Reflection....

Before this class, like many of my classmates, I never had the experience of blogging. So far it has been a pretty fun and rewarding experience. While writing my blogs, I have always tried to stick with a major topic or theme that occurs in the play that I am blogging about. I have noticed that my topics and evidence for the topics have become more solid, as I continue to blog. Although I think this is good, after reading the entire bunch of plays and discussing them in class, there are a few plays that I probably could have talked about a topic or concern that was not mentioned in class or perhaps blogged about a theme or topic that was not as popular in the other blogs. I noticed many of us blog about similar topics, yet we all have different interpretations or things to say about it. I do like my earlier post about the women in, The Merchant of Venice. I feel it was specific and had a good amount of evidence to back up my statement. However, looking back my post on King Henry IV, after discussing the entire play in class, I probably would go back and change my post. After listening to some of the interpretations and ideas in class, I have a slightly different view on the events that took place in the play. After looking at some of my blog posts, or perhaps for future blog posts, I feel like I need to have more quotes from the text to support my main idea(s). While re-reading some of my comments to my peers blogs, I noticed that I usually comment on blogs that I agree with. I probably do this because I do not want to disagree with any person's interpretation of a play, yet I do think that it is important for everybody to express his or her interpretation since we have learned that Shakespeare can be read in a variety of ways. I love reading my classmates blogs and I think I benefit a lot from them. There are topics in some blogs that I would have never even thought of myself. I also love that fact that somebody can take an idea and expand it here on PB works. I think it is great and extremely important that every person gets to express his or her ideas and thoughts on a comfortable workspace. Blogging helps those who have trouble understanding a play, a character's function or action and so on. Other blog posts from a peer in the class, may answer a question somebody else has. Blogging also helps those who have trouble discussing the play out loud in class. It helps those students to be able to participate and also makes those students feel like they are contributing to the learning environment.