course material four

these are always tricky for me because I don't really remember things with respect to time. Everything is just kind of stored as an event cloud in my brain. oh well.

I liked reading Death of a Salesman, and I was surprised at how closely the movie adaptation followed the script of the play. Unless there were huge differences that were just way too subtle or "out there" for us to get, of course. I liked the play for its criticism of things and systems and the powers that be, I guess, and because I seem to be a little too interested in the idea of sanity. It's fun to try to prove that the events of a story don't actually happen. For Brit Lit I wrote a proposal for a production of Macbeth in which he is tripping the whole time because of Banquo's line "Were such things here as we do speak about? \ Or have we eaten on the insane root \ That takes the reason prisoner?" in Act 1 Scene III. We read those 4 long things in response to DOS, but they weren't quite as mind-blowing as what we read on The American Dream, which was a bummer.
We're reading Hamlet now, and I like some of the quotes ("Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice") but I stumble with current-day English so the Elizabethan stuff really puts a bullet in my kneecaps sometimes (all the time, who am I kidding?). I like the explanations of the tricky passages that we get from Ms. Holmes, as well as the historical context. It makes the play easier to digest.
Uhhh I hate the prompt essays we write here. They always turn out abysmally. Go check, it's funny. I like the close readings since I usually just write about an article I read a few days prior that I liked, and even if the essay turns out only marginally better than the open prompts,  I still have a chance to reprocess and internalize the article. I already mentioned what I think of these course responses up at the tippy top there. I'm eating Christmas-colored candy corn (QUADRUPLE ALLITERATION) that tastes like wax.