class notes 3/22

"when thinking of iPod commercials, most likely the first ones that come to mind are the silhouettes dancing in front of the brightly colored backgrounds."
-when you think ....
-commercials, you most likely think of...

"walking through Hofstra's campus, it is impossible to start any conversation with anyone."
-when you are walking....

GREEN: enviornmentally friendly, sustainable, recyclable, reusable, enviormentally consious, natural, organic, earth minded, jealousy, envy, money, plants, foresty, sickly, spring, camo, grow, moss, algae, young, emerald, jade

SOCIETY: government, gathering, people, population, clique, class, humanity, pupils, peeps, public, association, civilization, crowd, culture, group, class, flock, heard

GARDENERS: plow, hoe, harvest, rake, scatter, fertilize, uproot weeds, decorate garden, run squirrels out of garden, water,

class notes 3/10

TWN
Humans strive for higher love...

*love of sight/cupiditas <-- TWN is stuck here
appetite/desire
narcissism

Love of another/caritas (latin root of charity)
selfless

Love of God

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* Those who fight (- noblemen, aristocrats, rulers)
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those who pray (- clergy, teachers, students)
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Those who work (- laborers, peasants, tradesmen, slaves)

what is Andrew good at in the first three scenes
drinking, dancing, sings,

Thematic Strands

The theme I choose was the theme of water, tears, sea, drink, drunk, drowned, ocean

1. I found the theme of water, or a presence of some sort of water or liquid throughout the play. Many different factors have to do with the themes in this strand. Some examples are the idea of someone drowning, and the tears shed for that person, and the sea, there is also a theme of salt water present, also there are many examples of drunkenness and drinking.

2. The repetition of the theme through the play shows that Shakespeare uses the same ideas to get his point across. He also makes the theme very versatile and uses it to express different ideas through different situations. These themes get out different emotions. The themes also have many different layers of meaning. For example he uses the theme of water at first to mean sadness, and drowning and dying or doing something bad, he then goes on to make it mean a start of something new and making it refreshing.

Quotes

Viola: "I am the man" II. ii. 25

This quotes gives the idea to everyone that Viola is actually a man, when she, in reality is not, it is almost as if she is trying to convince or remind herself that she is a man, not just dressing like one. She is also finally figuring out that Olivia is in love with her, or the idea she has of him. Viola is trying to wrap her head around the situation.

Malvolio "...and yet to crush a little, it would bow to me..." (II v 143-1450)

Malvolio is saying how if he changes the wording of the letters, it will fit his description more easily. Malvolio feels like if only something or even just one thing has was different it would be his ideal situation,which is where Olivia is in love with him. He is starting to believe that his dream is coming true.

Viola "Then think you right. I am not what I am"
Olivia "I would you were as I would have you be" (III i 148-149)

I feel as though Olivia wants Viola not for who she truly is, but just because she is new and has an attraction to her. She is saying that it would be so easy to change to wat she wants her to be. Olivia has put Viola or her idea of Viola on a very high pedestal, and when Olivia realizes that she is not what she has made her out to be and Viola fall off of the pedestal, it is going to make her very upset.

inkshedding

"She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more" - Sebastian

Sebastian is talking about Viola. Saying that she literally drowned in the ocean (salt water) & her memory is being drowned over and over again by his tears (salt water, in tear formation), he is crying because she is gone. Shakespeare is using this as a metaphor for her body, physically being drowned by the ocean and her spirit being by Sebastian's tears.This makes for an interesting situation because now both siblings are unaware that the other is still alive, and on the same island.Also, the second part may be that she continues to drown everyday in his head by him replaying it over and over in his head. She is drowning again and again and now even more so with his tears coming into play as well.

FFW

FFW
i really dont know to make of this quote, I know that maria is really keen on having Viola so it may have to do with that. Perhaps it means that she is letting him know that this is almost a sport to her, that catching him as well as reeling him in is just a game that she usually wins. Since Malvolio is her help, she is telling him that he will be one to help her win this man/woman over. She is calling her game of manipulation a royal sport, she is making it have a name that is supposed to be high class, but is the lowest thing she can do.

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themes in TN
the fragile nature of love
time/aging
types of love ( romantic, sexual, divine, filial)
money and love/sport royal
clothing costumes (disguise)
water/tears/drowning/drunkeness
music -> love
text/writing in letters
manipulation


pick a theme in the shakespeare query. one theme. website on blackboard. bring physical data to class for group

focused free write

After reading act I of twelfth night, I can't stop thinking about the movie "She's the Man." The first time i saw the movie, I loved it. I didnt find out that it was based off of twelfth night until after I had seen it. The movie is a much more modern than the original play, it is based around the love of soccer, and after the girls team gets cut Viola transforms into her twin brother and goes to his private school, making everyone believe it is actually Sebastian. The movie was hilarious, and after reading a short summary of the original play, it made watching the movie again that much funnier. It was interesting to see what they changed in the play to make it more modern, like a fair, a cotillion, and how it all comes together over a game of soccer.

answer questions by commenting on other peoples blogs.

The comic curve:
Act I: normal. Act III: not so normal, Act V: new normal(higher than original normal) (est. reunions), 3 marriages.

Illyria = delirium
Malvolio = mal - "bad, ill." volio - "will"

Orsino is in love with being in love, doesnt actually know olivia
act I, scene I
Viola, Violet, 'borrows' another scent, borrowing persona of cesario,
Olivia getting attention from uncles (blech) friend, andrew agucheek. Malvolio is also in love with her.
Olivia likes Viola/Cesario
ACT I scene IV 32

for wednesday: read act II, comment on 6 questions.