Blog 13

1: The ending was very depressing. I feel like they should not have taken away Ti Moune the way that they did, I feel like there was more to the story than what they gave us. I feel like Ti Moune should have had the happy ending only because the had gone through so much and Daniel should have been the one who had been hurt or had the bad ending because he always got what he wanted. Also Daniel was not a very good person, he lied to Ti Moune when he said he loved her, and flirted with Andrea right in front of her which is really not cool.

2: I feel like the story represents the fact that life has a lot of twists and turns. Ti Moune's story is like a rugged mountain, she went from dirt poor, to wealthy and back to dirt poor when she died. The fact that they killed her off shows how meaningless her character was to the rich people. I feel like this story  has a moral in the form of a quote, and that quote is "Life is what happens, when you're busy making other plans". I feel like this is true because Ti Moune had this plan that she was going to find Daniel, become rich, marry him and have kids with him and live with him and be wealthy and eventually her and her kids would become heir to his money, but instead, she found him, they fell in love for a short time and then his other chick came back from France, and then Ti Moune died, this just shows how wild life is. 

Favorite Character: My Love, My Love

My favorite character so far is Agwe, I can relate to Agwe as I as well am a temperate person sometimes but more than that I like how Agwe is the mentor god for Ti Moune, she goes to the water for support when she needs a place to find herself, she says "I have given my word to my loa, Agwe". I believe a loa is like a mentor, she feels like she owes herself to Agwe. I always like the mentor characters responsible, Agwe plays a big factor in the survivors of all the village people because he provides the water for the crops, no water, no crops, no crops no food, no food, everyone dies. I also like a character I can relate too, he has a temper, I have a temper, that is another reason I like him, but more than anything I like the fact that he plays as a companion or mentor for Ti Moune

Quiz

The musical has taken many elements from its original backstory that make it similar to the novel. The first point that they make that is similar is the dreams that she has and her longing to be free. In the book, Desiree (Ti Moune) has these papillons that she places these vague wishes upopn that basically all add up to being free. In the musical, there are no papillons, her prayers and wishes are put into a very heartfelt and emotional song called "Waiting for Life" which is begging the gods to let her be free as Daniel passes by in his car going somewhere and she wants to be able to be free and do what she wants but she is stuck in the fields doing work while he is out exploring the world and experiencing the freedom that she desires. So in this way, in the musical, this song is the way that Ti Moune reflects her wishes and is similar in the way she wishes upon the papillons in the book. In the musical, Ti Moune prays to the gods, "Oh Gods, Oh Gods, let me fly", she is praying for them to let her be free from the labor that she is forced to do and let her experience real life, in the book she wishes upon the papillons, it says "many of the papillons she had captured had a vague wish attached: one day...one day". This is the depiction of the song in the book in my opinion because it explains her longing for something which seems to be freedom because from reading, the papillons seem to represent hope for her, so she would be wishing for them to one day let her be free and she has that sense of hope that one day she will be free becaus she can rely on the papillons to listen to her. 

In the play she acts similarly but also different, in the book as we said, she has hopes, but instead of being passionate about them, she keeps them to herself and does what she is told but in the back of her mind she has this wanting to be free, this yearning for freedom. In the musical, she is way more passionate because its like she is singing to the world whereas in the book she is only talking to the papillons and the gods, in the musical she sings her song to the world, her song of hope and wanting. She talks about "the stranger" whereas in the book, she doesn't hear about the "stranger" until he crashes, he doesn't drive by fast, he doesn't drive by at all, she only wishes to the papillons to be free. But in the play she has a way louder voice than in the book, she makes it known that she wants freedom, she lets the world know that she wants it, but in the book it is between her, the butterflies and the gods. 

Both in the play and in the book does she despise living on the farm and working in the fields, in the play she shows more of a voice than all of ther other villagers but in the book she is more silent, the silent one on the farm who is often preoccupied doing other things. In the musical she voices her opinions on her parents when she says "mama's contented and tonton accepts what he gets". In the book you don't see this because she does not voice her opinions in the book as much although in the book she is rebellious, she goes down to the stream and soaks herself in the water which in a way is her quiet way of voicing her opinion and saying "I can be free, I can do what I want sometimes, I can be myself". Doing this is her way of kind of saying that she is sick and tired of being restrained to the fields and that she wants to have time to herself and connect with her inner self and to the gods to see if they understand or have even listened to any of her prayers. When she goes under water, she connects with Agwe, the god of water for obvious reasons, although it does not say what she thought or what happened, later in the book she talks about connecting with Agwe, which takes us back to that scene. In the book she is quieter than she is in the play but is still rebellious and shows the world in both depictions that she will not be confined to the quarters of the fields.

These 3 reasons are how the musical has represented certain aspects of the book in similar ways. It has taken similar ideas and put them differently, such as the part about being rebellious and having a voice. I feel like voice is bigger in the play than it is in the novel just because you want to show the audience that there is some voice in Ti Moune but she only shows it when others aren't around which is kind of how it is in the book,  although she only wishes upon the papillons, so the play depicts how she does have a voice but only when others aren't around. The play and the book are indeed very similar in their elements and cores. 

Question #4

I would dress Ti Moune in a ripped flannel shirt and maybe ripped jeans and a bandana, the badana would represent the hard working personality of the peasants who live with th peasant girl. I would want her to dress differently from the peasants so hopefully the other peasants would be wearing like t shirts and things less colorful so it could represent her as an outsider, I would want her to be a strong believer in the gods but I wouldn't want to dress her anything like the gods because The Gods are the highest being and I feel like it would defeat the purpose of having The Gods be The Gods. But the flannel would represent color and hope, the jeans would represent being playful and reckless and the bandana would represent hard work to stay alive which basically covers all of Ti Moune's characteristics. 

Analysis of the Gods

The way we make the gods look would be a big part of the play as it would set them apart from eachother. For Asaka, the god of the earth, I would have her wearing a green color, I would have her head wrapped in a crown of vines and have her maybe wear a grean type of dress with vines intwined into it and leaves on it. For Agwe, god of the water, I would have him wearing a lot of blue, maybe like a blue robe with a white wrap over his shoulder and a blue mask with blue raindrops around the face. For Erzulie, she would be wearing a pink dress with white hearts on it and her hair would be kind of like, curly and she would wear a pink mask with hearts and lipstick on it. Papa Ge would wear all black, he would wear a skeleton mask and he would have skulls on his robe and a black crown. They would always be in the background to seperate themselves from the other characters

Scenes from The Peasant Girl (cont.)

