...12th Night Feste: Foolish or Wise “Those wits that think they have thee do very oft prove fools, and I that am sure I lack thee may pass for a wise man.” (1.5.30-31) In the ‘Twelfth Night’ by William Shakespeare, the role of the entertainer was fulfilled by the character named, ‘Feste’. Feste’s purpose was to entertain the nobles through songs and witty jokes at the expense of others; however, his role was far more important than a simple ‘jester’ or ‘fool’. When Feste says; “Those wits that think they have thee do very oft prove fools, and I that am sure I lack thee may pass for a wise man” (1.5.30-31), he is stating a version of the old saying, “know thyself.” These lines point out that Feste is not simply a jester; but rather a fool with much intelligence. Shakespeare meant to create Feste’s character to help teach the other characters more about themselves through experiences displaying their foolishness and short-comings. Feste used various strategic approaches and insightful remarks to reach that goal. Feste incorporates music to affect and convey multiple hidden messages which are essential in order to better understand the play’s central theme of love. A perfect example is the song he performs for Sir Toby and Sir Andrew: “O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear, your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low. Trip no further, pretty sweeting, Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know” (2.3.37-42)...
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...Aaron Cornelius Pledge English III Mrs. Brown December 7, 2013 A Worthy Fool In many of his plays, Shakespeare is able to use characters in a very exciting way. Certain characters are able to transform the entire play in a special way. For Romeo and Juliet, there is Friar Lawrence, Julius Caesar there is Casca, and for As You Like It there is Touchstone. Even though these characters may not be the focus of the play, they do have an indiscrete purpose and serve what turns out to be a paramount role. In the play As You Like It, Shakespeare creates the character Touchstone and uses his quick wit and playful attitude to add an additional amount of comedy. Everything about him is fairly entertaining, from his clothing to his personality and even his name. A touchstone is actually used to test the purity of metals. When scrapping gold against touchstone, it will leave a line of dust that someone can use to show how untainted it is. Much like the stone touchstone, Touchstone has the skill to expose human beings by using his wittiness to scratch their surface. This is really shown when he argues with William and Corin. When attempting to scratch the surface of Corin, Corin comes out unscathed. “Will thou rest damned? God help thee, shallow man. God make incision in; thou art raw.”(iii.2.70-72). Corin is able to counter the remarks of Touchstone. In this situation Corin shows to be a true gold. He does not back down, but counters him. The conversation between Touchstone...
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...Grin & Tonic theatre company has cultivated around 60,000 students per year through the young actors engaging their audiences, intriguing performances and educating workshops all over Queensland for over forty years. The company adapted the original April’s Fool to be suitable for schools, making it a shorter performance but keeping the important information so the audience still gets an authentic piece. Brooke and Nathan are a part of the Grin & Tonic team they play the many characters that bring this show to life. The production of April’s Fool Redux uses a variety of Dramatic elements such as relationship, symbols, and role. The conventions of form and style in Drama used are duologues, storytelling, and multi rolling. A combination of these help to convey empathy towards the family and friends as they tell the audience about Krisjan Teraud’s life and death. The audience is helped to connect with the characters, by the way, their relationships are revealed through the interviews. The actor’s relationship with their character is important to creating a successful performance, thus the multiple duologues in the show means they must show the different relationship between each character and to makes them stand out. When David writes his story in the journal, it gives the audience an insight into how he saw everything. When the audience is put in the shoes of a father who had just lost a son, it draws on the audience feelings of losing a child, sibling, relative or friend. New...
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...Characterization of Hop Frog "Hop Frog," a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, takes place in the castle of a corpulent king who is very fond of practical jokes. Hop Frog, a jester, and his friend Trippetta are kidnapped and forced to be slaves for the king. The tyrant king oppresses Hop Frog, who is a crippled dwarf. When the king strikes Hop Frog's friend Trippetta with a goblet of wine, Hop Frog vows revenge on the king and his ministers (Poe 17), revealing his heroism and bravery. Thus, vengeance is justifiable when the victim, who in this case is the king, oppresses others for their disabilities, as shown through Hop Frog’s characterization. In the story, the king and the seven ministers treat Hop Frog far worse than Trippetta, fueling Hop-Frog’s contempt. Although both are dwarves, Trippetta is seen by the king and his ministers as graceful and exquisite. They do not...
