MY EVALUATION.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82lpST_OhPg

Very sorry i couldn't embed the video, the connection is broken. 

My lines.

 In this scene of course i'm in a sate of panic because of the storm but i am also trying to with hold mutiny on the ship, the Boatswain is really disrespectful to Alonso which would be unheard of in those times, but because of the storm this is the Boatswain chance to be a bit cheeky to the king. My objective is to with hold the Boatswain from any further rudeness towards the king.

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.

The interesting thing about these to character interpretations is they both have sticks to walk with and show that they are wise.

Second scene Gonzalo reference.

A little reference of Gonzalo was was not cut from our production.

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.

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. 

An interesting interpretation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1m407UeYi8

This interpretation is quite different to mine, Gonzalo is more of a fool than anything wise. I picked up on the fact that even though he's a wise old man he's also a slight giddy character and almost dreams of a Utopian state of being.

Given Circumstances

Page	Character	Quote	Fact/Opinion
3	stage direction	Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others.	Fact
3	Gonzalo	Nay, good, be patient.	Opinion
3	Boatswain	When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence! Trouble us not.	Fact
3	Gonzalo	Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.	Opinion
3	Boatswain	None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap. Out of our way, I say.	Opinion
4	Gonzalo	The king and prince at prayers! Let’s assist them, for our case is as theirs.	Fact
4	Stage direction	A confused noise within: ‘Mercy on us!’—‘We split, we split!’—‘Farewell, my wife and children!’—‘Farewell, brother!’—‘We split, we split, we split!’	Fact
8	Prospero	By providence divine. Some food we had and some fresh water that a noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, out of his charity did give us, with rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries, which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness, knowing I loved my books, he furnish’d me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.	Fact
8	Mirander	Would I might but ever see that man!	Opinion
17	Stage direction	Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, GONZALO, and others.	Fact
17	Gonzalo	Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss. Then, wisely, weigh our sorrow with our comfort.	Opinion
17	Stage direction	To the others	Fact
17	Gonzalo	Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the kings fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis.	Opinion
17	Stage direction	To Alonso	Fact
17	Gonzalo	Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage of your daughter, who is now queen.	Fact
17	Alonso	You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of sense. Would I had never married my daughter there! For, coming thence, my son is lost and, in my rate, she too, who is so far from Italy removed I ne’er again shall see her. O thou mine heir of Naples and of Milan , what strange fish hath made his meal on thee?	Opinion
18	Gonzalo	My lord Sebastain, the truth you speak of doth lack some gentleness and time to speak it in: you rub the sore, when you should bring the plaster.	Fact
18	Stage direction	To ALONSO	Fact
18	Gonzalo	It is foul weather in us all, good sir, when you are cloudy.	Opinion
18	Gonzalo	Had I plantation of this isle, my lord--	Opinion
18	Antonio	He’d sow’t with nettle-seed	Opinion
18	Sebastian	Or docks, or mellows	Opinion
19	Gonzalo	And were the king on’t, what would I do?	Opinion
19	Sebastian	‘Scape being drunk for want of wine.	Opinion
19	Gonzalo	I’ th’ 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; contact, succession, bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; no use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; no occupation; all mean idle, all, and women too, but innocent and pure; no sovereignty–	Opinion
19	Sebastian	Yet he would be king on ‘t	opinion
19	Gonzalo	All things in common nature should produce without sweat or endeavour; treason, felony, sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine would I not have; but nature should bring forth of its own kind all foison, all abundance, to feed my innocent people.	Opinion
19	Sebastian	No marrying ‘mong his subjects?	Opinion
19	Antonio	None, man, all idle: whores and knaves	Opinion
19	Gonzalo	I would with such perfection govern, sir, t’ excel the Golden Age	Opinion
19	Sebastian	‘save his majesty!	Opinion
19	Antonio	Long live Gonzalo!	Opinion
19	Gonzalo	And do you mark me, sir?	Fact
19	Gonzalo	I do well believe your highness, and did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen, who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that they always use to laugh at nothing.	Fact
19	Antonio	‘twas you we laughed at.	Fact
19	Gonzalo	Then good my lord will you laugh me asleep? For I am very heavy.	Fact
21	Antonio	Draw together; and when I rear my hand, do you the like, to fall it on Gonzalo	Opinion
21	Stage direction	Ariel sings in GONZALO’s ear.	Fact
21	Ariel	While you here do snoring lie, open-eyed conspiracy his time doth take. If of life you keep a care, shake off slumber, and beware: awake, awake!	Opinion
22	Gonzalo	Now, good angels preserve the king.	Opinion
22	Gonzalo	What’s the matter?	Fact
22	Gonzalo	Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming, and that a strange on too, which did awake me: I shaked you, sir, and cried: as mine eyes open’d, I saw their weapons drawn; there was a noise, that’s verily. ‘tis best we stand upon our guard, or that we quit this place; let’s draw out weapons.	Fact
22	Gonzalo	Heavens keep him from these beasts! For he is sure, I’ the island	Opinion
34	Gonzalo	By’r lakin, I can go further, sir; my old bones ache: here’s a maze indeed through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience, I needs must rest me.	Fact
34	Alonso	Old, lord, I cannot blame thee, who am myself attach’d with weariness, to the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest. Even here I will put off my hope and keep it no longer for my flatterer: he is drown’d whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.	Fact
35	Gonzalo	Marvellous sweet music!	Opinion
36	Gonzalo	I’ the name of something holy, sir, why stand you in this strange stare?	Fact
36	Gonzalo	All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, like poison given to work a great time after, now ‘gins to bite the spirits. I’ll follow them and hinder them from what this ecstasy may now provoke them to.	Fact
45	Stage direction	Re-enter ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and charmed; which PROSPERO observing, speaks:.	Fact
48	Gonzalo	Be it so! Amen! Look, sir! here is more of us. Speak boatswain thou no mouth by land? What is the news?	Fact