 Hut in Haiti

Scenes from the Peasant Girl

 Magnolia

 Poinsettia

 Azalea

 Flamboyant

 Ficus

 Eucalyptus

Final Draft of Written Coursework

For my scene we decided to focus on the foreshadowing and how Friar Lawrence tried to control fate, AI used the scenes where Friar Lawrence tries to talk to Romeo and Juliet about Romeo being banished. My scene shows how Romeo tries to control what happens next in the relationship, it shows more when he talks to Juliet than when he talks to Romeo because when he talks to Juliet he states a clearly thought out plan for what is going to happen next, according to him. Friar Lawrence is the main reason for the downfall of the relationship between Romeo and Juliet because he tried to control fate instead of letting fate control itself. 

In my performance I am trying to portray that Friar Lawrence isn’t as holy of a person that everyone may see him as, he is a controlling and mysterious figure who has ways of basically hypnotizing people into doing what he believes is right. This relates to my scenes because in both of the scenes Friar Lawrence always seems to be taking a judgmental, orderly standpoint. He manipulates a very weak and fragile Juliet into doing something as desperate as the sin she threatened, being death. In Act 3, Scene 3, Romeo is manipulated into maintaining a calm although he does not want that, he is almost manipulated into finding a whole new life which was not an option for him because Verona was all he knew. In Act 4, Scene 1, Friar Lawrence manipulates Juliet into taking a mysterious potion that he claims will make her stop breathing but not kill her, Juliet agress to take this because there is no other option and Friar Lawrence knows this and so does Juliet which is why she is so easily manipulated. It also relates to my scenes because as holy as he is, earlier in the play he is seen making potions with mysterious herbs, the play did not go into through detail about what these herbs were but what concerns me is what the potions were and what their purposes were. Friar Lawrence like very much to be in control of destiny and fate and is in many ways obssessed with having everything perfect. Earlier in the play, he married Romeo and Juliet, he mentioned that maybe since he was marrying them that the families would have to get used to eachother and they feud between the two families would end and Verona would be a peaceful and happy place, but as we saw in the play, this did not happen and it only made the feud hotter. Later in the play, the feud took the lives of Mercutio of the Montague Family and Tybalt of the Capulet Family at the hands of none other than Romeo himself. 

Friar Lawrence is a controlling factor in the relationship of Romeo and Juliet and in many ways causes their relationship to fall apart and what causes their deaths. He tries to build a sense of calm into a buzzing, nervous and desperate Romeo by attempting to manipulate him into finding a new home and subsequently a new bride when he says “Here from Verona art thou banished, the world is broad and wide for you Romeo”. This is the first sign of manipulation from Friar Lawrence to Romeo and really the only one worth mentioning, although small and subtle it is there. It becomes more noticeable when he is talking to Juliet about Romeo’s banishment and this is really where Friar Lawrence tries to bend the branches of fate into his favor. He says to Juliet after she threatens suicide “Hold, daughter! I do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate an execution as that is desperate which we would prevent. If rather than to marry County Paris, thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, then is it likely thou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame, that cop’st with Death himself to scape from it; and if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy.”. This is basically telling Juliet that he has an idea and that since you have the guts to kill yourself you’ll have the guts to do this and if you do I’ll help you. This is when Juliet takes the potion that will fake her death and was supposed to reunite her with Romeo, and did, not in life, but in death.

In these two scenes, Friar Lawrence's body language conveys what a dominant figure he is in the lives of both Romeo and Juliet. He is almost always looming over them or above them or standing in front of them in most parts of the performance, this is because that in order to convey the controlling personality it is important to show him as a figure of superiority which in a technicality he is but in this sense it makes it even more luminescent because he is manipulating two mentally unstable people, people who are threatening death because of love. Friar Lawrence is almost always in a calm state but it is a different calm then most people are used to seeing, it is a mysterious calm, like he had this plan in his head all along. It is important to show this because he is supposed to be the calm figure but he is almost always in front of them on stage and above them because both Romeo and Juliet are always both on their knees begging for help and counsel because they are both desperate to see eac hother and Friar Lawrence is taking advantage of this. His body language is dominant because in the performance I showed him as a character who always stood upright and his head held high, a rather confident, sure of himself type of character. Friar Lawrence is dominant because he is the go-to character for help and he knows that so he takes advantage of his power sometimes it seems because he knows he can give Romeo, Juliet and anyone else who may come to him for advice which makes him so sure of himself and confident in his abilities. 

Friar Lawrence's aggressive tone allows us to understand that he is a domineering character and that he gets what he wants. He is often seen and heard talking down to Romeo and Juliet because he is like a father figure to both of them because they know they can always rely on him to give them help, or "counsel" as they refer to is in the play. Friar Lawrence was known to have married the couple which made him the go-to figure for counseling in the relationship which in some ways is good but in some ways bad, it proved to be bad for this relationship because it comepletely led to the downfall of the alrady downward spiraling relationship. He talks down to Romeo as he tells him what is basically the cold, hard truth, that he has been banished and that there isn't a whole lot he can do about it. He talks down to Juliet when he basically mocks her when he threatens to kill herself, he says that since you can threaten such a sin than you can save your relationship with Romeo by carrying out something just as desperate as taking her own life. Friar Lawrence's aggressive tone of voice adds onto his dominant personality and I feel like those two points are the main reason why Romeo and Juliet gave into what he suggested, not because they really wanted too but because he was so good at persuading them that it was the right thing to do and that it would get them what they wantd out of the relationship and would end the sorrows and the struggles and they would do anything to end the struggle of having to live in their relationship in secret. They also listened because as said before, they were desperate, they had nowhere else to go and no one else to turn too. Friar Lawrence was the only person in Verona who they could trust enough to not tell their families of their love which is why he took advantage of them and why he got so aggressive. 

In my analysis, I talked about how Friar Lawrence was controlling, how his body language was domineering and how his tone of voice was very aggressive. These points all go hand in hand because they all have something to do with eachother. Being controlling normally means that you have domineering body language to intimidate the person you are talking to so you can get what you want and the same aggressive tone of voice so you could get the same thing done. I feel like my scenes did a good job of showing how Friar Lawrence was a very dominant character not only in the all around performance but in the lives of Romeo and Juliet as the play progresses, you see him more and more which shows his importance to the relationship. In conclusion, Friar Lawrence is the main reason for the downfall of the relationship between Romeo and Juliet because he tried to control fate instead of letting fate control itself.

Writing Center Blog

I have not been to the writing center yet, I am saving that for what I know will be my final draft, I believe that my conclusion needs work, I think it needs more detail and to be more thorough. Also I think that I need to work on my body paragraphs, I think I might have gone off topic a bit but I'm not quite sure. I will use the writing center whenever I am unsure of any writing assignment or when I need ideas for where to go next with my papers. 

