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Breaking Dreams For Love
Breaking Dreams For Love
“For this activity, you’ll break something as an act of literary analysis. Choose a selection of words from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and rearrange them into something else. You can use any or all of the words as many or as few times as you’d like. What you build from them can take any shape: text, image, video, a collage, a poem, a pile, digital, physical, sense-making or otherwise… For this…
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Is NOT A Love Story
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Is NOT A Love Story
Never before had I read or watched A Midsummer Night’s Dream until this morning. Despite some plot and theme preparation from my Shakespeare in Community MOOC, I still managed to hold onto preconceptions that a play about love and faeries would be, well, happy… and magical.
It took me a scene or two to familiarize myself with the characters, particularly because in this play, Puck was played…
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Act III: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
From A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act 4 Scene 1
Original Text
Enough, enough!—My lord, you have enough. I beg the law, the law upon his head. They would have stol’n away.—They would, Demetrius, Thereby to have defeated you and me: You of your wife and me of my consent, Of my consent that she should be your wife.
Transformed Text Haiku:
“Enough, enough you!
They would have stol’n away —
You have my consent.“
Act II: Romeo and Juliet
From Romeo and Juliet: Act 1 Scene 3
Lady Capulet
What say you? Can you love the gentleman? This night you shall behold him at our feast. Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face, And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen. Examine every married lineament And see how one another lends content, And what obscured in this fair volume lies Find written in the margent of his eyes. This precious book of love, this unbound lover, To beautify him only lacks a cover. The fish lives in the sea, and ’tis much pride For fair without the fair within to hide. That book in many’s eyes doth share the glory That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. So shall you share all that he doth possess By having him, making yourself no less.
Twitter-Style Essay:
A duty has to be done, and it is unfortunate it falls upon you. There is no shame to be had in carrying it out, but there is much to be had if you fight against it and lose.
Act I: Introduction Assignment
Two households, both alike in dignity
~ Romeo and Juliet
To me these words remind me of the concept of 2 halves make one whole. Both of the families are extremely similar (due to the words both alike), but with one thing that makes them different and thereby bitter enemies. As I have read Romeo and Juliet a long time ago, I know that the house of Capulet and Montague are bitter enemies, but I can’t remember the reason why. Also, it probably has to do with blood relations since households are usually made up of people who are related by blood. Also, since they have dignity, it would mean that they probably have power in the community of some sort. Maybe they are equally respected by everyone and it makes it difficult to settle differences between your rival for power both of them are constantly trying to get the edge.
As far as feelings go, I don’t really get a sense that this a person talking. Rather its a narration of some sort. Additionally, though it might be kinda lame to frame it like this, it seems to be setting the stage for the story to occur/Defining the rules of this world. When rules become finalized and stagnant in video games, inevitably either developers or the community breaks these rules within a month or two and it throws the world back into the starting point of chaos. This is probably what is going to happen here.
Finally, the images of the two households I imagine are classical roman buildings due to the gravitas in which the narrator presents the households.
The funniest scene in Romeo & Juliet as a "Word Cloud"
The funniest scene in Romeo & Juliet as a “Word Cloud”
Romeo & Juliet Act 1, Scene 1
SAMPSON My naked weapon is out. Quarrel, I will back thee. GREGORY How? Turn thy back and run? SAMPSON Fear me not. GREGORY No, marry. I fear thee! SAMPSON Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin. GREGORY I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they list. SAMPSON Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them, which is disgrace to them if they…
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Midterm Self-Reflection for Shakespeare in Community
Midterm Self-Reflection for Shakespeare in Community
I’ve had some profound insights as I reflected on my experiences thus far with Shakespeare, so I thought I would share them here. They are personal to me, but if you are seeking out your own Shakespeare, I encourage you to ask yourself these questions after awhile. It may bring your own abstract ideas into focus.
“Reflect on your own encounters with Shakespeare leading up to and within the first…
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Discovering the Joy of Shakespeare, or For the Love of Romeo and Juliet
Discovering the Joy of Shakespeare, or For the Love of Romeo and Juliet
I’ve been studying Romeo and Juliet for some time now. Of course, I know the main plot points – it’s been parodied countless times in countless art forms, and I read the play, with much instruction, during my freshmen year of high school. Yet, as I took up the book again, I found myself stymied by the language. I could not behold the grandeur of the vocabulary, as so many fans of the Bard seem to…
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