Ah young love, don’t you love it? Love makes people do crazy things, doesn’t it? It might make you, change your look, act like someone you’re not, or in some extreme cases kill yourself cause you cant be with them. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Chikamatsu’s The Love Suicides at Amijima follows the later… Read more The Tragic Tales of Love Suicides Throughout Literature (Project 3)
Month: December 2020
Well, That Was Weird (Breasts and Eggs)
Before I begin with my brief analysis of this text, I want to first explain why I chose writing about it. I chose this article over our main reading due to the fact that I’m super behind on my blog posts and everyone’s already discussed the love suicides’. I am happy however that I decided… Read more Well, That Was Weird (Breasts and Eggs)
USA! USA! USA! We Know Best! (Ken Burns)
I can relate to what the author was saying during this article, due to my dad being very similar to the authors dad. Even though I cant relate to the Vietnamese part, my father felt early on in my life, somewhere in the 10-14 mark, I needed to start watching the movies that are considered… Read more USA! USA! USA! We Know Best! (Ken Burns)
Its Okay, I’m The King I Do What I Want (Shakuntala Prologue- Act 3)
This beginning of the story makes me cringe a little bit while reading. When the king first comes upon the heritage, he hides himself in the shadows so he can watch the girls go water the trees., describing it as a “charming sight”. As he eyes Shakuntala, things start to get semi creepy. He goes… Read more Its Okay, I’m The King I Do What I Want (Shakuntala Prologue- Act 3)
Reflection on Project 2
When thinking about what I wanted to do a lot of things crossed my mind. I wanted to do another uneasy but my creativity seemed rather blocked since I did not know really what to do besides another game. I came across a lot of posts comparing The Love Suicide at Amijima and Romeo and… Read more Reflection on Project 2
Ambiguity in “The Love Suicide at Amijima” and “Hamlet”
Chikamatsu is notorious for his plays on words that include double meanings, irony, and references to other plays. These phrases add to the romantic aspect of the piece. Chikamatsu shows here that he likes to illustrate a realistic world that is not guided by strict laws. The ambiguity begins on the first page with the… Read more Ambiguity in “The Love Suicide at Amijima” and “Hamlet”
Honor, Death, and Tradition (Death and the Kings, Act 3-4)
An over arching them present in any culture is a sense of honor and tradition. When one culture invades another, these acts of tradition might seem weird to the other and they might feel a civic duty to stop it. That is what happens in Death and The Kings Horseman. We are introduced to a… Read more Honor, Death, and Tradition (Death and the Kings, Act 3-4)
Class reflection
Throughout this class, I was constantly thinking to myself, ‘what are we going to read next? What sort of experiences are we going to hear about now?’ A lot of this came from the fact that this was a global class; I’ve taken 3 classes on works from a specific country, so this was a… Read more Class reflection
Teresa Mei Chuc poems reflection (post catch-up)
While reading through these poems, I found it interesting how a decent amount of them seemed to deal with changing identity, or the possibility of a changed identity. Names is the poem that seems to deal with this the most; the number of names and different birthdays reflects an almost different person. Or, at least,… Read more Teresa Mei Chuc poems reflection (post catch-up)
Post Count Ketchup (3/3): Tagore!
Welcome to the last installment of Post Count Ketchup, where we discuss my unfounded theories and questions about texts I was supposed to have read, but didn’t actually finish, while highlighting a Food of the Post made or eaten with ketchup for literally no good reason except that this idea is making me smile/want to… Read more Post Count Ketchup (3/3): Tagore!