Peter Pan Review

The CA version of Peter Pan was an absolutely marvelous spin on a timeless classic. Based off of the original script by J.M Barrie, this play in many ways, was different from the Disney animated version, it is darker and less joyous then the animated adaptation. I feel like the cast was brilliantly selected, Erin was a brilliant Peter Pan, bringing the sarcastic, extravagant and valiant young boy to life. Charlotte was incredible in her change of roles, switching between Mrs. Darling and the sinister, Captain Hook. Wiebke put on a beautiful and thrilling performance as the sweet, loving, Wendy Darling and really interpreted the character perfectly. John Jiang was absolutely marvelous as Mr. Darling and made that role come to life and then turned around and played Curly, one of the lost boys, a transitiion from serious to sarcasm. The scene was beautifully set up, the windows were perfectly placed and the trees and beds and all the props were just perfectly placed. The lighting effects were just brilliant by Jacob which really brough the set to life, I don't think I would have viewed it the same way as I did with the lights. Though Tink wasn't a character I thought it was really cheeky and cool that they put in the green light and the bell, it added humor to the performance, as you could only understand the response to what Tink was "saying" not what was being said. Maggie put on an incredible performance on the flute (I think it was the flute), in my opinion and ffrom what I have seen, the flute is a huge part of Peter's character and it is a perfect sound effect because it in some ways conveys his sense of loneliness and longing although he does not always show it.  Overall, the CA version of Peter Pan is one of my favorite adaptations of the play, because of the characters, the set and the way it was put on. CA has done it again with another top class performance, well done to all.  

Final Draft of Written Coursework

For my scene we decided to focus on the foreshadowing and how Friar Lawrence tried to control fate, AI used the scenes where Friar Lawrence tries to talk to Romeo and Juliet about Romeo being banished. My scene shows how Romeo tries to control what happens next in the relationship, it shows more when he talks to Juliet than when he talks to Romeo because when he talks to Juliet he states a clearly thought out plan for what is going to happen next, according to him. Friar Lawrence is the main reason for the downfall of the relationship between Romeo and Juliet because he tried to control fate instead of letting fate control itself. 

In my performance I am trying to portray that Friar Lawrence isn’t as holy of a person that everyone may see him as, he is a controlling and mysterious figure who has ways of basically hypnotizing people into doing what he believes is right. This relates to my scenes because in both of the scenes Friar Lawrence always seems to be taking a judgmental, orderly standpoint. He manipulates a very weak and fragile Juliet into doing something as desperate as the sin she threatened, being death. In Act 3, Scene 3, Romeo is manipulated into maintaining a calm although he does not want that, he is almost manipulated into finding a whole new life which was not an option for him because Verona was all he knew. In Act 4, Scene 1, Friar Lawrence manipulates Juliet into taking a mysterious potion that he claims will make her stop breathing but not kill her, Juliet agress to take this because there is no other option and Friar Lawrence knows this and so does Juliet which is why she is so easily manipulated. It also relates to my scenes because as holy as he is, earlier in the play he is seen making potions with mysterious herbs, the play did not go into through detail about what these herbs were but what concerns me is what the potions were and what their purposes were. Friar Lawrence like very much to be in control of destiny and fate and is in many ways obssessed with having everything perfect. Earlier in the play, he married Romeo and Juliet, he mentioned that maybe since he was marrying them that the families would have to get used to eachother and they feud between the two families would end and Verona would be a peaceful and happy place, but as we saw in the play, this did not happen and it only made the feud hotter. Later in the play, the feud took the lives of Mercutio of the Montague Family and Tybalt of the Capulet Family at the hands of none other than Romeo himself. 

Friar Lawrence is a controlling factor in the relationship of Romeo and Juliet and in many ways causes their relationship to fall apart and what causes their deaths. He tries to build a sense of calm into a buzzing, nervous and desperate Romeo by attempting to manipulate him into finding a new home and subsequently a new bride when he says “Here from Verona art thou banished, the world is broad and wide for you Romeo”. This is the first sign of manipulation from Friar Lawrence to Romeo and really the only one worth mentioning, although small and subtle it is there. It becomes more noticeable when he is talking to Juliet about Romeo’s banishment and this is really where Friar Lawrence tries to bend the branches of fate into his favor. He says to Juliet after she threatens suicide “Hold, daughter! I do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate an execution as that is desperate which we would prevent. If rather than to marry County Paris, thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, then is it likely thou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame, that cop’st with Death himself to scape from it; and if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy.”. This is basically telling Juliet that he has an idea and that since you have the guts to kill yourself you’ll have the guts to do this and if you do I’ll help you. This is when Juliet takes the potion that will fake her death and was supposed to reunite her with Romeo, and did, not in life, but in death.

In these two scenes, Friar Lawrence's body language conveys what a dominant figure he is in the lives of both Romeo and Juliet. He is almost always looming over them or above them or standing in front of them in most parts of the performance, this is because that in order to convey the controlling personality it is important to show him as a figure of superiority which in a technicality he is but in this sense it makes it even more luminescent because he is manipulating two mentally unstable people, people who are threatening death because of love. Friar Lawrence is almost always in a calm state but it is a different calm then most people are used to seeing, it is a mysterious calm, like he had this plan in his head all along. It is important to show this because he is supposed to be the calm figure but he is almost always in front of them on stage and above them because both Romeo and Juliet are always both on their knees begging for help and counsel because they are both desperate to see eac hother and Friar Lawrence is taking advantage of this. His body language is dominant because in the performance I showed him as a character who always stood upright and his head held high, a rather confident, sure of himself type of character. Friar Lawrence is dominant because he is the go-to character for help and he knows that so he takes advantage of his power sometimes it seems because he knows he can give Romeo, Juliet and anyone else who may come to him for advice which makes him so sure of himself and confident in his abilities. 

Friar Lawrence's aggressive tone allows us to understand that he is a domineering character and that he gets what he wants. He is often seen and heard talking down to Romeo and Juliet because he is like a father figure to both of them because they know they can always rely on him to give them help, or "counsel" as they refer to is in the play. Friar Lawrence was known to have married the couple which made him the go-to figure for counseling in the relationship which in some ways is good but in some ways bad, it proved to be bad for this relationship because it comepletely led to the downfall of the alrady downward spiraling relationship. He talks down to Romeo as he tells him what is basically the cold, hard truth, that he has been banished and that there isn't a whole lot he can do about it. He talks down to Juliet when he basically mocks her when he threatens to kill herself, he says that since you can threaten such a sin than you can save your relationship with Romeo by carrying out something just as desperate as taking her own life. Friar Lawrence's aggressive tone of voice adds onto his dominant personality and I feel like those two points are the main reason why Romeo and Juliet gave into what he suggested, not because they really wanted too but because he was so good at persuading them that it was the right thing to do and that it would get them what they wantd out of the relationship and would end the sorrows and the struggles and they would do anything to end the struggle of having to live in their relationship in secret. They also listened because as said before, they were desperate, they had nowhere else to go and no one else to turn too. Friar Lawrence was the only person in Verona who they could trust enough to not tell their families of their love which is why he took advantage of them and why he got so aggressive. 