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...Mexico and other areas. He has dabbled in pretty much everything from drawing, sculpting, painting, etc. If he can imagine a place for it in his mind it will become part of his art. If you review all of his pieces, and there are many, you can sense his emotions in that piece of art. He has made such beautiful bright pieces and then very dark and tortured pieces. My personal favorite has a few different versions. The one that is sold is slightly different than the one we have kept within the family. The print is called The Jester and is pastel on paper. This particular print was from 1985. During this time his art was on the darker side and shows that he was a struggling artist. In this piece there is a lot of shadow. It is not a dark black shadow but rather a bluish shadow as not to seem as dark. The colors are more earthy and let on to a neutral feeling. There is something about the figure that is eerie though. Is this figure good or bad? Is the jester mocking the viewer or the painter? The face lacks expression. Actually lacks all features but the eyes. He is holding some sort of orb but for what reason we do not know. There really is a lot left to the imagination. If I get permission from my uncle I would really love for you to see the version that has always truly been my inspiration. References Live Auctioneers. (2011). Lot 432A. Retrieved from...
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...it a stand. Some of the MacBooks and iPads were meant to be used in unison with the Hitachi projectors for large halls where a large presentation can be presented on a Sapphire Fixed Frame Screen. For lighting for those presentations there are Arri Fresnel lights and Arri L1 Hanging lights available which can be controlled through the Zero88 Jester lighting control console. EW microphone system is also available for the presentations along with a Roche Quality PA system to make sure the presenter is heard with a large quantity of Behringer active speakers available if requested. The speakers can all be controlled on Mackie portable mixing desks which will come with Pioneer Headphones and with Citronic amplifiers available if requested. For the DJ venue hire there are Pioneer CDJ-850’s for playing CDs and Pioneer DJM-850 as your mixer that will come with Pioneer Headphones and Sennheiser MD-42 microphones. Macbook laptops will also be provided with Ableton DJing software installed. For lighting the Arri lights will be available as well American DJ X Move LEDs and American DJ LED Strobes that can all be controlled through ZER088 Jester DMX lighting control console. To bolster sound there are a large quantity of Behringer 15”...
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...In the short stories, Hop-Frog, by Edgar Allan Poe, and Killings, by Andre Dubus, the theme of revenge is dominant. Hop-Frog and his friend, Trippetta, are outcasts of the society and is quite often the butt of the King’s temper and jokes in the story Hop-Frog. After many years of this, Hop-Frog grows angry and seeks revenge. Similar to the story Hop-Frog, the main characters of Killings are rancorous people who seek revenge on the one who did wrong by them. In the short stories Hop-Frog and Killings, the characters’ need for revenge fuels them to stray from their normal thoughts and actions. The story Hop-Frog depicts a court jester named Hop-Frog and his interactions with the King. The King acquired his jester by sending his men to a faraway land. The men returned with a crippled midget and his companion, Trippetta. Because of the nature of the man they returned with,...
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...his dying friend, showcasing his strongest motive, being the shield that protects Frodo. On the slopes of Mount Doom, beaten and broken, Sam cradles Frodo in his arms, comforting and supporting Frodo as they both feel their drive fade away. Even in doom, Sam is the caretaker, the supporting, the nurturing, and the helping, highlighting his motive for his drive and how throughout three movies, - battled and broken. Hurt and outcasted.- Sam still finds energy where there is none, to care and to protect. The Jester Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took Pippin “ And anyway, you need people of intelligence on this sort of mission… quest… thing.” Merry “ Well that rules you out.” Definition The Jester is a fun-loving character who seeks the now, inviting others to partake in creating a self-depreciating form of satire. The Jester is also almost always male, though this may be more from the cultural gendering of humor more than a limitation on the archetype itself. The Jester excels at projecting infectious joy, letting go, and banishing depression or aggression from their friends and enemies. They strive for light-heartedness and carefree living. How it relates Merry and Pippin offer to the movie a degree of humor and happiness. They live in their own little worlds where the darkness of Middle Earth cannot touch them- evident after the Tree’s assault at Isengard-. Thrown into a dangerous world, together they sing, laugh, banter back and forth. It is only when they are split up in...
