final week

This is the final week of lecture, which means Finals are creeping in around the corner. The atmosphere is tense as the clocks are ticking wildly. Anyway I just wanted to pen down my final piece before I close the chapter for this course EDU3217 Teaching the Language of Drama. The experience did do me good. I have learned a lot about literature and I have to admit that it seriously did help me in my understanding of literature, though I must admit that I did not improve much in Shakespeare’s work. I have learned so many new figurative terms and words which I had not known before. For example, I had no idea that homosexual is not a term used in literature, it did help my understanding on the play A Streetcar Named Desire when I discovered that words like “something I cannot talk about” or “degenerate” actually referred to Homosexuals. I kept cracking my head trying to figure out the words that actually meant Allan Grey was gay. Hamartia, tragic hero, reversal of fortune, all these terms made me understand one thing; everyone is a tragic hero who experiences the reversal of fortune at one point or another. Oedipus Rex was a really good play as I never seen a more pitiful character in my life. Anthony and Cleopatra I did not like very much as the script was too tedious to understand. My favorite I would say in Streetcar Named Desire as the issues dealt in the play was more recognizable. The final play 30 Days of September is a brilliant piece of work which I admire very much because the issue it highlights is of rising concern these days and I hope that by reading this, I will open the eyes of many. On the whole I think the course will be useful when I teach in the future. Before I end, I would like to thank my lecturer and my tutor for the guidance they have provided