In my analysis, I talked about how Friar Lawrence was controlling, how his body language was domineering and how his tone of voice was very aggressive. These points all go hand in hand because they all have something to do with eachother. Being controlling normally means that you have domineering body language to intimidate the person you are talking to so you can get what you want and the same aggressive tone of voice so you could get the same thing done. I feel like my scenes did a good job of showing how Friar Lawrence was a very dominant character not only in the all around performance but in the lives of Romeo and Juliet as the play progresses, you see him more and more which shows his importance to the relationship. In conclusion, Friar Lawrence is the main reason for the downfall of the relationship between Romeo and Juliet because he tried to control fate instead of letting fate control itself.

Paragraph Revision of Written Task 1

Friar Lawrence is a controlling factor in the relationship of Romeo and Juliet and in many ways causes their relationship to fall apart and what causes their deaths. He tries to build a sense of calm into a buzzing, nervous and desperate Romeo by attempting to manipulate him into finding a new home and subsequently a new bride when he says “Here from Verona art thou banished, the world is broad and wide for you Romeo”. This is the first sign of manipulation from Friar Lawrence to Romeo and really the only one worth mentioning, although small and subtle it is there. It becomes more noticeable when he is talking to Juliet about Romeo’s banishment and this is really where Friar Lawrence tries to bend the branches of fate into his favor. He says to Juliet after she threatens suicide “Hold, daughter! I do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate an execution as that is desperate which we would prevent. If rather than to marry County Paris, thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, then is it likely thou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame, that cop’st with Death himself to scape from it; and if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy.”. This is basically telling Juliet that he has an idea and that since you have the guts to kill yourself you’ll have the guts to do this and if you do I’ll help you. This is when Juliet takes the potion that will fake her death and was supposed to reunite her with Romeo, and did, not in life, but in death. 

Outline of Final Draft of Written Coursework

Thesis - Friar Lawrence is the main reason for the downfall of the relationship between Romeo and Juliet because he tried to control fate instead of letting fate control itself. In my performance, I show this through the controlling, demanding treatment of other characters, the domineering body language and blocking and the aggressive tone of voice.

Intro- Introduce the play, your analysis and the scenes you performed and briefly explain how they connect to your analysis

BP1 - Explain analysis and how it relates to both scenes.

BP2 - Explain, in depth, how he is controlling with quotes from the play

BP3 - Explain, in depth, body language and how it is dominant with quotes from the play

BP4 - Explain how his aggressive tone of voice is prominent with quotes from the play. 

Conclusion - wrap up all of your points and how they relate to eachother

Written Coursework: First Draft

For my scene we decided to focus on the foreshadowing and how Friar Lawrence tried to control fate, we used the scenes where Friar Lawrence tries to talk to Romeo and Juliet about Romeo being banished. Our scene shows how Romeo tries to control what happens next in the relationship, it shows more when he talks to Juliet than when he talks to Romeo because when he talks to Juliet he states a clearly thought out plan for what is going to happen next, according to him. Friar Lawrence is the main reason for the downfall of the relationship between Romeo and Juliet because he tried to control fate instead of letting fate control itself. 

In the first scene we performed, Friar Lawrence and Romeo were talking about how to deal with the fact that he was banished, Friar Lawrence bascially told him to just suck it up and swallow the beans when he said "From Verona art thou banished, the world is far and wide for you Romeo" this basically is telling Romeo that he can find another place better than Verona and another woman better than Juliet. Romeo responds, heartbroken and desperate, he says that "there is no world without Verona walls, nothing but torture, purgatory, hell itself". This is obviously stating that Verona is the only place that he knows, the only place where he feels at home and if he were to go anywhere he wouldn't feel right because he has only been in Verona's walls and he doesn't know anything else so the outside world scares him. Romeo threatens to kill himself when he says "thou cutt'st off my head with a golden axe and smilst upon the stroke that murders me" which basically means to my knowledge, that when Friar Lawrence speaks of banishment, he's basically telling him to kill himself so he could smile at him while he did it, because Romeo feels like life is not worth living without Juliet or Verona and the Frair is telling him to be a man and do what is expected of him, but as we'll soon find out that is not the case. Romeo then goes on a rant about philosophy saying "unless philosphy can displant a town, reverse a prince's doom or make a Juliet it helps not, it prevails not" to where the Friar replies "I see madmen have no ears". Romeo then storms out and that is the end of the first scene. This is the beginning where you begin to see Friar Lawrence's attempted dominance over the situation as he tries to take over Romeo's conscience. 

In the sceond scene we performed, Friar Lawrence showed how controlling he is when he completely manipulates Juliet into performing an act that is supposed to reunite her with Romeo forever where they will live happily ever after which just doesn't happen. It starts where Juliet comes in absolutely freaking out as she says "Oh shut the door and after you do come weep with me" meaning close the door behind us and then come cry with me over Romeo's banishment where Friar Lawrence replies "Oh Juliet I already know the content of your grief" meaning I already know whats wrong, I know what you're going to tell me. Juliet then announces her death wish when she says "and with this knife I hold it presently, I long to die" which means now that Romeo, she has nothing to live for so she wants to die. Friar Lawrence now shows his controlling ways when he says "Hold, daughter! I do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate an execution as that is desperate which we would prevent. If rather than to marry County Paris, thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, then is it likely thou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame, that cop’st with Death himself to scape from it; and if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy. Here he basically says if she dares to accept a task so dangerous as death, which she threatened and if fear didn't hold her back he would give her something to fix the situation. Juliet accepts, saying she'd do anything to be with Romeo forever. Friar Lawrence then announces his plan which begins the downfall of the romance of Romeo and Juliet when he says "Hold then. Go home, be merry, give consent to marry Paris. We’n’sday is tomorrow; tomorrow night look that thou lie alone, take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilling liquor drink thou off, when presently through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse. To wanny ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death, thou shalt continue two and forty hours, and then awake as from a pleasant sleep. In the mean time, against thou shalt awake, shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, and hither shall he come, an’ he and I will watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. And this shall free thee from this present shame. Juliet agrees and goes home. 

For the rest of the essay I will sum up how my analysis is accurate to the scenes I chose and I will explain how my thesis is true by giving more evidence and using the evidence already stated to back up my argument.

