Sunday, February 10, 2013
Response to course material Feb 10
We finished Hamlet and have moved on to Rosencranz and Guildenstern. I love the idea behind this play, but it's very confusing and I can't really see what the author is trying to get at. Seems more philosophical. It's very different from the rest of the plays we've read so far, but I really like some of the ideas it brings up, like when the characters address the audience. It reminds me of a play I just went to see with my family called "The skin of our teeth". The character in that play also addresses the audience. It also reminds me of Shakespear's "As you like it" (this is also where I got my name from hehe), when Shakespear writes, "all the worlds a stage". We havn't talked about the issue of identity much in class but so far that's seems pretty important. I mean r and g are practically interchangeable. That has to mean something, right!?
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When you were talking about how some of the characters addressed the audience, Roz, it reminded me of how uncomfortable it was to have the actors looking into the camera in that first version of Hamlet we watched. It seems like sometimes it's just really creepy to be "immersed" in the story, so much so that it does the complete opposite and throws you out of it. Like, when Hamlet would give his monologue in the first one, I felt kind of violated, but in the third one, Ms. Holmes said it was almost like we were invading HIS privacy, which was interesting, too. It's uncomfortable, but in the opposite way. I think it's a way of making the audience uncomfortably self-aware.
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