Thursday, March 31, 2011

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.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

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?

Thursday, March 24, 2011

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?

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Untitled

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".

Sunday, March 20, 2011

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.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

what means a lot to me

In Dr.Faustus he has his Archie and priorities set different than most people would in the Renaissance time period.  I think that our Archie today is very different and what we would say is the most important is a lot different now then even when I was born.  For instance I think a lot of people put money for one of their number one things, then jobs, medicine, and I think that religion is slowly falling to the bottom.  Also philosophy and scholars aren't very high up there either.

I would say this it how it ranks for Americans now:
1. Money
2. Technology
3. Medicine
4. Law
5. Religion