Reflecting Back

My favorite activity that we did in English this year was acting the Hamlet scenes. It helped me understand the text better and helped me with my film essay as well because it allowed me to visualize the context and atmosphere that Shakespeare was trying to convey.

Performance choices

Even though I wasn't there for the performance, I planned to play the King in Act 1 Scene 2. My group and I were going to mimic Olivier's version, where Claudius makes no eye contact with Hamlet (or Gertrude) at all. In order to receive attention, I did not join Hamlet and Gertrude's conversation and was singled out of their 'connection.' I was planning on pacing the 'stage' while saying my lines to portray Claudius' loudness while announces his lines. 

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Eliot uses imagery to express his depressing view on life. He uses 'big' imagery of simplistic ideas to make up his look on how life has, essentially, no purpose. Line 51, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" demonstrates how Eliot questions life and how little trivial things are the reason for his existence. By exemplifying coffee spoons to measure his life, suggests that his life amounts to nearly nothing.