Bisclavret/Metamorphoses

Pictures from top to bottom: Werewolf, Racer fans, The Ramones, and Billy Idol
I find it odd that a woman wrote about a treacherous woman in medieval times. Usually a woman was to look pretty and have some knowledge of the arts, other didn't write about the betrayal of their own gender. I do like Bisclavret, it is a different kind of fairytale of the time and was written by a woman.

Hubris is excessive pride. We, as Americans, take create pride in many things. I think people are more accepting of hubris today because more people are showing hubris. Hubris could be shown for basketball teams, such as the Racers. The city of Murray, Murray State University, and the surrounding areas are showing a great amount of hubris for the basketball team hy wearing t-shirts, face painting, putting up banners and flags, and copying a mainstream pop song for the Murray State Anthem. Another example of hubris is Punk and punk music. Punks take a lot of pride in their music, style, lifestyle, attitude, and every day living.

A Midsummer Night's Dream/ Act 4 and 5

Different variations of Puck (Robin Goodfellow)

The biggest gender role being overturned is by Hermia. She refuses to marry the man her father has chosen for her and plans to run away with her lover, Lysander. Helena also overturned her gender role; when she took off after Demetrius and pleaded for him to love her. The Fairy Queen, Titania, wouldn’t give up the indian boy when asked by the Fairy King, Oberon. In the end, Hippolyta, complains of the play and says to her new husband that his imagination must be bad. Puck explains the title on page 171-172, Act 5, scene 1. “. . .That you have but slumbered here Whilest these vision did appear. And this weak and idle-theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend.”

Medelssohn's wedding March for the play

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDr8Q7lDW8o

A Midsummer Night's Dream/Act 1-3

The Globe Theatre

 The Rude Mechanicals

Peter Quince, the carpenter-The Prolong
Snug, the joiner-Lion
Nick Bottom, the weaver- Pyramus
Tom Snut, the tinker- Wall
Robin Starveling, the tailor- Moonshine

Theseus, the Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, in four days. As the two discuss arrangements, Egeus walks in his daughter, Hermia, and her two suitors, Lysander and Demetrius. Egeus complains to the Duke that his daughter won't marry the man he has chosen for, Demetrius. Hermia is in love with Lysander, and he is in love with her. The Duke tell Hermia she must listen to her father, become a nun, or be out to death; he has given her four days to decide. Theseus and Hippolyta leave, and Egeus and Demetrius are pulled aside to be spoken to with the Duke. Hermia and Lysander make a plan to meet at midnight in the forest to run away together to his aunt's, where the can be married. Helena walks in and Hermia tells her about the plan she made with Lysander. Helena, who is in love with Demetrius, runs off to tell him the plan and hopes to regain his love. Meanwhile, the rude mechanicals are putting together a plan in hopes of being to chosen to perform at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. They decide to meet in the forest that night for practice in secrecy.

Later that night, Oberon, the King of Fairies, is mad and jealous that the Queen of Fairies, Titinia, won't give up the little Indian boy to him. Oberon has Robin Goodfellow, a mischievous spirit, go fetch a flower whose nectar can act a love potion when placed in the eye of a sleeping person. Oberon wants to use the nectar on Titinia, in hopes that she will see a beast when she wakes and fells madly in love with it. At this point, Lysnader and Hermia have met in the forest and are too tired to travel for the night, the lay separate on the ground and sleep. Demetrius, followed by Helena, is going through the forest to find Hermia and Lysander. Demetrius keeps telling Helena to go away for he does not and can't not love her. Oberon sees what is going on and tell Robin to put some nectar on the gentleman with Athenian armor, for he needs to love Helena. Robin mistakes Lysander for Demetrius and puts some on him. Lysander is awoken when Helena comes towards him. Lysander is now in love with Helena, and Helena thinks he is playing to trick on her to be cruel. She runs off and Lysander chases after her. Oberon notices the mistake and tells Robin to use the nectar on the right guy. Demetrius has grown tired while wandering in the woods and lays down to sleep. Robin finds him and puts some of the nectar on him. He is awoken by Helena, who is being followed by Lysander. Now both of the men are in love with Helena and both are proclaiming their love for her. Hermia wakes to find Lysander is not there and goes off to find him. The Rude Mechanicals have met and are going over their lines. Many ideas and phrases are being thrown around so everyone walks off in a different direction.

Hermia finds the three and runs up to Lysander. He tells her he no longer loves her and tells her to go away. Helena thinks Hermia put both of the men up to this cruel trick and Hermia is confused about what is going on. Bottom, rude mechanical, walks upon the Queen of Fairies and awakens her. The Queen is now in love with Bottom. Oberon has made a mess of things and tries to fix it. He has Robin cloud the sky. Lysander and Demetrius run off to fight but with the night so dark, they grow tired and they go to sleep. Helena and Hermia also have run off and gone to sleep.


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Introduction to William Shakespeare

 
William Shakespeare                             Elizabeth I


James I
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England in April 1564. He married Anne Hathaway in 1582, he was 18 at the time of the marriage. Shakespeare wrote his plays in sonnet form, consisting of fourteen lines using any formal rhyme schemes in English usually having ten syllables per line. His acting company would perform in the court, for Elizabeth I and James I, at the Inns of Court (which was the residences of London's legal societies), at other towns, universities, and at great houses (when the King's Men were on tour). Under Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare's acting company was the Lord Chamberlain's Men. Under King James I, Shakespeare's acting company was the King's Men.

The Declaration of Independence/The Marriage of Figaro

 Thomas Jefferson is part of the Enlightenment era. In The Declaration of Independence he states "A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." He believes that people are free beings who be able to separate from the Monarch in England. He said all men are created equal and every one has God given rights that no one can take away. A Monarch would set laws as he sees fit and everyone had to follow. . .or else. A free man should be able to choose who he wants as leader.
The Declaration of Independence and The Marriage of Figaro both revolve around a Monarch who is sneaky and conniving, and will go to the extremes of getting what they want. Jefferson and Mozart wrote about a free man who can vote for law, who can have privacy in his marriage, and has a leader who knows what is best for the people. Jefferson writes of a Monarch who still rules land over sea and uses to make extra money by taxes and quartering soldiers. Mozart writes of a selfish Count who likes to have private meetings with other ladies. Both rulers are making arrangements that suit there wants and needs.

The Communist Manifesto/Millworker/Mercedes Benz

The two groups Karl Marx is talking about are the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariats. Karl Marx believes the Bourgeoisie will win over the Proletariats. He writes "The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces above all, is its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable." The bourgeoise act as capitalist, making money by making the proletariats (wage labourers) work long hours for low pay. The bourgeoisie know how to make a business run and how to keep it going. The bourgeoise have power because they have the money. There might be more proletariats but they do not have the power to rise above the bourgeoisie just yet.


To let this manufacturer use my body for a tool.


This line is in reference to the Communist Manifesto because Marx and James Taylor both describes humans being used as a tool/machine by someone who is in power/wealthy/owner of a business.

Mercedes Benz by Janis Joplin is not meant to be a serious song.