A Street Car Named Desire
After watching the movie titled A Street Car Named desire, it gives me a clearer picture of the content of the play. While reading though printed text, I could not get the picture of the characters’ traits, especially Blanche’s. During the lesson in class, we have come out that Blanche is desperate for love. Unfortunately, I am unable to understand why she is given the character trait. After the movie, I reread the play again and found out that I need to read for several times to get the connotative meaning of Blanche’s character traits.
Since the movie is screen in black and white colour, it is quite boring. I only notice the actions of the characters. Blanche character’s traits are fully express through verbally and non-verbally. The actor who acted as Blanche has played a good job by bringing the character alive in the play. The facial expression that can be seen as well as her tone in speech clearly indicates that she is a liar, a desperate woman and has the power to control Stella. She is portrayed as a strong character in the play.
Through watching the movie, it also portrays that Stanley is a person who acted like an animal. In the text, Stanley is always portrayed as having animal traits through his actions. In the movie, the actor well portrayed his character where he does acted as describe in the printed text. In contrast of him been described like an animal, he is a handsome looking actor in the movie. Almost all my classmates were attracted by his appearance.
In conclusion, through watching movie and reading the text, both give me a different thought. From the text, I could not really analyze the characters’ traits although through deep analyzes. On the other hand, from watching the movie, there are also some elements that are different from the printed text. Hence, it is important to compare between the text with the movie.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Monday, April 2, 2007
Tragic hero
Tragic hero
According to Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz “Literary Terms a Dictionary”, tragic hero is a person of stature who is neither villainous nor exceptionally virtuous, moves from happiness to misery through some frailty or error. Besides, tragic hero is considered as hamartia. In addition, the role of tragic hero is portrayed through Lear in the story King Lear and Creon in Antigone. Both characters are tragic heroes because they have changed due to their own decision made upon children.
In King Lear, Lear regrets upon his decision of divided his kingdom to the daughters who don’t love him and not to Cordelia. He thought the daughters who manage express the love to him in words would also fulfill the duty as daughters to take good care of him. Due to his wrong judgement, he lost his kingship and become mad, as he cannot face the reality of the treatment he received. Lear has changed from a king into a mad man as a result of his decision of distributing his kingdom.
In Antigone, Creon stubbornness has made him a tragic hero. He who was once confident of all his decision made cause him to lost all his beloved persons, Antigone, Haemon and Eurydice. Since he is firm with sentencing death upon Antigone caused Haemon to kill himself. In addition, Eurydice kills herself out of grief of losing Haemon. Creon has turned his family into a broken one. Furthermore, Creon is not given the chance to mend his mistakes, as they are all dead.
In conclusion, both stories portrayed tragic heroes. In King Lear, Lear who has his kingdom finally lost it to his daughters due to his silly action. While in Antigone, Creon loses his family members due to his stubbornness. Both characters develop towards despair and regret.
According to Karl Beckson and Arthur Ganz “Literary Terms a Dictionary”, tragic hero is a person of stature who is neither villainous nor exceptionally virtuous, moves from happiness to misery through some frailty or error. Besides, tragic hero is considered as hamartia. In addition, the role of tragic hero is portrayed through Lear in the story King Lear and Creon in Antigone. Both characters are tragic heroes because they have changed due to their own decision made upon children.
In King Lear, Lear regrets upon his decision of divided his kingdom to the daughters who don’t love him and not to Cordelia. He thought the daughters who manage express the love to him in words would also fulfill the duty as daughters to take good care of him. Due to his wrong judgement, he lost his kingship and become mad, as he cannot face the reality of the treatment he received. Lear has changed from a king into a mad man as a result of his decision of distributing his kingdom.
In Antigone, Creon stubbornness has made him a tragic hero. He who was once confident of all his decision made cause him to lost all his beloved persons, Antigone, Haemon and Eurydice. Since he is firm with sentencing death upon Antigone caused Haemon to kill himself. In addition, Eurydice kills herself out of grief of losing Haemon. Creon has turned his family into a broken one. Furthermore, Creon is not given the chance to mend his mistakes, as they are all dead.
In conclusion, both stories portrayed tragic heroes. In King Lear, Lear who has his kingdom finally lost it to his daughters due to his silly action. While in Antigone, Creon loses his family members due to his stubbornness. Both characters develop towards despair and regret.
