A Hamlet's Introduction

Everyone has heard of Hamlet.We at least know its author and maybe that at some point he goes wild or becomes crazy. This introduction is not quite to the book but what the movie about the book is trying to show.

The director hows the watchers how Hamlet is going to be represented and hat will be the means to show the real character created by William Shakespeare. This is of great importance because sometimes the acting can't show the real and true character that may be represented in the script or the actual book.

It is important that directors do this because Shakespeare's plays are not easy to fully understand and by this introduction you may get his wonderful stories better. I expect great things about the play, and I just want to ask,

Is it Hamlet crazy just because he talks to himself way to much?

Gabriela

A Prisoner and Hamlet

Is it easier to play this changing character who has faced death when you are in a correctional? actors in this particular production think they have lived through what Hamlet has lived and that is why they see it in another way.

Shakespeare is not another author you just read and throw away. It is an author that gets to your inner person and make you reflect, even when you are a small kid at a play that now know he hates books. Hamlet is not the exemption. People think that he is totally crazy because he saw his fathers ghost, is he crazy? the same thing happens to this people maybe they are innocent and people judge them or they are guilty but people have not heard they're side of the story.

People will almost always relate to a character in Shakespeare plays and it is by relating that our acting skills get better, because we are representing our inner mind.

To which character do you relate?

Gabriela

Hamlet's Acting

It is very hard to act out a character that changes of emotions like a women in her days. This two particular performances recreate two different perspectives that Hamlet has towards his father's dead. In one he is just criticizing his mother for marrying his uncle. He is sad and feels miserable for what happened to his father, but he can't resist to show this feeling of resent he has towards his mother for what he calls "a dextery to incestuous sheets" (Act 1, scene 2, line 15).

The second performance show us a totally different Hamlet this one has a thirst of revenge and a feeling of hate, because people don't believe what he found out about his father's dead. It is not longer a feeling of sadness but a sentiment of hate and anger towards the man who killed his father and the people who ignored his discoveries and treated him like a "pigeon-liver'd and lack gall" (Act 2 scene 2). 


Both feeling are trapped inside him and they come out of him in different times. This two performances are not the same because they represent different feeling Hamlet had at two different times. Although both are great representations of the character Hamlet they can't be compared because of the changing mental situation the main character is suffering at those different timings. 


Gabriela

Krapp's Idea Of Life

Again talking about Krapp but not as a young man on a tape but as the old man hearing. This time love may mean something different, this time love may be seen in a different perspective.

While he hears, he refers himself as "that stupid bastard I took myself for thirty years ago" (Krapp). He may be more mature about the aspect of love, or he may now think it is something it only harms you and makes you grow to be bitter. Love may be harmful but at the age he was on the tape love is simple.

Krapp will always have the wrong idea of love. When he was young it was simple, when he was old it was something harmful, what is then the true meaning of love?

Again, I don't know the true meaning of this feeling but I know that although it may look harmful sometimes it is something wonderful. There are 2 sides of love and as there are 2 sides of everything on life. Can we really know it total true meaning? I guess we can't. It is divided in millions of types like the love of a parent and the love for a friend, that people confuse them with a simple crush or a Complex of Edipus but at the end it will always be love.




Love is weird but wonderful.


Gabriela

The Tape's Idea Of Life

In the theatrical piece Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, we see two different perspectives about this man's thoughts about love. The tape which is a symbol of him at a young age, shows how at a those ages we don't really know what love means and represents. In the case of the tape, he thinks love is falling for that person you met at the park and that you now dream about that person next to you at night.

This is immature and a very vague significance of love. This is because love is more than meeting someone special, and I know this because although I don't really know its true significance I know it has to mean something more. I know there must be a reason for all those romantic novels and short stories, I know there must be a reason why people get married or kiss. Meeting and dreaming may be the cute part of love, but it the feeling of butterflies inside your stomach can't be something as simple as dreaming how does "She lay streched out on the floorboards with her hands under her head and her eyes closed" (tape).

Love has a lot of meanings but at those ages it may not mean that much.

Gabriela

Rereading The Great Gatsby?

