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Shakespeare Theatre Blog
Sunday, 12 May 2013
My lines.
With this line I'm just giving up hope and saying that only God can help us now.
Right from the start I'm trying to cheer everyone up with my high hopes, but it fail's. My main objective is to get Alonso happy so in help i go to Sabastian and Antonio but that fails as well. I keep on reminding the king of what he's lost but in a nice way which i don't realise isn't helping
Beseech - To urgently request.
Garments - Clothes.On this page I can see that the king is defenseless over Sebastian's argument so i try and restrain Sebastian any further with her very valid point. The king rejects me again and i give up but Adrain has his moment which sparks an idea to get me to cheer up the king. Sebastian and Antonio just mock my efforts.
I really get into telling the king and everyone around me about my perfect society, of course i am mocked and put down but i don't back any until the king snaps at me again which i retaliate with a little dig a Sebastain and Antonio. At the end of the page Ariel puts me to sleep and she ends up putting Adrian, Francisco and Alonso to sleep as well.
Bourn - a stream.
Tilth - cultivated land.
Idle - unemployed.
Excel - over power.
Sovereignty - royal ranking.
I wake up in a mad panic like I've just had a nightmare i'm very confused and disoriented. The lies that Sebastian and Antonio really shake us up and get us scared. I express my view on the matter and what i heard and sure to the king which shows he trusts me the most even though he can get angry with me.
Verily - the truth.
I'm tired and i need to rest and the best place is the rock, i really have to sit on the rock and rest so i have to persuade Alonso to let me sit. which i succeed in.
Lakin - see.
The added part to this scene is longer it's just i stuck in my line to make it neater. This page is a mixture of confusion, amazement, fear and relief.
I enter in a weird trance and form a semi circle next to Adrian. There's not facial expressions until Prospero wakes us up.
I have recovered from the shock of seeing Prospero and the fact that Ferdinand is alive and i congratulate them. once i see the Boatswain i give him a little dig about what happened on the ship. He then goes on to tell us that the ship is fixed and ready to take off again.
When Prospero guides us off we talk to each other about Naple's and what we're going to do on the ship.
Who Gonzalo is to me.
Gonzalo to me personally seems like a man who has all the answers but never has the time to formulate them into a theory and create something which could if said in the right way influence the Monarchy, thus Alonso, to have a better working sate.
Gonzalo does not judge a book by it's cover he takes his time to asses a situation or a person, which could possible mean that Gonzalo would not judge Caliban on what Prospero says but he would see Caliban as a human.
Gonzalo is the man you have to go through (if you are not higher than Gonzalo) if you want to talk to the king or consult the king's ethic's. Supposedly Gonzalo would have know what the king's reaction would be and just decide on the spot what the king's decision would be. But Gonzalo has no luck cheering his companions, the fact Gonzalo doesn't stop as soon as Alonso snaps at him shows he's loyal to the king.
Gonzalo does not judge a book by it's cover he takes his time to asses a situation or a person, which could possible mean that Gonzalo would not judge Caliban on what Prospero says but he would see Caliban as a human.
Gonzalo is the man you have to go through (if you are not higher than Gonzalo) if you want to talk to the king or consult the king's ethic's. Supposedly Gonzalo would have know what the king's reaction would be and just decide on the spot what the king's decision would be. But Gonzalo has no luck cheering his companions, the fact Gonzalo doesn't stop as soon as Alonso snaps at him shows he's loyal to the king.
Gonzalo.
The interesting thing about these to character interpretations is they both have sticks to walk with and show that they are wise.
My Costume.
Sorry about the picture it was the only one I had, bit weird I know, but I just wanted to put a picture of my costume on the blog.
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Where my speech came from.
The picturing of native Carribbeans by European explorers affected authors such as Montaigne in his essay Of The Canibales, which is thought to have influenced Shakespeare in The Tempest (Carribal = cannibal = Caliban). Here is how Montaigne (as translated by Shakespeare's friend Florio) describes the New World as superior to that of Plato's Republic:
It is a nation, would I answer Plato, that hath no kind of Traffic, no knowledge of letters, no intelligence of numbers, no name of magistrate nor of politic superiority, no use of service, of riches or of poverty, no contracts, no successions, no partitions, no occupation but idle, no respect of kindred but common, no apparel but natural, no manuring of lands, no use of wine, corn, or metal. The very words that import lying, falsehood, treason, dissimulations, covetousness, envy, detraction, and pardon, were never heard of amongst them. How dissonant would he find his imaginary commonwealth from this perfection!
Shakespeare's Gonzalo echoes Montaigne in trying to distract his shipwrecked companions by planning the administration of the island:
GONZALO. I' the commonwealth I would by contraries
Execute all things; for no kind of traffic
Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
And use of service, none; contract, succession,
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;
No occupation; all men idle, all:
And women too, but innocent and pure;
No sovereignty.
It is a nation, would I answer Plato, that hath no kind of Traffic, no knowledge of letters, no intelligence of numbers, no name of magistrate nor of politic superiority, no use of service, of riches or of poverty, no contracts, no successions, no partitions, no occupation but idle, no respect of kindred but common, no apparel but natural, no manuring of lands, no use of wine, corn, or metal. The very words that import lying, falsehood, treason, dissimulations, covetousness, envy, detraction, and pardon, were never heard of amongst them. How dissonant would he find his imaginary commonwealth from this perfection!
Shakespeare's Gonzalo echoes Montaigne in trying to distract his shipwrecked companions by planning the administration of the island:
GONZALO. I' the commonwealth I would by contraries
Execute all things; for no kind of traffic
Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
And use of service, none; contract, succession,
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;
No occupation; all men idle, all:
And women too, but innocent and pure;
No sovereignty.
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