my thoughts on social networking

                Okay, to get one thing clear I have to say that most people have heard about how social networking users, or Facebook to be specific, often experience a kind of withdrawal when they quit using it... Similar to drug or alcohol users, but I think that's about the same with everything we really like. If I quit riding my horse or eating chocolate I bet I would have a kind of withdraw myself.(not that I will ever consider testing that) The real question is, is Facebook(social networks) bad for you in the way that drugs and alcohol are, in the way that chocolate is, or not at all? It's obviously very addicting for many people which, in my eyes, leans toward dangerously unhealthy but I myself am still undecided.

Kate's Speech

            While time has changed how the public views marriage and everybody want so try pulling the "women's rights" speech we(Christians) are commanded to be in, not of the world. However I don't believe, and neither do I think God does, that women are in any way inferior to men, but men are the ones God commands to be the head of the household. So when Kate made her speech on the duties and places of wives I think that it was a Christian view. On the other hand I wouldn't want to be affiliated with someone, wife or not, that would let me be so ignorant as to think that the moon was the sun... what good is it for Petruchio, or any on for that matter, to have a wife if she can't help you keep from making mistakes and vice versa.

????????Who Tamed Who?????????

            I'm not sure if the last scene of the play can be taken as proof that Kate has been TRULY tamed whether she has or hasn't. Because from the beginning we have seen that she has quite a temper and wishes to spite everyone around her. And what better way to do so than to show that she is not only a better wife than ever could have been imagined but also that she is a better wife than her oh so perfect sister Bianca. I know that probably seems far fetched... And I suppose it is, but I did notice that in my version Kate left as soon as her speech was over rather than waiting for her husband like a tame wife would have. Either way it would seem that Kate and Petruchio have at lest come to an understanding. If these unlikely circumstances are in fact the case, than it is very possible that the last scene is a private joke between Kate and Petruchio. Since both, as shown in the first couple scenes, are very mischievous.

My "on the spot" Opinions Of Characters

Bianca,
Kind of a manipulative version of Hero form Much Ado. Probably wasn't always a brat but once she got used to being the center of attention started to use her good standings with her rich, easily flattered father to her advantage. Resulting in her using her sisters shrewdness to build upon her own pedestal of perfectness.

lucention,
Obviously a sucker for good looks, He is defiantly a pretty boy. Not the best judge of character since he thought he was getting a good wife when he married Bianca but learns pretty fast how wrong he was.

Petruchio,
Lover of money and of a challenge, he is far smarter than he lets on and isn't lying when he says that he's "rough". Pretty complex guy that I think only Kate( at the end) and his party of friends/servants understand. He's a bit of a control freak but far more moral than he would appear.


Kate,
She's female.

compare @ Contrast

           "I only pick on you cuz I like you" excluding those who are liked by none almost everyone has heard that at some time or another. After watching Beatrice and Benedick banter back and forth you can really see that Shakespeare must have been told something similar at some point or another. Claudio and Hero on the other hand just look dreamily into each others eyes. I think if you can argue with someone and not hurt them, not because they don't care about your opinions, then you already have a friendship whether you like it or not. Claudio and Hero's relationship seems to be based off of immediate physical and political attraction whereas Benedick and Beatrice's is more gradual revelation of companionship. Which in my opinion is a far more potential love than Claudio and Hero's.       

Lesson 4 Review ?'s 2,3,9

R2
         When Benedick challenges Claudio to a duel he is quite bluntly stating that he has officially subsided from the companionship of men to stand with his beloved.( I bet that's not what Don Padro was going for when he "tricked" them into love.

R3
         "Choose your revenge yourself" is Claudio reaction when he hears how he was tricked. Yes I suppose that Claudio had satisfactory repentance when proven that he was an idiot. However he could depressed about Hero's (supposed) unfair DEATH rather that being worried about Leonato's deserved revenge.

R9
          I am not sure why it was important for Claudio not to see Hero before he said His vows. Maybe to prove his word that he would marry what's-his-names niece...?

lady M./Beatrice comparison

     I guess I can see why someone might say that Lady Macbeth and Beatrice are similar characters. After they both manipulate their husband/to-be into doing their bidding by pushing them to be "men" it does seem as though they are in the same state of mind. But I can't disagree with that more than I currently do. Lady M would have considered her husband weak if he had not complied, Beatrice would have considered Bendick unloving. Lady M wanted and even at times considered herself a man to do a mans work, while Beatrice only had some wishful thinking at the spur of the moment. And lastly, lady M saw manliness as a power and willingness to do whatever for personal gain, whereas Beatrice thought of it as the willingness to stand up for what was right(at least what she thought was right).