The Silent Hero Speaks (Hero’s Monologue)
(Hero is in nunnery. It’s late in the night and she is trying to sleep but in vain)
Oh what a miserable day it was. I still can’t believe if it is real or dream. How happy I was that day. I thought my dream came true and it all vanished so quickly. It’s already been a month I has been in the nunnery as per Friar Francis’ plan and know nothing what is going outside. Oh what sharp were those words from Claudio, “an approved wanton”. “ A common stale” that’s what Don Pedro, so called Prince of Arragon announced me to be. These words have been echoing all in my mind as it was just a minute ago.
What a poor and miserable condition was my father in – instead of verifying the truth he asked for dagger to kill himself.
Nowadays I feel I am visited my evil spirits. Last night I saw very terrible dream where I was stabbing both the prince and Claudio to death and when they died I took both men’s heart. What a horrible and scary dream. Is my mind is capable to imagine such brutal acts. Oh god I don’t know – few more days like these I will become completely insane. I must be strong and carry on, have patience, trust good people like my lovely Beatrice Benedick and friar.
(Turn her head on pillow to another side)
It’s seems like yesterday. My happiness knew no bounds. There I was in rainbow color, at zenith of my happiness. . I curse the night before the wedding and that was the only night I insist my sweet sister Beatrice to left me alone. Why I send her away – just to avoid her chatter and teasings.If she had been with me that night, I would had very hard evidence to defend Claudio’s charges. She would had been my mouthpiece, my advocate and protected from all this false charges. At first I was confused and did not believe my ear when Claudio said I was a ‘rotten orange “who “knows the heat of luxurious bed’’. The words slap my face and went straight to my heart when he said I was Diana (Virgin Goodess of hunt and moon) outside and Venus (fickle and promiscuous goddess of love and lust) inside. And the prince backed up everything he said when I protest him. Was that the nobleness and virtue of a Prince to dishonor an innocent woman? If Claudio had asked me to die as Hero (Hero name is mythical character who died for her lover Leander ) did , I should have but I was defenseless for such an irrational question as what I was doing the previous night , with which man I was talking to. And both prince and his bastard brother John supported Claudio as if they had seen with their eyes.
Oh no here is the point. John, the Bastard. After I slowly started coming to consciousness, Benedick was saying both prince and Claudio were both honorable and it might be John who might have trick them. Oh lord let Benedick be right in his judgments. I don’t understand what evil I have done to John. I even do not know him closely. May be he is jealous of Claudio glory and did not want to see him happy. So I must wait till the truth is revealed. But even if it’s true what a gullible person is Claudio?
A man such high honored whose bravery has spread all over Messina, can be betrayed so easily. Can he be such shallow and fallible trusting other people words without proper verification? Should not the prince is supposed to have sound and fair judgment? This incident taught me how the world is structured in a way men has always power over women. What if the same blame, even though because of some misunderstanding, was put to Claudio by me- would he accept me afterwards when the truth is prevailed? Then why should I accept him afterwards? How it is that it is not an unchaste act for a man to brothel-haunt and for a woman like me without any evidence one can blame anything, “an approved wanton” , ha ha ha ?
The greatest sufferer of all these misfortune is my beloved father. What he might be doing this time? I am sure he did not have slept and feed well in all these days? Please lord has mercy to Him. What a shame for him being governor of Messina at this old age to bear such dishonorable situation. Uncle Antonio and Beatrice must be there to pacify him.
Oh what an agony is covering me. What should I do to pacify my soul? I must wait and wait and wait. Reprises …. To everything there is a season, and time to every purpose….
a time to kill a time to heal a time to break down a time to build up… I time to weep a time to laugh (and that will come soon ) …….. a time to keep silence a time to speak. a time to love a time to hate ( hope it will over by tomorrow ) a time of war a time piece…..{ Repeats this lines / The Book of Ecclesiastes 3 : 1 – 10 and tries to sleep }
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
About Me
Name : Prakash Tiwari
Marital Status: Married with two children, Son 7 years and daughter 4
Years
Age : 34 years
Birth Sign: Sagittarius
Favorite Past Times: listening music, reading books and watching movies, traveling
Best Books: 1. The Old Man and The Sea – Hemingway (This book gives me moral and spiritual energy to face failures)
2. The Animal Farm – George Orwell (This book defines present situation of my native country Nepal and has a Universal theme that appears after major political leadership change.
