Sunday, February 10, 2008

Disorder

The man in Simon Ortiz's "Travelling" is an example of the celebration of disorder which is attributed to postmodernism. This disorder is shown when Ortoz writes, "He writes their names on a letter pad, hurries to another source, asks the librarian for another book but it is out and he looks hurt and then he rushes back to the globe." Obviously this guy is a little looney. I mean he asks for a book, gets heartbroken, then scurries back over to the globe. Thats a little weird, there must be a little chaos and disorder going on up in his noggin. The second example of disorder is the places that are mentioned in the piece. Some make a little sense why they're mentioned together because they were locales during WWII. But some are just plain random, like Antarctica, and Alcapulco...those just dont make any sense to why they are together with the rest of the places.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Hyperreality

Hyperreality has gotten its hold on today's society more than ever. One example of this is the television series of ER or Grey's Anatomy where everything is always intense in the hospital and the doctors are always ready to spring into action. In these TV series the patients are almost always saved no matter how bad things look or how impossible it is for them to survive in reality. It's really not like that at all in today's hospitals of the world. It's not intense all the time, actually they're usually very boring and smell hecka funky. And in reality not all the patients live ok, let's face it people die all the time in hospitals. One other example of hyperreality is when it comes to Axe commercials. Like when some dude sprays on some Axe and then throngs of scantly clad hott women pounce of him. Like no, that does not happen in reality at all. When was the last time you saw this happen? Never? That's what I thought.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/dump-n07.shtml

Thursday, January 17, 2008

happy endings

alrite, def. some metafiction going on at the end. It starts reffering back to the reader, not to mention it seems like there was a plot inside a plot inside a plot. But everything all leads to death which is where everyone will end up.

jack sparrow

alright so Cpt. Jack Sparrow is postmodern mostly cuz he doesnt give a crap about anything. He decides his own right and wrongs. Everything is relative to him. I mean he's a pretty ownage pirate.

ANTZ

alright yea this is pretty late, buti kinda need some credit for doing this so here it goes. For this assignment thing i talked to the register person at taco bell. I've seen her there before and kinda tried to avoid talking to her cuz ppl with down syndrome or mental things kinda make me feel uncomfortable. But i guess it was nice to chat with her even for like 2 minutes and kinda step outside of my box and stop living so boring i guess.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Answer to the Q??

Does Claudius attempt to send Hamlet away becuase of his guilty conscience or just simply because Hamlet appears to be losing his marbles?

Alright so I think that Claudius' main reason for sending Hamlet away is because he believes that Hamlet needs a change of scenery to clear his head. He thinks that the change may help him regain his sanity. I also think that he is kind of worried that since Hamlet is crazy that he is prone to do anything, and he doesnt want to take the risk of getting owned by Hamlet. so uhh yea thts wat i think...

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Hamlet's Worldview Mixtureization

Alright first off Hamlet has grown up as a monarch in his kingdom. Now there are certain advantages with having this power but there is also a great amount of pressure and stress involved when ruling over a nation. Take our modern day president, he goes into office looking all smooth and owage-politic looking and comes out with no hair and looks like he aged about 40 years. It's because there pressure on him consistently to make the right desicions all the time. Hamlet has grown up with this pressure on him, to be the best he can be and to make every right desicion and not to screw up. That's pretty tough on young guy like Hamlet, i can see why he's goin insane.

Secondly there must be a copy of "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli in the castle library, because Hamlet has definatley taken the philosophy of the ends justifying the means presented in that book. When he realizes that Claudius has murdered his father, he wants to take any means necessary to avenge his father's death and kill Claudius. Even it means losing his friends, his love (Ophelia) and his mind (he's going bonkers). No matter what it takes if in the end he gets revenge, he will be content.