Blog Post #9

My scene has actually been really successful, so far we have gotten our first draft done and that's only because I was absent with an eye appointment but it was only a minor setback and gave me more time to study my character. We are attempting to foreshadow love, death and fate and how they all intertwine and how Friar Lawrence tries to control all of those elements and try to reverse fate into his favor and led to the downfall of himself and Romeo and Juliet. I believe so far we have succeeded in putting our analysis across and acting it out in a way that the audience could understand, we could have worked on stage movements a little bit more and maybe our tone of voice when we talk on some of our lines. We have progressed because we have shortened our play a lot and we have definitely improved in the all-around acting out of it. Our characters definitely look a bit more the part when we add costumes, we don't really need any props or music to convey our point which kind of makes our scene interesting. As a performer this taught me how to fit into a new role, in my first scene I played the more vulnerable, broken down Romeo and now I'm playing Friar Lawrence who is a built up, on top of everything type of character which is a pretty big change and I feel like I have converted very well and that gives me confidence that in the future I will be able to fit into various other parts. 

Character Analysis

In my scene, I play Friar Lawrence, I am trying to convey how he is trying to take control of the situation and how he attempts to reverse fate. To convey this perception, I  am going to obviously be the loudest spoken person on the stage, I will always be center stage to show that I am above everyone else. When I am speaking to the other characters I always want to be louder than them and maybe sometimes cut into what they are saying not to be rude but maybe as a reassurance saying "let me handle it, I got this". My character is very controlling and sure of himself so I always want to be standing tall and straight up as the other characters look desperate and needy. 

Rough Draft of Scene

FRI. L.

Romeo, come forth, come forth, thou fearful man:

Affliction is enamor’d of thy parts,

And thou art wedded to calamity.

Enter Romeo.

ROM.

Father, what news? What is the Prince’s doom?

What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,

That I yet know not?

FRI. L.

Too familiar

Is my dear son with such sour company!

I bring thee tidings of the Prince’s doom.

ROM.

What less than dooms-day is the Prince’s doom?

FRI. L.

A gentler judgment vanish’d from his lips—

Not body’s death, but body’s banishment.

ROM.

Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say “death”;

For exile hath more terror in his look,

Much more than death. Do not say “banishment”!

FRI. L.

Here from Verona art thou banished.

Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

ROM.

There is no world without Verona walls,

But purgatory, torture, hell itself.

Hence “banished” is banish’d from the world,

And world’s exile is death; then “banished”

Is death misterm’d. Calling death “banished,”

Thou cut’st my head off with a golden axe,

And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.

FRI. L.

O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince,

Taking thy part, hath rush’d aside the law,

And turn’d that black word ’death’ to “banishment.”

This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.

ROM.

’Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here

Where Juliet lives, 

Every cat and dog

Live here in heaven and may look on her,

But Romeo may not; they may seize

On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand,

And steal immortal blessing from her lips,

Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,

Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin;

But Romeo may not, he is banished.

They are free men, but I am banished:

FRI. L.

Thou fond mad man, hear me a little speak.

ROM.

O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.

FRI. L.

I’ll give thee armor to keep off that word:

Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy,

To comfort thee though thou art banished.

ROM.

Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,

Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom,

It helps not, it prevails not. Talk no more.

FRI. L.

O then I see that madmen have no ears.

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Act 4 scene 1

JUL.

O, shut the door, and when thou hast done so,

Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help!

FRI. L.

O Juliet, I already know thy grief,

It strains me past the compass of my wits.

I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,

On Thursday next be married to this County.

JUL.

Tell me not, friar, that thou hearest of this,

Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it.

If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help,

Do thou but call my resolution wise,

And with this knife I’ll help it presently.

God join’d my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands,

Give me some present counsel, or, behold,

I long to die.

FRI. L.

Hold, daughter! I do spy a kind of hope,

Which craves as desperate an execution

As that is desperate which we would prevent.

If rather than to marry County Paris,

Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,

Then is it likely thou wilt undertake

A thing like death to chide away this shame,

That cop’st with Death himself to scape from it;

And if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy.

JUL.

O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,

chain me with roaring bears,

Or hide me nightly in a charnel-house,

And I will do it without fear or doubt,

To live an unstain’d wife to my sweet love.

FRI. L.

Hold then. Go home, be merry, give consent

To marry Paris. We’n’sday is tomorrow;

Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone,

Take thou this vial, being then in bed,

And this distilling liquor drink thou off,

When presently through all thy veins shall run

A cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse

To wanny ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall,

stiff and stark and cold, appear like death,

Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,

And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

In the mean time, against thou shalt awake,

Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,

And hither shall he come, an’ he and I

Will watch thy waking, and that very night

Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.

And this shall free thee from this present shame,

If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear,

Abate thy valor in the acting it.

JUL.

Love give me strength! And strength shall help afford.

Farewell, dear father!

Exeunt.

Foreshadowing Friar Lawrence

In this assignment we are going to be discussing foreshadowing, we are going to focus on how Love, Death and fate all relate to eachother but more importantly how Friar Lawrence tries to take control of all of these elements. This will help the reader examine closer Friar Lawrence's identity and what kind of character he really is in the play and how his actions affect the lives of Romeo, Juliet and their families. 

We are going to use the potion scene and/or the marriage scene to analyze our points. We believe that these scenes will zone in on Friar Lawrence's true personality and how he tries to take control of the situation and tries to reverse fate. We are going to perform this scene with Friar Lawrence mainly in the front of the stage because he is the one who is in the primary focus because he is the one being analyzed and investigated. We will have the light mainly on him and the character he is addressing because the majority of his lines offer evidence into his personality. We will give Romeo and Juliet the ability to look weak and desperate to give the feeling that Friar Lawrence will attempt to take control of the situation and show his true colors. 

We are going to have three actors who will be playing Romeo, Juliet and Friar Lawrence. I am going to be the Friar because I have mainly played Romeo in all of the productions so far and I want to try a new role and play a character that I'm not as comfortable playing as I was with Romeo. I also feel like I can impose the impulsive, controlling personality that Friar Lawrence has and that is what the scene needs to describe him. Jack will play Romeo and Chris will play Juliet, these two I believe will be able to depict the desperate, weak, needy characterisitcs as need to be shown by Romeo and Juliet. We will make sure to add and take away lines as needed, we will make sure that the stage is equally proportioned so that all actors can be seen by the audience and we will ensure that no character speaks longer than another which may entail adding or taking away lines. 

Ideas for Scenes

For scenes, we can do the Balcony Scene because this scene can be re-enacted a lot of different ways and it gives the actors a lot of leg-room to be creative. Another possible scene is the death scene, the death scene can also be played around with in terms the last words, the music and the staging and the atmosphere in which they die. Lastly the marriage scene, you can also play with the staging and the mood of the scene which I feel is a vital part in doing well in this project. 