Why read a book you have already read? I guess it is because the first time someone reads a book it pays no attention to it. For example, when I read a chapter I have to reread it about two more times because the first time I never get the enough information. The first time you pass over the lines of the book as if they where useless  information from the book, you only care about the outline of the story, without caring what the insight of it is. The second time, You get more out of it, You get to read more about things like why did Gatsby died? instead of only knowing Gatsby fell in love with Daisy. The Third time you get almost all of it, so instead of only knowing Gatsby died because he killed someone's wife with his car, you get to know that Gatsby killed Myrtle Wilson, wife of George Wilson that was the owner of a Run- out auto shop on his garage on the Valley of ashes, that afterwards took revenge against Gatsby by shooting him. 

Sonya Chung, Author of the article The Great Gatsby Revisited, has reread this book about three times in her entire life time and she says that rereading a book its important and that "It’s like I’m a born-again rereader, experiencing a new how a first read can be as different from a second read or a third read as reading two completely different works."

 It is very important to reread books, because you get to notice thing such as the different symbols and in depth story inside a literary piece. Chung for example discovered 5 new aspects about The Great Gatsby, that she had never noticed before, until she had read it for the third time. This Five main aspects are:

1. How the Great Gatsby is not a novel about the north East Elite, I agree with her because personally I think that the high class Elite, was represented by the Green Light that Gatsby wanted to obtain or wanted to get to. She says how the book is about us and not the rich people over there, that may mean that it is about the people that don't have all the luxuries those people had but stand on the other side looking at their green light, hoping someday we will get there. 

2. Ching notice how Fitzgerald used his sentences to capture the reader's attention more and more, by making them profound and with meaning. Not the simple phrase of Gatsby loved Daisy, but using mire romantic ones like for example when it talks about their love when they lived on the camp site, when he was a soldier and she was just a normal girl. I think this is right, because Fitzgerald, when read carefully, gives the reader a total new experience of how this two people really related.

3. She also talks about the importance of something as simple of Daisy's voice on the story and how this relates to her relationship with Gatsby. When someone reads this book one time, he or she can only get he loved her voice, read it twice and you get how he was in love with her voice because it was like the one of a goddess, but when read a third time you may encounter how Gatsby was totally in love with her voice because it was like the sound of something like a "arrangement of notes that will never be played again". You may notice the significance has totally changed when read various times. 

4. Chung also remarks how Fitzgerald exploits the significance of the car with many meanings such as "Who’s driving which car and why convincingly fuels (literally) Gatsby’s inevitable demise, Tom and Daisy’s flight, and Nick’s final revulsion towards the excesses of Eastern privilege.".

5. She finally makes a remark on the characters on the movie of this book. She talks about how, after rereading the book, she noticed that the cast of the movie was nothing like the real characters presented on The Great Gatsby, because rereading gave her a more profound look at the characters insight, appearance and personality.

Rereading a book is really important for the better understanding of a piece of literature such as The Great Gatsby because with this tool we can really get to analyze and enjoy the true meanings of books like this one.

Gabriela

Chaucer's Tale

Welcome back to the Oprha's show, Tonight I will be interviewing one of the world's best authors, but I will let him introduce himself

Hello sir what is your name?

My name is one with great Delight and Rhyme 

It is a great name which is my great prime

Geoffrey Chaucer

Thats great very interesting name in this modern times. I already read your great book the Canterbury Tales which are on sale and have been on sale for a long while now on any near bookstore. Tell me Mr. Chaucer, which one is your favorite tale?

It is difficult to decide for one

My tales have great delights and a great Tone

But if I had to choose for one I think 

It is like picking a great fruit drink

My only pick would be the great Knight's Tale

Because it's the only one that exhale

Wow Mr. that is really poetic, (Chaucer, amen) I see you take a good time watching and analyzing your own piece of literature which demonstrates passion which makes me want to ask how long did it took you to do this book?

It took sometime to have this piece finished

I once thought it would end up unfinished 

But hard work helped me get it all just done

Because hard work is the only home run

Well said Mr. Chaucer, I can imagine that all that great and hard work needed someone helping you do it, which ones where your inspirations?

My wife and Kids, my friends. my gin and grin

Happiness meant almost my life and skin

Inspiration came like a huge snowball 

which gave me force to carry on with all

That is very sweet of you, inspiration can have great effects on people and think of it, where would great artists be without it? Thank-you once again Mr. Chaucer for joining us today and thank-you to the viewers for watching today's show, next week expect amazement because we will be having the visit of the one and only Shakespeare. Bye everyone love you!!!!

Ophra 

xoxo

Gabriela