friday's post

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i literally spit out those 4.5 pages of Oedipus. they are such crap. im ashamed of them. BUT for awhile there i dont think i used any passive voice. then i got to maybe page 1.5 and had to start making shit up. that any i died a bit on the inside: how the hell did i make that into anything longer than 3 pages? how in the world. but it got handed in. now comes the ripping and shreading apart.

on the plus side im really enjoying watching other people do their monologues. i also try to find flaws and things for them to work on and then think how i would first expressing opinions and notes, then how youre actually supposed to speak to an actor. i alos look for what you tell them and see if i could pick it up at all. im kind of enjoying thinking about a characters intents and wants and needs but from an outside perspective.

thursday's post

today i began a bit of research on oedipus. i actually googled "oedipus thesis staments" i was that lost. as usual, my problem is i know what i think about the play, i just dont know how to phrase ANYTHING. i want to just be able to say "oedipus and Laius should have accepted their fates and they woulhave been betetr off" and that would be my entire paper. but sadly that doesn't work out so well in college. I'm going to have several emotional breakdowns in college over papers, but thats to be expected right?

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continued kind of understand the chorus; i'm trying to see if they have any insight for my thesis that i can quote, but so far not much i think i can use. wikipedia is my new best friend too,because a good majority of my arguements are coming from 2 paragraphs about oedipus and fate, though im expanding every thought and trying to take my opinion, not just theirs. a little bit more memorizing today as well.

wednesday's post

More reading of Oedipus, i finished the last few pages, and i began writing my thesis. I dont exactly have a clear thesis staement, but its going to have something to do with avoiding their horrible fates. the entire time i read oedipus i kept thinking, well they could just do this, or they can do that, or they should have done this, and all their issues would have been solved!!! So im most likely going to be jumping from one topic about fate to another, because i have a coupleof theories and opinions swimming around in my brain and i think im just going to spit them all out in my paper.

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went home and read today, attempted reading some chorus parts, and it kind of worked out well-ish. if i sit and read with my dictionary.com app open and google on my laptop, i can get through sections of the chorus. plus i began memorizing my fuenteovejuna monologue finally, which is actually 2 norton pages long.

Tuesdays post

Today I basically PLOWED through Oedipus. I'm understanding it! Maybe it's a really awesome-amazing translation, but it's fairly easy to get. Except those freaking choruses. I skip a lot of them unless it's in direct conversation. I've been reading the first 2-3 sentences and if I don't understand, I skip it. I'm planning on actually reading them when I don't have to spit out 5 pages of thesis-y goodness.

Today we also had our history lesson, which I hung on to. Its the deep lessons about theatre theory and what not that drive me insane! But actual history: not a problem.

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monday's post

AH. BLOGGING. JOURNALS. AH.

okay, anyway. so now that Swimming in the Shallows is over, blogs begin again.

so i started reading Agamemnon, and that didnt work out too well. I hate to say it and sound super ignorant, but why the hell can't they speak normally! though honestly, it was just the watchen's section that threw me off. it went on for PAGES. and it went from topic A to topic B back to topic A. so im saving that one for later when most of my brain is back.

and then i started Oedipus, and started by saying, "why cant they speak english...." but after the first two pages, i fell back into understanding a different style of language, kind of like earning shakespeare.