Hamlet/Pride and prejudice Families

Hamlet family:
Family structure- Claudius is the uncle noe step dad (incest)
Relationship between Hamlet and more- very touchy/close sexually
Death-claudius killed his own brother-not a close/intimate family



Bennett's:
Mr Bennett is distant from the family
Mrs Bennett only cares about money/power for her daughters- will do anything for them to marry rich single men
Mrs Bennett tries to control the family-material side
 Mrs Bennett is completely in the lives of her daughters-doesn't give them independence and
Mrs Bennett says she would let her daughter die as long as she was "in persuit of a rich spouse" (quote)

Hamlet essay

Dear Dr. Forman,

I was actually really happy with my work on this essay. I am proud that I was able to narrow my observations of the different films to really only two major key points I would cover. At first, this essay seemed like t would be very hard to do when I was first starting to prepare. After seeing the films, I am not going to lie, I was a little lost. I didn't know how I could turn all my notes into a structured and organized essay. Finally the idea just hit me as I was blogging my ideas down, and I continued to adapt the idea for a coup,e days to combine several aspects I wanted to cover. Once again I am really holy that you gave us each alot of responsibility when writing this essay; you gave us all the power to create our own essay about the films and I think the writing and brainstorming process really payed off I the end. I enjoyed writing on the different versions of the film and thought it was really interesting to see how Hamlet was captured differently over the years!

Sincerely,
Blake

Act III scene I - Hamlet "to be or not to be"

Blake and Tyler



In Shakespeare's most famous dialogue, Hamlet questions whether it would be better to die or stay alive and suffer hard times and issues he must deal with. This is a very important part of the scene obviously and it is when Hamlet is able to display his true thoughts and struggles, so there are several ways that we could capture this dialogue. With Hamlet speaking alone, we would want hamlet really speaking with a lot of emotion and doing an effective job at questioning himself and considering both sides and options. Also, we think it wouldn't be as effective of a dialogue if Hamlet were to just stand there with his arms down and very still; it would be displayed best if Hamlet were to walk around while questioning himself, and even move his arms around to give more emotion. Hamlet would need to speak calmly to effectively convey his issue that he is debating; we wouldn't wan him speaking angrily and with too much power, or too calmly with not much emotion, so we would film Hamlet speaking with a tone in between the two extremes. It's important that Hamletntalks with alot of passion because this is in fact the most famous dialogue of the play, and clearly captures the climax of the play's principle issue.

Scene analysis-Claudius dialogue

This dialogue by Claudius can be captured in different ways, completely changing the interpretation of what he is saying. I believe that Claudius is really not feeling that guilty, but wants to come off that way, and play Hamlet, and the public. I'm sure he is feeling a little guilty for killing his brother, but hes an evil man and he is definitely exaggerating his guilt to try to come off as a good guy and someone who cares about the family, and country as a whole. In order to illustrate Claudius as trying to make it seem as if he were guilty but make it clear to the audience that he is really lying and masking his true feelings, I would have Claudius talking much more calmly, and close to Hamlet. We see Claudius throughout the film using his powerful loud voice to prove his power and act as King, as well as his position as he often talks standing at a higher level than Hamlet, or anyone else. In order to make Claudius seem more guilty than powerful, i would have Claudius get closer and closer to Hamlet and speak with a much softer tone, trying to convince Hamlet as well as the audience that he really does feel guilty. I would maybe have Claudius touch Hamlet alot to try and give a intimate feel and act like a good stepfather; but still, the audience would know Claudius is just trying to fool Hamlet into thinking he actually feels guilty about the murder.

Body paragraph- first draft

Kenneth Branugh displays a very elaborate and royal interpretation of Act I, scene II, and affectively sets the mood of the scene through the interactions between his characters. With everyone wearing red, white, or black, and Gertrude dressed in white wedding attire, the family stands before a huge crowd in a very bright setting as if the king were getting ready to deliver an important speech. Branugh employs a technique in which he uses both private and public conversation to illustrate the attitudes of Hamlet, Gertrude, and Claudius; initially, audience viewers see the three family members having a close conversation between eachother dealing with Hamlet's mourning and his possible leave for college, but then all of a sudden the camera fades out to a huge crowd observing in the stands, and Claudius address the crowd, showing his power as king. Branugh captures two different sides of Claudius in this scene. As Claudius addresses his wife and son standing at the same level as them, Branugh degrades Claudius' power and does not display him as a higher figure above all. When Claudius stands to address the entire crowd after Hamlet agrees to stay, viewers see the powerful side of Claudius that is usually more clear; Claudius stands before e crowd like a king stands before his citizens, exercising all the power over everybody with a loud, and powerful tone of voice. After Claudius speaks to the entire crowd, Branugh exaggerates the celebration and after everyone leaves the room, Hamlet stands alone. Branugh's use of an exaggerated celebration helps underline Claudius' power over the room, proving this with an e,a irate reaction to his words.

