Ok, I know I was supposed to get something from watching this and from reading the script. But "Theatre of the Absurd" seems to be a fitting title because it really made absolutely no sense to me. It sounds harsh, but I equate this with the artist who draws a square on a piece of paper and people marvel at the ingenuity. Absurd.
But we're not supposed to be critiquing it, I guess, only elaborating on differences so I'll stick with that. The most obvious differences were as follows:
-A is not annoyed or "at a loss" with D in the movie, though in the script she is several times
-D does not have a cigar. When he says "Light", he is signaling to A to pull out a flashlight so he can read from his notepad
-A suggests to point the finger in the movie. In the script, it is putting the hands together
-There is no armchair in the movie, though the script makes significant mention of one
-The applause at the end is supplied by A in the movie, rather than the "distant storm of applause" as the script called for
So why the differences? I really have no idea. I don't understand the purpose of the initial script and the changes made in the movie didn't make it any better or any more significant so to me, it really didn't seem to matter. I guess I'm missing something...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Homework for 1/22/09
Holy Sonnet #14 was good poem to try to make sense of, at least in my opinion. The speaker is involved in a spiritual struggle and it's a struggle he feels he cannot win. The first 4 lines are a plea for God to be less merciful and less patient.
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new
He's basically feeling like God is being to kind and gentle and that's why he keeps resorting to acts of evil. He is pleading with God to not "knock, breath, shine, or seek to mend" his heart but to batter it, burn it away, and force him to be righteous.
I, like an usurped town, to another due,
Labor to admit you, but O, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue
Here, the speaker tells why he's struggling and who both sides are. One is, of course, God and what it means to spiritual and the other side is reason, which according to the speaker, is getting in the way of his spirituality and belief in God. I'm curious about "me should defend" however. It really sounds like bad English, so I'm kind of at a loss to what he's trying to get across here. Perhaps, just the fact that he's trying to defend his reason but cannot turn his back on God.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain
But am betrothed unto your enemy
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me
The end of the sonnet really sounds a lot like something one would say to a lover (a crazy someone, but nonetheless). So it gets very intimate, talking about being "betrothed" to the enemy, which is likely the Devil, or just sin in general. He asks for God to break that bond and for God to pull the speaker unto himself. He asks to be made a slave and to be taken by force.
So overall, the poem just really addresses a spiritual battle between reason and faith. He finds his faith struggling due to reason and finds he can't completely turn over to reason because of his faith. So he's caught in the middle, and sort of blames God for letting him just hang there, waiting for him to choose. He doesn't want to make the choice, he'd rather it be made for him.
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend
That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new
He's basically feeling like God is being to kind and gentle and that's why he keeps resorting to acts of evil. He is pleading with God to not "knock, breath, shine, or seek to mend" his heart but to batter it, burn it away, and force him to be righteous.
I, like an usurped town, to another due,
Labor to admit you, but O, to no end;
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue
Here, the speaker tells why he's struggling and who both sides are. One is, of course, God and what it means to spiritual and the other side is reason, which according to the speaker, is getting in the way of his spirituality and belief in God. I'm curious about "me should defend" however. It really sounds like bad English, so I'm kind of at a loss to what he's trying to get across here. Perhaps, just the fact that he's trying to defend his reason but cannot turn his back on God.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain
But am betrothed unto your enemy
Divorce me, untie or break that knot again
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me
The end of the sonnet really sounds a lot like something one would say to a lover (a crazy someone, but nonetheless). So it gets very intimate, talking about being "betrothed" to the enemy, which is likely the Devil, or just sin in general. He asks for God to break that bond and for God to pull the speaker unto himself. He asks to be made a slave and to be taken by force.
So overall, the poem just really addresses a spiritual battle between reason and faith. He finds his faith struggling due to reason and finds he can't completely turn over to reason because of his faith. So he's caught in the middle, and sort of blames God for letting him just hang there, waiting for him to choose. He doesn't want to make the choice, he'd rather it be made for him.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
1/15/09 - Blog Assignment
Enjambment:
In the poem "Digging", there are several lines that contain this concept, making us feel like it's moving us into the next line without pause.
Lines 10 and 11
The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly
Also, lines 20 and 21
Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up
To drink it, then fell to right away
Rhyme Scheme:
The Rhyme Scheme of Acquainted with the Night is ababcbcdcdedee
Speaker:
The speaker of Acquainted with the Night seems to be someone wandering the streets, lost in thought, or perhaps feels like they're wandering through life
Tone:
The tone of Acquainted with the Night seems to be somber, sort of a melancholy feel to the speaker's thoughts. You also get a sense of loneliness.
In the poem "Digging", there are several lines that contain this concept, making us feel like it's moving us into the next line without pause.
Lines 10 and 11
The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly
Also, lines 20 and 21
Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up
To drink it, then fell to right away
Rhyme Scheme:
The Rhyme Scheme of Acquainted with the Night is ababcbcdcdedee
Speaker:
The speaker of Acquainted with the Night seems to be someone wandering the streets, lost in thought, or perhaps feels like they're wandering through life
Tone:
The tone of Acquainted with the Night seems to be somber, sort of a melancholy feel to the speaker's thoughts. You also get a sense of loneliness.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
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