Saturday, April 24, 2010
Hamlet
To tell you the truth, Hamlet was difficult for me to understand! The way they were speaking was a bunch of gibberish to me, they were talking way to fast and low. The part that interested me the most is when Hamlet was killed Ofelia brother. I have to watch the movie again so that I can understand it better and enjoy it, and this time I'll watch it with subtitles!
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"bunch of gibberish".
ReplyDeleteI'm inclined to only point out how long you've had to prepare for the film. Reading the play (securing a copy of the recommended Folger edition or reading the version hyperlinked in the syllabus), or even re-reading the synopsis on the blog, should be enough for a basic orientation.
I'm also inclined to be less sympathetic at this point in the semester, when one would hope that students would by now be much more self-reflective and much less given to off-the-cuff and unconsciously self-revealing reactions. Given how important the student logs are in this class, well, perhaps my vexation is understandable?
Also, if my reaction seems "harsh" (and I think it does), think about how it is also a really off-the-cuff reaction and thus itself fairly one dimensional.
ReplyDeletei was taken aback by this response myself, but it is understandable. perhaps "bunch of giberrish" werent the best choice of words.
ReplyDeleteWell, I meant my comment to be a bit harsh at first glance so one would have to rethink. And I also meant it to mirror the original remark as being just a "reaction" rather than a thought-out response.
ReplyDeleteIt's one thing to have problems with Shakespearian language---that's understandable. But, after registering that difficulty, what should you do next? Think about that difficulty and talk about what it says about history and language? Think about that difficulty and what it says about, not you, but what you've been taught in school? There are lots of places to go in order to actually make the difficulty part of a productive discussion.