Memorizing the infamous....

In The Spirit Of Hamlet

Here is a scene from the movie Billy Madison. It is a recitation of "To Be Or Not To Be." Enjoy :)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdTnlnJjSqE

Hamlet act 2

"What a piece of work is a man."

-this quote is the theme of the play. Men and women can do miraculous things and horrid things.

"The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."

Notes on final solliquoqy (hamlets)

-before reality sucks. It has been a couple days and he hasn't killed caludius yet. He feels terrible about himself. "Is it not monstrous that this player here."

-he can make his body and heart do what he wants to do, but hamlet can't

-Hamlet beats himself up for being a coward and being private about his knowledge.

-The only person who knows what hamlet is supposed to do is a ghost.

-nobody seems to be pushing him

-even if hamlet could speak.. Talk is cheap, actions are not.

-"I'll have these players play something like the murder of my father before mine uncle." This is known as a play within a play.

Hamlet

Polonius looses his train of thought. He talks more than he thinks~characterization 

"Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth."

"By indirections a find directions out."

Brevity is the soul of whit

Polonius is saying that because the news is good, he calls the prince mad and that cladius is happy

Be more direct and less embellishing

"Though this be madness, there is order in it."

"For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"What a piece if work as a man."

Hamlet act 1 scene 4/5

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

The ghost- hamlets dad

He is in purgatory. And if he could tell Hamlet his punishment, it would make him uneasy.

Claudius killed hamlets dad. A serpent has been blamed for the murder, but it is not true.

Hamlets mother, Gertrude, knew that her husband was to be killed and she abandoned her feelings for him.

Hamlets dad was asleep in an orchard and his brother poured poison into his war.

He only knows what he knows since he is a ghost.

Hamlet got the idea of revenge from his father.

"I have sworn it" -hamlet 

"There are more things in heaven and earth, horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!"

Hamlet act 1 scene 3

Laertes and Ophelia are brother and sister.

Hamlet may be a good guy, but he's being pulled in many different directions. What hamlet says to you Ophelia is diplomatic.

Ophelia says she will listen to her brother, but don't tell me how to live my life if you're not living the same way.

Lord paloneous to laertes:

He compliments his children and wants to have an independent son. Think before you speak. If you have good friends be loyal. Quality over quantity.

Literary Fiction and Empathy

After reading literary fiction, people react more adequately in social situations. This is something that I have never heard and am very interested to know more about. It is striking to me that what you read can have an impact on the way that you perceive life. How can specially literary fiction out of all genres make this difference? The writer of this article claims that the perspective is varied and it causes you to consider others emotions, which is comparable to real life conversations. Now I'm preparing to take the survey... Well unfortunately it is closed. Regardless, I can apply this myself and test to see if reading truly makes an impact in my life.

Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1

The changing of the guards.
Guards exchange casual conversation about the King who has died.
Very vague and limited details.
Author uses this technique to draw in the reader.
Ghost of the king appears. Men tremble and ask of its presence.
The theme is undeclared and the true plot has yet to be introduced.
Only a casual conversation and the appearance/reappearance of a ghost is the context to the play.
Dr. Preston says that the Lion King can vaguely be based on Hamlet. It is definitely not "based on" Hamlet.
Elizabethan language is used. Few characters (not any of whom are main characters) have been introduced.

Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2

Hamlets father has recently passed.

The king is saying that we are grieving hamlet, but must move on.

Hamlets mother has married his dad's brother (Claudius).

Claudius distracts the public from the inter problems to outside threats.

Hamlet-"A little more than kin, and less than kind."-his first line (situational irony) it means that Hanlet does not like Claudius.

Hamlet is not going to acknowledge that he is unhappy.

*visage-a visual expression*

Hamlet says that you can cry, you can wear black, but that doesn't mean you are grieving. Hamlet hints that he doesn't have to show grief to feel it. He's implication that others are being showy, but not true feelings of integrity.

Claudius says that he knows Hamlet is next in line, but that he is young and unmanly. 

**Hamlets true feelings**

-he wishes he didn't have to be there to see that crap

-he's mad

-he calls his mom a slut, a betrayer, and a quick marriage, she grieves much too quickly.

-judges his step father

Hamlet went from playing his parents to indulging in his emotion. He then was asking questions as if he was a detective; he resumed  to bury his emotion in public.

