ANTS....

So for this assignment I wasn't too sure of what I was going to do with it. Just bumped into someone on the road and talk about our life stories? Go down a bunch of stair cases and find some random person just waiting there to talk to? I didn't think this was really going to happen. So what I figured I was going to do was that while I was helping deliver some stuff to all the tully's and nordstroms and all those places from our bakery, I would actually talk to the people that I deliver to. Rather than just dropping it off and asking them to sign the dotted line. I thought this would work fine. Come to find out I didnt have to work that day. So sitting with the pep band at the girls varsity game I didnt know what I was going to do. In that lil thinkning to myself about this, I didnt hear what the next song was going to be that we played. I then asked this unknown figure holding a trombone in front of me what the next song was. He simply responded with "smoke on the water". Simple enough, but I thought I would try to engage in conversation. So I went on started to talk to him about the band, which then lead to talking about the school and basketball and all that good stuff. I found out that he actually played for a jazz band that i had actually seen play before. the whole thang was tight. not awkward or anything like that. We each leaned a lot about the other person.

structure? anti-structure? love song

In this love song, we see how thr writer structures his

love

song. Its not completely chaotic, but still is a lil bit. the song tells about a man that is going thru his life, realizing that he is growing old and will

die

soon,

as well as talks about what he wants to say, or thinkks he should do with some lady. With the structure he

separates

it into topics. He'll talk about something and then

jump to something else, and there he would

break

up the lines. As his mind wanders more and more thru the song, it

scatters

around a lil bit more.

how do u interpret it???

Split Image?

In Act three scenes one and two, we see Hamlet's attempt at revealing the King's crime. Doing this thru a play. Hamlet believes that the purpose of a play is to show truth and to imitate real life happenings. Because he believes this, he stresses it like crazy to the players. Wanting them to be as natural as possible, not over acting or under-acting.

This is where the question comes in: is all art supposed to be a mirror image of society? At first I, right away, thought that it wasn't. Mainly because of all the obscene and out of this world stuff that we see. I thought that there was no way that that reflects society at all. But then as I thought about it, I think that all artists have to have some influence to their art. It may or may not be shown just straight up, but it theories, and techniques, etc. There may be a painting, that most people wouldn't think too much about. But it may have little signs of darkness in it, and you may find out that it was painted during the Great Depression. So going back to the question with out babbling on with attempts to illustrate my point, it seems like there is almost always some influence or some truth in much of the art that we see. . .

How much of a threat is Hamlet to Claudius?

At this point in Hamlet, everything is getting real intense and hectic. From hamlets "love" for ophelia and his insanity, to the foreign affairs happening outside of elsinore. Both Hamlet's insanity and foreign affairs come up here at the same time. THis is where the argument that Hamlet is a large threat to Claudius. As we see in 2:2, the subject of foreign affairs comes up, and what does Claudius do? He merely brushes it away, and moves on to his concern about Hamlets sanity. Claudius is a selfish man, and shows that his concern is more with his own self rather than the safety and protection of his people. Hamlet poses a huge threat to claudius, and he seems willing to do anything to figure out what is going on with Hamlet, so that nothing happens to him. Whats the threat tho? Im not too sure, but maybe he thinks that Hamlet knows about his murder, ands is afraid of what the outcome of that may be. Maybe its the threat of Hamlet taking over the throne. Or maybe, since Hamlet is like this, he is afraid that Hamlet may take Gertrude from him.

Lets hope thats not the case. . .