Intro Paragraph-first draft

       Act I, Scene II of the play Hamlet has been captured in many different ways with different techniques of filming. The way that the interaction between the Hamlet, Gertrude, and Claudius is illustrated helps set the mood of the scene and display exactly how the director interprets the situation. Both Derek Jacobi and Kenneth Branugh set the scene differently with different types of interactions between the family, and the people around them, as well as the characters' attitutes when speaking. Both directors convey a clear change in Claudius' attitute as the conversation goes from a private family matter to an entire crowd, and display the interaction between the family to set the mood of the scene.

Hamlet Essay

Right now, the main aspect I will be focusing on each film is how the interaction between Hamlet/Gertrude/Claudius captures the moods of the characters/scene. For example, how they are spaced out in the setting, how they are addressing each other, how they speak, how any other people int he room/setting affect the scene, and how Claudius fits in witht he family conversation in each. I also might explore the costumes and overall look of the settings, but I need to figure out how to fit it all in.

Act IV- Hamlet

To me, Hamlet was by far the most interesting character in Act 4. We really do see a change in his character in this act, and he continues to change throughout the entire play. Hamlet finds out a lot more secret knowledge and now I feel the question of Hamlet's fate lies clear and up for grabs. I think that his Uncle, King Claudius is going to try and kill Hamlet as well, so the play is getting very interesting and could go in a couple different directions, so I am very excited to see what happens!

Hamlet- Act III

Once again, i think Hamlet is the most fascinating character in act III. We see his keen ability to show Claudius' true crime. Hamlet's attempts to seek revenge on Claudius by proving he was the man that poisoned and kill his father, finally pay off. I have been very intrigued by Hamlet throughout the play, and have been excited to see how Hamlet would finally avenge his father. Act III proves that Hamlet has truly won this "battle" between him and Cladius, as it illustrates Claudius' defeat after when he claims he is more guilty than ever.

Film versions

I found it really interesting to see different approaches to filming the same scene. Several of them had certain similarities but for the most part each attempted to capture the scene in different ways. The interactions between Claudius, Gertrude, and hamlet seem to change throughout the different scenes. In several of the scenes, we saw all three standing or sitting pretty closes together but in other scenes, Claudius was separated from the two, alienating himself to show his power, and proving the point that he is not a real part of their family. The clothes, music, and overall settings changed in each, but all the scenes tried to capture the exact same scene and attitudes in different ways.

Act II - Hamlet

Hamlet continues to be a very interesting character in Act II. Still mourning the loss of his father, and determined to get revenge on Claudius, he devises a plan to make it happen. Act II has displayed his determination, and helps foreshadow possibly outcomes with him and Claudius. We also see Hamlet's intelligence and strong resistence to deception, as he is able to clearly see his friends trickery; while they claim they have only come to see him, Hamlet unfolds the truth that they are followimng the orders of Claudius. Hamlet is a very keen and determined man who will do anything to avenge his dead father.

Claudius

So far, I am most interested with Claudius. Claudius immerses as the 'bad guy' or antagonist in act 1, when Hamlet senior's ghost tells his son, Hamlet, that Claudius poisoned him in order to take the throne from him. Now as Claudius is the king, it is clear that he really only cares about getting power, and not Hamlet or his mother. Even though it may be weird to say my favorite character is the bad guy in this play, I am really interested to see how Claudius continues to act through the play, and possibly abuse his powers, and I can't wait to see how Hamlet's revenge on Claudius plays out.

Ipad

One of the main challenges for me when using the iPad is underlining. I know using the iPad makes underlining and annotating, but especially for me, I am much more comfortable hand writing and underlining by hand. Also, when I try to underline or select certain words, it is hard to choose the exact word or set of words, and I mess up alot.

I do think there are benefits and advantages that come with using the iPad. Most importantly, using the iPad is alot more organized than using a book and annotating by hand, and I do like this aspect alot.

I also really do like blogging for English assignments. I am really happy we are given alot more independence and responsibility with giving the blogs our own touch. I also think blogging really helps with essay development, and has helped me throughout the process.

I think I'm just not used to the iPads yet, so over time I believe it will grow on me.

Hamlet Act 1

I liked the first act of Hamlet, and I am interested to continue reading this play. The first scene started out by creating, and keeping, a sort of mysterious setting with the use of of the ghost at night. Every time the ghost appears, it is night time, so there is a dark and mysterious mood that comes with it. I think the ghost of Hamlet's deceased father does foreshadow more throughout the play, and I am excited to find out.

Socratic circle discussion

I really liked the structure of the class discussion. I felt like we really got slot done even though we went very professional in how we all talked. We kind of all talked at once but still it made it feel more comfortable and fine without a teacher or leader.discussion. I think we should definitely do this more.

