Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Film vs Original Written Work
i forgot how to embed the address on blogger so that it would display my storify on my blogger post
just click on the link and it will take you to my storify source post on a midsummer nights dream film vs original written work.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Relationships
Gerald Courtney
Eh-102
Relationships
Shakespeare’s play The Midsummer Night’s Dream demonstrates and defends clearly how strong relationships are between a man and woman who truly love one another are. I changed my question and literary theory question because, after reading the story again and researching for reliable sources with no successful results; it was time to pick a new literary theory. The feminine literary theory related more to the drama because of the gender differences and struggles between the sexes. How does love play a part in the relationships?
The entire story drama is about two young couples searching for true love from one another, and a fairy couple that had issues with one another over an Indian child. In the drama both the two young girls and fairy woman are dominated by the male characters in the drama. Deleterious is showing and demonstrating the actions of an ill-tempered man who doesn’t get what he wanted which was the love of Hermia. Hermia ran away because she felt powerless and without a chose to choose Lysander who she truly loved and wanted to be with.
In the time that Shakespeare wrote this play woman did not have much of a say in a matter the man would always have their way and the last say kind of like todays Middle East. Most of the time during Elizabeth’s rule men and woman but, mostly woman had to deal with arranged marriages. Very rarely would a man and woman get to chose who they wanted to marry. In the story Hermia is told by her father that if she does not marry Demetrious that she will be put to death or become a nun. Oberon has issues controlling his fairy wife who won’t give him the Indian child so Oberon tells his servant to retrieve a flower that when squeezed and the liquid placed on the eye lid it will make that person fall in love with the first living thing that he or she sees. He seeks to get even with Titania by making her fall in love with an ass headed man whose name in bottom. In the time that the play was written it was not accustom to have a wife that did not do as the husband would say (elizabethan-era.org).
In the end of the story after the love spell was lifted form Demetrious and Lysander true love was restored Hermia was the bravest female in the story because she had such strong feeling towards Lysander that she risked everything just to be with him even, the thought of losing her own life. Helena was the strongest because she was willing to put up with Demetrious’s abuses in order to win back his love. Shakespeare created and strong and brave woman who were willing to risk it all to achieve their goals of finding love (greene).
Hermia and Helena are two extraordinary and unique woman who will not stop until they have what they want which is to have true love with the men that they love. In this story the men are restricting the will and wants of both women. It is only through shear rebellion that Hermia and Helena get what they have wanted sense the beginning of the drama.
Work cited
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-women.htm http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/437157?
uid=3739256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21100839126051
Greene, Lenz, Neely, edu.the woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespears. Chicago: University of Illinois press, 1980.
Eh-102
Relationships
Shakespeare’s play The Midsummer Night’s Dream demonstrates and defends clearly how strong relationships are between a man and woman who truly love one another are. I changed my question and literary theory question because, after reading the story again and researching for reliable sources with no successful results; it was time to pick a new literary theory. The feminine literary theory related more to the drama because of the gender differences and struggles between the sexes. How does love play a part in the relationships?
The entire story drama is about two young couples searching for true love from one another, and a fairy couple that had issues with one another over an Indian child. In the drama both the two young girls and fairy woman are dominated by the male characters in the drama. Deleterious is showing and demonstrating the actions of an ill-tempered man who doesn’t get what he wanted which was the love of Hermia. Hermia ran away because she felt powerless and without a chose to choose Lysander who she truly loved and wanted to be with.
In the time that Shakespeare wrote this play woman did not have much of a say in a matter the man would always have their way and the last say kind of like todays Middle East. Most of the time during Elizabeth’s rule men and woman but, mostly woman had to deal with arranged marriages. Very rarely would a man and woman get to chose who they wanted to marry. In the story Hermia is told by her father that if she does not marry Demetrious that she will be put to death or become a nun. Oberon has issues controlling his fairy wife who won’t give him the Indian child so Oberon tells his servant to retrieve a flower that when squeezed and the liquid placed on the eye lid it will make that person fall in love with the first living thing that he or she sees. He seeks to get even with Titania by making her fall in love with an ass headed man whose name in bottom. In the time that the play was written it was not accustom to have a wife that did not do as the husband would say (elizabethan-era.org).