Essay Question

The most significant part of the play Romeo and Juliet was when the pair of star cossed lovers both committed suicide because they couldn't live without eachother because they loved eachother so much. This moment in the play is significant because this showed that Romeo and Juliet really and truly did love eachother and that they weren't going to let anything seperate them which is what makes this scene stand out from all of the others.

This scene is the final scene of the play so nothing can really change per say, but in this play, the emotion in this scene goes from being dramatic to just outright hearbreaking in the span of about a minute, not even. The fact that two kids would go the distance for love is truly a heartwrenching thought and that is what makes the scene so hearbreaking. There were evidence that this scene was coming, both Romeo and Juliet threatened to or suggested it as an idea, most notably Romeo, when he said "Thou cutt'st off my head with a golden axe and smils't upon the stroke that murders me", he was referring to the Prince when he said Romeo was exiled, he basically said that if he is exiled he is as good as dead which is what he will make himself to which the Friar replied "O unheavenly sin, O rude unthankfulness". This moment as a whole is so significant in this play because it encapsulates all of the things that have led up to this moment. It makes you think about what caused it while will make you realize the situations with their families were stressful, they couldn't be with eachother which must have been stressful as well. Also this scene makes you think back to the scenes where they threatened suicide, why wasn't this threat taken more seriously? Why didn't the Friar further investigate the situation? Well the answer to this question is because that killing yourself in this period was against religion and those who commited suicide were not entitled to a Christian burial because they took away "God's greatest gift" which is life. 

A lot of this scene was significant because it changed the whole feeling of the play. The play was dramatic and over the top and sometimes a little bit sad because of the struggle that they were in to be together but when the deaths happened it changed the perspective of the play at last minute from a weird, sarcastic, dramatic performance to a heartbreaking tragedy in a matter of minutes which I think was true genious by the playwrite. This scene made a personal connection with me because, not that I would actually kill myself for someone, I have had the feeling that I would, that I loved someone so much that I would actually die for them and take a bullet for them which I believe was the initial feeling of Romeo and Juliet but seemed to change in this scene.

In conclusion, this scene summed up the play perfectly because in many ways this scene was preditcable. This scene definitely proved that love and death do connect and this scene did show that Romeo and Juliet loved eachother. The moment is signigicant because this showed that they were not going to let anything seperate them, not even death.

Questions

Where did Romeo go after he left Juliet to be banished? How long did he stay there?

Does the Friar care more about religion or nature? Use text-based analysis to backup your answer

When Balthasar tells Romeo of Juliet’s death, what is his reaction? What will he do?

Does Romeo seem like more of a lover or a luster? Use text-based analysis to back up your answer

How does Romeo commit suicide? Who witnesses the suicide?

Does it seem like Juliet is too young and naive to be in love? Use textual evidence to prove your answer?

How does Romeo react in his conversation with the Friar about his banishment? What is the Friar’s advice to Romeo

How does the nurse view Romeo? Does she like him or dislike him? Use textual evidence to back your answer

What does Juliet’s father threaten to do if she doesn’t marry Paris?

Is getting married in this time period about love or wealth? Use textual evidence to back your answer

What ultimately caused the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Their love for eachother? Or their famliy’s feud? Use textual evidence to back your answer

What was Shakespeare’s ultimate message towards the audience? Why do you think this?

What I Have Learned from Performing A Scene

During reproducing this scene, It has taught me a lot about editing and how to cut down seemingly unnecessary elements in order to make the scene move faster or in order to fit it into a certain timespan. Watching other people perform has given me ideas on how to portray my part or how not to portray it, it has also given me ideas for staging and stage directions. Watching other people perform their scenes can give you inspiration on how to act out your scene so sometimes its good to watch other people and not focus so much on what your scene is like because after the scene you might have an idea of how to stage or direct or act out your scene. It gets difficult for me when I try to have the right tone of voice or the right volume because trying to reenact a play in older english is sometimes difficult because you don't exactly always understand what the person is trying to say so sometimes I speak louder than I'm supposed to and that ruins the scene. It's normally really easy for me to adapt to my character and to own the part because if I understand the plot of the play and who the characters are and what they do in the play I can normally act them out and own the part really well . A good scene consists of good stage directions, accurate acting, good projection, gestures and owning the part, if you don't own the part, it will seem fake to the audience and in a lot of ways it will ruin the scene and it will make the actors around you look bad too. For improvement I can definitely work on projecting more and maybe speaking slower and more clearly and maybe at times owning the part a little bit better.

Scene Rewrite

If I were to rewrite a scene for Romeo and Juliet I would choose the part where Tybalt dies and instead I would place it outside VdP maybe or somewhere in that area and I would have someone come and challenge Romeo to a fight. Romeo would accept but then his friend instead would jump in and his friend would get hit in the face and knocked out. Romeo would then follow in pursuit of Tybalt and find him at Simosa Field where the two would fight. Romeo would start off on the defensive with Tybalt throwing most of the punches, but as the fight progresses, Romeo becomes a bit more anxious and starts throwing more punches and then eventually he connects a punch with Tybalt's jaw and proceeds to knock him out. Romeo backs away in shock as this is his first ever fight and he has never ever hurt anyone, Benvolio comes running in to report to Romeo but then sees that Tybalt has been knocked out and that Romeo must run away because it won't be long before news reaches Tybalt's friends and they will come for him. They eventually come for him and there is a massive school yard brawl between the two sides, the news gets to the dean and Romeo is called to meet with him. The dean says that he will be called for a C.C. Once in the C.C, they tell Romeo that instigating fights is breaking a major school rule in which Romeo attempts to object but it is sustained. The C.C tells him that they will give him the chance to withdraw from the school but if he fails to within 24 hours, they will expel him and put a huge smudge on his record. Romeo nods and he goes to a teacher and tells the teacher about the situation and that he wants to hurt himself if he has to be without Juliet, the teacher tells him to wise up and be grateful for them giving you this chance to withdraw from here because it is not a common thing that they let slide. Romeo tries to tell Juliet's friend that he needs to see her one more time, Juliet's friend then notifies Juliet and comes back to Romeo and tells him to go to her room window at lights out. He does so and they spend the night together and Romeo wakes up in the morning and Juliet asks if he has to leave and he says that either way he will have to leave and that he just wants to make it easier on his family to get him into another school. Romeo then proceeds to withdraw from the school and leave.

Death

Death in this scene is depicted to Romeo as basically saying "if I can't be with Juliet I might as well be dead". To him Juliet is the only think keeping him alive and without her he believes there is nothing worth living for. Romeo has been sentenced to be exiled, which means banished from Verona, meaning he won't see Juliet ever again, and to him, she is his everything and without her he would rather die. In this scene, Romeo is basically saying that being exiled is just as bad as killing him because they are taking away the one thing that he is living for and his one true love, Juliet.

