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I really hate writing essays, I don't mind the whole writing a paper for a class but the whole set up and design of an essay just annoys me. I know I have to get used to it because soon college with be upon me and it will be a standard thing. But right now I am very content to declare my annoyance.
It would help however if I had enjoyed that which I now have to write about. But alas I am more frustrated then satisfied with the work I read. Henry V is that work, to be exact. It was good, but it left a lot to be desired, that being the point, it was fully accomplished, but I guess I am just not satisfied with being told I have to make up my own mind about what I have just read. I am going to do that anyway and so being told to do so just makes me feel obstinate. I did not like how Shakespeare never fully portrayed Henry, he is only really shown in comparison to another or when he is putting on an act for the people around him. That fact just bothers me. If I am going to read a book about a person I want to understand the character I have read about. But no, Shakespeare decides to simply allude to his true character through mirrors.
The things I did love in the play were the Prologue and Epilogue. The Epilogue I find rather sad, having your entire life and the life of your son summed up in four lines each, it just seems like in a lifetime so much more could be accomplished or said. But in reality that is more then some get. Anyway if you ever get a chance read them because those are great.
Now I need another quick break from writing...so I think I shall go jump in the snow, barefoot of course...
It would help however if I had enjoyed that which I now have to write about. But alas I am more frustrated then satisfied with the work I read. Henry V is that work, to be exact. It was good, but it left a lot to be desired, that being the point, it was fully accomplished, but I guess I am just not satisfied with being told I have to make up my own mind about what I have just read. I am going to do that anyway and so being told to do so just makes me feel obstinate. I did not like how Shakespeare never fully portrayed Henry, he is only really shown in comparison to another or when he is putting on an act for the people around him. That fact just bothers me. If I am going to read a book about a person I want to understand the character I have read about. But no, Shakespeare decides to simply allude to his true character through mirrors.
The things I did love in the play were the Prologue and Epilogue. The Epilogue I find rather sad, having your entire life and the life of your son summed up in four lines each, it just seems like in a lifetime so much more could be accomplished or said. But in reality that is more then some get. Anyway if you ever get a chance read them because those are great.
Now I need another quick break from writing...so I think I shall go jump in the snow, barefoot of course...