Sunday, January 27, 2008
Blog #3 - He's a maniac!
Iago shifted from a religion to a game the moment he started plotting an evil scheme against Othello. The reason it became a game was because rather than it being set up so that "the best man wins," Iago turned it into a battle between who played the game the best. When Iago used his wit and cleverness to outsmart everyone around him, the game began. And Iago used almost everybody in the story as a game piece. He tricked them in such a canniving way that he lead everyone to do exactly what he wanted them to. Almost as if he was the one playing the game and moving all the pieces around as he pleased. I think the moral pyromaniac part comes in when he did things such as use the littlest remarks and comments to spark a flame underneath these other characters, or as he saw it; just other pieces of the game. When he did such things, such as leading Othello to believe Desdemonda cheated on him, then that flame moved and shifted all of the game pieces around, just like Iago wanted. But the thing is, Iago didn't actually have to ever move the pieces around himself, he just had to spark that flame because he truly understood how to play this game.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Blog Post #1 - Quotes I stole.
"Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe." --Not sure.
"Some people are too scared or something to think things can be different. The world's not exactly...shit. I guess it's hard for some people who are so use to things the way they are -even if they're bad- to change and they kinda give up and when they do, everybody loses." --Pay it Forward
"Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome. That's what momma always says. She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up. And it will..." --Hope Floats
"Some people are too scared or something to think things can be different. The world's not exactly...shit. I guess it's hard for some people who are so use to things the way they are -even if they're bad- to change and they kinda give up and when they do, everybody loses." --Pay it Forward
"Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome. That's what momma always says. She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. Try to remember that when you find yourself at a new beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up. And it will..." --Hope Floats
Friday, January 11, 2008
Blog Post #2 - This stuff is confusing to think about!
When I finished reading Oedipus Rex it left me thinking about the answers to questions that don't really have answers.
I thought a lot about fate. How can you be responsible for your fate, if what you are going to do is already decided? I guess that your fate is already decided, but you reach that fate by your own choices, and maybe that is how you can be responsible for it because you do ultimately make those choices. But then I wonder if a higher power already knows exactly what choices you are going to make to reach that fate, so at that point you may not really be choosing to make those decisions? To me this is similar to the discussions I always had with my dad when I was younger. We would always talk about the idea of infinity or time being endless. It's interesting to think about, but the fact that we will never really understand it is very overwhelming... and that's how I felt when we finished reading Oedipus Rex and had our class discussions about fate.
Not only did I think about fate in the since of whether or not we are responsible for it, but it's also interesting (to me) to think about whether or not you can change your fate. And how sometimes the more you try to change your fate the closer you reach it. This happened in Oedipus Rex many times... like when he was leaving his village because he was trying to avoid killing is father, but on the way out he actually killed his father! And I also thought about this... the play is full of dramatic irony because we know what his fate is, and we can kind of laugh to ourselves sometimes because of the things that Oedipus said that we know are not true. So do the higher powers who know our ultimate fate watch us and laugh at us? Becase if you think about it they know our fate so a lot of our lives could be dramatic irony? Haha, it's kinda of a quirky thought but I thought it was interesting.
Other than these questions and ideas that I had, I honestly left with kind of grossed out pesamistic thoughts and images -- I mean, the whole end of the play was filled with them. The fact that Oedipus's children are his siblings, incest in general, Iocaste hanging herself, and Oedipus stabbing his eyes out!! UGH!! Gross is all I have to say to that.
I thought a lot about fate. How can you be responsible for your fate, if what you are going to do is already decided? I guess that your fate is already decided, but you reach that fate by your own choices, and maybe that is how you can be responsible for it because you do ultimately make those choices. But then I wonder if a higher power already knows exactly what choices you are going to make to reach that fate, so at that point you may not really be choosing to make those decisions? To me this is similar to the discussions I always had with my dad when I was younger. We would always talk about the idea of infinity or time being endless. It's interesting to think about, but the fact that we will never really understand it is very overwhelming... and that's how I felt when we finished reading Oedipus Rex and had our class discussions about fate.
Not only did I think about fate in the since of whether or not we are responsible for it, but it's also interesting (to me) to think about whether or not you can change your fate. And how sometimes the more you try to change your fate the closer you reach it. This happened in Oedipus Rex many times... like when he was leaving his village because he was trying to avoid killing is father, but on the way out he actually killed his father! And I also thought about this... the play is full of dramatic irony because we know what his fate is, and we can kind of laugh to ourselves sometimes because of the things that Oedipus said that we know are not true. So do the higher powers who know our ultimate fate watch us and laugh at us? Becase if you think about it they know our fate so a lot of our lives could be dramatic irony? Haha, it's kinda of a quirky thought but I thought it was interesting.
Other than these questions and ideas that I had, I honestly left with kind of grossed out pesamistic thoughts and images -- I mean, the whole end of the play was filled with them. The fact that Oedipus's children are his siblings, incest in general, Iocaste hanging herself, and Oedipus stabbing his eyes out!! UGH!! Gross is all I have to say to that.
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