Teiresias and the Fool
Teiresias and Fool
The character of Teiresias is found in the story of Antigone, while the Fool is portrayed in the story King Lear. Both of these characters share almost the same character traits. They play the same role as the advisers or consultants to the king. They also provide the insight of the story to enhance the development of the story. Through their character, the changes of in the king can be clearly shown. For example, when the fool is advising the king on his decision made, through conversation, it portrays the tragic flaw of the king is going through. On the other hand, Teiresias’ advice upon Creon indicates the tragic that the king is going to dwelt in. Besides, through both characters, Teiresias and the fool, a lot of foreshadowing is embedded through their speech, it always tell the story development before the incidents happen.
However, in Antigone, Teiresias is given the character traits as a priest. While in King Lear, the Fool is an unknown person, there are no clear character traits except an advisor. This can be seen that Teiresias play a major influence to Lear. This can be seen through he gets Creon in rage. On the other hand, the Fool is just play a minor role in revealing the story progress and he is portrayed as the inner thought of Lear. In both stories, the plot develops clearer with the help of the Fool and Teiresias.
The character of Teiresias is found in the story of Antigone, while the Fool is portrayed in the story King Lear. Both of these characters share almost the same character traits. They play the same role as the advisers or consultants to the king. They also provide the insight of the story to enhance the development of the story. Through their character, the changes of in the king can be clearly shown. For example, when the fool is advising the king on his decision made, through conversation, it portrays the tragic flaw of the king is going through. On the other hand, Teiresias’ advice upon Creon indicates the tragic that the king is going to dwelt in. Besides, through both characters, Teiresias and the fool, a lot of foreshadowing is embedded through their speech, it always tell the story development before the incidents happen.
However, in Antigone, Teiresias is given the character traits as a priest. While in King Lear, the Fool is an unknown person, there are no clear character traits except an advisor. This can be seen that Teiresias play a major influence to Lear. This can be seen through he gets Creon in rage. On the other hand, the Fool is just play a minor role in revealing the story progress and he is portrayed as the inner thought of Lear. In both stories, the plot develops clearer with the help of the Fool and Teiresias.
King Lear
King Lear
King Lear is a story written during ancient Britain. It is a story where the king of Britain, King Lear (Lear), has three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Lear wants to divide his kingdom to his daughters. He comes out with a childish question, asking them to express their love to him. Then, he will distribute the portion of property according to the amount of love the daughters can express.
This story portrays irony where the daughter who love Lear the most get nothing while the others who only greed and not filial get the biggest share of property. This can be seen through the speech of Goneril and Regan that shows greed and do not love Lear:
“Pray you, let us hit together: if our father carry authority with such disposition as he bears, this last surrender of his will but offend us.”
Cordelia is a responsible and filial child. When she knew that her sisters have cast Lear out of power, she return with army to help restore her father kingship. This can be seen that she is not greed of power or fame but the love towards father.
“No blown ambition doth our armys’s incite, but love, dear love, and our aged father’s right.”
Through analyzing King Lear, a lot of irony can be found. These include the death of Goneril and Regan due to jealousy. As well as, Edmund become the king and not Lear anymore. This story portrays the relationship of human in the stand of power, materials and love.
King Lear is a story written during ancient Britain. It is a story where the king of Britain, King Lear (Lear), has three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Lear wants to divide his kingdom to his daughters. He comes out with a childish question, asking them to express their love to him. Then, he will distribute the portion of property according to the amount of love the daughters can express.
This story portrays irony where the daughter who love Lear the most get nothing while the others who only greed and not filial get the biggest share of property. This can be seen through the speech of Goneril and Regan that shows greed and do not love Lear:
“Pray you, let us hit together: if our father carry authority with such disposition as he bears, this last surrender of his will but offend us.”
Cordelia is a responsible and filial child. When she knew that her sisters have cast Lear out of power, she return with army to help restore her father kingship. This can be seen that she is not greed of power or fame but the love towards father.
“No blown ambition doth our armys’s incite, but love, dear love, and our aged father’s right.”
Through analyzing King Lear, a lot of irony can be found. These include the death of Goneril and Regan due to jealousy. As well as, Edmund become the king and not Lear anymore. This story portrays the relationship of human in the stand of power, materials and love.