3. Siddhartha – Herman Hersee ( Philosophy of life in being happy with dealing with simple mundane daily works )
4. The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (Assimilate with alienation and phony scenario that I felt living in NYC)
5. My Antonia – Willa Carter (Powerful nostalgic theme and childhood and teenage romances which a man can never write in such a beautiful way Ms Carter has written)
6. Sumnima / Tin Gumpti (Nepali) (stories of fight between bodily pleasure and spiritual attainment- salvation; novels inspired by Freudian literary works)
7. The Stranger – Albert Campus ( powerful revelation of one’s true feeling putting societies norms and mores aside / undoing one’s hypocrisies which nobody can do as protagonist Meursault does )
Best Music / Artist: Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, U2, Pink Floyd, Bob
Marley, John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton,
Al Pachino, Robert Di Nero etc
Best Movies : The God Father Trilogy / High Noon / The Treasure of Siarra Mande / A Bronx Tale / Forest Gump / Casablanca / My Fair Lady / From Here to Eternity / All Quiet On the Western Front / Sunset Boulevard / Singing in the Rain / Taxi Driver / The Grape of Wrath / Raging Bull / Goodfellas / Casino etc and the latest one , “ Devil Wears Parada ’’
Favorite Lines: “A man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated ’’ – Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
My name is Prakash Tiwari. I migrated to this country in July 2005, in a diversity visa lottery program, later joined by my wife on December of the same year. I have two children, little one three-year girl and the old one boy is turning to be six years next month. They are not here with me because visas for them were not issued at that time. The petition for them had already been approved and as per the US immigration policy, they will be coming here four years from now around 2012 AD. My parents 63 years old father, a retired pensioner and 54 years old mother, a life time housewife are taking care of my children now back in my native country Nepal.
I was born on 1976 in small country Nepal located, as it seemed sandwiched between two big nations of India and China. I have not a brilliant academic record but I was somewhere above average in my high school days. I passed my SLC exams, which is equivalent to grade 10 in United States in year 1992. After losing my study path for couple of years I passed my Intermediate Exams, which is equivalent to grade 12 in United States in year 1998 as a private student, which means not attending college or more like doing GED. Though I wanted to pursue higher studies, I was trapped in between my family responsibility and financial hardship.
I am planning to get Associate Degree in Liberal Arts from LaGuardia because most credit in this area can be transferable to four year college. This is my second semester and by the end of this semester I will complete 28 credits. I am planning to take either math or account or may be education major. I have two carriers in my mind; first is to become a secondary math teacher and second is to become auditor or accountant.
I have great passion for reading books ranging of all kinds on literature, philosophy, history, economics, politics, poetry etc. I love to watch movies especially with historical theme or some message in it. I am also a genuine music lover and fond of 60’/ 70’s rock n roll and blues music. Artist with message in their songs like Dylan, Lennon, Bob Marley, Tracy Chapman, U2, Pink Floyd etc songs have always make me cry and happy whenever I tuned them. If I had enough money and other regular source of income so that I don’t have to work, I like to spend rest of my life reading books, writing and doing social works in remote village of my native country Nepal.
I had worked almost ten years in a Bank Card Acquiring Company, which in terms of Bank Card Business is called “Merchant Service Provider” back in Nepal from year 1995 to 2005, before coming to United States. I started my carrier as Assistant Customer Service in that company and was later moved to branch supervisor and finally moving to Sales and Marketing Department as officer. Now I am working in Account Department of Realty Corporation as Filing and Data Entry Assistant from January 2007.
There are three principal reasons that have pushed me to pursuit my college degree besides other secondary reasons. Firstly, a formal education has importance of its own which no one can deny in spite of its costs and commitment. It expands mental horizon and help to analysis everything around us more critically. It cleans our bias and lead to better understanding of the world. Therefore I see no better alternate than continuing education in coming four years before my children are here.
Secondly, I have an unpleasant professional experience about what lack of formal education degree leads. As I mentioned above, I started my carrier as entry level assistant in card business and in my long carrier span of ten years gain many expertise in the field from indentifying and expanding market, fraud and risk management in card business, resolving disputes among customers and card issuers etc. But my growth was limited in that industry to a certain level. New people who entered in my industry with college degree got direct access to higher level post with handsome salary even though they have least idea about the inside depth of card business. I often guide them handing their affairs and I knew more than them but my growth was limited, all because of absence of college degree.
