I spent most of my time in class this week finishing up our group's Shakespearean Drama Project. We had to do the finishing touches on our slides and figure out what we wanted to use for our music. Which I felt was the most difficult part of the project. Finding the right style of music to fit the theme of Macbeth was pretty challenging. Luckily for me, other members of my group felt more confident and well versed in different styles of music than myself. Which we all agreed fit the tone of Existentialism better than any of my suggestions.
But the latter half of this week was spent presenting to the class. I was pretty confident going into the presentation, and I had even written myself a little script that I was planning on sticking to. Except there was one part that I should have removed from the final draft because I was not able to confidently pronounce the name of the painter Jacques-Louis David. Which my group had decided to use his work as one of the works that tied into the the who I was portion of our presentation. Unfortunately, I was unable to say his name during our presentation so I had to haphazardly push through that slide. The idea was to draw the connection of Napoleon Bonaparte being a successful war hero similarly to how Macbeth began in the play. Sadly I guess I was either too forthcoming or our audience was unable to understand that aspect of the presentation. P.S. In the future please give us a heads up where we will be presenting. I felt that I had been cheated by not having the room that we were presenting in specified prior to the presentations. Because there is a huge change in lighting from room 202 to room 111, and made my notes nearly impossible to read and caused an unexpected stumble in our presentation.
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This week we got to meet a lady from Central Michigan University who was an expert on Shakespeare. She met with our group to talk with us about our Critical Theory lens. Her advice helped us further our understanding of our specific lens and how we should go about tackling this assignment. We talked about the transformation of Macbeth throughout the play and how his decisions lead him to his downfall. And how Lady Macbeth tempted Macbeth into going through with the plot even though he knew it would be his downfall.It was also discussed that Shakespeare could have been using existential ideas without putting a name to it.
The poems this week were Spring and All by Williams and For Jane Meyers by Gluck. Spring and All described the sense of death and brokenness that comes before spring before giving way to the season of rebirth. Williams call spring "sluggish" and "dazed" both words that represent something that is slow moving and clumsy. However, at the end of the poem there is a shift beginning with line 16 where it says "They enter the new world naked..." which begins the poems direction to the idea of coming to life. As all of the plants and wildlife seem to has life breathed into them, but line 16 specifically reminds the reader of childbirth. By doing this the reader begins to realize the life that has been thrust upon the world. For Jane Meyers takes a different approach to spring. Gluck subliminally treats spring as something to be afraid of. A season of worrying and death, contrast to what most people think about as spring. Gluck uses different types of flowers such as crocuses, bluets, and daffodils to represent different elements of spring in her poem. And to better understand the references of the flowers I chose to look up visual images for each of the flowers. It definitely helped paint a better picture and gave me a better understanding of the poem. |
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