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.

Retrieved from: Professor Susan Quarrall's Scansion Assignment

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.

WEEK11: Sir Walter Raleigh

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Sir Walter Raleigh was married three times. His most famous marriage was to Catherine daughter of Sir Philip Champernown of Modbury. He was Queen Elizabeth's favorite. I believe that Sir Walter Raleigh supports the Renaissance way of treating women. He was married more than once which shows that he just needed a companion and didn't value women much. He was all about being dominant and having money. Queen Elizabeth gave him money but never a title.

WEEK 10: Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary

The Renaissance era used words like shrew to mean evil and strong women. Katherine and Beatrice was shrew. I believe that Lady Macbeth was also considered shrew.

   Shrews women don't support the Renaissance era because these women aren't housewives that let the men dominate them. 

WEEK 9: Women in "Macbeth"

Women in "Macbeth"

 

In the Renaissance era women weren't considered equal with men. Women weren't able to own property. Men were allowed to beat their women as long as they didn't kill them.

The Macbeth family didn't support the Renaissance era because they didn't have children. All family in the era had children and wanted more.  The men in the era were always the dominant ones and their wives weren't their equal but Macbeth thought of his wife as his equal that had the same power as him.