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...in the play in [asl] the illiterate servant approached Romeo and Benvolio and asked them to read an invitation to a Capulet party. The servant, not knowing who they were, invites them to the party. Then Benvolio tries to convince Romeo to go to the party and Romeo agrees. On the night of the party Romeo tries to make excuses for not going. This is where Mercutio steps in and convinces Romeo to enter. Without Mercutio in this scene Romeo wouldn’tve entered and never met Juliet. Lastly in act 3 scene 1 Mercutio and Benvolio are approached by Tybalt. Tybalt says “Mercutio, thou consort’st with Romeo?” Mercutio takes this the wrong way as consort had two meanings, one being talk to and the other being a jester or fool. Mercutio, egear for a fight pretends Tybalt called him a jester. This leads to the fight in which Tybalt takes Mercucio’s life. Romeo then avenges his friend's death when Tybalt returns. This is what pushes Prince Escalus to banish Romeo. Another effect of this is that whenever Juliet cries afterwards capulet thinks Juliet is crying and sad for Tybalt. The combination of Romeo being banished and capulet wanting to make Juliet happy again have Juliet set up to be married a second time and nobody in their right mind to directly stop it. Without Mercutio in this part of the play Romeo wouldn’tve been sad so capulet wouldn'tve forced her to marry paris. In conclusion Mercurio's actions are where Mercutio sealed the fate of the two lovers. His ignorance of Romeo’s mental...
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...completion of harvest where they celebrate the end to the countless hours of hard labor they have just spent in the fields. Many of these festivals had some connection to the church because basically everything was connected to the church in some way; these people’s lives were very closely tied to the church. Like in today’s society they had people who did some of the entertaining. But instead of being actors or celebrities they were Jesters, Mummers, Minstrels and Troubadours, acrobats and jugglers and conjurers. A jester is a fool or buffoon at medieval courts and a mummer is a dancer at a festival. Each class of the economy experiences things differently and that does not exclude entertainment. The things that the rich, upper class got to attend for entertainment were much more extravagant then they ones that the low or middle class attended. The rich tended to have large feasts where they ate large amounts of food while they watched the finest entertainers perform. Some of the things most common experienced at one of these feast are jesters, acrobats, and fire-eaters. Musical entertainment was also a large thing in this time period. The instruments they played varied but most commonly played were violins, drums, harps, lutes, organs, citoles, psalteries, flutes and horns. Singing was a big part of church services but unlike today they sang without the addition of instruments. Monks and priests often chanted or sang as a part of their service. It was rare a church had any...
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...feelings of Beatrice and Benedick in act 2 Scene 1 and Act 4 scene 1? Shakespeare demonstrates Beatrice and Benedick's relationship as intricate and diverse so in this essay I'm going to delve into their relationship and different moods and emotions. The character of Beatrice is introduced as bright and having a Sharp-tongue in act two scene one. She is already shown sharp-witted and mocks Benedick’s uselessness as a soldier and friend. In this scene they compete to outdo each other in their ‘Merry war’ with clever jabs at each other. In this scene Shakespeare shows that they have many different emotions. In Act two Scene one, Shakespeare expresses Beatrice’s disdainful opinion that Benedick ‘is the Prince’s Jester, a very dull fool’. By using the nouns ‘Jester’ and ‘fool’ this expresses that Beatrice does not think there is much to Benedick and that he is not very smart. The use of this language from Shakespeare presents Benedick in a negative way in the eyes of the audience. In addition, by using the adjective 'dull' Beatrice shows that she finds Benedick very boring and tedious. Benedick is also shown as having some resentment towards Beatrice in Act two Scene one. He expresses that his ‘visor began to assume life to scold with her.’ This demonstrates that he believes an inanimate object would come to life just to tell her off. By using the verb ‘scold’ this shows that he is angry at her since ‘scold’ is a strong and powerful verb. He also feels the need to reprimand...