We connected to the novel throughout the discussion and we focused alot on personal opinions of society today and how people still have high standards for choosing a mate; still, we see alot of material values and even more than before with a more modern society, and really, our society has not changed much with finding our mates, whether we like it or not.

Essay- CHANGE UP!

switched up how i structures this essay/topic

Body 1:

How Austen uses satire to reveal her opinion on women's values when it came to marriage

- care more about money/power than actual love
- believes women had distorted values


Body 2:

How Austen believes/shows that society also affects women's values

- Entailment; women could only receive power/status/stability if they found a wealthy husband; couldn't get land, would go to the male

Conclusion Paragraph

First draft at a conclusion paragraph


  Austen's constant use of satire throughout the novel helps illustrate the values of women during the early 1800s in England. She may deceive readers many times with her ironic tone, but she affectively displays her true opinions on the women in society when dealing with marriage. Austen attempts to explore the frequent clash of true love and wealth, as women would set out to find a man to marry based on the wealth, and social power he would be able to bring to her, rather than focusing on true love itself.

First Body Paragraph

first rough draft at body paragraph (might change it up and break the essay up a little differently...but heres where Im starting) Don't know if it may be too general and id like it to be longer obviously with at least another quote in this paragraph..

    Austen's frequent use of satire throughout the novel highlights her view that women in society had an incorrect values when dealing with marriage. She masks her feelings on society with satire and continues to implement this with different characters. Austen's opening line of the novel, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" (1) shapes the entire novel. Austen's immediate use of satire not only foreshadows the issue that she will explore throughout the novel, but also hides her true feelings about the matter. She really believes that wealthy single men are not in need of a wife, but instead, women at that time in society were in need of a wealthy husband. In a time when wealth and a high status meant everything, women valued social power more than anything, and saw it as a necessity and privilege when searching for a future husband. Austen utilizes specific characters in her novel in order to support and validate her view on women in society. She underlines Mrs. Benett's values when her character claims, "If She should die, it would be a comfort to know.." (23). Once again, Austen employs satire so she can clearly illuminate the distorted values that women had in society at this time. Mrs. Bennet states that if her daughter died, it would be okay, or in comfort, because she was trying to win a wealthy man's hand in marriage. Using the word 'comfort' to describe death supports Austen's argument that women cared much more about achieving wealth and power than finding true love. Mrs. Bennet is Austen's most obvious source of clarifying the messed up values of women in society during this period. Although Austen may somewhat hide her true opinion on women in society with her strong use of satire, she affectively attempts to make it clear to the readers, and prove that women needed to alter their values and views on marriage.

Intro Paragraph

Heres a first rough draft of a possible into paragraph

Question (changed): How did Women at the time view marriage and how does Austen feel about it/use satire to show this?

In Pride and Prejudice, Austen illustrates the role of marriage and social power in early 1800 English society. Through several of her characters, she captures the values of women at the time when it came to the idea marriage. Her novel explores the conflict between love and wealth, and how women prioritized the power which a marriage could offer.Through her use of satire, Austen clearly displays her view of women in society and their values; in a time when status led to overall social power, women sought to marry into wealth to achieve that status, rather than basing marriage on true love.

More preparing for essay

Characters:

Elizabeth with Darcy

Charlotte with mr Collins

Mrs Bennett - how she feels with marriage - Charles



Use these examples to show different views on love with marriage

Also show hawthornes ACTUAL view through satire

How do money and power play a role in marriages at this time? How heavily did women prioritize ones social power when finding a man to marry? How do love and marriages differ from those today?

Essay

Love and Money/power

at this time, women prioritized money over true love-let wealth/power shape a marriage

Mrs. Bennet- cares much more about her daughters' marriage shaped by money, not actual love; she even says there would be a "comfort" in death as long as they are in persuit of marrying Charles-rich; she will do anything to see one of them marry Charles because he is powerful

Power=high status; women wanted to marry someone of high status-want power and social status that comes witht he man

Mrs. Bennet-character that cares most about this

Austen uses satire to illustrate how characters like Mrs. Bennet only want money, not love, and she hides her real view that it is a messed up social view and structure

D.W. Harding

1) Jane Austen’s scope is extremely restricted, but within her limits she succeeded admirably in expressing the gentler virtues of a civilized social order. (Harding and Linklater)

I do agree with this because I really believe that views on society and people are shaped by the time or generation someone lives in. I think a lot has changed socially obviously, since that time, so  her scope is restricted, because of how society was structured then.

2) Austen as satirist is misleading; she has none of the underlying didactic intention ordinarily attributed to the satirist. Her object is not missionary; it is the more desperate one of merely finding some mode of existence for her critical attitudes.

I disagree with this because I do not think she is misleading as a satirist at all. I think Austen delivers satire on purpose to prove certain aspects of society out, and I think it adds a comical and interesting touch to the novel.

