"That's all folks!'

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                             As Porky Pig always says at the end of each show, "That's all folks!' and this is my last blog. I enjoyed the class with Professor Quarrell. I believe overall that Shakespeare has build women characters who were strong which didn't support the Renaissance era. As I stated numerous times women were suppose to be submissive but Shakespeare created these characters in his play that weren't. For example, Juliet fell in love with the enemy of her family, Romeo and fought for that love to her last breath and then there was Kate and Beatrice who voiced their opinion and were known as shrews.

WEEK 16: Sonnets 18-20

                                      Shakespeare's Sonnets

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This week we read Shakespeare's sonnets `18-20, which some people believe is Shakespeare professing his love to a young man which I don't agree with. I believe that this week doesn't support the way women were treated in the Renaissance era because usually men didn't have to woe a woman their father were the ones they needed to woe. Women were treated like a product that was negotiated as business transactions between families.

WEEK 15: Queer Theory Defined

Queer Theory Defined

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        The definition of queer I believe doesn't support the Renaissance era because men viewed as masculine men in control of the women. In the Queer theory men were seen as feminine which doesn't support the way they should act.

WEEK 14: The Sonnets

This week's assignment allowed us to examine a a sonnet in three different exercises. I believe this week doesn't support the Renaissance image of women because during that era women weren't mention as wonderful beings like Shakespeare is creating them to be in the sonnet. In the Renaissance era weren't allowed to act.

Sonnet 18 By: William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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WEEK 13: FAVORITE WEEK "WEEK 6"

When I look back at all of the blogs I would have to my favorite week was week 6. Week 6 we were able to watch a movie called the BBC Shakespeare Retold: Taming of the Shrew. The character in the movie were wonderful. I love the role of Kate. She was a strong woman who stood up for herself . She was considered mean and ugly but at the end she still had her happy ending married with triplets.

I believe week six didn't support women in the Renaissance era because at that time the women gender were submissive. The women were suppose to do what they were told and Kate didn't.

WEEK 12: The Tempest

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I love the animated version of Shakespeare. I believe this video support the Renaissance era because in the opening scene you see Miranda next to her father to show that a daughter should always be by the side of her father or husband.

WEEK 11: The Tempest

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This week's reading we meet Caliban that was betrayed by Prospero and Miranda. Caliban so enraged attempts to rape Miranda which supports the treatment of women in the reinassance era even Caliban needs to show that he is the dominant one not Miranda.