Student Gems, The Essays: Term I, part I

[bardic_lady]

re: the fight between King Hamlet and the King of Norway: "The fact that this land is never actually given to Denmark" Don't fuck up Hamlet on my watch. Not when I've been reading and writing about it for freakin' MONTHS. Am restraining myself from writing "Where in your ass did you pull that from?"

Essay title: "Aeschylus versus Disney" Already, I am harrowed with fear and wonder

"in which exemplifies the events in Medea quite similarly"

"through an out lash of vengeance and spite"

Thesis: "Through real life conflicting events such as the filicide that connects play and real life, we can thoroughly understand the motives and mindset of the characters, as well as the overall vision of the play"

"The assembly of many negative depressing emotions that build up in the minds are deemed as the driving force and strength of the motives of the two women"

"These breaking points are inexplicably ironic in their own natures, and truly let the animalistic nature of the women performing their contravened filicides"

"This causes Medea to erratically change her state of emotion from the desperation and pleading to the king, to a very cynical tone that engulfs her in a thoughtful rampage of heinous scenarios"

"it would not be out of normality to asses either one of the mother's minds as unfit for logical reasoning"

"After committing such crimes against what we consider unethical and horrid"

"Where Hippolytus cares only of the words and actions of Artemis, making Aphrodite vengefully envious, thus in a jealous rage she inspires Phaedra to shamefully fall in love with her step-son."

"Menander focuses in the prologue of the psychology of Knemon who is quite obviously distressed and kaput on his "sour" marriage"

"This berates both Aphrodite and Pan as they wish to be worshiped, then comes punishment."

"Hippolytus, on the other hand, hates women with a generality that is somewhat appealing"

"lives in the house of Atreus and his son, Orestes' father Agamemnon" House of Atreus doesn't mean what you think it means...

"Orestes has to perform his familial duty for his father's honour, which is directly opposed to the consequential duty he has to perform to spite his mother for her betrayal to the king."

"stands very firmly beside what he believes in"

"reasonably appalled"

"Audience praise, and are thrilled to examine his techniques, with video and obscure lighting cues."

"has left her to marry the daughter of the king" I missed the part about lesbians in Medea.

"Single mothers on welfare are certainly economically disadvantaged." Ya think?

"Greek tragedies formed and created theatrical entertainment thousands of years ago and yet plays written today have similarities to those "ancient" tragedies"

"this of course rooted from the Barters who sang entire epics to fellow curious Athenians"

"In a way this creates an unknown fear, suspension if you will..."

"Satyrs represent the elementary spirits of the forests and mountains"

"Klytemestra reveals that she is devastated that her eldest daughter Iphigenia was sacrificed to the goddess Artemis by Agamemnon, when Artemis demanded the sacrificial bloodshed in exchange for a favourable wind for Agamemnon's ships in order for him to win the war."

"honour the Furies to subsidize their anger"

"Truly, what illustrates the foil between the characters are the jokes, and the dialogue."

"The most important jokes that Charon partakes in are in between lines "Come, sit to your oar...land-lubbery sea-virgin!" (Frogs lines 300-313). Of course, this joke can be broken up into individual smaller comedic actions."

"These establish to the audience some of the main differences between the characters, and bring the foil into the light."

"Secondly, the dialogue (essentially the lines)" Thanks for clearing that up for me.

"When the chorus introduces the story, it starts with 'what will happen'."

"Clearly they were an important part of Greek culture all the way from the shaft to the detailed crown."
"Not only do they provide a visual appeal to a viewer, they also have a practical use."
"Even the Thickness...is important" Discussing columns, of course.

Comments

[havenward.livejournal.com]

... Wow. Just... wow.

[eponymousanon.livejournal.com]

Oh god that's painful. I hope I was never, ever that bad, though I fear I was (senior year of high school I wrote in an in-class poem analysis that a poem about blackberry picking (correct analysis: autumn is coming, cycle of life) was about a serial killer admiring his victims. I got a 6/9 for arguing it well?).