In my earlier posts, it seems as though I was only focusing on events that were happening in relation to the plot. As the semester went on though, I feel like my posts have begun to get a clearer focus and are more specific to a certain few ideas. Maybe I just needed to get the hang of blogging, or maybe I’ve just gotten used to doing it, but it seems as though I’ve been able to find something from the text more specific to think about while reading and in class than I had been previously in the semester.
I think by focusing on the bigger ideas or issues in the play rather then just the events of the plot in my blogging has helped me to better gain a knowledge about the plays as a whole and the themes they encompass, rather than just getting a simple understanding that plot and interactions between characters.
Something I think might be worth revisiting in my post would be the idea of divine right, as well as how kings shape their identity. In a post about Richard II, I wrote “Bolingbroke talks about his banishment in Act 3.1, and says ‘From my own windows torn my household coat,/ Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign,/ Save men's opinions and my living blood,/ To show the world I am a gentlemen’ (3.1.24-27). These lines show us just how important Bolingbroke's lineage is to him, as well as his honor. This also reveals how these things contribute hugely to constructing his identity” I think that this could be worth revisiting because monarchs and the idea of divine right was an incredibly significant part of life for everyone.
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