Last week, we had a few movie sessions and the first movie was Elizabeth at the Golden Age which I found very interesting movie to be watched. This story was focusing on Elizabeth’s strength of mind to uphold the peace on her kingdom. She was a very highly spiritual person when she motivated her soldier before they turned up at the battlefield. The storyline was quite good since the movie showed the internal conflict of hers when Elizabeth had been caught between her love with her own admiral and her responsibility as a Queen of England to protect her country from Spain. Eventhough this movie have made use some of CGI which I found it appeared unconvincingly, that would be fine anyway.
Then, other movie that we watched is Macbeth. This movie was quite exciting and I noticed that it helps you to understand better after you read the novel. Besides, Roman Polanski still kept the original storyline but there are some new improvisations that he included to make it more interesting and very real. In my opinion, it was a good movie as it was talking about few issues that regard to our political situation this day.
While we have studied this play, we could understand more about the scenes and the story plot in the text. On the other hand, this movie can be used for teaching aids in order to attract students’ attention also provide them with suitable material. Hence, the lessons will be more magnetize.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
The Fall of Oedipus
As we had learned the important parts in Oedipus Rex which is about the changes of Oedipus’ characteristics from a foreboding king to ignorant and ruthless Thebes King.
Indeed, Oedipus’s character is getting darker and darker. We can see from the extracts such as;
“He has brought this decrepit fortune teller, this collector of dirty pennies, this prophet fraud – Why, he is no more clairvoyant than I am!...”
It shows his pride and arrogance towards Tiresias and patronizes Tiresias because of his blindness.
“ What good were they? Or the gods, for the matter of that?...”: shows that he challenges God.
“That is why I call you a bad friend...”: shows he suspects that Creon is going to take over the throne from him.
From this story, we have to learn several dramatic irony(s) quotations that I found very fascinating and effectively used. The used of dramatic irony is very significant consecutively to allow the audience distinguish the contradiction of each character’s life. Again, the main character remains using dramatic irony dialogue but in the end it does not truly appear. Actually, this character itself suffers since the contradictions which occur in his life. For example, Oedipus says “There is no fairer duty. Than that of helping others in distress”. However, this is very ironic because due to his intention to help others, he will hurt himself in the future as his secret will notify the truth.
Indeed, Oedipus’s character is getting darker and darker. We can see from the extracts such as;
“He has brought this decrepit fortune teller, this collector of dirty pennies, this prophet fraud – Why, he is no more clairvoyant than I am!...”
It shows his pride and arrogance towards Tiresias and patronizes Tiresias because of his blindness.
“ What good were they? Or the gods, for the matter of that?...”: shows that he challenges God.
“That is why I call you a bad friend...”: shows he suspects that Creon is going to take over the throne from him.
From this story, we have to learn several dramatic irony(s) quotations that I found very fascinating and effectively used. The used of dramatic irony is very significant consecutively to allow the audience distinguish the contradiction of each character’s life. Again, the main character remains using dramatic irony dialogue but in the end it does not truly appear. Actually, this character itself suffers since the contradictions which occur in his life. For example, Oedipus says “There is no fairer duty. Than that of helping others in distress”. However, this is very ironic because due to his intention to help others, he will hurt himself in the future as his secret will notify the truth.
The Legendary Tiresias
The story of Oedipus Rex is famous Roman tragedies. It is about a king of Thebes upon whom a hereditary cursed is placed and who therefore has to suffer the tragic consequences of his own fate. While I was reading, there is one character Tiresias that I found interesting and mysterious: Tiresias. He was the first character in the play to question Oedipus’s assumption that he knows his parentage and to tell him that he has committed atrocities which he does not yet know are his own. Was he a real human?
Tiresias in greek mythology is known as blind prophet of Thebes. He could transform into a beautiful woman for seven years. Also, he was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo means a mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden. It is difficult to find relationship between Tiresias and other characters and Tiresias’s background from male then fully female as important as for his experiences and prophecy. In the early part of the story, Oedipus questions Tiresias, the soothsayer, who at first refuses to speak. Angered at this silence, Oedipus accuses him of being the murderer himself. Tiresias speaks at last, stating that the murderer of the king is a king. Terrified, Oedipus then accuses Tiresias of being in league with Creon, who he believes covets the throne.
Tiresias in greek mythology is known as blind prophet of Thebes. He could transform into a beautiful woman for seven years. Also, he was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo means a mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden. It is difficult to find relationship between Tiresias and other characters and Tiresias’s background from male then fully female as important as for his experiences and prophecy. In the early part of the story, Oedipus questions Tiresias, the soothsayer, who at first refuses to speak. Angered at this silence, Oedipus accuses him of being the murderer himself. Tiresias speaks at last, stating that the murderer of the king is a king. Terrified, Oedipus then accuses Tiresias of being in league with Creon, who he believes covets the throne.
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