Looking Back

Looking back at my past blog posts, I realized I usually focus on a single character rather than the events of the play. Mostly, I focused on characters who said things that caught my eye and stayed on my mind. Like many other students, this was my first time blogging for a class. I think that my blogs have definitely progressed and have become more focused. For my first blog post, I wrote about three completely different characters and did not really connect them in any way. I believe that my blogs have become more focused because I have really learned to look at the plays more in depth. Lastly, I cannot help but notice that two-thirds of my blogs focused on some aspect of death. Maybe I am drawn to these characters and how they think about death or come to terms with it. I am really not sure.
In general, I think I value that the blogs give me a chance to go off on my own topic or ideas. They do not necessarily need to be focused around a question posed by the professor. I also value the commenting part because we are given the chance to think about other ideas and hear what people think of mine. Perhaps they have something to say relating to my blog topics that I never thought of.
From my second blog post, Claudio's first line still stick out for me: "Ay, but to die, and go we know not where"(3.1.118). This originally stuck out to be because I remember having a professor tell a class that no one really survives death. We can't just walk up to someone and casually ask them how death was. Looking back, I feel as though what Claudio said is still relevant. We still don't know what happens. There is still that great uncertainty I feel that this can also be related to my third post when I wrote about Richard saying "let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings- / How some have been deposed, some slain in war, / Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, / Some poisoned by the wives, some sleeping killed, all murdered"(3.2.151-156). Richard seemed uncertain, not necessarily about death, but seemed to be doubting if he could be a successful king. He's assuming that he'll be killed, but there's an uncertainty of how.
Overall, as I write this, I like how this specific assignment has allowed me to go back and see the subtle connections between each of my blog posts.