Blog Reflection

My first observation when looking back over my blog was that I had never actually posted my second entry. So, now that that error has been corrected, I can analyze the two and discuss my progress. My first post was focused primarily on characters in The Merchant of Venice. While I did some decent analysis of them, I definitely find that I could have looked a little deeper at Shylock and Bassanio. After discussions in class took place I found that I understood things much better and they were not included in that blog post, which is a bit of a shame.  I also didn’t really analyze much of the language in this post, with one exception, and in Shakespeare with language being such a big part of it that’s probably something I should make sure to do in the future.

My second blog post on Richard II was primarily focused on language so I found that I liked this post a bit better and it seemed a bit more focused. I will say however, that the first post was better in that it brought in more of the rest of the play than this one did, because I only discussed one scene in this post. This post however definitely seemed to have a more thorough understanding of the text involved which seems to keep it more on point and focused as there weren’t as many places that were full of speculation.

I definitely liked that we are being asked to look through our blogs and reflect on them, not least of all because I noticed the huge mistake I made and because it also just allows me to compare my work which gives me ideas for future blog entries that I might try out.  I also enjoy the response portion of these blogs because reading other ideas is also a good way to get new thoughts flowing.