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so my MS Word does this thing where the name "Gertude" automatically changes to "Gretchen."
1. Bad news for harried, stressed and quite sleepy students writing papers on Hamlet.
2. Lead to stupid things like the professor saying that she's "a little doubtful how seriously [she] should comment on a draft that misnames a major character in the play."
Isn't the purpose of a first draft to screw up? Why would I want to turn a first draft in that doesn't need a second draft?
Also, she seems to think there's a problem with the old "get a thesis and prove it with text" approach. Apparently I can't "try to get to the bottom line" before I've analyzed the soliloquy. what? I don't even understand my own complaining about her comments.
She says "you use the speech to prove what you've decided ahead of time rather than showing us the progression and complexities in it." I'm so confused by this. I can't analyze a passage of a play using my thesis as a basis for interpretation? And how does my method NOT show the progression and complexities of the speech?
So I'm thinking maybe it's because I didn't go chronologically. I decided to analyze thematically because my thesis involves the idea that the soliloquy contains all the major themes in the play. it works better thematically! ARGH!
And now for a highly appropriate Zoolander quote: "I feel like I"m taking crazy pills!"
1. Bad news for harried, stressed and quite sleepy students writing papers on Hamlet.
2. Lead to stupid things like the professor saying that she's "a little doubtful how seriously [she] should comment on a draft that misnames a major character in the play."
Isn't the purpose of a first draft to screw up? Why would I want to turn a first draft in that doesn't need a second draft?
Also, she seems to think there's a problem with the old "get a thesis and prove it with text" approach. Apparently I can't "try to get to the bottom line" before I've analyzed the soliloquy. what? I don't even understand my own complaining about her comments.
She says "you use the speech to prove what you've decided ahead of time rather than showing us the progression and complexities in it." I'm so confused by this. I can't analyze a passage of a play using my thesis as a basis for interpretation? And how does my method NOT show the progression and complexities of the speech?
So I'm thinking maybe it's because I didn't go chronologically. I decided to analyze thematically because my thesis involves the idea that the soliloquy contains all the major themes in the play. it works better thematically! ARGH!
And now for a highly appropriate Zoolander quote: "I feel like I"m taking crazy pills!"