Secound Paragraph Blog 23

Both the ghost and Claudius seem to initially share the same pattern of speech; however, at closer inspection, the ghost speaks time were of the essence while Claudius speaks as if he has all the time in the world. There are many cases in which the ghost contrasts directly with the Claudius in both the message’s each try to convey and the speech patterns of each character. Claudius’s first lines in the play are to announce his brothers death and his new marriage: “Have we as ‘twere with the defeated joy, with an auspicious and a dropping eye, with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, in equal scale weighing delight and dole taken to wife” (1.2. 10-15). Only two weeks after Hamlet Sr.’s death, Claudius has married Hamlet Sr.’s widow and has become king by taking the power away from Hamlet.  Claudius seems to blend two speeches into one, the happy speech about his marriage and the sad speech about his brother’s death into one speech that mixes the sadness of the death with the happiness of the wedding. Furthermore, the intension of Claudius’s speech is to announce his marriage; however, it takes Claudius close to ten lines before he finally claims his point and when he finally announces his marriage, his words come out completely perverted due to his juggling of the two speech’s in his head. Unlike Claudius, the ghost speaks with many words but gets his point across much quicker than Claudius: “Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
with witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts, -- o wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!” (1.5.40-44). Unlike Claudius the ghost instantly makes his point through the use of strong imagery and language to attack his brother for murdering him and then marrying his widow. Furthermore, it is made obvious that Claudius has done something very wrong because the ghost uses such strong language in order to describe Claudius’s actions it is not a far leap to make to assume that the ghost will ask Hamlet to avenge his most unnatural murder.

Pg. 742 Figurative Language Blog 22

Pg. 742, line 41 to the end of the page.

Shakespeare’s use of figurative language helps to set the tone for the perspective scene. The language helps the reader get an image in their head and helps to relieve some tension from a heavy seen. When the ghost says, “O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there! From me, whose love was of that dignity that it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage, and to decline upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor to those of mine” while the ghost is very long winded, his metaphor for his love for his wife gives a very intimate account of how his love was out of duty when it should have been for love. Further more, the ghost’s figurative speech help to make a simple point that he loved her for duty and she should not have married while his body was still warm into a more descriptive and entertaining speech and also matches Shakespeare in making his plays iambic pentameter.

Setting Blog 21

The setting of a story changes between a play and a novel. In novels like Pride and Prejudice, the setting helps to set the tone of the novel which include things like the tonal patterns of the characters and their financial circumstances and things that the audience cannot experience because they are not in the room with the characters. On the other hand, plays set the same guidelines with setting but they also outline how a room or location has to look. In Hamlet, the setting of each room is left up to the director because Shakespeare does not right in specific details about the room but still portray the room’s interior setting more thoroughly hen a novel might describe them. In Hamlet, the setting is also important to explain the overall mood of Denmark because it explains that the story takes place after the king’s death and with a new, illegitimate king upon the throne.

Hamlet Opening Paragraph Blog 20

Just like people, the characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet have very different speech patterns. Hamlets real father, the ghost, and hamlets adoptive father, Claudius, are complete foils of one another. Where the ghost specks directly and makes his point obvious, Claudius hides his messages in long winded sentences that sound pleasant to anyone who doesn’t get the true meaning behind them. Besides creating more depth for his characters, Shakespeare’s decision to give each character there own speech patterns allow any actor who tries to perform the role and easier way of “getting in the mind of the character” because each character is very different from one another. While Hamlet involves many different characters all with different patterns of speech, Hamlets two fathers show the contrast between the different reins in the kingdom, one that had happiness and truth to a dark and kin slaying society that Claudius has created.

Make Love not Wordcraft: Hamlets Two Fathers Blog 19

If I had to compare and contrast two characters speech patterns in hamlet, I would chose to write about the ghost (hamlets father) and Claudius Hamlets step father/ uncle. They each have there own specific ways of speaking, while Claudius shares a speech pattern with Hamlet, Claudius and the ghost are opposites. The ghost speaks in long sentences but is extremely forthcoming with his information “the serpent that did sting they fathers life now wears his crown” (742). The ghost out right tells hamlet who killed him and then tells hamlet how he should only seek revenge on his uncle and not his incestuous mother. One the other hand, Claudius is extremely lucrative in his speech, trying to almost never give away any information. Even when he commands hamlet that he cannot go back to Germany to attend school, he does not out right say “no” but instead he beats around the bush and when he does say that hamlet cannot go, he makes it sound like advice that hamlet should not go when really it is a royal decree.

Character Blog 18

Character is a term used to describe the players active in any form of art.  A character can range from an animal to a person and everything in between. In beauty and the beast, the candle is even a character.

