Showing posts with label BCorney. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning Good or Bad?

This poem seemed very bad at first, but once i understood the words and the meaning it was really good. Donne used metaphors an similies to describe how to people's love can stay together in ways i did not know could be done. He is a good poet and knows how to put his words together in ways most writers can't.

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Which Actor Played The Best Hamlet? Why?

In my opinion I thought Mel Gibson was the best Hamlet out of the versions we saw in class. He spoke his lines clearly and smoothly. Gibson used the right emotions like yelling when he needed to during his lines. He walked around the set when he wanted to act like he was pondering, and was still when he was deep in thought. Gibson didn't say his lines as if he had memorized them and spoke them as if it were natural. His actions and movement around the stage went write with the lines he was speaking.

Gibson's apperance as Hamlet only reinforces the reason why I think he played the best Hamlet. His clothing looked traditional and it matched his personality. This only helped Gibson play the role of Hamlet better.

Gibson played the best Hamlet out of the six versions by speaking his lines naturally and by acting the right way. His looks helped him appear more like Hamlet and I don't think any actor came close to being a better Hamlet.