Hamlet Remix!

Act 3. sc. 1

Hamlet  -  Get thee <to> a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves <all;> believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father?

This has to be one of my favorite scenes so far. I find it very humors how Hamlet just straight out tells Ophelia that she shouldn't even bother with him, in fact it is just best if she goes to a convent rather than produce. Hamlet is still trying to find who he is as a person, and being in the situation he is put it, it makes the journey ten times harder. He is in a sea of confusion. dealing with love, his mothers actions, and the killer of his father.

My Vocab Mid-term Autopsy

1) I did not do as well as I expected. It is my fault personally, didn't give myself enough time to practice the vocab words.

2) I need to study the words so I can become fluent with them. That way I will be able to use them in the future and make it apart of my daily language.

3) In preparation of the final I will need to not only practice each week's words but as well as all the words we have had all semester long. And also I should try using them in my every day language.

Vocab List # 8

1. abeyance- a state of temporary disuse or suspension

2. ambivalent- having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas of something or someone

3. beleaguer- set with difficulties

4. carte blanche- complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks

5. cataclysm- a large-scale and violent event in the natural world

6. debauch- destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt

7. eclat- enthusiastic approval

8. fastidious- very attentive and concerned about accuracy and detial

9. gambol- run or jump about playfully

10. imbue- inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality

11. inchoate- just begun and not so fully formed or developed

12. lampoon- publicly criticized (someone or something) by using ridicule or sarcasm

13. malleable- easily influenced; pliable

14. nemesis- the inescapable or implacable agent of someones or somethings downfall

15. opt- make a choice of a range of possibilities

16. philistine- a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them

17. picaresque- of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of  a rough and dishonest but appealing hero

18. queasy- nauseated; feeling sick

19. refractory- stubborn or unmanageable

20.  savior-fair - the ability to act and speak appropriately in social situations
   

Reflection on Midterm

1) I studied the days prior to the test and felt some what confident. But coming to the test and sitting there just waiting I told myself to be confident and just relax and basically have a positive attitude while taking the test.

2) I didn't give myself enough time to study as much as I would have liked too. And when i was taking the test I was surprised in how many words I did remember and didn't leave so many blanked. But there were those blank moments were i just could not remember the word and the extra help in studying would of helped more.

3) After the taking the test, through out the day I was just going over some of the words that I still remembered and would just keep telling myself the definitions. I want the words to stick and am going to have to get use to putting the words into context. To keep practicing them.

4) Next time I am going to take the test much more seriously and be even more confident and just believe in myself more so I can receive the result I want to earn.

First Presidential Debate ! Obama vs. Romney  

If you didn't get a chance to watch the debate live well here is the link to www.cnn.com 

Comment if you have anything to say! 

http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/debates/first-presidential-debate

Hamlet! Full movie

If anyone would like to watch the full movie of Hamlet, well here is one source that I have found so far. It is off PBS.org. Comment and let me know what you think!

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/hamlet/watch-the-film/980/

Dear Ophelia,

Love is a very beautiful thing in life and everyone should feel the wonderful feeling of love. It can be a hard subject to touch on at times because some people are just too sensitive. The key is just trying to figure out the way to go about with Love.  But don't get me wrong when your so full of beatitude your can get lost in the feeling of love. You begin to blind yourself from reality. And having your father and brother advising you that it might not be such a good idea probably is best. In there point of view they believe it is a quixotic relationship. But now if you choose to go against your family then a vendetta might occur.. Especially how your father and brother see the situations your prince is in they do not want you to get in a parlous relationship. Now to expound my opinion of all this your family's opinion should come into consideration. And if they see something that you might not, that is possibly not healthy for you well in the end you are going to need the volition to try and make the most reasonable decision. Maybe if you and the prince can coalesce abut things and be civil then there is nothing wrong with that either. But falling into a relation would be risky with his life style.