Blogpost #2 Character

Character has been exemplified as an essential ingredient to both plays and novels. Characters make a play or novel through a character's conflict, temptation, struggles, and successes which are all explained clearly through dialogue and the author's ability to express the character in ways that the reader can follow and understand. The most important idea about character is the ability of an author to express and explain the intentions, personality, and dispositions of a character in an author's novel or play. Without a good examination and explanation of a character in a novel, the reader will be confused on where the main point stands and since the character connects to the plot, the reader will also be confused about what events or conflicts need to be discussed in the play or novel. An example of a great character is Hamlet who is exemplified by Shakespeare in diction as an interesting but intriguing character who makes the play become more realistic and also a reader can follow the protagonist and understand more about the plot. Hamlet, the protagonist, has a unique disposition and personality that Shakespeare clearly portrays in his diction about how Hamlet has two conflicting personalities and has conflict/disagreement with the antagonist who is King Claudius. Shakespeare exemplifies Hamlet's every move and disposition which allows the reader to follow the protagonist and also help the reader learn more about both the antagonist and the plot. Character is an essential theme to both novels and plays and help allow the reader to understand and relate to certain issues in the novel or play that need to be discussed to learn more about the plot.

Blogpost #1 about Plot

Plot provides a realistic sense of order and planning in a play or novel because the plot is a series of events or occurences that happen and the authors must plan to arrange conflicts and resolutions to provide the reader with a sense of balance during the play or novel. For example, referring back to Hamlet, Shakespeare definitely uses a plot to plan a series of events that happen during the play and Shakespeare even uses Hamlet the character to help exploit and explain in dialogue what the whole plot is about and what it means to have a plot in a play. Hamlet explains through dialogue the plot of the story by portraying the conflicts and complications that are occuring in Hamlet's life with his father, his uncle, and his mother. Hamlet explains the plot to not only be what happens during the play but also the conflicts and resolutions and how Hamlet interacts with other characters. Another example of displaying of plot is in Pride and Prejudice, where Austen also portrays plot through her characters and how they basically explain the plot with their complications and conflicts exemplified through their actions. Plot is a necessary theme to format a play or novel 

blog about turnitin essay

I thought my essay was presented very well but I think I definitely could have changed certain parts of my essay that would make the essay flow so much better. I think certain parts in which I compared Horatio and Hamlet were very intriguing but also not fully developed in my analysis of their interactions. I discussed Hamlet's deep thoughts and reactions to certain events and how that is intertwined in his use of diction. Also my explanation of Horatio's straightforward diction could have been analyzed in more depth, but I feel that overall my essay was very decent and there are definitely areas to improve on.

Intro Paragraph to Essay: The Second Coming vs. Ulysses

The anarchy and aging of civilization portrays the use of time and its impact on old establishment. In both The Second Coming and Ulysses, William Butler Yeats and Alfred Lord Tennyson portray the use of aging and decaying in time to explain how these detrimental topics destroy the old establishment that is discussed in both of these poems. Lord Tennyson exemplifies the old established idle king, Odysseus, and how time has affected this aged king in which he contemplates his existence into the later periods of his life, and he also feels nostalgic about his experience in the Trojan War. William Butler Yeats also portrays the affect of time on an establishment or institution in which he describes the slow decaying and aging of a civilization and how this institution has become an anarchy. Yeats and Tennyson personify time in their poems and portray its detrimental affect on institutions created for the sense of governance and order, and ironically decaying is apparent in both institutions.

2 poems: Fast Break vs. Ulysses

In Fast Break and Ulysses, both Edward Hirsch and Alfred Lord Tennyson use vivid images, extremely distinctive word choices, and verbs to help emphasize the complexity and emotional poems that they have written. In Fast Break, the stunning images used by Hirsch when he uses words in which he describes how the basketball touches the rim, or how the players glide across the court. He expresses the unity of the basketball brothers (team) and how they interact on the court to create a better goal in basketball. Compared to Ulysses, Fast Break is the total opposite in the speed of the poem, and how Hirsch explains the rapid movements that the players and the basketball makes on the court. While Ulysses is a much slower paced poem that slowly describes the falling and aging of the King Ulysses, and how his time has passed. Hirsch also uses verbs that have a much greater impact on the reader with how he describes the passing of the ball and how the guards and the forwards lunge themselves at their opponents when on defense. Also Hirsch explains a much more exciting and happy game that these players play, while Tennyson describes the old age, nostalgia, and sad moments of King Ulysses life after his time has passed, and how he is an old man that already had his time of glory.

Ozymandias vs. Ponder

Both Ozymandias and Ponder deal with decaying of busted statues that have existed and lasted for centuries and how at one point in time, both of these busted statues were very exotic and very amazing to look at. For example, King Ozymandias from his busted statue looked like a very powerful and controlling king that had many people bowing down to him. But after centuries, his power is no longer special to anybody and he has decayed just like his statue has been busted up and thrown along the sand. Also the reference to sand in both Ozymandias and Ponder could relate to the sand timer and how the sand relates to the length of time that has passed from when Ozymandias was in power. In Ponder, the same ideas have been discussed about time and the decaying of statues and the breaking down of time in general. The difference between Ozymandias and Ponder is the different perspectives used in each poem and how these perspectives paint different views of how each decaying occurs in time.

Performance Choices

In my read of a couple lines in the play, I chose to read Act 2 Scene II around line 250 where Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are having a conversation and Hamlet finds it suspicious that these characters would come to talk to Hamlet out of the blue just to visit with them. Then Hamlet realizes that they have been sent by the King and Queen to come spy on Hamlet, and he tells them that he knows why they are there. The performance choices Matt Arrow and I made in this short passage is that we acted so that Hamlet had a tonal change around 255 in which right when he say's, "Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation?" In these lines I was acting for hamlet and I made it so he sounded like he was questioning Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, and I acted like I knew why they were there. Matt Arrow also changed his tone when he was playing Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, because they finally realized that Hamlet knew they were sent by the King and Queen but they weren't sure why they were sent.