Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Gaiman vs. Shakespeare

As I finished reading both Gaiman and Shakespeare's text, I saw a lot of differences including how they are written, the plots of the story, and the interpretation of the text.

In my personal opinion, I liked reading Shakespeare's text better because it was the classic one, and it was more romantically themed! In Gaiman's text, I liked how there were pictures that illustrate what is going on in the story. However, I think that there were two stories going on at once. For example, how the "Will Shakspear" is confronted by the mysterious lord that bribes him gold for two plays to have his debts payed (Gaiman, 64) then all of a sudden the play will take place. The other part that confused me about Gaiman's text were all the fairies and monsters attending the play (Gaiman, 70)...what were they doing there and why?
The graphics are great though, and they were cool to look at. I think they are both really good texts, but I liked the original better.

Friday, November 14, 2008

A Midsummer Night's Dream



HERMIA & LYSANDER

I wanted to write about Hermia and Lysander because I find their situation complicated!
It sucks that Hermia's father is making her marry Demetrius, when Hermia and Lysander are clearly in love. It's either that or death which is weird to think about because if you love your child so much why would you have him/her condemned to death by "disobeying" you?! Weird. (Shakespeare, Act 1 scene i)

Another reason for their situation being complicated is that by Puck's simple mistake, the couple were so close to being in a relationship together with their free will, when they sleep separate Puck assumes that this is Helena (who's in love with Demetrius unlike him!) and makes Lysander wake up to fall in love with Helena, who doesn't want or love him, and begs him to get back to Hermia. Meanwhile Hermia is confused and heart-broken when she wakes up to find Lysander gone! It's a "so close yet so far away" kind of thing! It frustrates me! haha.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Thesis for Research Paper (2)

So far I have an idea of what to write about but I don't know how to put it into thesis form! haha

I want to talk about Persepolis, and show Sartrapi's experiences as a little girl into her teen years shape her as a person and how it ends...I want to include examples and I guess find an article that will be along these lines!

My thesis:

Marjane Satrapi goes through events in her childhood that later shape her as a person when she finds her identity coming to and from Iran...

^something among those lines!!??

Any suggestions please?!