Thirdly, I want to set examples to my children to go for college degree. I strongly believe that if I finished my college degree, the chance of my children to follow the same path doubles and eventually lead them to an excellent carrier of their desire. I don’t want my children to make the same mistake I made a long ago and end up with failure in carrier enhancement. I am first person in my family to attain college and with some knowledge of college experience it will be easier for me to guide my children.
Nowadays I am counting my days for children to arrive here in United States. I am waiting, sometimes with despair and sometimes with patience, the years to come when my children will grow enough to care of themselves and start a good carrier so that I will be able to focus on my long dreamed social works in remote village of Nepal.
Marital Status: Married with two children, Son 7 years and daughter 4
Years
Age : 34 years
Birth Sign: Sagittarius
Favorite Past Times: listening music, reading books and watching movies, traveling
Best Books: 1. The Old Man and The Sea – Hemingway (This book gives me moral and spiritual energy to face failures)
2. The Animal Farm – George Orwell (This book defines present situation of my native country Nepal and has a Universal theme that appears after major political leadership change.
3. Siddhartha – Herman Hersee ( Philosophy of life in being happy with dealing with simple mundane daily works )
4. The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (Assimilate with alienation and phony scenario that I felt living in NYC)
5. My Antonia – Willa Carter (Powerful nostalgic theme and childhood and teenage romances which a man can never write in such a beautiful way Ms Carter has written)
6. Sumnima / Tin Gumpti (Nepali) (stories of fight between bodily pleasure and spiritual attainment- salvation; novels inspired by Freudian literary works)
7. The Stranger – Albert Campus ( powerful revelation of one’s true feeling putting societies norms and mores aside / undoing one’s hypocrisies which nobody can do as protagonist Meursault does )
Best Music / Artist: Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, U2, Pink Floyd, Bob
Marley, John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton,
Al Pachino, Robert Di Nero etc
Best Movies : The God Father Trilogy / High Noon / The Treasure of Siarra Mande / A Bronx Tale / Forest Gump / Casablanca / My Fair Lady / From Here to Eternity / All Quiet On the Western Front / Sunset Boulevard / Singing in the Rain / Taxi Driver / The Grape of Wrath / Raging Bull / Goodfellas / Casino etc and the latest one , “ Devil Wears Parada ’’
Favorite Lines: “A man is not made for defeat... a man can be destroyed but not defeated ’’ – Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
My name is Prakash Tiwari. I migrated to this country in July 2005, in a diversity visa lottery program, later joined by my wife on December of the same year. I have two children, little one three-year girl and the old one boy is turning to be six years next month. They are not here with me because visas for them were not issued at that time. The petition for them had already been approved and as per the US immigration policy, they will be coming here four years from now around 2012 AD. My parents 63 years old father, a retired pensioner and 54 years old mother, a life time housewife are taking care of my children now back in my native country Nepal.
I was born on 1976 in small country Nepal located, as it seemed sandwiched between two big nations of India and China. I have not a brilliant academic record but I was somewhere above average in my high school days. I passed my SLC exams, which is equivalent to grade 10 in United States in year 1992. After losing my study path for couple of years I passed my Intermediate Exams, which is equivalent to grade 12 in United States in year 1998 as a private student, which means not attending college or more like doing GED. Though I wanted to pursue higher studies, I was trapped in between my family responsibility and financial hardship.
I am planning to get Associate Degree in Liberal Arts from LaGuardia because most credit in this area can be transferable to four year college. This is my second semester and by the end of this semester I will complete 28 credits. I am planning to take either math or account or may be education major. I have two carriers in my mind; first is to become a secondary math teacher and second is to become auditor or accountant.
I have great passion for reading books ranging of all kinds on literature, philosophy, history, economics, politics, poetry etc. I love to watch movies especially with historical theme or some message in it. I am also a genuine music lover and fond of 60’/ 70’s rock n roll and blues music. Artist with message in their songs like Dylan, Lennon, Bob Marley, Tracy Chapman, U2, Pink Floyd etc songs have always make me cry and happy whenever I tuned them. If I had enough money and other regular source of income so that I don’t have to work, I like to spend rest of my life reading books, writing and doing social works in remote village of my native country Nepal.
