Monday, December 11, 2006

Shake it!


I do find it very interesting that the average person uses a line from Shakespeare at least once a day and I have to say I believe that is true. Thinking back to the middle of the semester I remember that I had to write a review on the play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," for my Arts Reviewing class. If I can recall correctly, the first sentence of that review started out with: "To be or not be. Insane?" Now, I know it is not the exact line from Shakespeare, but obviously I borrowed some of the words. Since I have just finished Hamelt for that same class, my mind is on that play and others written by Shakespeare. In Shakespeare's time Hamlet was called a revenge-tragedy. We have seen these same stories throughout the entire time we have consumed media and it's always the same thing. Stop me when it sounds familiar. It's a cold night, and it is dark and dreary. There is a ghost that has been haunting the town and it has finally come in contact with someone. That someone wants to seek revenge on the person that has killed it. So, naturally we want revenge too. We want this person to kill whoever he can, because we think that will solve everything.However, when he does kill someone; it is usually an innocent person. Then we say, why did you do that? In the end there is nothing but bloodshed. The person who was seeking revenge is dead and he has killed everyone in his path. So, the message of that story: Revenge=Bad.It is stories like this that will never get old. And, it was here in plays like Hamlet and Macbeth that these types of stories originated. It just amazes me that he could write these plays so long ago, and still people practically worship his work, today. I think it is important that we ask ourselves what we really consider our standard to be for art. By my defenition, and I believe others would agree with me, most of what we consume from the media is in fact art. So, how do we decide whether it is good or bad? What makes "Gone With the Wind" any different from "Napoleon Dynamite?"

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