I thought that using the blog as a tool for this class worked in my favor, as I was able to formulate more concrete arguments or ideas outside of class, and propose them to the class. After class discussion provoked me to think further about an aspect of whichever play we were studying at the time.
To me, the content of my posts mostly dealt with an underlying aspect of the play that's apparent, yet subtle. Much of the more obvious or dense issues are usually discussed in class, so on the blog I try to raise a questions that tends to be a trend throughout the whole play (such as Richard II's eloquent speech as opposed to his faulty leadership, and the undertones of Christianity in Measure for Measure).
I think this has become a trend for me, for a couple of reasons: 1) I'm usually the last person to post so most of the aspects of the play have been talked about, and 2) sometimes I feel as if the more subtle aspects of plays are interesting because it's the author sneakily trying to tell its reader something it doesn't want to say upfront. Also, it could be an example of an already discovered or apparent theme, adding other perspectives to a theme or character, basically any aspect of the play.
What surprised me most about rereading my blog posts was how incomplete they were at the time. When I say incomplete, I mean it in the sense that most of my opinions were based on the fact that I hadn't read the full text yet. It made it interesting to measure how my opinions were halfway through reading a specific text to how they became towards completion.
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