I had worked almost ten years in a Bank Card Acquiring Company, which in terms of Bank Card Business is called “Merchant Service Provider” back in Nepal from year 1995 to 2005, before coming to United States. I started my carrier as Assistant Customer Service in that company and was later moved to branch supervisor and finally moving to Sales and Marketing Department as officer. Now I am working in Account Department of Realty Corporation as Filing and Data Entry Assistant from January 2007.
There are three principal reasons that have pushed me to pursuit my college degree besides other secondary reasons. Firstly, a formal education has importance of its own which no one can deny in spite of its costs and commitment. It expands mental horizon and help to analysis everything around us more critically. It cleans our bias and lead to better understanding of the world. Therefore I see no better alternate than continuing education in coming four years before my children are here.
Secondly, I have an unpleasant professional experience about what lack of formal education degree leads. As I mentioned above, I started my carrier as entry level assistant in card business and in my long carrier span of ten years gain many expertise in the field from indentifying and expanding market, fraud and risk management in card business, resolving disputes among customers and card issuers etc. But my growth was limited in that industry to a certain level. New people who entered in my industry with college degree got direct access to higher level post with handsome salary even though they have least idea about the inside depth of card business. I often guide them handing their affairs and I knew more than them but my growth was limited, all because of absence of college degree.
Thirdly, I want to set examples to my children to go for college degree. I strongly believe that if I finished my college degree, the chance of my children to follow the same path doubles and eventually lead them to an excellent carrier of their desire. I don’t want my children to make the same mistake I made a long ago and end up with failure in carrier enhancement. I am first person in my family to attain college and with some knowledge of college experience it will be easier for me to guide my children.
Nowadays I am counting my days for children to arrive here in United States. I am waiting, sometimes with despair and sometimes with patience, the years to come when my children will grow enough to care of themselves and start a good carrier so that I will be able to focus on my long dreamed social works in remote village of Nepal.
Blog 2
Benedick Diary Before War
I often feel scary about war no matter how strong I look outwards. Who knows may be I am here today and by the time war is finished I will be on another world. Sometimes I feel it’s better to go to war than to fall in love and make silly promises to your partner just to make her happy. And won’t it be even worse if heart goes after such a demanding and tattling women like Beatrice. What a miserable life it would be – worse than dying in war. However she acts wise sometimes and if she changes her silly gossiping habit…. She is really witty and beautiful too… Oh what a fool I am, why I am thinking of her when I don’t like her. Oh what a fickle mind, a vagabond. To tame this mind is much more difficult than to win a war.
Benedick Diary on evening of Act One after “Skirmish of Wit’’
Oh what a piece of work is this woman. (Modification of Shakespeare phrase “What a piece of work is a man” ) She doesn’t know how to respect an honorable man who has just arrived from war with victory on his hand. Has she always been like that, with all the people alike or it’s only me that she is so rough with? Is there anything wrong with my personality, or attire? Perhaps I should not have bounce back her harsh words with referring her “Disdain”. But she really is disdain. May be I should have avoid to come across her. Oh Lord why I came across her. I am admired by all beautiful damsel (is not this old term for girl and lad for boys) of Messina expect her. And there falls another victim of Cupid- my dear comrade Claudio. Now he sees nothing expect Hero. Is not Hero better than Beatrice? But she is not my type; too shy, gentle and sophisticated to deal with.
Shakespeare’s character Benedick is just pretending to be carefree and immune to love but he is not. He too has a nice romantic attitude but is trying to create a persona indifferent to love and woman. For me he is some sort of victim of psychological dysfunction - a man might developed in which he mistakenly thinks that its hard to cope and go along with a women. As with love and marriage come commitments and responsibilities and to this Benedick is afraid of. Benedick remind me an another character Pro. Henry Higgins created by GB Shaw in his play Pygmalion. Like Higgins Benedick thoughts are parallel towards perception of woman, Higgins declares- “Woman upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that woman is driving at one thing and you’re driving at another. The woman wants to live her own life and man wants to live his own and each tries to drag the other one the wrong track. One wants to go north and other south and the result is both have to go east.”( Act II ). Similar type of saying is declared by Benedick to Cladiuo when questioned about lady named Hero.
In spite of all stereotyping of woman by Benedick to be worthless and particularly of Beatrice, he is unknowingly attracted to her. And Beatrice too is attracted to Benedick. The straight conversation between them like Beatrice mentioning him to stop taking as nobody marks what he says and Benedick mentioning her as disdain and telling her directly how he dislike her excess tattering shows an intimacy between them. One does not comment on other in face to face if they are not close. Therefore I think that both of them are unaware about their mutual passion, emotion and love towards each other.
