Monday, October 15, 2007

Othello

Characters:

· Othello- noble moor in the service of venice

· Iago- antagonist of the play

o Desdemona- wife of Othello

o Cassio- Florentine Lieutenan

o Emilia - wife of Iago

o Bianca- a courtesan

Settings:

Venice and Cyprus

IMPORTANT EVENTS

- Othello stolen Desdemona and Mary her

- Brabantio accuses Othello of stealing his daughter by witchcraft

- Iago seen Desdemona and Cassio clasping the hand of Desdemona and he will use “as little a web as this”

- Othello arrives that there will be a celebration

- Iago counsels Roderigo that he should cast Cassio into disgrace by starting a fight, Cassio and the first crucial step to ruin Othello

- Cassio get drunk and Iago sends Roderigo to fight with him

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Characters

Puck- Oberon’s jester

- mischievous fairy who delights in playing prank on mortals

Oberon- the king of the fairies

Titania- the queen of fairies

Lysander- in love with Hermia

- in love with Hermia and sooner in love with

Helena

Hermia - in love with Lysander

- childhood friend of Helena

- Egeus daughter

Helena- in love with Demetrius

Egeus- Hermia’s father

Theseus- duke and engaged to Hyppolyta

Hyppolyta- legendary queen of amason

- engaged to Theseus

Bottom- his head transformed into an ass

Settings:

Ø Athens and Fairyland

Important events

- Hermia refuses to complay with her fathers wish for her to marry Demetrius

- Hermia and Lysander decided to elopely escaping the forest

- Demetrius found out the plan of Lysander and Hermia, because it was told by Helena

- Oberon and Titania quarrel because refuses to give her Indian page-to Oberon for use as his knigh

- Oberon seek to punish Titania obedience and asked puck to help him apply the love potion “love in idleness” which makes thevictim fall in love with the first living thing he sea. When he awaken

- Oberons seen Demetrius act cruelly toward Helena, and he asked puck drop a love potion on the eyelids of the Demetrius and he also drop potion to Lysander. Both of them. Falls in love with Helena

- Helena thought that the two men was mocking her, and the four people

hamlet

Me and my group reported this play, we worked, searched, and we analyzed the story. my group mates and i joined together to come up with better analysis from classic to contemporary age. we have used three sources. we read the classic (book), we watched the movie and we search on the internet. luckily we come up with one idea.

Characters

hamlet- the protagonist of the play, the prince of Denmark
king claudius- a brother to late king hamlet and wife of queen gertrude
Queen gertrude- mother of hamlet
horatio- a university student of denmark best friend of hamlet
polonius- the right hand of king claudius the father of ofelia and horatio
ofelia- love interst of hamlet

Settings
castle of denmark

Important events

when king hamlet died

when hamlet and his colleagues promised not to tell anybody what they saw

king claudius marry queen gertrude

hamlet hired the players to portray what had happened to his father and see if the king is affected or guilty

this provoke king claudius plan to kill hamlet

hamlet accidentally killed polonius

king claudius asked rosencrants and guilderntern to kill hamlet

when polonius died and ofelia was exhausted

her brother got angry

ofelia's brother and hamlet deals to fight

hamlet was hit by a sword with venom

gertrude drank the wine with poison and died

king claudius accidentally drank the wine with poison

hamlet died

fortinbras ruled the kingdom

theme:
revenge and tragedy

implications
socity- taking revenge is common in the society

government- the power of being a leader to the country
-he/ she do bad things just to get the power and wealth

family- incestuous
marrying a relative with the same blood







Thursday, September 6, 2007

what i have learned?,,,,

////william shakespeare's life..\\\\

  • he is known as the greatest poet, english dramatist, and playwright,
  • his father is john shakespeare
  • they lived in stratford
  • during his childhood, he attended grammar school
  • he learned classics, particularly in in latin grammar and literature
  • in 1582, he was married to anne hathaway
  • they had children: susana and the twins: hamnet and judith
  • he worked in london as a playwright
  • he joined a group of travelling players and he was a country school teacher
  • in 1584, he became an actor and playwright for the chamberlains men

,,,,,,,his poetry

  • he was known in his sonnets
  • it was first published in 1609
  • he wrote 126 out of 154 sonnets
  • his sonnets are marked by recurring themes of beauty, youthful beauty, ravaged by time and the ability of love and art trascend time even death

CHARACTERISTICS OF SONNETS

  1. RULES IN WRITING A SONNET
    • consists of 14 lines
    • must be written in iambic pentameter: lines of poetry that can be divided in into five metric feet with alternately stressed and unstressed syllables
    • must be written in one various standard rhyme scheme

"shakespearan Sonnet- the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

First quatrain- an exposition of the main theme and main metaphor

second quatrain- theme and metaphor, complicated

third quatrain- twist or conflict

couplet- summarizes and leaves the reader with a new concluding image...

shakespeare

About the subject.....

when i first heard that we will have this subject,... my gosh!!i don't have any idea about this....what i know in shakespeare's play is Romeo and Juliet...and he's one of the greatest poet and playwright in the world..

,,,,,but, im wrong, i found this subject very interesting and i continually love this course i learned a lot !,,,and it helps me to improve myself, especially in speaking and expressing myself...and also my self confidence. i also learned the philosophy, ideas principles and realities of this subject...

About the teacher........

,,,,i was in second year college and he was a fourth year student, i met Mr. Bentayo, when they have an an audition in CAST. i have joined the orghanization, and i could still remember the scene on the audition, he told me to act like a "nirerape ng natutuwa" and "baklang humahabol sa magnanakaw."i could imagine myself potraying that scene. i've passed the audition but unfortunately, i can't attend the workshops due to my busy schedules...

,,,,,,then after he graduated in UMAk, he became one of the professors in English department, and now, he's our Professor in Shakespeare.at first im a little bit afraid of him because he's serious, strict, unapproachable and "suplado".

,,,,my fist impressions had changed. he encouraged us to be a better students and a future educator. he motivated us in our lessons that's why, he made it easier. he helped us in everything,,,, thank you sir