Monday, December 1, 2008

Blasphemy




For my Resistance project my friends and i decide to protest against talking the Lord our God's name in vain. people often to this without thinking of what they are saying or who they are offending around them. we decided to make tee shirts with a quote on them which says "Don't offend my God; I don't offend yours".

while i wore this tee shirt during the day a lot of people asked what my shirt said. when i told them what it said many agreed and told me that they believe that too. a few others said that this was part of the way they talk and would probably not stop taking Gods name in vain, although they were professed Christians.



i think that if people really cared about serving God and wanted to be better Christians they would try to stop saying such things especially seeing that it is part of the ten commandments. im not saying that i doont slip up sometime but i try to not say such things when i can.

People often say such things as a form of frustration. a solution for this although many may disagree with me is just to use plain old curse words such as the F word and the S word. these words don't discriminate anyone and would a fine replacement.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Numbers

Just like how the women in the play united for a common cause so did the men. They all came together even though they were enemies and made peace for the sake of sex. Lol. This goes to show that there is power in numbers.

Idiots?

The play portrays men as bumbling idiots that know nothing else but sex and war. We can see this when Kinesias was talking to his wife and he mentioned his son. Without his wife there he could not take care of himself or his son. the son had not taken a bath in over a week

Horny?

The men in lysistarta must have been a horny bunch of people who have no self control. When I read it there was no indication of that much time passing so why are the men want sex so much. Or is it that they have no self control.

Brain Vs Braun Pt 2

this is part two of the brain vs braun blog. the play probably wants to draw out the fact that strength does not always work, but sometimes you have to use your brain in some situations.

Brain Vs Braun Pt 2

this is part two of the brain vs braun blog. the play propably wants to draw out the fact that strenght does not always work, but sometimes you have to use your brain in some situations.

Brain vs Braun

in the play there is the battle of brain ovet braun. the women use their brain which we can see when they used water to oust the fire the men brought. the men tried to use their strength beat there the women.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Cheap shot

the way the women enticed the men was a cheap but effective shot. they wore skimpy outfits and seduced the men by promising immediate sex then do nothing. we can see this with Myrthine and her husband
i dont think that abstinence led to the ending of the war, but the want of sex. the women all wanted to have sex and we all know the men surely wanted to but only the women held out. the men wanted to have sex so bad that they would have done anything (in this case end the war) to have sex.

Power

i thought that it was funny that at first Kleonike was very reluctant go go through with lysistrata's plan, and then she became one of the leaders of this cause. she probably does this because she sees she is loosing her control over all the other women to Lysistrata

Nature

Lysistrata is a strong willed woman. she is the type of woman, women try to be like. she has a bold nature which she uses to lead all the other women in their struggle for peace.

Reaction

My initial reaction to that of Lysistrata was one of surprise. i was shocked that we were reading a book with this much sexual innuendos and content. Many may think that this book is too inappropriate to be read in schools, but i guess this shows how we are evolving as a society

Monday, October 27, 2008

comparison

hedda reminds me of adela from house of bernarda for many reasons. they both go after what they want. adela wanted pepe and nothing stopped her from being with him while hedda wants power and she constantly tries to get it. in the end of both plays they were both pregnant and killed themselves.

Spoiled

the reason hedda is the way she is, is becasue of her childhood. her rich general father gave her every thing she wanted so now that she is grown she expects still to have everything. although George can not endow her with all the luxuries she wants she still tries to squeeze it out of him

Main

this whole play is about a woman trying to get control over her life in one way or another. hedda tries to manipulate everyone around her. she sees this as a way to get power, but in the end of the play she starts loosing power when she can not manipulate anyone any more, so she kills herself

New Woman Part 2

Although Hedda is not fully considered a “new woman” she has many of the traits and the personality that complementary to this title. She can be seen as a new woman shoved into Old Woman trappings, and who thus naturally gravitates towards pushing limits, pulling strings, and manipulating others in the hopes of freeing herself. She is a New Woman, then, looking for her place in life. She constantly pushes against the limits which society imposed on women. Unlike many women of the time she did not get married when she very young but waited until she was a little bit older. She married a man she didn't love simply because her "time ran out". The thought of bearing a child is something which she refuses to consider unlike the old woman who sees one of her sole purposes is to have children.

Intentions

I think that all of Hedda's actions are intricately planned out. She intentionally and maliciously does and says things to get a certain action from others. A perfect example of this is the incident with Aunt Julies hat. she deliberately said that she thought it was the maids hat because she wanted her to get angry

Old woman

In the play the perfect example of an “old woman” is George Tesman’s aunt, Juliana Tesman. The “Old Woman” believes in self-sacrifice, a woman's duty to her husband, and sexuality only in terms of childbearing. Although she never has children or a husband Aunt Juliana was dedicated to her role as a woman. You could say that she saw George as her own child and dedicated her whole life to raising and serving him. She is constantly hinting that Tesman and Hedda should have a baby. This is in high contrast wit the thoughts that of Hedda.

New Woman

Mrs. Elvsted is an of a “new woman”. Even though at first she gave in to the pressures of society and lived the life an “old woman”. When she was a young woman she got married and had two children. When she realized that she was not satisfied with her current life she divorced her husband and left their estate and moves to the city. In this time period it was very uncommon for a woman to leave her husband, especially if they had children. She did not believe that just because she was a woman that it was her duty to play the role of caretaker. In Lovborg’s manuscript a lot of Mrs. Elvsted thoughts are present in the manuscript that Lovborg wrote. Women did not usually write or help by inputting their thoughts into the work in which Lovborg was doing.

George vs Lovburg part 2

Ibsen sets the brilliant writer as an exact counterpart to the medieval scholar in many ways. Where one is erratic, the other is steady; one deals with abstract and philosophical problems, the other concerns himself with concrete and detailed minutiae. Because of these qualities, however, Lövborg, a representation of the discontinuity in living a free life, cannot carry on his work. George, on the other hand, representing the continuity of living a structured life, is able to take up Lövborg’s work and eventually fulfill the writer’s promise of greatness. With this situation, Ibsen seems to imply a balance of human forces: the erratic genius is necessary to provide the impelling idea, but the character who is gifted with less imagination and an ability to work hard at concrete details is the one able to realize the idea.

George vs Lovburg

George’s bumbling ordinariness contrasts vividly and humorously with Lövborg’s flamboyant and creative brilliance. Where George writes about the “domestic industries of in the middle ages,” Eilert works on a book dealing with the “civilizing forces” of humanity in the future. George delights in researching among old manuscripts while Lövborg considers the problems of the future. George can be seen as a man of the past, who conforms to tradition while Lövborg can be viewed as a man of the future, an enlightened man who goes against the constraints of the life of an alleged “ordinary” man.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

The Pistols

The pistols Hedda carries are a sign of her power, or the power that she wishes to have. Without these guns she loses this so called power. We can see this when after she points and "accidentally" fires the pistols at judge Brack he then takes her power away (the pistols).