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...The current state - is the catalog relevant? Today, the online library catalog is in a state of crisis. The current challenges facing the catalog are numerous. There is the challenge of having to catalog ever-increasing inputs; more print titles and online resources exist today than ever before. The high cost of cataloging is a factor as well. "In 2004, [American research] libraries spent an estimated $239 million on technical services labor alone." (Calhoun, 11) But the biggest challenge to cataloging today is competition from other services. (Danskin, 2) The Catalog began life as an inventory control tool for the sum total of our collective knowledge. Before the internet, the library catalog was the starting point for research. Now, however, the catalog is becoming less and less relevant to scholars and other library users. The OCLC Report of 2005 found evidence that “89% of college students began their searches on the web, with only 2% starting at the library website.” (Calhoun, 37) In May 1999, at the Medical Library Association's annual meeting, Dick Miller discussed the "frustrations that we encounter regularly at Lane Medial Library, in trying to cope with proliferating digital resources. With burgeoning web development, we [Lane Medical Library] felt that our 'library information' was under-utilized due to its segregation from mainstream web resources, and in danger of becoming marginalized." (Miller,1) What Miller feared in 1999, the under-utilization of...
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...Wow! That is all that I can say. I chose to respond on this story by Edgar Allan Poe because it was the hardest read for me. After I broke down each page I was able to set the plot, characters and setting. It is clear that the narrator is Montresor who open the story by stating the he was insulted by his acquaintance, Fortunto, and that he seeks revenge on him. Poe sets the story during the carnival season where he places both characters in costumes. Montresor is dressed in black with a veil which we later find out could signify death. Fortunto is dressed in a colorful jester costume making him seem almost foolish and laughable. The setting moves to the catacombs beneath the ground where Montresor leads Fortunto to taste a bottle of Amontillado that he has acquired. Along the way they pass the Montresor family remains. The dust from the walk makes Fortunto cough. Montresor offers him some brandy to sooth his cough. By the time they get to their destination, Fortunto is drunk. Montresor chains the drunken Fortunto to a stone and begins to brick him closing off all exits. Montresor had no concept of law. He had planned this out knowing that he would never be caught. He even sent his servants away to the carnival. In the last few lines of the story it does say that Montresor’s heart grew sick. This could be a small amount of guilt or sympathy but he continues to place the last stone in the new wall he created. The perfect...
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...“Right now the only thing that I am concerned with in my life is being an artist. I had to suppress it for so many years in high school because I was made fun of, but now I’m completely insulated in my box of insanity and I can do whatever I like” These truly inspirational words spoken by Lady Gaga put my whole life in words. Although I hadn’t been teased for believing in my dream of becoming a well known actor I did however have that dream somewhat suppressed by teachers, family and other authorities by a list of cliché jobs which I believe I was not meant to do. Although I simply agreed to give these careers paths a chance, secretly I was only focussing on my dream. I set my self a goal to focus upon things to make my dream become reality. Suddenly a pop singer by the name of Lady Gaga popped out from her glitter world onto the pop charts. At first glance I paid no attention to her but after listening to her songs and analysing their meanings I decided to give the artist a chance. I realised that on a first glimpse Lady Gaga appears to be nothing but another blonde pop singer desperate for attention, but soon realised that she is much more. I realised that Lady Gaga is a true inspiration. She spent most of her high school years focussing on her academic studies hoping to one day put them into her performances. Lady Gaga was born in New York City and Acquired the name Joanne Stefani Germonatta at birth. But her producer gave her the name Gaga as he noticed she was eccentric...
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...Within our society there are cartoonists, stand-up comics, comedians, writers, and television hosts that say things that other people would never dare to utter in public. The purpose of the humorists, according to Alain de Botton, is “to convey with impunity messages that might be dangerous or impossible to state directly.” In Alain de Botton’s book, Status Anxiety, he argues that these humorists serve a key function in our society. I believe this statement is true because humorists have played a role in history, allowed people to reap benefits from laughter, and confronted unmentionable issues. First, comedy has long played a role in our society. In Medieval Europe the court jesters made jokes. The jester’s jokes were thought to affect...
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