Novemeber 10th, 2011

Today we played a game on sort of the humor of Love's Labour's Lost.  I think that this exercise showed us how humerous the tendencies of the people are especially to us, and maybe the audience because this is a comedy.  When I think about comeny in LLL, I think of the bombast language.  I feel that some of the audience didn't even know the meaning of some of these words, so that adds to the humor.  We fail to realize that perhaps no one talked as fancy as this back then, and that why we might fail to see the humor in it.

LLL #??

The character I choose for Act V is Dull.  Honestly, I did not understand any of the scenes in this act, but Sparknotes really helped me understand this part.  We see that I think Holfernes and Costard are sort of bickering back and fourth in Latin, and Dull just sits in the background because he doesn't understand, and even says he doesn't understand.  If I was in Dull's place, I would just feel so left out.  It would suck to have everyone be so well educated and be left out.  I feel really bad for him that they make fun of him.

 

I'm not really sure on the idea of truth and lies throughout the play.  But I understand what the play implies about the relationship between truth and love; I think it means you have to stay true to be in love.  Like in the end of the play the ladies want they to prove their love to them by waiting a year, or writing more poems or whatever. It seems that love and truth go hand in hand, but you have to prove yourself.  Truth and language are also well defined because we see people being witty and taking the literal meaning of each word. 

 

I think this play applies to human life, in several ways.  One way is how lazy we've become.  Like language, we seem to be very lazy and not creative in our sentences. We see all the vocab they used back then and we don't even know what have those words are.  Also, we've seem to become lazy with courting people too.  Back then these guys are waiting years to be with their woman and making poems and what not. Now women are lucky if guys hold the door open for them haha.

IRA #3

Well in Maus I'm seeing a lot of character development.  The next book starts with Artie on vaction with his wife and they get a phone call.  It's his father's neighbor, and he finds out his father had a heartattack.  So Artie has to go live with his father over the summer, and over this we see the real hatred he has for his father and his scruggie-ness.  He takes lot's of notes over this time, and we gain great insight into the world under the Nazi regime.  Sadly, only a few months later Vladek passes away.  This leaves Artie awstruck and almost unable to cope with another loss.  We begin to see some of his underground comics that show some of his feelings and I think this makes the book more interesting.

LLL #2

King-I find the king very proud, but very driven by his own will.  Like how he says there is not to be any women to interfere with their studies, however when the princess rolls around his own rule can be "foresworn".

Berowne-I like Berowne because I can understand him for the most part.  This makes me seem like he might be a little dull compared to the other lords because he doesn't use the vast language they do.

Princess-One word. Witty.  She uses her vocab like the other girls to remain serious and get "courted" by the king. She seems to pride herself in this.

Rosaline-Like the princess, she plays mind games witht the men with her vocabulary and gets commended for it.

Costard-Comical, but dull in his speaking.  He takes the literal meaning of words, which adds to the comedy.

Boyet-The most witty of the group.  I feel as though he might be the leader to the lords, because of their interactions.

 

Votaries--Someone who is stuck to their views.

Renumeration--Money repaid.

Gelded--To get strength.

Bedecking--Showy manner.

LLL

Vocab: Tharborough-constable (thanks katie!), Mirth-laughter, Beguile-charm, Recombance-lying down. I think the humor used in LLL is very old. They dont tend to use "punchline" comedy but more just wordplay. It really makes you think! An example would be the king saying they cannot be in contact with women, unless its neccessary haha. He said it can be forsworn, and thats when Berwone (i think i spelled that right) decides to sign  the oath, the oath that can be forsworn whenever.