In the end of the story after the love spell was lifted form Demetrious and Lysander true love was restored Hermia was the bravest female in the story because she had such strong feeling towards Lysander that she risked everything just to be with him even, the thought of losing her own life. Helena was the strongest because she was willing to put up with Demetrious’s abuses in order to win back his love. Shakespeare created and strong and brave woman who were willing to risk it all to achieve their goals of finding love (greene).
Hermia and Helena are two extraordinary and unique woman who will not stop until they have what they want which is to have true love with the men that they love. In this story the men are restricting the will and wants of both women. It is only through shear rebellion that Hermia and Helena get what they have wanted sense the beginning of the drama.
Work cited
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-women.htm http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/437157?
uid=3739256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21100839126051
Greene, Lenz, Neely, edu.the woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespears. Chicago: University of Illinois press, 1980.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
The Midsummer Night's Dream
http://storify.com/Merit/the-midsummer-night-s-dream#publicize
i forgot how to link my storify to the blogger post. just click the link above
i forgot how to link my storify to the blogger post. just click the link above
Friday, June 1, 2012
re post of film vs written work
Gerald Courtney
Eh 102
Film compared to the original work
For every moment that he is stuck as an insect Gregor’s becomes psychologically depressed and physically dependent on his parents and sister. In this analysis I will be comparing Franz Kafka’s original story to Carlos Atanes short film about Franz Kafka’s story the metamorphosis while answering the theoretical question from a psychoanalytical point of view. My question is how can characters behavior, narrative events, and/or images be explained in terms of psychoanalytic concepts any kind.
In Kafka’s original story there was a role as the male of the house hold that Gregor’s had to fulfill, which was to provide of his family which included his parents and sister. But when Gregor’s woke up the next morning he discovered that he had somehow transformed into a giant roach like insect in Carlos’s film Gregor’s transforms into a half human and half bug creature in the middle of the night when he was awake which did not match exactly what had happened in the original story in the written story he was a fully transformed bug but in the movie he was half bug and half human. Despite the difference in the story line both movie and written story reflected the soul crushing and horrified reality that Gregor’s had lost everything he once had worked for and had obtained.
At the beginning of the film it was shown that Gregor’s family was Jewish by the Star of David hanging over the dining room table. Later on in the film after Gregor’s horrifying transformation was revealed to his family and boss a knock at the door had revealed the year and location that the film took place. When the door was opened standing in the doorway smiling at Gregor’s sister was a German Nazi in uniform. Losing the bread winner in the family was bad but having him transform into a giant bug and then losing your job that supports the family did Psychological damage to the minds of the family members, but what made things worse was having the Nazis so close to them that they could have been taken from their home. The family members must have felt lost, devastated, and stressed to the point that they felt powerless to do anything. In Kafka’s original writing it did not take place in years of the Nazi Germanys rise to power in Europe.
If there was one that I would have to pick that could reflect the psychological hardship and fear of the characters in the metamorphosis it would be the short film by Carlos Atanes. Not everything in the film matched the original written work of the metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, But the film did give a more visual understanding of what the family members had to do in order to survive. In both the film and written story Gregor’s soul crushing depression is what killed him in the ending of both works. Gregor’s realized that it was he who was stressing his family. It was he who kept them from living a normal life.
Work cited
Kafka, Franz. “Expository notes on text”. The Metamorphosis trans. And Ed. Corngold, Stanly. Sydney: bantan, 1972. 77
http://stats.storify.com/record/click?sid=4fc4fb468f8502b54e003088&redirect=http://www.thefullwiki.org/The_Metamorphosis
http://stats.storify.com/record/click?sid=4fc4fb468f8502b54e003088&redirect=http://novelinks.org/uploads/Novels/TheMetamorphosis/Concept%20Analysis.pdf
http://www.herzogbr.net/kafka/papers13.htm
Gerald Courtney
Eh 102
Film compared to the original work
For
every moment that he is stuck as an insect Gregor’s becomes psychologically
depressed and physically dependent on his parents and sister. In this analysis I
will be comparing Franz Kafka’s original story to Carlos Atanes short film
about Franz Kafka’s story the metamorphosis while answering the theoretical
question from a psychoanalytical point of view. My question is how can characters behavior, narrative events, and/or
images be explained in terms of psychoanalytic concepts any kind.
