In Romeo and Juliet, the story takes a turn for the worst in the play during the battle with Mercutio, Romeo, and Tybalt. This part in the play shows how misfortune has a role in how the story develops. This scene has shown that the misfortune of meeting someone at the wrong place has a big impact on how it may affect the participants, like in the end with Paris and Romeo, it has the same concept. This can also extend to real life and show how one may meet and find their destined one like Romeo and Juliet, or one may find a new enemy by showing off skills.
Just like in the play, I have had some people come to dislike me just because I am better than them at some things. Like when I played baseball, I was better than someone else on my team, all they did was try and get me in trouble, or kicked off the team. I tried not to let it bother me but it really is hard to ignore when it happened every practice, or nearly every practice. In the end I just didn't really feel up to playing baseball so that solved some of the issues, but he still dislikes me to this day, I guess its just an after effect.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Romeo and Juliet EVERYWHERE?!
One of the places I can remember something about Romeo and Juliet is in West Side Story. It has the same portrayal of two star-crossed lovers, but I don't remember if they take their life. But both households are alike in dignity, where they spill civil blood which makes their civil hands unclean. Where the lovers take their life because of a long lasting grudge, that ends in the two having to make up.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Connections
In Romeo & Juliet many of the decisions that Tybalt make remind me of my brother, often being hostile to me. Like in the beginning where he came in sword unsheathed, I felt like it was like my brother who usually tackles me whenever we meet. Whenever my brother did tackle me, I took it the wrong way and in return acted hostile back so we always ended up fighting, just like the two houses whenever they meet. These ideas of a constant conflict and two factions ready for battle at any time is a great idea, it can lead to many problems for two star-crossed lovers.
Reading at home and then doing annotations or covering the material at school is much easier and I can get much more out of it. Because of the unusual style of Shakespeare, I often am puzzled at what the meaning is, like the final line in the prologue, I had to look up what it meant in order to figure it out. But because we read it in class and cover the reading there as well as at home, I can get both feelings, the feeling of puzzlement, and the feeling of knowledge to an unusual writing style. So in my opinion I feel as if it is both easier and a better way of reading a book and getting to understand it, if it was something like Great Expectations where we annotated at home, it took a lot of time, so this is a good way to ease up on time consumption for reading.
Reading at home and then doing annotations or covering the material at school is much easier and I can get much more out of it. Because of the unusual style of Shakespeare, I often am puzzled at what the meaning is, like the final line in the prologue, I had to look up what it meant in order to figure it out. But because we read it in class and cover the reading there as well as at home, I can get both feelings, the feeling of puzzlement, and the feeling of knowledge to an unusual writing style. So in my opinion I feel as if it is both easier and a better way of reading a book and getting to understand it, if it was something like Great Expectations where we annotated at home, it took a lot of time, so this is a good way to ease up on time consumption for reading.
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