This class has been my first foray into the world of blogging. Because of my lack of technological skills it has taken some time for me to adapt to the format and use of blogging. Usually teachers require you to write long papers where you expound on your subject but the blogs force you to condense all your ideas into a few hundred words. It's liberating in the sense that I'm not forced to inflate my ideas with redundant explanations and that I'm only presenting the ideas in their purest form.
In my blogs up to this point, I've primarily focused on the desires of specific characters (such as Iago) and the overall atmosphere of the plays. The former I felt opened up a lot of intricacies to characters that revealed themselves to me through blogging. On the other hand, focusing on the atmosphere of the plays allowed me to clearly define the mood of the work while using specific actions taking place in the story to support it.
While I have many criticisms about my actual writing in these blogs, I'll spare you those small discrepancies and show my faults in what aspects I could have included in my blogs. The actual language of the plays was something I felt was lacking in my blog posts. Whether including quotes or even exploring some of intricacies of the language, I felt that either would've provided a huge support to some of my ideas. Also, in future posts I'd like to explore what doesn't work in some of the plays. Though I'll always love Shakespeare's works, there have been many times where I question a direction he went in or I felt he ended the play with threads of the plot still dangling. Although I'm sure everyone wants to hear how I could write a better story than Shakespeare.
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