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One thing that has improved about my writing from this class is that I use the text a lot more to back up the points that I am trying to make about the story, poem, or play that we are reading.  The strategy  that has helped me the most is when we are in class talking about what we are reading and taking notes on important parts of the text, and using that to help me develop an idea for the paper. The paper that was easiest for me to complete was the Doctor Fatuas play because I enjoyed that paper because I liked the play a lot.  Out of all the lessons we did the one that helped me a lot was the one when we went over how to do a paper for a college and what is needed to make it a scholarly paper.  I think that I could use a lot more work on my papers that I will need to write in college, but this class did help me with that.  And I now know what I need to work on.

music

After reading the poems and listening to the songs, and the theme that I picked up on is that there is a lot about giving your heart out and then getting it broken.  Like in "If I Were a Boy" when it says "How it felts to love a girl I swear I'd be a better man.... 'Cause he's talking you for granted."  Then in the "Sexism" poem it says,"But forgive him because she has him and doesn't have to sleep alone."

Those two passages, describes how men are sometimes when they aren't trust worthy or they can do one thing and then if the girl goes and does the same thing the guy can get mad, but the girl can't be mad.  It's a double standard.

Poetry

In high school my freshmen year and my junior year in my AP English class we did poetry.  I really enjoy poetry I think that it is a good way for someone to express how they are feeling and getting their emotions out.  We had to write our own poems.

Paper

Yet, in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus his main character Doctor Faustus once was all of these things then he decides to practice black magic, and his morals and everything that fits a Renaissance man goes out the window.  Since his morals start to go out the window Faustus starts to become very childish, therefore I believe that he is starting to lose site of he morals and what he lives for.


This is what my thesis would be or part of it.  For the research I don't know where to go with it. Since I think that Faustus' morals are changed drasticly throughout the whole play from the beginning to the end of the play. What should I do?

Paper for Doctor Faustus

For my paper I was thinking about just adding onto my last gist that I wrote, or writing about the comic relief that is in the play.  Using when Wagner and the Clown meet and also how Faustus starts to act like a child with how he acts by using his magic.  In a sense that is sort of comical relief in the play just because he is so ridiculous. What do you think?

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What I got out of the reading that I did in Doctor Faustus is that when he talks to the Emperor and the Emperor almost calls him out in what Faustus is doing with his black magic.  Then the knight chimes in and wants Faustus to prove himself.  Yet, Faustus gets all defensive, but never really says that he can or can't do "magic".  I think he starts to realize that he dug himself a deep hole for his life, and that he really wasn't thinking about what he was going to be getting himself into with practicing "magic".

Faustus

In scene four when Wagner meets the clown and tries to make him be his servent, I think that since Faustus is acting all big and mighty, because he wants to learn magic and use it.  Wagner thinks it is okay to act that way.  I think that maybe since Wagner can do magic, then maybe his servent and Faustus will teach all of them to bring people back to life if he can figure it out and really do it.