Development of human life.

After reading the poem “Ages of man” by William Butler Yeats and Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”, and the riddle in “Oedipus Rex”, I think that the three stories is talking about human life. We human beings need to pass through different stages in our life and each stage have their own exciting and interesting stories.

In William Shakespeare's “As You Like It”, spoken by the melancholy Jaques. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play, and catalogues the seven stages of a man's life, sometimes referred to as the seven ages of man: infant, school-boy, lover, soldier, justice, pantaloon, and second childhood, "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything". Shakespeare means that the world is nothing but a theatrical stage where we humans are actors. From our birth we enter the stage and keep on acting true to our age, until old age when we act the last scene. It is one of Shakespeare's most frequently-quoted passages.

On the other hand, in the poem of William Butler Yeats, “The Four Ages of Man” Yeats describes that human’s life is a process that we need to pass through. It is a tough process as we human have to fight to pass through these four stages. The first stage is infancy. In this stage we are dependent on others and needs to be constantly attended to the stage we can walk. While when we go into childhood, this is the stage that he begins to go to school and know everything about life. This is the times they get to know what love is and understand all remorseful due to some reason or other especially love and lost. Then it comes to adulthood stage, he has acquired wisdom through the many experiences he has had in life. He has reached a stage where he has gained prosperity and social status. He becomes very attentive of his looks and begins to enjoy the finer things of life. But when times come, he begins to lose his charm — both physical and mental. He loses his firmness and assertiveness, and shrinks in stature and personality and no matter how firm he is, God will take away his life and he will die.

Oedipus Rex talks about stages of life as well. There is only three stages in the story by the Sphynx. He talk about what goes first on four legs, then on two, and then on three. The first stage is describes about a baby that crawl on the floor. Then it move to a adult that can we use 2 leg to support the body to walk on the road while when we are old, we may need a stick to help us to walk for balance to avoid to fall.

The three poem talk about the stages of human being and I think it is accurate for all the 3 writers because these are all our stages that we need to pass through. After all, I do support what William Shakespeare's “As You Like It” as I think we human being must gone through all these details in the process of our life.

edu 3217

In my opinion, I think going to Edu 3217 Teaching the Language of Drama class is very interesting. This is my first time to be involved in overview of the history of theatre in the class. There are a lot of new things for me to know about. For instant, the first philosopher is Aristotle (384-322 B.C) in The Greek Theater. On the other hand, there is also Greek tragedy in the theater. Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euridipes are the poetic that are in the theater. There is also Greek comedy in the theater. It is difficult to understand but I think it is interesting because we can know more about the history of theatre.

Besides, there is also Roman theatre. It included tragedy and comedy. The comedy is emergence of Christianity and terminated all form of theatre. This theatre is more to violent theater. After the morality plays, it comes to mystery plays which is in England, and goes into Elizabethan plays which emerging society. The society is discriminate between women and men. Men were given priority while women are not allowed in the role. They have to be replaced by children and young men.

Meanwhile, restoration drama is in 1660-1668 catered mainly for the Court society. 18^th and 19^th century drama is prominence and dwindled. The 20^th century drama on the others hand is a more modern drama. After 1945, it becomes contemporary. Although these theaters are old, but are all new to us because this is the first time we have the chance to contact with all these history of drama.

By learning these theatres, I know more about the style that a drama should have and it really make me open my eyes.

about Dr eDWIN

This semester, I think is a hard semester for me because I have to bear the entire hard subject that I never had read or study before. As usual, this semester we meet our respectful lecturer Dr Edwin. He is a very strict lecturer last semester in EDU 3214. Teaching the language of Short stories. I till remember the first day he came into the class with his strict face, and told us that we cannot be late to class else he will be very angry of us. Due to his dignify, we didn’t dare to offend him as we scare he will kick us out of the class. Then night mare happened. I felt stress going to his class because every time when he says wants to call out people who didn’t do his homework and he started to check our pink story book, few drop of perspiration will come out from my body. I am scared. But, Dr Edwin is a very knowledgeable lecturer. Under his strict and horror oppress, I decided to know more about stories and understand what stimulated teaching is. This semester, he is our lecturer as well but teaches us drama. I think he is more friendsly in this semester and I think I really respect him this sem. He is not as strict as last time, but he is till been respect by us. He teaches us to be discipline and be punctual in class. Moreover, he also teaches us to underline the important point in the text. This is a really useful technique as I can uses in others subject as well. He also asks us to write blog. Thought this is not my first time to write a blog, but it do impress me because no lecturer will ask us to write blog, and give mark for us depend of what we had wrote in the blog.

Overall, I think Dr Edwin is a very knowledgably lecturer and he is good in all aspect. I really respect him. He is fun and good.

what i like in a poem

When it comes to performance, we need to make sure that the plot of the play is well organize. The play is a dramatic or epic in the story. We also need to know about whether the play is a short play or a long play.

Besides that, the conventions of the theatre also play an important role in a play. The construction of the text, acts, scenes, the directions and the actor, the language and so are all the conventions of a theatre. The most important thing in the play will be the stage characters. The characters must be contrast with each other and whether they are dynamic or flat, or central to the play’s action or supportive. Short play is suitable for a few actors while long play will depend on the story line.

Moreover, a good play must satisfy the intellect and shows organization. It also shows ideational content and concern about human experience. They have to empathize what human is facing and act it as real life purpose.

Setting and tone also make a very important part in a play. If the actors is good but there don’t have a appropriate setting or sound effect, the whole play will be ruin.In a nut shell, a good play need a very large production to make it success