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Ok so hmm what a shocker in the end R and G die!! OOO NO!!! Ok so the title gives it away.  But the beginning of the chapter they are in a boat and making jokes.  But it is light humor.  It is sad that they die but it is a given if you had read the play Hamlet it kind of gives it away.

Now Stoppard is bringing in Hamlet more into the story.  It is rather interesting seeing the two stories start to cross paths.  So you can see that R and G are dead is kind of a rendition of Hamlet.  Even though Hamlet is still a better play it just shows what happened with R and G.

ok so this is reallly late but i have to make it up so yes hmmm hamlet i know it is a play written by Mr. Shakespeare.  It is a really famous play. Iknow that the famous “to be or not to be” speech is from Hamlet.  I knew about Hamlet being about his father being dead.

Dramas are really famous back in the Shakespeare time.  They allowed everyone to have a good laugh and they applied to all different levels of society.  So dramas were good and helpful back in the day.

HMMMM welll if you are one of the many who has drawn Mrs. DUke as your Junior English III teacher, you are in for a challenge.  Yes you hear many people complain about her class, but she does actually know what she is doing.  She is a very good teacher, and yes, does give a lot of work.  The work load usually depends on the amount of work you do at home or in class.  If you choose not to do work then more work will be given to get the assignment completed.  So basically this means DO YOUR WORK.  Take it from me, I have never done work in her class, and the few times i did(for that day or two) I actually had a good grade in her class.  So it is defnitely worth while to complete all this work she has given.  Also you must blog!  Blogging is usually fifty points a week.  They are extremely easy points.  So take advantage of them and get them.  Good LUCK!

Well Mr. Simon Russell Beale i thought you did a great job.  I just didn’t think Hamlet should sound so whiney!  That is my opinion though. I thought he was more manly since he wanted to avenge his father’s death he would be more commanding and manly.  But your version made him sound whiney and like a little girl.  But it was good with the accent.

Dear Kenneth Branagh

I thought you did a wonderful job playing Hamlet in the movie.  I enjoyed watching you more than listening to the Hamlet on the tape.  I did imagine the Hamlet to have longer hair.  But i thought the overall performance by you was pretty good.  It was a little cheesy some of the fight scenes.  But it got to the point and it was a play, so it wasn’t made to have great special effects.

Franklin- I thought of him as a drunk “he dearly loved a morning sop of bread and wine”  335-336
Also he remained the same wasn’t a man of change “the quality of his bread and ale never varied”343
He was high and mighty at court “at court sessions he was lord and master” 357
Miller- I thought of him as a big red haired burly man. “he was huge…its hinges” 548- 552
He could wrestle and beat anyone in town “
Wife of Bath-  I thought she was one to get around. “she had five husbands at the church door” 462
Pardoner- I thought he was kind of a girly looking man “the pardoner had…..up in his pack” 677-683

Miller-

None of the characters really surprised me.  I mean I learned more about them through the prologue of each story.

Chaucer uses this style so you can first see what the character is like.  So you can know where some of the aspects of the story come from.  Then he tells the story so you can read and see what type of creativity each character has.

The Miller skipping in line shows the social class.  The Pardoner and his relics showing the religion.  The way that Chaucer had poor, dirty, lower class characters, which most of them were.

Chaucer thought that women thought that they were in control but also could be taken advantage of easily.  He used peasants throughout all of the stories that just lived everyday lives as if it were nothing.  He uses the church or biblical references in all of his stories.

In the wife of bath and franklin tale the both have ways of ending with love.  The knight finds love by regaining the respect of others so he finds love in the end.  In the franklins tale the wife loves her husband but also begins to fall for someone else.  The millers tale is a fabliau because it is a dirty, sexy, scandalous story.  The pardoners tale is an exemplum becomes it tells a story about how to not be greedy.

Yes it does because mostly everyone of the stories told consisted of holy people or holy people in the story.  There is also the evil sacrilegious people who curse, and gamble, and are alcoholics which just makes the tales flow even better.

Chaucer was the first to use the story told within another story so he could make fun o the people, but they weren’t to get mad.  He made fun of all types of people, he made fun of the religious ones by making them good kind hearted people on the outside but on the inside they were just as bad as sinners.  He wrote in English which was a first so that everyone was able to read and enjoy his tales,  not just upper class but lower class and middle class could them.

Lying, stealing, and gambling are all still big in our world today as we know it.  Coveting others wife’s can also be a problem these days.

The Canterbury tales writing style has changed a lot since other books we have read were published.  The tales have gotten dirtier, and  more scandalous.

I thought the next two groups did a better job and were more prepared than the first two groups.  They had all of there stuff together and they knew what they wanted to do and go it done.  I really liked the Lady of Bath group because they had the best visual.  They had the jeans.  I thoguht the Jeans was a really good idea it showed her wearing the pants but also different aspects of her life.

Then the Pardoner was a good group.  It was my favorite because you got rewarded for paying attention.  If you paid attention you got free brownies.  And the brownies were delicious!

I thought the first group did a very good job of fgetting us into groups and making us discuss our thoughts on the situations. it was obvious that most of hte class hadnt read so it was a little difficult fo them to get the prj=oject complete.  but they pulled it off and in the end it was very good.

the second group had a little bit more of a struggle.  group members argued a little bit.  many things were repeated but they pulled through at the end.  they had a decent presentation.  but i thought it wasi fine.

we are going to try and present the miller as a character. so the miller promises to everyone it will be funny.  our group is struggling a little bit during scohol to work but we will get the project done.  even though it may not seem like it and mrs. duke may not have faith in us we shall have it completed by the time it is due.