Tuesday, March 28, 2006

TIRESIAS
Tiresias is one of the famous characters in Greek theatre as he represents infallible truth. He is a character that shows other character the truth but nobody listen to him. All of them will regret with their own decision and not believe in Tiresias words. In my opinion, he represents the culture in Greek society as he always comes up in most in the Greek theatre. The society believes in God and what God says is always right. They think that someone who tries not to obey the God will get a bad luck. Here, we know that Tiresias shows how powerful God is in society. What he said is truth and should be believed by others as he is one of the Gods. As the whole, each society has a way on representing theatre according on believe and thought. That the unique of theatre where it represent to the audiences what type of society we are.

Sunday, March 19, 2006


If one rich man gives you an opportunity to learn something, would you grab it or ignore it? Of course, most of us will take this advantage because every one in this world wants to improve themselves in order for them to socialize with high class society. That has happened to Eliza in Pygmalion, a very interesting play by Bernard Shaw. Eliza has been given an opportunity to learn language that has been used by high class society. Even though it just a bet between the two gentlemen, Higgins and Pickering, still she can be considered as lucky because learn something without paying the fee.
In this play we can see two different class of society meet and convey their own lifestyle. As for Eliza and her father, Mr. Doolittle, they present the middle class society who will change in the end of the play. While the other characters like Higgins, Pickering and so on, they present the high class society that will look down on other class because they are superior. As the dialogues goes on, we can see Eliza moves from one character to another character. In this play, it shows that language is an important tool to differentiate a class in a society.
As we all know language is important because it convey ourselves and the way we behave. However, even though we are in high class society we should respect other no matter what class they are from. For instance, Pickering who still respects Eliza and call her Miss even though he knows that she comes from a middle class society. This play teaches the audiences to respect each other because we cannot see people based on their spoken language or class, but look at their attitude and the way they behave toward others. For example, when Eliza has successfully changed into a high class society, she still sad because Higgins see her as a flower girl who comes from middle class. He cannot see Eliza as what she is but see Eliza as a subject for his experiment.
From the play Pygmalion, we can conclude that language and attitude are two important criteria should have in one life because both of them will help other see who we are and what kind of person we are.


MACBETH is one character that represent greedy. Macbeth is one play that teaches audiences real life situation. In this play Macbeth is a brave warrior who does anything for the country and king. Because of that, he has been appreciating by giving him the opportunity to become a landlord. However, he is a person who always follows his desire. Even though it is a bad desire, he still does it as long as he gets what he wants. Actually he wants to be a king because he has become a landlord. However the king has chosen his son to replace him when he retires. This has made Macbeth angry and disagrees because he thinks he is the one who should replace the king because of his braveness. His wife has seduce him to fulfill his desire and willing to kill the king even though have of her brain do not want to do that because the king is a very wise man.
Macbeth has conveyed to the audiences that in our life there still an enemy around us. Even the most trustful person can be our enemy because of jealousy and so on. This shows that as a human being we should always limit our trustiness in other so that we will not be betrayed. In addition, we also should think before we done something because it will affect our entire life. Like Macbeth, he becomes afraid of losing what he has and kills other who he thinks will threaten him. His wife also becomes crazy because of the sin that she has done. As a human being we should thankful with what we have because there must be a reason why something happen to us. The concept of humble should occur in every one life so that we will not forget our root. Lastly, Macbeth is one of the best plays that can be used by teacher to teach their students about life and morality. This will help students to understand what kind of life they are and make them realize not all people are good. In addition, they will learn not to become greedy and jealous toward other because each of them is special in their selves.


KING LEAR!!! One of the famous play that has been written by popular writer which is William Shakespears. King Lear convey to the audiences about love and sacrifice. Once again Shakespears talk about love and sacrifice in his play. It just like he cannot resist the two themes in all her plays. However this play has lots of moral that teach audiences about real life situation.
King Lear present love in materialistic ways where Lear wanted his entire daughter to compare their love to him with thing that is valuable. However one of them refuses to connect real love to thing because love is something that comes from heart. Because of that reason, Lear has disowned his daughter that he thinks has betrayed himself.
A concept of love is very general and depends on individual. As for Cordelia, she thinks love as something that cannot be comparing to other things in the world. However for Lear, love is something that he can see and based on things that are valuable such as land, gold and so on. In addition, both his daughter, Regan and Goneril, present love because of something that can give them benefits. They present their love towards their father, Lear, because they want his richness. In the end they all reject what Lear said and ignore him. In addition, they said that Lear is an old man and should not do anything more.
Of course, Cordelia will be the most attractive character because she shows good traits by loving her father as honest as she can be. This play has made me realize that as a human being we should love each other and the love we present should come from deep in our heart. If we do that, I guarantee that we can feel the real feeling of love that cannot be resist by man in this world. Furthermore, love is something that can make us appreciate others (human beings, animals, plants or things) and that will make our life more reasonable.
As a conclusion, King Lear has conveyed a true concept of love that should have in every man on the earth.