Kotzuba,+Casey

Casey Kotzuba From: Somerville, Massachusetts Major: Early Childhood Education British Lit MW 9:30 World Lit TR 8:00

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__February 10: __ Beowulf is the King of Danes, and at the end of Beowulf, even though he is older he still goes to fight the dragon with his men. When they go to fight all but one of the men leave. Wiglaf helps kill the Dragon, who slashed at Beowulf's throat which caused him to die. Beowulf did make a speech before dying saying that Wiglaf was the last true warrior. Danes got together to have a funeral to honor Beowulf. In the end Beowulf was a legend to the Danes and his legacy lived on for years. Wiglaf's bravery at the end to help Beowulf defeat the dragon makes Beowulf proud and is in the tradition of great warriors like Beowulf.

__February 14: __ The Art of Courtly Love talks about 31 statements about love which seem in my opinion are true. It states that it's the rules of love which i can agree and relate to some of the points. "Good character alone makes any man worthy of love" is deffinetly one of these rules which I agree. In today's generation, woman and men both don't respect themselves and others in ways they should. Having a good character weather your a man or woman is what people look for in others, because it's hard to find classy good charactered people nowadays. One rule to which I disagree, "It is well known that love is always decreasing or increasing." Reasons for this is if your in love and with somebody, the relationship isn't healthy if love is decreasing. The situation is problematic because if love is not going to increase, get better, and gain happiness it's not a love that's meant to be. If a loving relationship is increasing and decreasing at the same time leads to mixed feelings and confused people which doesn't always to turn out to be the best outcome in a relationship.

__February 23: __ "By God," said the good Gawain, "I agree to that, And your love of amusement pleases me so much." I think this statement could be a key passage from fit #3 because it states what pleases Gawain and how he's ammused. He talks about shortly after that if people bring drinks and he has company it will be an agreement. He's pleased conversing with the lords and ladies and as they left they kiss eachother affectionatly which shows how much Gaiwain likes the company.

__February 27: __ The article Undressing Lady Bertilate represents courtly love. This article argued about Sir Gawain's loyalty on his journey to the Green Knight accepting the host's wife's sash, wanting to stay at their place, and didn't give anything to his host except the three kisses she gave him the last three nights. The way Gawain gave the kisses to the host first before he could give Gawain what he hunted showed the Gawain was guilty about not telling the host about anything. It comes back to him in the end because the Green Knight reveals his identity as being Lord Bertilak and it was his wife who gave him the sash, then the Green Knight gave Gawain a gash in the back of the neck instead of killing him. Gawain was dishonesty and guilty in the long run but the Green Knight let him live for being brave along the way even though he somewhat cheated his way through. .

__<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">March 7: __ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My favorite pilgrim would be YongSquier because he would serve as a knight, especially by helping to arm him and would fight with him in a battle. The reason I like him so much is because he seems true and seems to be a good role model to follow since he's there helping others not just thinking of himself. In some cases, as here, squires were young men training to be knights, but squires could also be older men such as Chaucer. But in either case wheather he's trying to serve as knight or an older men, Squier would be a good model with him trying to train and help other people trying to become a knight.

__<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">March 22: __ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Miller's tale would be considered a faux/fablieux because of the charcters being lower class which is a fablieux is a short tale with low comedy and little incidents.

__<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">April 4: (Class disscussion) __ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Changes from Medieval to Early Modern Times; things that have changed. Evolution <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- ways of living <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-religion <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-technology/science <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-medicine <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-lifestyles <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-art/music <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-education <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-politics <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-recreation <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-women (rights)

__<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">April 6: __ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A significant difference in the language of the Biblical passages is the <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">original translation has a lot of words of old English. Words like kind is "kynde, and a lot of others.There are also other words that he seems to just make up which makes the texts confusing. __<span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">April 6: (Class Discussion) __ <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In groups we got assigned to discuss one of the few Bible passages we read the night before in which we got King James Bible. This passage walked the lines between protestants and catholics, which this is the first bible passage written for the protestants. In the text, there are few words italicized which means he's emphasizing the, and simplifying with less words.

__<span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">April 11: __ <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The Queen Elizabath speech "To the Troops at Tilbury" seems like she really cares about the people and is very loyal to other peoples hearts. She will reward everyones virtues and doesnt let dishonor get by her. Seems like she also wants to keep the invaders away from the country and wants people to know this battle is a fight for the country and wants these people to fight and win for her.

__<span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">April 27: __ <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Few ideas I brainstormed for my final project? <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I am not fully sure yet. I am doing option 1 and writing about a topic that interests me the most in course and using three library sources on that text to do further research on it. I was thinking maybe breaking down the concepts and important key events/questions of Beowulf since it's been my favorite text read this year.

__<span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(Class Activity) __ <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In class today was fun with the court debate we held. My group was the one pressing charges on Marlowe which I jotted down a few things relating to the text/activity.

<span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- put the horns on womans face <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- teasing him <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- stole from pope and abusing him <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- extortion against horse guy which he got his legged ripped off <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- using power to degrade another human <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- denouncing god <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- talking about devil <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- quoting the bible <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- leading others to astray <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">---> because of his choice of selling his soul <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">---> emperor and emperors wife were intriguied by his involvement in witchcraft <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">---> robin & rafi found one of his books and played with it ( had no idea about witchcraft) <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** My part was charging him with not keeping track of book falling into innocent hands / ownership of a bad book / selling his soul

__<span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">April 27: __ <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In class today we had a guest speaker who came to British Lit named Kelly Morgan. He was itneresting and mentioned he loves Shakespeare. He has always liked Shakesspeare and he has family background who was interested also especially his great uncle. He drew up the Holy God -> Satan chart and throughout the class today he brought up many details relating to it. He talked about disabled figures and different types of texts like "The Other". He also recommends for students to join the drama club and take some his courses because they are fun. I found out today that if I helped out with the Romeo and Juliet play producing next fall, I could get credits for doing anything involving helping with the play, which I didnt know.

__<span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">April 28: __ <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">One source that I'm going to use for my final project is the school's library Article Search called the Academic Search Premier EBSOCO host. I actually used this source for 2 of my 3 sources for this thematic essay. I find this Article search site they offer very useful to search for articles relating to any paper topic because they search and offer thousands of articles in print in the library, or online. __<span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">May 2: __ <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The poem I'm choosing to analyze is a Samuel Daniel from Delia poem. Picked this one first because the name Delia is not only relating to Daniels but, my middle name also :] This text is deffinetly a sonnet and seems unique in the language its written in and the style of writing. The text shows element of youth and beauty, thinking these elements relate to the principle of love. Also I get the sense of Daniels actually loving Delia, talking about weather shes alive or dead. The last two lines "Heed me, live for today, wait not the morrow: Gather life's roses while still fresh they grow," believes me to think that.

__<span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">May 4: (Class) __ <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Today in class, each group was assigned a poet which my group was assigned Ben Johnson. <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- He was an English Renaiissance poem, dramatist, and actor. <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- born in 1572 and was 65 when he died in 1637. <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- educated at the Westminster School when he was younger, became a soldier until he started getting involved in acting. <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- also mentored young poets. <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- he likes argueing with people and had bad tempers; was vain and arrogant especially in defense of his literally principles and reputation. <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">( he fought and killed an actor which was the turning point in his life when he was sent to prison and became a Catholic) <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- had a unique style of poetic poems. <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- my group recited his poem "On My First Son" --> talks about his sons death. <span style="color: #900990; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- his son and his daughter passed away which he has poems for both.