lunes, 1 de marzo de 2010

Twelfth Night act 1.

This is one of the most famous plays written by Shakespeare. The story begins with complications and a confusing rising action. It begins when Viola turns to be a man in order to serve Orsino. And all this, is because she loved her brother. I liked how Shakespeare showed the different types of love that we have in our lives. Viola loved her brother, as well as Olivia loved his now death brother. I think here Shakespeare makes a parallelism between their feelings. This is because both women loved a man who was interested in someone else. (Even when Olivia was in love with a man that actually didn’t existed.)Here we can see that love can be showed to everyone, just in a different way. I’ve already seen the movie and I really liked it. But as usually, I think that the book will be many times better. I hope so.

Shakespeare

Shakespeare is maybe the most important writer in all the times. His plays are exceptional. When we read them, we get to understand why he is so famous. He is considered like a hero speaking about literature. But just like you or me, he still was a person, with feelings and problems as all of us. His life wasn’t that easy. During his times, he wasn’t considered as good as he is now. He was just a play writer, an actor nobody cared about him. But it was until much time after his death that he was really considered as a good or great writer. His plays are funny, interesting and they always convey the feelings correctly. But one of the most important successes was that he added many new words, not only in the literature world, but also to the daily vocabulary. Shakespeare was genius when using the words, feelings and plots correctly. There might be many famous writers, but we’ll hardly find one like Shakespeare.

No witchcraft for sale

I had a very hard time understanding this story. Actually I think I didn´t understand it. It begins saying that the little sweet boy was used to see black servants people in his house. In theory, he didn’t have the example of the racist people. But as the time goes by, he gets to be racist and treats bad Gideon, his cook. One day, Teddy, the little master gets hurt. And in that point, the story changes completely. There, the story changes completely. Neither more Teddy nor the resolution of any problem is next. The introduction drives to any point to understand the story. Then, Gideon uses a strange plant to cure the little child. The parents are fascinated and they have a hard time trying to convince Gideon to show the world the marvelous plant. Gideon never gives them the true plant. I just couldn’t understand the plot line that the author followed to write the story. Maybe he wrote like that on purpose.