Post by Mr. Thomas on Sept 2, 2013 15:11:04 GMT -5
In case you misplace it, here are the rules for the discussion board we went over the first week. Learn them well.
Discussion Board Requirements American Lit.docx (36.68 KB)
Sample post:
Ultimately, your average message board post should look something like this:
HAMLET: ACT 1 (post by Vernon T. Waldrip)
D. Horatio says, “Most like. It harrows me with fear and wonder” (53). This line really explains to us what all three of the guards are feeling when they see this ghost. They are all frightened by it, yet they wonder why it came to them and why it is dressed the way it is. It really sets the mood for the whole scene because it lets us know that they are anxious. The first few lines in this scene really shocked me because we didn’t know anything about these characters yet they were all so nervous and jumpy. Plus they were very suspicious and cautious of everything.
G. If I were Hamlet, I would feel really sorry for myself! I mean, I come home to find out that my mother is married to my uncle and my father is dead, then to find out that my buddies are seeing my father’s ghost! I’m really getting confused and messed up in the head. No wonder I wish it was legal to commit suicide when I say, “O that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd /His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! /How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable /Seem to me all the uses of this world! (131-137). Those lines are just so sad with no hope at all! Is there anything I have to live for? I’m feeling overwhelmed and wonder why all of this is happening at once.
E. King Claudius seems like a flake to me. He seems to know what he’s talking about but to me it’s like it’s rehearsed or something. For instance, the little speech he gives at the beginning of the scene is just rife with clichés: “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death / The memory be green, and that it us befitted / To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom /To be contracted in one brow of woe” (1-4) Really, Claudius? No personal stories about how much your brother meant to you? This looks like you browsed the “sympathy card” aisle at Hallmark for ideas. I can also understand him trying to be friends with Hamlet, but it seems to me that he is just doing it to make himself look good. I don’t think he means anything of what he said. Not mention, it’s pretty insulting when he says, “But, you must know, your father lost a father; / That father lost, lost his; and the survivor bound, / In filial obligation, for some term / To do obsequious sorrow” (91-94) and then says Hamlet’s grief is “unmanly” (96). His father JUST died! Give him some time to grieve, jerk!
Discussion Board Requirements American Lit.docx (36.68 KB)
Sample post:
Ultimately, your average message board post should look something like this:
HAMLET: ACT 1 (post by Vernon T. Waldrip)
D. Horatio says, “Most like. It harrows me with fear and wonder” (53). This line really explains to us what all three of the guards are feeling when they see this ghost. They are all frightened by it, yet they wonder why it came to them and why it is dressed the way it is. It really sets the mood for the whole scene because it lets us know that they are anxious. The first few lines in this scene really shocked me because we didn’t know anything about these characters yet they were all so nervous and jumpy. Plus they were very suspicious and cautious of everything.
G. If I were Hamlet, I would feel really sorry for myself! I mean, I come home to find out that my mother is married to my uncle and my father is dead, then to find out that my buddies are seeing my father’s ghost! I’m really getting confused and messed up in the head. No wonder I wish it was legal to commit suicide when I say, “O that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd /His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! /How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable /Seem to me all the uses of this world! (131-137). Those lines are just so sad with no hope at all! Is there anything I have to live for? I’m feeling overwhelmed and wonder why all of this is happening at once.
E. King Claudius seems like a flake to me. He seems to know what he’s talking about but to me it’s like it’s rehearsed or something. For instance, the little speech he gives at the beginning of the scene is just rife with clichés: “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death / The memory be green, and that it us befitted / To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom /To be contracted in one brow of woe” (1-4) Really, Claudius? No personal stories about how much your brother meant to you? This looks like you browsed the “sympathy card” aisle at Hallmark for ideas. I can also understand him trying to be friends with Hamlet, but it seems to me that he is just doing it to make himself look good. I don’t think he means anything of what he said. Not mention, it’s pretty insulting when he says, “But, you must know, your father lost a father; / That father lost, lost his; and the survivor bound, / In filial obligation, for some term / To do obsequious sorrow” (91-94) and then says Hamlet’s grief is “unmanly” (96). His father JUST died! Give him some time to grieve, jerk!