In Kafka’s original story there was
a role as the male of the house hold that Gregor’s had to fulfill, which was to
provide of his family which included his parents and sister. But when Gregor’s
woke up the next morning he discovered that he had somehow transformed into a
giant roach like insect in Carlos’s film Gregor’s transforms into a half human
and half bug creature in the middle of the night when he was awake which did
not match exactly what had happened in the original story in the written story
he was a fully transformed bug but in the movie he was half bug and half human.
Despite the difference in the story line both movie and written story reflected
the soul crushing and horrified reality that Gregor’s had lost everything he
once had worked for and had obtained.
At the beginning of the film it was
shown that Gregor’s family was Jewish by the Star of David hanging over the
dining room table. Later on in the film after Gregor’s horrifying transformation
was revealed to his family and boss a knock at the door had revealed the year
and location that the film took place. When the door was opened standing in the
doorway smiling at Gregor’s sister was a German Nazi in uniform. Losing the
bread winner in the family was bad but having him transform into a giant bug
and then losing your job that supports the family did Psychological damage to
the minds of the family members, but what made things worse was having the Nazis
so close to them that they could have been taken from their home. The family
members must have felt lost, devastated, and stressed to the point that they
felt powerless to do anything. In Kafka’s original writing it did not take
place in years of the Nazi Germanys rise to power in Europe.
If there was one that I would have
to pick that could reflect the psychological hardship and fear of the characters
in the metamorphosis it would be the short film by Carlos Atanes. Not everything
in the film matched the original written work of the metamorphosis by Franz Kafka,
But the film did give a more visual understanding of what the family members
had to do in order to survive. In both the film and written story Gregor’s soul
crushing depression is what killed him in the ending of both works. Gregor’s realized
that it was he who was stressing his family. It was he who kept them from
living a normal life. 
Work cited
Kafka, Franz. “Expository notes on text”.
The Metamorphosis trans. And Ed. Corngold, Stanly. Sydney: bantan, 1972. 77
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Gerald Courtney
Eh102
5/24/12
Metamorphosis
psyco analysis
The Metamorphosis is a story about a man named Gregor, he takes care of his parents
and his sister named Grete but one morning when he wakes up he discovers that
he has transformed in to a giant insect. I will be applying the Psychoanalytical theory to the story. I will try
to answer my question which is what trials ordeals does the protagonist face? Does
he overcome them?
Just to get it out of
the way Gregor never overcame his ordeal in the story. But the trials he faces
were tough. It started when Gregor woke up to discover that for some reason
he has transformed into an insect; in shock he panics and stays in bed knowing
that he can’t go to work and earn money to take care of his mother, father, and,
sister. Deep down in Gregor’s mind he is stud that he has been transformed into
a gross insect.
In
a way what Gregor’s goes through in his ordeal in the Metamorphosis is
comparable to the bureaucrat who was exposed to alien fluids in the movie
district 9. In the movie he slowly transforms into one of the alien insect
looking creatures (district 9). The next day when Gregor woke up roles had been
reversed all the other three family members had to find jobs to economically stabilize
themselves.
Gregor’s deep down must have been severely
depressed when he overheard his family discussing the idea of getting rid of
him. What made his ordeal more mentally painful to bear was he lost his entire
social and human life when Gregor’s woke up that morning. His situation of
becoming an insect monster had created strife and stress between the other
family members. What made no since was that his family did nothing about his
burden of becoming a giant insect. As time passed Grete started to neglect him
by feeding him less and less. Realizing that his ordeal would never change and
things would get worse Gregor started to take a nose dive towards starvation
and increasingly worse depression. In the end of the story the family had
become stressed and heavy burdened with his ordeal. Mentally and physically depressed
with the thought that it was his presences that prolonged their suffering
Gregor heads into his room and die when the sun rises. The only way to overcome
his ordeal was to die because it was his very existence that made his family
members suffer mentally.
The
family moved on and wanted the sister to find a man to marry. In a strange way
the story line of transforming into an insect almost matched district 9’s movie
story line. Gregor did overcome his ordeal when he realized that death was his
only way out.
Citations:
2 Kafka,
Franz. "Letters and Diaries." The Metamorphosis. Trans. and Ed.
Corngold, Stanley. New York: Norton, 1996. 61-74
4
Kafka, Franz. "Explanatory Notes to the Text." The Metamorphosis. Trans. and Ed. Corngold, Stanley. Sydney:
Bantan, 1972. 77.
5
District 9
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