Gruesomely Eye Opening

DEATH. Is the most prominent theme of the play, HAMLET by one of the
greatest ally of literature, William Shakespeare. The play HAMLET revolves around
the journey of the character named after the play avenges his fathers death for
being killed intentionally by Claudius. This was made to be known by Hamlet
through Horatio, whom an apparition of a ghost who claims to be his father
appeared before him, telling him to seek revenge for him. Clouded by what the
ghost has said, Hamlet then planned a play that would resemble how Claudius
killed his father. That is according to his imagination on how Claudius poisoned the
gone King while seeking in the garden. According to Horatio and Hamlet, the sign
that would tell them that it was Claudius who really killed Hamlets father was if
Claudius acted guilty while watching the re-enactment of the said murdering. To
their thought, they were right when Claudius did really stand up and left the play. As
they were about to kill the guilty-by-sign Claudius, the two saw him praying which
stopped them from doing what the play really intended for. The reason is, according
to Hamlet, Claudius soul would go to heaven if they will kill him while praying. This
has caught my attention for Hamlets anger must be so much deep inside him that
he even wanted Claudius soul to be drenched in the waves of fire in hell. It then
comes to my senses that as a human, we are vulnerable in being succumbed by too
much emotion (e.g., love, anger, sorrow, greed) leading us in doing even the most
outrageous things in this world; as normal people nowadays; Cutting ourselves,
hating people who have been there for in our ups and downs and as in the case of
Hamlets prime characters, killing and murdering others. These prime characters
had let themselves be overpowered and devoured by their emotions which then
eventually led them to their own deaths as how the play had ended. It quite amazes
me and at the same time scares me of how powerful these emotions were. Like how
Laertes desire to avenge both his Sister Ophelia and his father Polonius death from
Hamlet without knowing what really had happened. He just relied on Claudius
words. If and only if he had balanced the events that took place, if would have
been alive at the end of the story. The whole play itself is depressing, alarming and
served as an eye opener for me. It let me see how a single emotion can make or
break you. It showed me how a single emotion, if mishandled, could lead you to a
more and more complications which are not even present in the first place; like
what the ending of the play had resolved to, gruesome killing of the royal family.

Classicism vs. Romanticism

Classicism is defined as aesthetic attitudes and principles based on culture,

art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, and characterized by emphasis on
form, simplicity, proportion, and restrained emotion while romanticism emphasizes
on individual freedom from social conventions or political restraints, on human
imagination, and on nature in a typically idealized form. This would mean that
classicism is all about ordered, systematic, stern and rigid theme while romanticism
dwelt nothing how free a man in expressing his emotions that there are no rules
needed to consider in showing off what he really feels about a particular subject or
aspect in life. Writers in classicism mainly focus on the idea that human nature can
be understood by reason and thought alone. That there are particular steps and
strategies in creating a novel that may describe the nature of a man and the nature
per se. The nature for classicist writers is like an iPhone who have a manual which
has instructions that comes in a box that would tell you how the machine or gadget
would work. It contains unity of time, place and action. Initially, we would be
puzzled at first but through logical scrutiny, we will then be familiarized with how
the machine would work and eventually get used to it as days, months and years
pass by like how tradition intended to work for us humans in classicism. Moreover,
these traditions resist change as what classicist writers are portraying in their
literary works. On contrary to the romanticist, nature is a vast, wide and endless
sets of mysteries which even the reason itself could never understand. It focuses
only on unity of action, disregarding time and place. An action that lives, grows and
changes in everyday life which makes it harder for us to understand why is it like
this and like that. This drew romantic writers in a conclusion that humans have
endless boundaries and unlimited possibilities that would take time in discovering
and learning about their existence. Humans and nature can be subjected to change
which sends them to somewhat immortality for as it cruise the seasons of life, more
and more add-ups were being added making it more complex to dissect what
really it was intended for. Romanticist attacks the protocols and rules being
implemented and believed that human could behave well as it grows but it is
hindered by civilization. That it was their surroundings that made them corrupted
why behave such unexplainable ways.