I often feel scary about war no matter how strong I look outwards. Who knows may be I am here today and by the time war is finished I will be on another world. Sometimes I feel it’s better to go to war than to fall in love and make silly promises to your partner just to make her happy. And won’t it be even worse if heart goes after such a demanding and tattling women like Beatrice. What a miserable life it would be – worse than dying in war. However she acts wise sometimes and if she changes her silly gossiping habit…. She is really witty and beautiful too… Oh what a fool I am, why I am thinking of her when I don’t like her. Oh what a fickle mind, a vagabond. To tame this mind is much more difficult than to win a war.
Benedick Diary on evening of Act One after “Skirmish of Wit’’
Oh what a piece of work is this woman. (Modification of Shakespeare phrase “What a piece of work is a man” ) She doesn’t know how to respect an honorable man who has just arrived from war with victory on his hand. Has she always been like that, with all the people alike or it’s only me that she is so rough with? Is there anything wrong with my personality, or attire? Perhaps I should not have bounce back her harsh words with referring her “Disdain”. But she really is disdain. May be I should have avoid to come across her. Oh Lord why I came across her. I am admired by all beautiful damsel (is not this old term for girl and lad for boys) of Messina expect her. And there falls another victim of Cupid- my dear comrade Claudio. Now he sees nothing expect Hero. Is not Hero better than Beatrice? But she is not my type; too shy, gentle and sophisticated to deal with.
Shakespeare’s character Benedick is just pretending to be carefree and immune to love but he is not. He too has a nice romantic attitude but is trying to create a persona indifferent to love and woman. For me he is some sort of victim of psychological dysfunction - a man might developed in which he mistakenly thinks that its hard to cope and go along with a women. As with love and marriage come commitments and responsibilities and to this Benedick is afraid of. Benedick remind me an another character Pro. Henry Higgins created by GB Shaw in his play Pygmalion. Like Higgins Benedick thoughts are parallel towards perception of woman, Higgins declares- “Woman upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that woman is driving at one thing and you’re driving at another. The woman wants to live her own life and man wants to live his own and each tries to drag the other one the wrong track. One wants to go north and other south and the result is both have to go east.”( Act II ). Similar type of saying is declared by Benedick to Cladiuo when questioned about lady named Hero.
In spite of all stereotyping of woman by Benedick to be worthless and particularly of Beatrice, he is unknowingly attracted to her. And Beatrice too is attracted to Benedick. The straight conversation between them like Beatrice mentioning him to stop taking as nobody marks what he says and Benedick mentioning her as disdain and telling her directly how he dislike her excess tattering shows an intimacy between them. One does not comment on other in face to face if they are not close. Therefore I think that both of them are unaware about their mutual passion, emotion and love towards each other.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Shakespeare Times and its influence on his Writing
Shakespeare spent his childhood and youth in Renaissance period and his mid-life in Reformation period of Europe. Social-economic condition, culture, religious beliefs, level of technological advancement etc must have made profound influence in his writing.
It’s very shocking that during those period life expectancy was less than 30 and half the children died before reaching age of 15. In today’s modern world where even most undeveloped countries in African and Asian region have life expectancy of above 40, it’s an incomprehensive fact. We can imagine that medical science was in primitive stage on those days. The concepts of germs and viruses that cause disease and antibiotics for their remedy was out of question. However if anyone has read Romeo and Juliet there is a character called Fiar Lawarane who prepares some sort of chemicals that acts as anesthesia and makes Juliet faint as dead for a day. This implies that perhaps Shakespeare might have heard about those chemicals or herbs that make us faint. In absence of development of proper medical science, people believe in divine power and witchcrafts for causes of diseases and death. We see that when certain no of people died theaters were closed, - “as to avoid making an angry God still angrier with the spectacle of idleness. Causes and remedy of disease were mystery and that truth reflected in Shakespeare’s plays- for instance in Hamlet, the protagonist Halmet calls, “the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.”
