Sunday, March 3, 2013
Why fix it if it ain't broke...
While reviewing my own attempts at conversation on Digital Dialogue, I found that from comment to comment, I was particularly drawn to the topic of character. Within the idea of character, much less character analysis and much more the idea of how characters create the plot. Shakespeare loves his disguises and the confusion between characters. Taming of the Shrew is a prime example of this with the similarity in names and the multiplicity of costumes. Similarly in A Winters Tale and Othello, any given character is a mismatch of identities stuck onto a single individual to supply the necessary constructs of a plot. I found it was posts approaching the varying degrees of this idea that I was most drawn to throughout my digital dialogue experience.
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Right now, this topic seems too broad for readers to really sink their teeth into. It seems more like a writing discussion than a thesis-driven paper right now. And that's okay--as you pointed out in your other post, the idea can become less nebulous as you go along, but it might be better to start out with an even more defined topic.
ReplyDeleteI'm not quite sure where I stand on your more specific idea of Shakespeare deliberately confusing readers with his name choices and use of disguises. I would love to hear you talk it through more, though. Maybe try doing a blog post where you explore that idea at more length and see how it sits with you.