was understanding the old English and how it went together in context with each other. But that was also what was so enlightening about it. I liked being able to watch a movie with old English and learn what meant what and how people used to speak, rather than in acronyms the way people communicate now. Everything seemed very formal and well thought out compared to the way everyone says things now without thinking.
I wouldn’t say the project as a whole was my favourite, simply because it took so long for me to completely understand the language alone. However, I did not hate it. Like I said previously, it was as complex as it was enlightening. I enjoyed the learning aspect of it while it frustrated me at the same time.
It was interesting analyzing characters that were as different as Edmund and Cordelia. I could understand where Cordelia was coming from about not wanting to suck up to her father about her love for him. I could also understand how Edmund would want to create a different name for himself besides just the “bastard son” that his father was so disappointed in. What I didn’t understand about Cordelia was why she did not at least explain to her father that she did love him, she just did not feel it necessary to extend it out so long and exaggerated. What I did not understand about Edmund was his constant indifference to others’ feelings and emotions as he played even his own brother to get to the top.