The Departed and The Tempest are related???

I feel that mine and Tyler's relationship as characters are a lot like Mr. French and Frank Costello from the film The Departed. This is because Mr. French as been friends with Frank Costello for a long time and he's done almost single bit of criminal activity with Frank. Even though Gonzalo hasn't been friends with Alonso for very long he acts like he has, which shows he's got respect for the boss and that he's loyal. Another interesting fact about Gonzalo is that he try'd to help Prospero stay in power back in Italy, which is also strange to think of his willingness to save Alonso, but there is a lot of friction between Gonzalo and Antonio.

Some background on a magnificent human!

Shakespeare's reputation as dramatist and poet actor is unique and he is considered by many to be the greatest playwright of all time, although many of the facts of his life remain mysterious.

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised on 26 April 1564. His father was a glovemaker and wool merchant and his mother, Mary Arden, the daughter of a well-to-do local landowner. Shakespeare was probably educated in Stratford's grammar school. The next documented event in Shakespeare's life is his marriage in 1582 to Anne Hathaway, daughter of a farmer. The couple had a daughter the following year and twins in 1585. There is now another gap, referred to by some scholars as 'the lost years', with Shakespeare only reappearing in London in 1592, when he was already working in the theatre.

Shakespeare's acting career was spent with the Lord Chamberlain's Company, which was renamed the King's Company in 1603 when James succeeded to the throne. Among the actors in the group was the famous Richard Burbage. The partnership acquired interests in two theatres in the Southwark area of London, near the banks of the Thames - the Globe and the Blackfriars.

Shakespeare's poetry was published before his plays, with two poems appearing in 1593 and 1594, dedicated to his patron Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. Most of Shakespeare's sonnets were probably written at this time as well. Records of Shakespeare's plays begin to appear in 1594, and he produced roughly two a year until around 1611. His earliest plays include 'Henry VI' and 'Titus Andronicus'. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'The Merchant of Venice' and 'Richard II' all date from the mid to late 1590s. Some of his most famous tragedies were written in the early 1600s including 'Hamlet', 'Othello', 'King Lear' and 'Macbeth'. His late plays, often known as the Romances, date from 1608 on wards and include 'The Tempest'.

Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in Stratford, by now a wealthy man. He died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1623 and is known as 'the First Folio'.