When night time falls the dreams all come to life 

Angry

Anger is a powerful emotion because sometimes it doesn't stay with one person it could spread. I was once in a situation where my friend was being bullied and he got angry and retaliated and I felt his anger and retaliated with him, it ended very badly for the other person and before we knew it everyone was angry and our two groups merged and there was a huge scuffle and it was ugly. This situation could have been avoided in two ways. A. my friend could have walked away from the situation or B. The kid could have walked away from my friend and stopped picking on him 

Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

The version I watched was made in 2013 and directed by Carlo Carlei. They changed the original language around a little bit but mainly kept it the same. It was set in the same setting as the original play, Verona, Italy. I thought it was very true to the original play, I thought Juliet acted very much how a teenager would act and Romeo more like an experienced bachelor which I thought was good. The adaptation stayed true to the rivalry of the Montagues and the Capulets and a lot of the characters acted the same as they would in the play. I did think that Benvolio would be older but he looked like a little kid in this adaptation of the play. The movie was released in the UK so the accents were British although there is a little bit of Italian spoken. The language also stayed the same mostly but they did change around a few words into modern English which I thought was cheeky yet smart and it mixed modernality with originality and I thought that this version did a great job of that. 

Compared to the play I thought it was quite similar to how Shakespeare would have filmed it and directed it which how you would want a work by Shakespeare to be like. Overall I did like the adaptation a lot. I liked it because the characters stayed true to how Shakespeare made them, Also unlike what a play would offer, the movie offered a musical score that took the emotions of these two lovers and they handed them to you through music which I thought was just so well done and so beautiful. The music conveyed more emotion in my opinion than the characters themselves did, or might I say, the music assisted the emotions being portrayed by the characters but sometimes so peaceful and sorrowful and beautiful that it made you feel something more than what the characters themselves with no music would have made you feel which I think was just so well done. Overall the film impressed me and to me is more Than the panned ratings it got, I thought the characters were original which I liked and no one tried to mess around with them and I thought the score was just absolutely beautiful and I think that was my favorite part of the film. If you want a truly beautiful, emotional film adaptation of the play that makes you feel something more than I reccomend this highly. 

Balcony Scene

https://youtu.be/p2FdsYxgVIk

Favorite Scene in Act 2, Romeo and Juliet

I'd have to say that scene 2 is probably my favorite just because of the connection that Romeo and Juliet make in this scene, Juliet may do most of the talking in the beginning but her words gave me goosebumps and had me wishing a girl would think of me like that (not after a day of course). The way that Romeo just seemed to take it all in was just amazing, so calm and collected as opposed to completely freaking out which would have ruined the scene completely, Romeo showed collectiveness when he said "shall I speak to this or shall I hear more". That was a sign that he was calm under pressure and also that he liked hearing his name in such good conversation (with one's self). Juliet was so beautiful in the language she used and her bittersweet wording of her feelings for Romeo, she seemed to like it but at the same time was sad, not because she didn't want to be with him but because he is supposed to be "the enemy". She shows her dissatisfaction with the fact that he is her "enemy" when she says "What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face. O, be some other name Belonging to a man" this basically means that a name should be no reason to hate someone when they themselves have done nothing wrong, just because of a long lasting dispute, not everyone is guilty in the dispute. Scene 2 just showed and incredible connection between the pair, the words spoken and the very little actions done but even though there was little kissing, the language in itself professed and underlying sense of love between the pair. Also it taught me somethiing, no amount of hate between sides, can keep two people who are meant to be away from eachother which is kind of a beautiful thing especially in the way that Shakespeare illustrates it here. 

Romeo and Juliet: Act 2, Scene 2: Juliet

In act 2, scene 2, it is the first time that Romeo and Juliet hint at liking eachother or making anything serious come of it, Juliet basically asks where about is Romeo though he be nearby. She then goes on to basically state that Romeo i supposed to be her enemy but she is capturing feelings for him and that she did not understand why a feud between the family is drawing them apart. She finishes her statement by saying that if his last name not be Montegue that she would be his wife. 

Romeo and Juliet Analysis

So far, Romeo and Juliet has already surprised me, it has been a very interesting read and I am very excited to resume reading it, the opening scene was amazing and comedic and had me giggling. So far, all we know in the story is that the Montague's and the Capulets have a very violent feud going on between them that it seems like nothing can resolve. We know that Romeo is in love with a girl which has driven him into a depressed state. We know that Juliet is seemingly about to be set up with an older, rich man named Paris. 

Act 1 of the play has me very interested, it was very comedic in the beginning and I liked that part before all of the depressing, romantic part of the play shows its head. So far in the play, Romeo seems like a hopeless romantic who is without love at the moment, he seems very impulsive to find love and depressed that he can't find it, he proves this with the quote "out of her favour, which I am in love". Somehow he comes across as confident in who he is and that he'll find love. We haven't heard much about Juliet but she seems very hesitant to find a boy, she seems very content just doing her thing and just being a girl and doing what girls her age do. Benvolio is kind of like a peace keeper in the huge feud between the two families, he attempted to break up the fight between the two, he proved his peace-keeping ways when he said "I do but keep the peace, now put up thy sword or manage to part these men with me". Tybalt is by far the most violent of all of them, he wants a fight with the Montagues and attempts to add fuel to the fire by saying "what, drawn talk of peace, I hate the word, I hate hell and all Montegues" in which a fight breaks out and the citizens come forth and beat them with clubs. Lady Montague is a very concerned parent by the looks of it, she says "O, where is Romeo? Saw you him today? Right glad I am that he was not at this fray". She seems like she just wants him to stay out of trouble and to be happy because apparently she has noticed that he has seemed other than normal. Paris seems very eager to marry Juliet already as he says to Mr. Capulet "Younger than she are happy mothers made" although he is very wealthy, he is an older man and Juliet is just a ripe apple just picked from the tree at 13 years old and she is definitely not ready for a fully committed marriage. So far Romeo and Juliet is a very well-written and spontaneoulsly entertaining read and I look forward to continuing. 

Act 1: Scene 1/2 Summaries

Act 1: The Capulet servants rant to eachother about their hatred of the Montague family. They talk about attacking the Montague's in such ways as brutall beating the men and raping the women. Sampson and Gregory try to provoke a fight with a couple of Montague servants, The Montague servants give in and a fight erupts

Act 2: Juliet's family, the Capulet's are trying to set Juliet up with a man named Paris who is older then her but very wealthy, they say that she is too young to get married but they consider him a fine suitor and they invite him to a huge dinner feast that they hold every year. 

