More To Come

Even though the semester is ending I am not done with this blog. I have invested a lot of time and effort into this blog and it is proof what I have learned and how I have grown from this learning experience this semester. I have come to love the learning that accompanies blogging and more importantly I have come to love learning about Shakespeare and because of this I see no reason no to continue.

A Review Of An Inexperienced Blogger and Shakespearian After A Semester Of Great Learning

Personal & Social

Author identity: Someone in the class old me early on that I have a good voice for my blog and since then I have tried to maintain that voice. They something like they liked the voice because it was like a conversation and since receiving that, what I interpreted to be, positive feedback I have tried to maintain it.

A Hub Post? Yes. A Review Of How The Positivity That Can Be Gleaned From Will's Life Far Outweighs The Negative

It has been a long road but we are at that end and as is necessary to wrap up a blog at the end of a semester here is my final hub post.

Thesis:

 Shakespeare’s life and career though riddled with trials, tribulations, and struggle was so successful because he was an optimist. This fact is demonstrated in the way he lived his life, his copious amount of works, his success, and in the works themselves.

              

How Can You Doubt The Bard Was An Optimist When He Had Such A Great Sense Of Humor?

Mathew Arnold a poet and literary critic from the Victorian era felt that poetry should be happy, enlightening and positive. He felt this so solidly that when he could not produce poems that he felt lived up to the standard he stopped writing poems altogether. Despite the fact that Shakespeare preceded Arnold by 300 years there are several ways in which he lived up to the Victorian’s standards.

A Response To The Concern That Shakespeare Was Not An Optimist Because He Wrote So Many Tragedies

Shakespeare’s life and career though riddled with trials, tribulations and struggle was so successful because he was an optimist. This fact is demonstrated in the way he lived his life, his copious amount of works, his success, and in the works themselves. However, this argument can have stones thrown at it when one considers the tragedies. Again, however, this does not mean that it cannot be proved. As I said in my original hub post I am going to discuss Hamlet to prove this point.  

Future Shakespearian Expert, Natashya Chelson: A Peer Review For English 382

Personal and Social:

-       Author identity: The way I see this, this bullet can be interpreted in two ways so here are the two answers I found!

1.)     This peer review is of Natashya Chelson’s blog.

2.)    Throughout the blog Natashya maintain’s a personable and intelligent voice. If these posts were handed to me in paper form with no identifying markers I would quite reasonably be able to assume that they were written by one person.

A Cry For Action, More Specifically, A Selfless Act

Some might find Prospero an entirely selfish character willing to use his daughter if it means his elevation in status. While this may be true this does not mean that he does not care. It is also true that if my father treated me the way Prospero treats Miranda I probably would have run away at fourteen and not looked back for a long time, especially if it was just the two of us. But then, it has to be taken into account that life on the island was all she had ever known and where was she supposed to go? “Oh look! A bit of water that looks warm and calm I will go there!” That would have been a laugh when she was washed back to shore the next morning. Prospero is selfishly motivated and I believe that he loves himself more than anyone else because he was cast out. He focused on the wrongs done him until all he could think about was how people had treated him badly.