During Shakespeare status of women were inferior to men and were not allowed all the privilege men could possibly have. However position of women were better in comparison to other European countries as they could walk unchaperoned into streets and go to theater, single women after certain age were liable to inherit and manage property-lands, make a will , sing contracts ,sue and be sued etc without men permission. This might have been possible as England that time was ruled for over 40 years by powerful women Elizabeth 1. This possibly might have influence Shakespeare in dealing with women character. Shakespeare women character are often active, more ambitious, witty and cruel as well. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is anchoring the play to boost up her man ambition. As Elizabeth was crowned in England not for her merit or not allowed to rule England for her genius and neither she was prevent from crown on ground of being women. As blood was respected more than age or sex, Elizabeth was made queen. This concept might have influence Shakespeare to deal his noble by birth character like price, princess, knights etc.
Lack of modern electronic media and ads, films, home TV and DVD equipments, the range of entertainment were limited during Shakespeare period. As from Thomas Platter writing, - theater that runs from 2 noon in two or three places in London were few entertainment available. As we are now mould by TV, media , Hollywood and the entire Madison Avenue, the people might also be shaped by theater plays , the language and dress the artist use at those time. When Shakespeare became a successful playwright he must had lead parallel life and made impact on society like today’s entertainment people like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Opera etc and was able to afford grand lavish life later in his life. Being a playwright must had been a profession, unlike ordinary profession like farming and trading, of glitz and glamour and might have affected his later writing of Shakespeare and vice versa.
One shocking event for post modern people like us is about Capital Punishment. In general 20/30 peoples both men and women had been executed on daily basis. The people of Shakespeare time just took those things for granted as punishment for breaking the law. Liberal thoughts of not taking something ( someone’s life ) which we can’t repay was not developed. This might have justified the unnecessary duels and capital punishment that might occurred in Shakespeare plays for simple reason as showing thumb (Rome and Juliet)
It’s very shocking that during those period life expectancy was less than 30 and half the children died before reaching age of 15. In today’s modern world where even most undeveloped countries in African and Asian region have life expectancy of above 40, it’s an incomprehensive fact. We can imagine that medical science was in primitive stage on those days. The concepts of germs and viruses that cause disease and antibiotics for their remedy was out of question. However if anyone has read Romeo and Juliet there is a character called Fiar Lawarane who prepares some sort of chemicals that acts as anesthesia and makes Juliet faint as dead for a day. This implies that perhaps Shakespeare might have heard about those chemicals or herbs that make us faint. In absence of development of proper medical science, people believe in divine power and witchcrafts for causes of diseases and death. We see that when certain no of people died theaters were closed, - “as to avoid making an angry God still angrier with the spectacle of idleness. Causes and remedy of disease were mystery and that truth reflected in Shakespeare’s plays- for instance in Hamlet, the protagonist Halmet calls, “the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.”
During Shakespeare status of women were inferior to men and were not allowed all the privilege men could possibly have. However position of women were better in comparison to other European countries as they could walk unchaperoned into streets and go to theater, single women after certain age were liable to inherit and manage property-lands, make a will , sing contracts ,sue and be sued etc without men permission. This might have been possible as England that time was ruled for over 40 years by powerful women Elizabeth 1. This possibly might have influence Shakespeare in dealing with women character. Shakespeare women character are often active, more ambitious, witty and cruel as well. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is anchoring the play to boost up her man ambition. As Elizabeth was crowned in England not for her merit or not allowed to rule England for her genius and neither she was prevent from crown on ground of being women. As blood was respected more than age or sex, Elizabeth was made queen. This concept might have influence Shakespeare to deal his noble by birth character like price, princess, knights etc.
Lack of modern electronic media and ads, films, home TV and DVD equipments, the range of entertainment were limited during Shakespeare period. As from Thomas Platter writing, - theater that runs from 2 noon in two or three places in London were few entertainment available. As we are now mould by TV, media , Hollywood and the entire Madison Avenue, the people might also be shaped by theater plays , the language and dress the artist use at those time. When Shakespeare became a successful playwright he must had lead parallel life and made impact on society like today’s entertainment people like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Opera etc and was able to afford grand lavish life later in his life. Being a playwright must had been a profession, unlike ordinary profession like farming and trading, of glitz and glamour and might have affected his later writing of Shakespeare and vice versa.
One shocking event for post modern people like us is about Capital Punishment. In general 20/30 peoples both men and women had been executed on daily basis. The people of Shakespeare time just took those things for granted as punishment for breaking the law. Liberal thoughts of not taking something ( someone’s life ) which we can’t repay was not developed. This might have justified the unnecessary duels and capital punishment that might occurred in Shakespeare plays for simple reason as showing thumb (Rome and Juliet)
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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