I enjoyed Twelfth Night so much that I wished that I had been in the story, too. This play is a light hearted comedy with almost no hint of tragedy. I like all of the examples of mistaken identity that are presented. Viola is the twin sister of Sebastian and these characters gets confused which leads to characters not knowing who’s who with many humourous consequences. Furthering the confusion, Viola takes on the role of the male character, Cesario, leading to even more confusion for the characters. Malvolio becomes convinced by the love letter that Maria wrote that Olivia loves him. Later, he is confused again by being told that he is crazy by Feste in the role of Sir Topas. It is enjoyable to be entertained by all the foolishness that exists in the play, as well. The social leaders in the play, Olivia and Orsino spend most of the time thinking about love. The only knight in the play exhibits none of the knightly characteristics that a knight would have because he lacks bravery, intelligence and skill. It is also enjoyable to see the parallels in the story between Olivia and Orsino as well as Viola and Sebastian.
The character that I relate to the most is Viola. She’s determined to get what she wants and doesn’t back down no matter what the situation is. She continues to work out how to get what she wants and let’s nothing stand in her way. She shows independence and cleverness.
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I’m impressed with Maria’s plan on Malvolio. I do agree with her for writing a love letter for how he behaves, making him think that Olivia loves him and likes everything about him. This is a cruel embarrassment because Sir Toby, Sir Andrew Agueecheek and Fabian wants to make a fool out of Malvolio and says very rude words about him as much as they could. He deserves to fall into a fake love letter trap. I also dislike Malvolio and I think that he deserves to be treated rudely, being told what to do the way he treats Maria, the other servants and all the other characters. Malvolio thinks that he is at a higher rank than everyone else and that he can boast about anything, having Olivia all to himself, is allowed to tell other characters what to do, should be very rude and strict with the servants and go around investigating what the others are doing and how they are doing in the kitchen when he’s supposed to be doing them himself. He also thinks that what he does is right and that everyone else have to obey him when he’s just a steward. My prediction is that Sir Toby, Sir Andrew Agueecheek and Feste throws Malvolio into a dark room and ties him up, making fun of him and release him when the fun is over.
I was placed in a group with Julie, Mitchell and Carolina with our area of focus being Artemis, the goddess of the moon, hunt, childbirth, wild animals, wilderness and virginity. When we got together, we decided which parts we were going to research independently and as a whole group. As my research task, I focused on aspects about Artemis' parents and Zeus being the current leader. Julie worked on the accomplishments, Carolina did the biography with some help from Julie, Mitchell did the negative aspects (the dirt) about the other gods/goddesses. The final task which involved describing why we are the best together. For the slogan, we thought of several possibilities and decided that we should use "Vote for Artemis, Right on Target." for our speech. We didn't experience any problems at the beginning since we developed strong teamwork. We helped each other out and found as much information about Artemis as we could. We used multiple sources and a number of sites to get information. We have lots of informations on a seperate doc for the research and made a new doc for the actual speech after we are done with all the researching.
After the presentation, I think we did pretty good except that we weren't able to get to the dirt part about the other gods and goddesses. When we were done, I realized that our script was too long or that we were talking too slow and wasn't able to squeeze our entire script in 3 minutes. We ran out of time when I was in the middle of reading my own part. We won't be elected to be the new leader of Mount Olympus. I think that our speech is quite persuasive but we just needed to improve our talking speed. If we had more time, we would have finished. We should have looked over our speech to make sure that we don't need to change anything. If there are any changes to be made, then we could have done that before we presented. The day before our presentation, we were hurrying to finish writing our script and didn't have time to look it over and Julie turned it in. We changed a lot of things during our 10 minute practise because most of the sentences are either: doesn't make any sense or just don't like the wording so we changed them to what we wanted it to be. For our infographic, I think that we did good because the background seems to fit Artemis pretty well. We still get to summarize the parts where we didn't get to on our infographic since we have everything we need for our infographic.
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