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Play vs. Novel

     In the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon an autistic boy named Christopher discovers the world and learns new things on his way to try to take on his A-level math exam, however in the play version by Simon Stephens brings the characters to life.The similarities and in the play and novel versions are seen by the differences in words, characters and all around way of reading and seeing it.

    The play version of Curious Incident is definitely a more interesting read as it incorporates actual actions and music and lighting arrangements. In the play version it takes out portions of storyline to make it shorter and slightly changes the dialogue so it is in first person. In the novel, words are less alive than in the play version but there is more storyline and things are a little bit more specific in detail than the play version. I like the play version better just because I felt like it was more first person, if the novel would have been first person it would have been brilliant but the third-person aspect of the novel killed it for me, it was better told in a first person format. The novel and play are similar and different in many ways.

   The novel and play version are similar in storyline, but other than that they have many differences. They differ because the play version takes the words and brings them to life, the play puts a completely different perspective on the story with a very well-written first person perspective of how Christopher's life is. The novel does a decent job of describing Christopher’s condition and what his life is like but not as good as the play which provides actions and movements and directions to the characters to help illustrate what Christopher’s life is like. Also the play is a lot shorter then the book most likely because it has to fit in to a time slot and the book can basically go into more detail about everything which is one of the things I like about the book, the detail about all the characters and things in the book.

   The similarities and in the play and novel versions are seen by the differences in words, characters and all around way of reading and seeing it. The similarities and differences sort of come together to put two different perspectives on the story, first and third-person perspectives, one version provides more detail to back the more third-person approach and one pays more attention to effects and movements and directions to fit the more first-person approach. In closing, both approaches provide interesting insight into the storyline and what it's like to be in Christopher’s situation 

Shakespeare vs. Modern English

Shakespeare uses Old English and we use modern english

Shakespeare used round theatres and today we use closed theatres

a lot of Shakespeare used audience participation and modern theatre does not

Shakespeare had all male casts even female roles were played by males nowadays female roles are actually played by females

no costumes, just everyday clothes in Shakespeare and now we have costumes

Weather affected performances because of the open roof, now its all inside so it can't affect it

Historically based plays by Shakespeare, nowadays its based on what entertains the public

Food was a big part of performances

Low scenery, very little effects in Shakespeare, now its a bit more fancy

People had to stand in theatres in Shakesperian era, now u can sit

Shakespeare had to make everything more dramatic because there were no microphones, nowadays we can speak normally because of microphones

In Shakespeare there was no seperation from the performance and the audience, nowadays there are.

Literature and Performance

Literature is a piece of work written by a person to be read and invisioned in the mind. Performance is an acting out of literature, so in a way these two are connected but are also different in many ways. Performances normally start out as just literature, words on a page and actions in asterix, what makes a performance more than literature is the fact that a lot of things must come together in order to make it a performance that can be seen by an audience and not just something somebody reads and imagines in their mind what happends. In literature there is no action, there are just words and the readers makes what they want of those words and that is literature, performance in a way is similar btu instead of the audience imagining the way it is peformed, the performers, the director and the ensemble band arrange how the performance is set up and do with the script what they like, such as changing the names and genders of characters and inserting and taking out lines as they please as well as rearranging the set to fit the specific space of the peformance.

In my experience with literature and performance, performance is a lot more intense than literature, even thought that is the expected answer I have reasoning to back it up. In my first performance I had a small role because I am bad with memorization, and althought my part seemed so small, I was able to make it more intense and bring it to life. In literature, if a role is boring or small there really isn't anything you can do to make it more interesting but in performance, the smallest parts or roles can be the most instense, it just depends on what the actor playing the part intends to do with the part. Literature is something where when something is written, it is set in stone, nothing can be changed or moved around, made better or worse, nothing changes but with performance you can change the mood, the setting, the time period and so much that you wouldnt be able too in literature. Creativity is a factor in both literature and performance but have different meanings in both, in litereature, creativity means fancy words and creative structuring, in performance, creativity means acting, music, lighting arrangements, set up, costumes, line structuring and just all around actions. 

In closing, literature and performance both have their different forms of creativity but in the end they lock arms because in a lot of ways, literature makes a performance because the writing of a script is the foundation in which a performance plants its roots, so literature and performance overall go hand in hand with their similiarities and differences.

"A script is less than a play, while a production is more" - How to Read A Play by Ronald Hayman

This quote to me means that a script is just words written on a page meant to have something done with them whilst a production is the carrying out of that something that was meant to be done with those words in extent making the play bigger then the words that were written. I think this makes sense because a script for me is only the beginning and a script can sometimes be very vague but then when u start acting it out the words on the page come alive, so I like this quote a lot. This relates to our class because the majority of us have experience in performing and we have both read a script and how at times they can be vague but then have watched them come to life in performance

Intorduction

Hey guys, my name is Michael Davis and I'm a junior at Cheshire Academy and I play tennis, I play the drums and I sing. I started acting last year making my debut in the winter musical at Cheshire Academy and I absolutely loved it. I'll tell you a bit more about myself as a person.

I was born in Westchester County, New York and when I was young I moved around New York a lot. When I was 4 we moved to Port Chester, New York where my brother was born, we stayed there for about 2 years after that, from there we moved back to Westchester County and stayed there for about 6 years, I completed my elementary and middle school careers there. When i was 12 we moved to Hamilton Parish, Bermuda, where I currently reside away from my time at Cheshire Academy. I went to school in Bermuda for about a year at a school called Saltus Grammar School but after giving much thought and consideration about the cirriculum and the overall atmosphere of the school, me and my school thought it best for me to find a place away from Bermuda. I now attend school at Cheshire Academy as a boarding student, this is my 3rd year at the Academy after arriving in Freshman year. I am very happy here with the opportunities I am being given playing tennis, singing, playing the drums and in acting, the community is such a welcoming place and I'm proud to be a member of such a great society. 

 

In my friend group I am always the most supportive one, I always worry about everyone and try my best to help everyone when they are feeling sad. I kind of have two personalities, I have a personality for playing tennis and a personality for being a person and a citizen of society. When I am on the tennis court I am a fighter, no matter how hard the situation is I always make sure that I never give up and that I always stay positive, I gve everything I have to the sport of tennis and it has given its all too me. My favorite thing about playing tennis is how it tests you, you are constantly being tested by the elements, your opponent, sometimes the surface depending on the surface you play on and most importantly your own mind. Tennis helps me in everyday life because sometimes I use similar mental tools to fight through a hard day or a tough exam as I would to play my best in a close tennis match. My personality as a friend is a mix between soft and caring and tough, I can be soft and caring when my friends are down and something bad happened but I can be hard on them when they always put themselves down but its always meant to inspire them and give them confidence in themselves.

Anyway since you guys are going to be reading my blog this is the stuff you should know about me.

~M