End of the Semester Blog

I thought that this semester of English was pretty good. Usually, English isn't my favorite class but it was one of my favorites so far. Maybe it is because I liked what we read or because my other classes suck, I don't know. It is probably a combination of the two. I really liked reading Hamlet. Even though I did not really understand some of the language, I could still understand most of it because of the movie. Also, I thought that the story was pretty interesting. I also enjoyed how we did many different and unorthodox projects and class discussion thingys like the circles. I hope next semester was as good as this one.

Project Blog

I think that Matthew and I have a pretty good idea of what we are going to do. We are pretty far along in rewriting the scene, once we finish that we are done. What we have chosen to do is change up Gertrudes character a little bit during Act four scene seven. Originally, she didn't know anything about the plot to kill Hamlet between Claudius and Laertes. So now, we have changed it so that through some new plot events that Gertrude goes through, she knows what is going on and tries to stop Hamlet. I'm not going to tell you how it happens though. You will have to wait until you read it. And no I am not doing this as a way to write less on my blog.

Soliloquy

I have an idea of which soliloquy I am going to do. I think that I will probably do the one where Hamlet says "Frailty thy name is woman." It is an interesting speech because it is really the first time when the reader gets to see the real feelings of Hamlet. This speech takes place after Claudius and Gertrude finish talking about the death of old Hamlet. Another reason I think this is an important speech is because our English teacher said it was. But besides that, it is easy to see lots of emotion in this soliloquy. There are many easy and simple words that show emotion such as stale and flat and rank and gross. Because of these words, it will be a lot easier to portray the emotion present in this soliloquy.