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Grr. I've never really had any strong feelings about Shakespeare's Tempest in the past. It's not his best work, in my opinion, but I've read worse. Some of it is really good. Some of it is not so good. It's a hard play to stage, but so are some of his other plays. So no big deal. Right? Right.

And then, of course, came Idris.

I have a paper due tomorrow on the play (obviously) -- specifically, Prospero's treatment of Miranda (his daughter and the only female character in the entire play). I have a very bare outline written out, in that I know what my basic paragraph topics are and have assigned some scenes to certain paragraphs for support, but it's still going very slowly. If all goes as planned, my paper body will talk about Miranda's gentle nature, her ignorance and inexperience, the importance of her virginity, and then how Prospero manipulates all of those things to his advantage.

I can do it. I'm just going to want to shoot myself in the head on several occasions for not starting sooner.

As soon as I finish the paragraph about Miranda's virginity, I'm going to bed. Since I'm currently working on her gentle nature -- and have been since I started the paper four hours ago -- this could take a while.

Date: 2005-02-22 10:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dertodesengel.livejournal.com
procrastinator ...

Date: 2005-02-22 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] endaemion.livejournal.com
In conclusion, Billy Shakespeare was gay.
the end.

Date: 2005-02-22 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] periazhad.livejournal.com
that's all she wrote

Date: 2005-02-22 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] periazhad.livejournal.com
haha - I mock you! good luck!

Date: 2005-02-23 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kageotogi.livejournal.com
I'm sorry... why am I being mocked?

Date: 2005-02-23 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] periazhad.livejournal.com
...because I can? I really don't know.....:D

Date: 2005-02-24 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kageotogi.livejournal.com
Wow. That's impressive.

Date: 2005-02-24 02:10 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Wasn't Ariel a female, too? Or does that not count. Also, I've never read The Tempest.

- eva

Date: 2005-02-24 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kageotogi.livejournal.com
Quite the contrary! In The Tempest Ariel, the wind spirit, is male -- as well as Prospero's indentured servant.

Date: 2005-02-26 04:31 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Wow! In my Shakespeare-in-Film-and-Lit class (which I failed! Seriously, I don't know how that happened) he was depicted as a very young girl in a white dress, dancing madly.
It was a very strange film.

I feel smarter.

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