Mak Yong
Mak Yong
Mak Yong is a performance in Malay culture. It is performed mainly in the form of dances, songs and drama. It also can be consider as musical drama. Nowadays, this culture is getting less popular compare to olden days. During olden days, people take this performance as a source of income to support their family needs. By performing, they earn money and carrier. It has been a source of support in olden Malay society.
Mak Yong is an art where it portrays loads of Malay traditions, moral teachings as well as family basics. This can be seen through one of the Mak Yong performance that emphasizes on parents and children relationships. This traditional performance is highly embedded with morality to raise awareness among society.
However, as the country keeps modernizing, Mak Yong is facing the problem of being overtake. It is important to keep Mak Yong alive as it benefits and enhance new generation knowledge. If this tradition is without the support form society and younger generations, it will slowly die off and will soon be never exist before.
Mak Yong is a performance in Malay culture. It is performed mainly in the form of dances, songs and drama. It also can be consider as musical drama. Nowadays, this culture is getting less popular compare to olden days. During olden days, people take this performance as a source of income to support their family needs. By performing, they earn money and carrier. It has been a source of support in olden Malay society.
Mak Yong is an art where it portrays loads of Malay traditions, moral teachings as well as family basics. This can be seen through one of the Mak Yong performance that emphasizes on parents and children relationships. This traditional performance is highly embedded with morality to raise awareness among society.
However, as the country keeps modernizing, Mak Yong is facing the problem of being overtake. It is important to keep Mak Yong alive as it benefits and enhance new generation knowledge. If this tradition is without the support form society and younger generations, it will slowly die off and will soon be never exist before.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Simulated Teaching
Simulated Teaching
Simulated teaching is one of the assignments that students of TESL twinning program have to carry out. From the word simulated, it indicates that “not real but made to look, sound, or feel real”, Longman English Contemporary English. Thus, for this assignment, students take the role of a teacher and teach the class a topic. Students have to take this activity seriously as it is a practice ground to improve his or her future teaching.
During simulated teaching, student takes up the challenge as a teacher to instruct and facilitate the progress of the lesson of the day. The teacher has to be able to design appropriate activities. These activities should suit the students’ proficiency. In addition, students should have the capability in finishing the tasks. A successful simulated teaching is when the teacher is considered presentable, clear in giving instructions, creative and is able to raise students’ interest in class.
Hence, before carry out simulated teaching, a teacher should design his or her lesson. It is advisable that teacher write out a lesson plan as it is useful as a guide when he or she is teaching. In a lesson plan, teacher should be clear about the objectives of the lesson. It is also important to take consideration in the input and outcome of students by the end of the lesson. Therefore, designing a lesson plan helps teacher to analyze the appropriate activities and the rationale of the lesson.
As a conclusion, simulated teaching provides future teacher a stepping stone to become a successful teacher. It is important that future teacher is introduced to this task, because future teacher can foresee the task of teaching in class. Being a successful teacher is not only be a good teacher but also has the ability to carry out creative, affective, effective activities that help give input to students and help
students to practice and enhance their knowledge.
Simulated teaching is one of the assignments that students of TESL twinning program have to carry out. From the word simulated, it indicates that “not real but made to look, sound, or feel real”, Longman English Contemporary English. Thus, for this assignment, students take the role of a teacher and teach the class a topic. Students have to take this activity seriously as it is a practice ground to improve his or her future teaching.
During simulated teaching, student takes up the challenge as a teacher to instruct and facilitate the progress of the lesson of the day. The teacher has to be able to design appropriate activities. These activities should suit the students’ proficiency. In addition, students should have the capability in finishing the tasks. A successful simulated teaching is when the teacher is considered presentable, clear in giving instructions, creative and is able to raise students’ interest in class.
Hence, before carry out simulated teaching, a teacher should design his or her lesson. It is advisable that teacher write out a lesson plan as it is useful as a guide when he or she is teaching. In a lesson plan, teacher should be clear about the objectives of the lesson. It is also important to take consideration in the input and outcome of students by the end of the lesson. Therefore, designing a lesson plan helps teacher to analyze the appropriate activities and the rationale of the lesson.
As a conclusion, simulated teaching provides future teacher a stepping stone to become a successful teacher. It is important that future teacher is introduced to this task, because future teacher can foresee the task of teaching in class. Being a successful teacher is not only be a good teacher but also has the ability to carry out creative, affective, effective activities that help give input to students and help
students to practice and enhance their knowledge.
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