Vocabulary #6

Definitions:

abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
gauche - adj. lacking social polish
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
conundrum - noun a difficult problem
anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices; extremely steep;done with very great haste and without due deliberation

A Picture Not Worth Taking

The youth in the room swept around me. This reunion had long been awaited as the distinct faces swarmed in for hugs. I had been waiting to return to younglife. A place that is distinguished not for its glamour, but for its emotion. The place that makes me feel the happiest I have ever been. The room is plain and basic, but the people are not. Cheerful faces awaiting to greet my open arms and wide smile. How long had it been? A couple months, but it felt exactly as though it were yesterday. Loud music? Check. Crazy dancing? Check. In young life, fake doesn't exist. Everyone there is the young, crazy, fun, and wild person they secretly are on the inside. In this environment, everyone is their true self. No emotion is held back. Not a single action is judged. The more strange you are and the more fun you have, the more you fit in. Such a place is rare, almost extinct. High school students that attend these club nights all know each other. We are one with each other. 7:37 is the time we meet on Mondays and we all know that. What?? 7:37? Such a strange time. It may be weird those who don't attend younglife, but not to those of us who do. In these moments there is no such thing as a smart phone. Pictures don't have any place in these times. It's too much fun to even bother looking at your phone. It's not worth the time to pull it out of your pocket, because nothing could be better than what is happening now.

Remix

Thomas Edison-mr lightbulb 

-an improvement in electric lamps

-took an existing design and made it viable 

COMBINATIONS

-taking existing things and combining them, even when they seem unrelated

-the internet is the network of networks

Copy, transform, and design

-Starwars. Follows the monomyth. Much like Flash Gordon. War films and westerns. Existing shots were used as templates. 

-Starwars was one of the most innovative stories, but had been taken from a combination of other movies

Green Eggs and Hamlet

a. I don't know anything about Hamlet. Isn't the Lion King Disney movie based off of it? I'm stumped.
b. Shakespeare is very famous and wrote plays, I believe. He is an ancient writer and I can never understand him. Sadly, that's as far as I know.
c. Students frown because reading Shakespeare is a drag. When reading it on their own, students don't  understand it. It's very boring because it's written in an outdated language, with outdated people, with an outdated time period. Also, no teacher has yet to make it successfully thrilling and entertaining.
d. We should go over it in class. I'll never understand it on my own and apparently Cliff Notes doesn't either. Or if their is a Shakespeare for dummies, then that would be awesome for me.

WHOOPS

I realized that I had written the story which was supposed to contain (Alec, Elizabeth, Victoria, and Matthew), but actually combined that which the college of your choice a year from now... Time to start writing again

Vocabulary #5

shenanigans - verb secret or dishonest activity
ricochet - noun a glancing rebound; verb spring back; spring away from an impact
schism - noun division of a group into opposing factions; the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences
eschew - verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
plethora - noun extreme excess
ebullient - adj. joyously unrestrained
garrulous - adj. full of trivial conversation
harangue - noun a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; verb deliver a harangue to; address forcefully
interdependence - noun a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups)
capricious - adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeable
loquacious - adj. full of trivial conversation
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; nounanything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
juxtapose - verb place side by side
perspicacious - adj. acutely insightful and wise;mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
codswallop - noun nonsensical talk or writing
mungo - noun a cheap felted fabric made from waste wool
sesquipedelian - adj. of a word, polysyllabic; long
wonky - adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; turned or twisted toward one side
dipthong - literally "two sounds" or "two tones", also known as a gliding vowel, refers to two adjacent vowel sounds occurring within the same syllable

Guiding Questions

Character Study 2

Daniel wonders at how he arrived at the new campus, taking it in with a large breathe of air. "Ahh I finally made it," He had no preconception of where he would make it to, but now he has arrived. The campus seems to be ten times larger than any school he had ever attended. Confidence in, worries out. The longing sense of fulfillment had been filled. As Daniel looked around the school, the reality of not knowing anyone set it. "Am I going to like my room mate? What do I do next? What do I do first?" After rustling among these questions he decided to take a seat by a tree and observe others. Some clearly knew where they were destined to be, others walked by with friends, and the rest looked confused and lost. He decided that he was not alone in this and knew that befriending these strangers would not be difficult. For now, watching the campus fall out into its random flow seemed to be calming. Daniel sat, he had light brown skin and hair with an athletic build and promising smile. Although slightly nervous, he knew he would soon belong. It was easy for him to interact socially and he had done this many times before. In fact, he had prepared his entire life for these four years.

"Hey. do you mind if I join you?"

"That's good with me! Feel free to have a seat," said Daniel.

"Thanks. (sits down) You know college is so different from what I'm used. New people. New area. New..... life. It's almost overwhelming, but at the same time I feel at home. Oh sorry. I forgot to say, my name is Dean."

"Hi I'm Daniel, nice to meet you. I've had those same thoughts. I mean, my life today is never what I would have pictured a year ago and it seems to change by the moment. The campus is beautiful here! It's..... (as if he was searching for the word) immaculate. Also the sports here are awesome! Do you play any sports?"

As he was speaking he noticed the same light brown skin color apparent on Dean. Dean is taller than Daniel and has a pleasant smile. Actually, he was very nice and the two started off becoming friends immediately.

....The rest is unwritten