Alright so here are the key things you need to know to keep from getting owned in Mrs. Duke’s class. I am writing to you guys from my own extensive knowledge on getting dominated in her class

1.DO YOUR HOMEWORK, ALWAYS!
2. I know it sucks but you gotta read every book, if you want to participate in class and make decent grades.
3. Listen to what she says, and remember, she’s always right, most of the time…
4. Do not speak unless spoken to
5. annotate your readings
6. do your work and turn it in on time

Here are the things that piss Mrs. Duke off. DO NOT DO THESE THINGS

1. Talking
2. ASking to go to the bathroom (just go)
3. Jake Kaple, myself, Thomas Grenier, William Newton, WIlliam Huye, and Austin Leo. If youre not these people then youre good hahaha.
4. Sparknotes
5. talking back
6. disrespect

DO NOT TRY TO BS ANYTHING. YOU WILL GET CAUGHT AND MRS. DUKE WILL EAT YOU FOR BREAKFAST, I’VE SEEEN IT HAPPEN

Follow these rules and you will do just fine. Have a wonderful time with Mrs. Duke!
Peace

This reading pretty much wrapped up the play. The characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are to me the embodiment of pointlessness and ramdonness. Upon learning that Hamlet changed the letter, they freak out and Rosencrantz stabs the player. When the player gets up and explains the knife is fake, ROsencrantz begins clapping and asks for more plays on death. I dont understand how he can go from completely wigging out to happy.

ANother classic Rosencrantz and Guildenstern scene, when they argue over if they’d done anything wrong to be put to death but neither of them can remember. I think its interesting how Rosencrantz says their entire existence is pointless and their lives have no narrative, but rather theyre just random pieces put together that dont mean anything. It sounds to me like the author is criticizing Hamlet and the roles he gave Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Rosencrantz also forgets who he is and cant remember if he’s himself or Guildenstern. Perhaps the realiation that they were going to die drove them crazy.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is becomin increasingly easier for me to understand. Now that Hamlet is being sent to ENgland, the intertextuality between the two works is almost completely the same. Its interesting to get a different perspective of the same events that are shown in Hamlet. Im not sure why Rosencrantz and Guildenstern feel like they should not go through with sending Hamlet to England. He called them pawns of the king and songes that soak up orders.

Its interesting to get a view of the voyage to England. Hamlet’s deception on the boat further proves Hamlet’s Deceitfulness. Im not sure on how they will get back to Denmark, do they go all the way to ENgland and come back? I guess that makes sense since Hamlet changed the letter. We can assume the letter is changed to say that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are supposed to be executed instead of Hamlet.

This reading was much less confusing for me because of the intertextuality involving Hamlet. This time we had already read the excerpts from Hamlet so i could follow with what was happening. Ros and Guil seem to gain their individuality whenever they’re not acting in Hamlet. WHen they’re alone together they both split apart and quarrel over everything.

That’s the main thing i’ve noticed so far is that theyre very individualistic when not in the company of other characters from Hamlet. Theyre also extremely insecure about making decisions and they feel like they need someone (the player), to be there with them to help solve Hamlet’s problem. ROs and Guil also talk about death a lot and how theyre dead. Im not sure if thats what the title of the book means or what but it seemed important, so there it is.

Paraphrase
To live or not to live- that is the question
If its right to suffer
The pains of fortune,
Or to fight your problems
And by fighting them you end them. To die and sleep-
Not anymore- and to sleep means to end
The pain and the suffering
That goes with living- it’s a thing
that’s wished for. Dying is sleeping
and and maybe dreaming.
For while your sleeping when youre dead dreams may come,
Once we’re not mortal anymore,
We mustsop. We have to respect
The calamity of long life.
Who would put themselves through all the pain,
Who would bear the burdens of mortal life?
But after death there’s the undiscovered place
Where no one returns from
That’s what makes us afraid of dying
Take care Ophelia. Remember my sins

Exigence

Well Hamlet has just chewed out his girl over something that’s not really her fault so he might be venting some of his sadness and anger. He’s really upset about his father’s murder and he’s probably just taking it out on her. It’s possible he feels guilty about it because of his last few lines saying “remember my sins”. Im not quite sure if that’s an apology or what but it would makes sense if it is.

Audience/purpose

Okay so Hamlet’s primary audience is Ophelia. Like I said he just went crazy in her face about not loving her and in general he just freaked out. So its logical that he’s talking to/about Ophelia. Also like I stated, he says to himself for Ophelia to remember his sins. Im still not sure what it means but I can safely assume he’s talking to Ophelia.

