Hamlet's Soliloquies

To start off I thought the first soliloquy was better because the actor was able to interpret Hamlet in a way that people didn't expect him to be. He was able to act out the soliloquy in a more modern way. He had more rage and more movement in which he was able to express himself more. In the second version of Hamlet's soliloquy, the actor expressed himself in a more subtle way. For me he was what the typical image of Hamlet would seem like, and the typical way for him to act out the soliloquy. He was calm and more quiet, and the way the whole movie is made is a more classical way. He said the soliloquy to himself, under his breath, while the other said it to an audience. He was talking to the camera, looking at the camera, and you feel as if he is talking to while saying the soliloquy. In the second video you have no connection to the actor as he is talking and the soliloquy is also shortened so you don't get as much expression as the first video. If I were to act out Hamlet, I would do a mix between both videos: some expression but not too much, and still say it under my breath. It would also depend on how we would interpret Hamlet.

Krapp's Last Tape

Well hopefully it's his last tape.
For a play, I didn't understand it at all. Didn't like it, and for literature, it really had no point. I do not know why Krapp would listen to one of his old tapes, it just confused me. He was probably trying to listen to his memories and remember what he thought of the woman in his life. He got sentimental when listening over his memories of the woman. Krapp seemed to be an aggressive man, but when listening to the memories of the woman, his face changed. By going by the name of the play, if it was his last tape, then he was probably going to die soon.
The tape did not make sense at all. If the play did have a point then I think it was about someone listening to their memories, like when someone reads their diary to reminisce those memories.

The Bachelor's Tale

A bachelor enters television,
Looking for his princess with a vision.
Princess agaisnt many for just a prince,
Will even pull hair from others since
It is a fight for one by many. These
Women will even stop eating peas.
As the show goes on, one by one will get
Rejected. They are dismissed by a fret.
The world watches on as these lovers
Make fools of themselves. The crowd and others
Get hooked while watching participants change who
They are. Other shows will joke about who,
And what the women present themselves to
Be. As the show comes to and end, where do
These women go? They won't leave with a rose
In hand, tears fall, and need a tool, a hose,
To hose away their feelings. As it ends one
Will win the man and stay with the only one.

Remembrance

"You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget." (12)

The man in The Road by Cormac McCarthy stated the quote above while talking to the boy. I completely agree with what the man is trying to tell his boy, and this quote defines my state of thought. I think that this also happens to many people because the things that you want to forget the most you will always remember. It is something that the mind does unconsciencely and one can never control their mind and tell it to remember and forget things. For me to somewhat "control" it, when I want to remember something I always write it down. In a way I keep a journal in which I write important things I do everyday. When I look back on it, I always remember what I did in that specific moment and day. I also love taking pictures which create memories. This pictures are always organized in a calendar in the days that I took them, so it is like my journal but in a more visual way. They help me to remember happy memories and look at the picture and think back on the moment. That is what pictures were meant for, but when people do not have pictures, the journal keeping is very helpful.

The forgetting part is always the hardest to do. I find that with the worst possible memories, and the most I want to forget them, I always remember them. It is hard because as you think of erasing them you are reminded of them. The forgetting part is the hardest because you cannot just erase something from your head, it is almost impossible. The only way is to never think about it, but since the mind is such a powerful thing, the thought can show up in dreams. The hardest things for me to forget are always the worst. Since they are the ones that you want most out of your head, they are the ones that most stay in your head. It is like a stain that you can never wash out, it can fade away, but it will always stay there.

The mind will always be hard to control, and forgetting and remembering things will always be a challenge for the human mind. There are obviously moments and memories that one completely forgets, but they are never the ones that you want to forget, they are always just moments that do not really matter, so your mind is never "refreshed" on it.

Vocab and Pictures

Gully: noun, a water-worn ravine. A deep artificial channel serving as a gutter or drain.






Ferment: verb, incite or stir up (trouble or disorder)

The Raven

I wanted to find an interesting video on The Raven, so I was searching through YouTube to find a video like the one of The Simpsons. I could not find any that would be as good as the poem or as The Simpsons one. I did not want one that was just an audio version of it. After searching for a while I finally found this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV8BCHlQ2ww&feature=related 

It is the poem turned into a song. I found it very interesting and the music that went with it went perfectly with what the poem felt like. It does tell the whole poem but the music is very relaxing and it made me want to hear it multiple times. Hope you listen to the song and like it. 

Juxtaposition with the four tales

So my group and I juxtaposed the four tales and came to a conclusion that they all had religion and a story exaggerated in common. We felt that they had religion because in each story they mention God, or they go by what rules their religions follow.
Religious quotes:
The Pardoner's Tale page 355 lines 330-331
The Knight's Tale page 78 lines 823-824
The Miller's Tale page 163 lines 297-298
Wife of Bath page 235 lines 305-306