3) Austen’s method is to offer her readers every excuse for regarding as rather exaggerated figures of fun people whom she herself detests and fears.

I disagree because I do not feel that she is offering her readers an excuse for regarding as rather exaggerated figures of fun people whom she herself detests and fears. I think she uses satire to display points about characters, but does not detest and fear them herself.

4) Readers enjoy the funny side of Mrs. Bennet but miss that Austen actually detests her.

I think that readers do enjoy the comical side of Mrs. Bennet but I don't agree that Usten actually detests her. Maybe it is perceived that way when she used satire with Mrs. Bennet, but she does not detest her.

5) Austen’s light satire masks a rather bitter diatribe against 1800 social customs, but masked in exaggerated caricatures that disguise the bitterness.

I agree because I think Austen is trying to poke fun at and display the social customs of the 1800s. I think she does use this satire many times to mask her true disapproval for the social structure at the time.

Question Focus

1. How does Darcy's superior social status affect his charater?

2. How do Darcy and Charles differ with their views on society and people socially inferior to them?

3. What does it say about Elizabeth's chracter when she denies Mr. Collin's marriage proposal, despite his wealth?

4. How does too much pride affect Darcy and Mr. Collins when looking at Elizabeth?

5. Does Mrs. Bennet immediately take in interest in one of her daughter's getting married to CHarles because of his wealth, or true love?

6. Who are the characters that are described with their wealth, and therefore, are socially "more superior"?

7. How is Charles' character different from the other very wealthy charcters?

By Blake R and Tyler CC

Ipad

So far, I am stil not the biggest fan of using the iPads. I feel that highlighting and annotating is pretty difficult and takes alot more time than it usually would. I think the teachers should have been trained more in advance for the iPad use, because then we would probably be able to work faster. I think everyone's, including teachers, is still struggling to adapt tone big change, so hopefully we will all get used to it.

Filming the proposal

If I were to film this scene now, I would definitely capture the comedy in it. I thought it was pretty funny how Mr. Collins continues to ask Elizabeth to marry him, and even when she says no every time he asks, Mr collins keeps assuring himself that she really does want to accept the marriage proposal. I think that this scene would be very funny especially in a film today because as movies and plays got more modern, they adopted a much more comical approach to entertaining, and I think this scene could be even funnier.

"I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least." (5); Mr. Bennet is being sarcastic with Mrs. Bennet here by saying he is basically "friends" with her nerves. He is being sarcastic as he makes it sound like a good thing almost. They have been married so long that he has grown accustomed to her nerves, and is just use to it.

 "If she should die, it would be a comfort to know..." (23); This statement by Mr. Bennet is satirical because of the use of 'death' and 'comfort' right next to each other. These are two words that never should, or do go together, and they contradict each other completely. He sarcastically exclaims it will be a comfort to know she was in pursuit of Charles Bingley even if she dies, which also underlines Mr. and Mrs. Bennets' value of wealth in a marriage.

Essay

Their Eyes Were Watching God essay:

So far, this is what I have thought about possibly writing my essay on. This would be an example of an essay I could right that is only 4 paragraphs, with 2 body paragraphs. These aren't topic sentences and a thesis yet but just points that I would talk about in the essay, and base my topic sentences and thesis on.

Body Paragraph 1: Wealth; how first 2 marriages are formed on wealth, not love.

-  Grandma makes her marry Logan for money; she wants Janie to have a stable marriage with a husband that will support her, and does not care if she really loves him.

- Janie marries Jody next-he wins her over with money and goals; Grandma would approve-high status and money to keep stable marriage and support for Jamie

- Janie not happy in these marriages; she never loves logan and is not happy at all after being forced into a marriage for the money; she is initially won over by Jody and his "big dreams" and "talk" but once they move and Jody becomes the mayor of the town, he becomes to controlling over Janie and does not allow her to be herself, and live her own life. Jody will not let her even wear her hair down because he is so jealous of the attention she will get. Jody completely tries to change who Jamie is with his money and high stature.

- Janie unhappy in both marriages based off money; she really wants to find another opportunity like the "pear tree" and her first sense of love with Johny Taylor.

Body Paragraph 2: Love; 3rd and final marriage-trying to go back to the "pear tree"

- Start of story-first love at pear tree; Johnny Taylor-Grandma sees them and then decides to marry Janie to Logan;

- Johnny and the pear tree represent actual love, not money

- Tea Cake is the first marriage that is formed by actual love; he respects Janie (plays checkers with her) and takes her to the "Muck" where they work in mud all day which hides beauty-this shows that Tea Cake actually loves and cares for her

- People in town are astonished that after Jodi's death, Janie would be with a "poor common man" who does not have even close to the high status that Jodi had; they believe Tea Cake is beneath Janie

- Janie falls in love with the common man, not the two men with more money and power.