Sunday, March 23, 2008

the tragic emptiness

its late, i know.
the later the night delves into its hearts
the deeper my hole sinks.
engulfing all the darkness..
burrowing into the endless pit.
reading shakespeare's tragedy aint such a nice thing to do.
no, it definitely won't fill up the emptiness

pls ignore the quotes below, just wanna practice. HAHAHA. we cant bring the book in. sighh.

this verse here, serves some form of irony to me.
it is supposedly, a profession of love.
a bold thing to do infront of the senates.
but yet, within the boldness..
in her words, surfaces and highlights the nature of subservience.
so afterall, the adventurous spirit is not so after all.

my noble father
I do perceived a divided duty:
To you, i am bound for life and education;
My life and education both do learn me
How to respect you. You are lord of all my duty
I am in hitherto you daughter. But here's my husband;
and so much duty as my mother showed
To you, preferring you before her father,
So much i challenge that i profess
Due to the moor my lord
(1.3.178-87)

the profession of love being one thing, and having a repetition of "duty" for 3 times accentuates her acceptance of the subservient role mandated even by the consensual, companionate marital model.

quotes of love:
desdemona to othello--

I saw Othellows visage in his mind
And to his honours and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate
(1.3.248 - 50)

on money : ( the first and the last lines )
That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse (1.1.2)
and seize upon the fortunes of the Moor (5.2.363)

the first one, being Iago using Roderigo's money.
so we can see how scheming Iago is from the start
and we can see from the second one, that despite the Moor having suicide and dead.
his fortunes are taken away.
is this a representation of another issue on race. of him being a Moor??

are you people bored??
confused?
yeah, i am too.
hahaha, sometimes its just too controversial and too many ideas jumbled up.
such that having one quote for one meaning would actually mean the other.
end up, i just contradict myself.

to think or not to think, thats my question.

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