In Hamlet, characters are introduced when they are given lines; for example, Benardo, the first main character introduced, simply is called his name and then he says his lines. Character development in hamlet follows the same pattern where there is no description of a character and the only information you gather about them you have to gather from what people say about that character or how that character speaks to others. In Pride and Prejudice however, characters are introduced with many physical or emotional qualities because there is a narrator to explain their character outright. The narrator, who is also a character, allows the reader to get into the minds of the other characters in the novel where as in many of Shakespeare plays, there are no narrators in the same sense and so everything the audience knows about characters in Shakespeare plays come from how others speak about them and how they speaks about others.

Claudius Vs. Hamlet Round One Blog 17

In Claudius’s speech to Hamlet, Claudius insults hamlet by implying he that Hamlet should not wear mourning cloths because the required time for mourning is finished; however, Hamlet responds by informing Claudius that in reality he is still mourning even though the required time is past. Claudius further insults hamlet by stating that Hamlet will inherit the kingdom after Claudius death even though by right the kingdom should already be hamlets. The last jab Claudius gives hamlet is that Claudius denies hamlets request to go back to school and claims he must stay in Denmark. Hamlet responds to his uncle by telling his uncle that his mourning is real and that he is still saddened and he can see that his uncle is simply trying to trick him.  

"Out Out" Vs. “To An Athlete dying young” Outline for Comparison Essay; Blog 16

If I had to compare Robert Frosts' “Out Out” with A. E. Houseman’s “To An Athlete dying young” I would use the point-by-point method of comparison. I would first discuss how each poet views the children in the poem. In “Out Out” the speaker is indifferent about the death and everyone’s lives continue on as if nothing happened. In “To An Athlete dying young” I would discuss how the child obviously has died before his time and how the speaker is saddened by it but is still removed maybe as a member of the town but not a parent to the child. The second paragraph would be about the tone of each poem which links the second paragraph to the first because I would go into more detail about how the tones reflect how the authors feel about each of the children’s death but work more with the poetic devices and actual tone and tonal shifts in each of the poems.  

Game Of Thrones & Great Gatsby plot blog 15 (SPOILER)

Game of Thrones is a perfect example of a story that follows the guidelines for plot with a twist. In Game of Thrones, the character exposition is somewhat different then in other books because each chapter of Game of Thrones is from the point of view of a separate character with nine alternating point of view characters. The story begins with a character Eddard Stark being offered the position of hand of the king. Once Eddard arrives in the capital city, the rising action starts as a series of events begin to unfold until the king dies, and Eddard is blamed. After an unexpected turn of events, the climax takes place when Eddard Stark is executed. After that, the falling action begins which sets up the story for the next book in the series in which Eddards son seeks revenge against the people who killed his father. There is no resolution since there is a sequel to the series so most of the questions are unanswered.

In the Great Gatsby, the exposition does not take place in the begging of the book but takes place little by little through out the novel. The rising action in The Great Gatsby is when Nick meets Gatsby for the first time and Gatsby convinces Nick to introduce him to daisy. After that the story goes back and forth in time explaining each of the characters relationships until the climax when daisy hits a woman with her car. After the hit and run, Gatsby takes the blame for killing the women and the husband of the victim hunts down Gatsby and assassinates him, and then kills him self. After the climax the falling action in the great Gatsby is the funeral and events leading up to the funeral until the resolution in which Gatsby’s father explains Gatsby’s’ life leading up to the height of his power.

Woodchucks Vs. Traveling through the Dark: blog 14

Both poems start with the same indifferent tone. The speaker of “Woodchucks” complains that his first attempt to kill the woodchucks did not work so he has to try again. The speaker of “Traveling though the Dark” discusses how when there is a dead dear on the road, the first person to come upon it must clear the path. However, The tonal shift in each poem is very different. In “Woodchucks” the speakers tone becomes more dreadful as he begins to enjoy killing off the woodchucks one by one until finally he claims, “If only they’d all consented to die unseen gassed underground the quit Nazi way”. As the last line of the poem, the speaker makes the reader want to go back and read it again because now the reader has a totally different view of how sick the speaker is. In “Travelling through the Dark” the tonal shift comes from his connecting to nature as soon as he touches the deer to find that its pregnant. However, once again, the poem ends on a more somber note as he pushes the dear into the river. While it is not as drastic as “Woodchucks” ending, it is a very sad realization the speaker cannot help the deer and must help any person who ends up driving the same road.

D.W. Harding blog 13

One thing I agree with D.W. Harding about is his claim that Austen exaggerates her characters and uses satire in an attempt to hide her true feelings about them. I agree that, in reality, Austen hates most of the characters she is writing; however, since she still wants to be accepted in society, she covers it up to the general public by making her hatred only implied and not stated. As an outsider we can look at her play and see the satire and the humor of the characters Austen writes about and how much content Austen has for them; however, I would argue that most people during Austen’s time would not be able to see the underlying message and simply take Pride And Prejudice at face value and call it a comedy. I disagree with D.W. Harding when he uses the intentional fallacy. While it may have been common to use the intentional fallacy during his time, it is not acceptable now, to assume what the author is thinking or why the author did something. As soon as he used the intentional fallacy all of his arguments went into the gutter.