Icko Syrus R. Cera

Prof. Doris S. Tuano

IV-BSED
Literature

I.
1. Anglo-Saxons Period
2. Dwarf-Palaeolithic men
3. Goidels or Gaels
4. Brythons
5. Druidism
6. temple for sun worship
7. tomb for some great chieftain
8. German tribe
9. Alfred
10. Beed

English

11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Caedmon
Beowulf
First battle: Grendel
Second battle: Grendels mother
Third battle: The dragon
Heorot
King Hrothgar
Sweden
Denmark

B.
21. Old English Period?

29. Church?

22. Hastings

30. Chivalry or knighthood

23. Crusades

31. Norman Conquest?

24. almost 200 years

32. Mechants

25. Magna Carta or Great Charter

33. Craft or trade

26. Norman French

34. guilds of mixed membership

27. Latin

35. Edward I

28. Midland

C.

43. Sir Thomas malory

36. Camelot

44. A nephew

37. Seige Perilous

45. abbey at Almesbury

38. Gawain

46. Dover

39. Merlin

47. Lady

40. Chaucer

48. Avalon

41. 30

49. Sir Bedivere

42. The Host

50. abbey at Almesbury

D.
51. True

61. True?

52. True

62. True

53. True

63. False

54. True

64. True

55. True

65. True

56. True

66. False

57. True

67. True

58. True

68. True

59. True

69. True

60. True

70. False

II. Essay
1. Maybe the reason behind Chaucers choice of writing the Canterbury Tales in
dialect is to preserve its own uniqueness among all pieces of literatures.
Moreover, Chaucer is also known for his love of travel and wide readings. The
only reason that comes to my mind why Chaucer wrote in his dialect that is to
have his markings in his own story. To include his own persona or influences
in the story.
2. The interdependence of the Church and the state of England is seen by
supporting each other on their own quest. The Church for example, quests for
the retrieval of the Holy Land (Jerusalem) and the Holy Grail will then need
the help of the state of England by letting them send their greatest Knights
for the said conquer. The Church will then bless them making them the
rightful doer of the said quest and thus making the Knights remarkable and
greater on the eyes of English people.
3. Husbandry is described in Sir Thomas Moores Utopia as a skill that needs to
be mastered and learned for it is where their primary source of their green
pasture. That men were sent to the city in order to be trained and that those
who are now experts are being replaced with new comers for the training to
be balanced with those who are about to learn new things in husbandry.
Moreover, the changing of old occupiers in the husbandry training could, for
Sir Thomas More, resolve the fear of being stubborn or being constraint with
what they are doing. That is, they get to choose whether to continue learning
and applying husbandry or to veer away from being too succumbed in
learning it.
4. Imagism was reflected in Ezra Pounds A station in the Metro by making us
imagine that we are being situated in a station or in a place that is quite
melancholic to be in. By using the word apparition gives quite a twist in the
two lined poem. We all know that the word aforementioned is attributed to a
ghost that may visible for some moments and then itll be gone in a matter of
seconds. The word apparition gives a great impact to the words faces and
crowd which means that like ghost, the faces in the crowds for the writer
disappears all along like what we sometimes experience in a crowded and
busy place. Moreover, equating these faces with the petals on a wet, black
bough is a signification of us meeting our end. We, as humans are
considered the petals in the poem that changes over time as seasons does.
That we will, at some point, leave the tree and fall either drastically or slowly
depending on the season that will accompany our fall.
5. The conceit in To Lucasta On Goint To Wars is when the poet chooses the
war over his woman. Although, the Knight still loves her but he needs to
make love with his new mistress (war) for a while in order to have his
honour be recognized. Moreover, he was asking for his legal woman not to be
mad for he chose to go to war than to be with her and asks her not to get
mad. Even more, it is like he is suggesting that hell put his love for her on

hold for awhile and will come back after he had made love with his new
mistress.