His secondary audience is probably the king and/or Polonius. Polonius is snooping around looking for the reason why Hamlet’s going crazy so this soliloquy might just be a speech for Polonius to eavesdrop on. Its also indirectly pointed at the king because Hamlet talks about the pains of life and suffering and the burdens, this might be designed to make the king feel guilty or provoke some other emotion.

Appeal

Hamlet uses Pathos to show his purpose in his speech. A lot of his speech is aimed at the hardships and stresses of life, and also the after life, which makes the audience think long and hard about what he’s saying.

Literary Devices

Hamlet obviously compares life and death in the first line of the soliloquy. He also uses imagery about the sufferings of life “slings…arrows of fortune”, “mortal coil”. With those descriptions its very easy to see what hamlet is trying to say. He personifies the “undiscovered country” as a place where no one returns from. He calls Ophelia a nymph, im not really sure what he means by that but im guessing it has a meaning, so I’ll just throw it out there.

it seems to me that Ros and Guil are slightly crazy. They like to ramble on and somehow they draw conclusions from their conversations. I think its cool how Hamlet is portrayed from their point of view and how the story is told from their perspective. It gives us as readers more insight into the story of Hamlet.

Ros and Guil play a game of asking questions to eachother that will help them try and help their friend Hamlet. One of them is never on the same track as the other so it takes them about 4 pages of dialogue to get it straight. I find it interesting how they make the statement about Hamlet’s father and the current situation with his uncle because it shows that even though they might be crazy, theyre very good at comprhending situations and figuring out how to solve them.

I rather enjoy reading R and G. It’s extremely random so i like that. I noticed a few things about Ros and Guil that i think might be important to the story. They both enjoy probablity games and discussing reality and how people relate to others. Their encounter with the travelers shows them to be very old fashioned because they are astonished at what the travelers actually perform and they yell at them for it. A lot of it i didnt understand but i hope we cover it in class tomorrow.

This week has gone by sooo slow. My team and i have been planning a paintball match for like three weeks and it’s tomorrow. TOday is gonna be the slowest of all, boooooo. Tomorrow we’re playing on a course that we made ourselves out in the woods, its roughly 100 square acres. We’re gonna have like 15 or so team members and roughly 5 nonmembers playing. Everyone has to wear snake boots because they’re coming out of hibernation at this time of year. My friend Jacob almost stepped on a copperhead last weekend when we were cutting trees and making bunkers.

THe way its gonna work is there’s gonna be two teams of 10. There’ll be 4 flags to capture and one main “flag” in the middle, its actually a massive ammo can filled with sand so the guy with the flag cant just run off with the flag. You have to capture the smaller flags first before you can capture the main one. Once a team captures a flag and brings it back to their base, the other team can come and take their flags back to theirs, so its an ongoing process. The game is gonna last probably around 4-6 hours. Once you get hit you go back to your team’s designated neutral zone where you resupply and wipe the paint from your last hit. We’re trying to make it more realistic so everyone has an ammo limit. THe rule is you can only have 50 in the hopper, compared to a regular 200, and one 100 round pod in your pack. Im going to be carrying a camelpak with a liter of water in it so i dont die of a heat stroke haha. Im pretty pumped about it. I’ll post on how it goes, later.

Well im having trouble with the paper. I understand what we’re supposed to do and i think i have my topic straight but its gonna be a difficult one for me. Im writing about Beowulf and how the Anglo Saxon hero is shown in Beowulf.

FOr that ive been researching the Anglo Saxon hero and everything ive found says something along the lines of “Beowulf is the perfect Anglo Saxon hero”. Everything is just really straight forward but i want to make it more interesting. Any ideas?

This week has been pretty awesome. All my grades are comin up to A’s, so life is good. I didnt really do much this week other than krav maga and homework. This weekend was pretty chill as well. Friday night i went to my friends house and we played cod all night. Yesterday i slept in and put some new off road armor on my ATV. I dont know why im up so early on a sunday morning but i felt like getting blogs over with.

TOday im goin to my cousins house to bull doze a paintball course with chainsaws and a tractor, hoorah. We’re playing next weekend so it should be pretty sick. That rain was greatly appreciated at my house, the grass grew like 2 inches after i mowed the yard on thursday so now i get to mow it again and make more money . Well my brain’s just about dead at this point so later.