wild duck journal 2

To what extent would you agree that plot should be valued more highly than style in the work?

 

I would full agree that plot should be valued more highly than style because without the plot the play would have no conflict or reason to be written. The plot gives the reader a reason to have certain feelings toward characters, objects and etc. If there was not plot the reading would be pointless and ramble on with unimportant jibber. Style should build up the anxiety that the plot gives out. It should give all the foreshadowing to the climax and build up for the plot.

 

The style that Ibsen uses in the Wild Duck builds up for the plot. Ibsen's style of writing uses a lot of foreshadowing. Like the foreshadowing of the Knife for the death of Hedvig and the foreshadowing of the letter from Werle and how Hjalmar wrips it up yet he still keeps it around the house. Ibsen's style really builds up for the plot of the death and the unhappiness of the characters.

Wild Duck Journal 1

“Visual action can be as important on the stage as speech.”  How far do you agree with this claim?

On some degree i can agree with this claim, because in plays a character will make sudden movements or do something that will catch the audiences eye that will make them stop and think "was that foreshadowing or a key event?" Visual action is important in a play because the reader can not always visualize the scenarios properly that occur in key events because of the way they read it, and than turn the whole event the wrong way. The visual content will help the audience watching understand the conflicts of the characters. Also in plays the author could foreshadow with speech OR with visual action.

Why i could disagree with it is as important is because there are times in a play where they carry out the visual action to be put out to be more important than it really was. This could trick the audience to be lead onto another train of thought.

Oedipus journal 2

Setting:

The play Oedipus was written by the author who lived in Greece. This is significant because the setting is in a place that can be relate able for the audience that lives in Greece. Also the portraying of the prophecy and the leaders in the play gives a moral that the Greek people can relate to more than just another lesson in a play. Also the significance of the setting in Oedipus is that the war that they fight can be seen in Greece at the time because there were many wars, and the Greek gods would control the weather in other plays. This play gave me a resemblance of the Odyssey by the setting type.

oedipus journal 1

Point of view/Characters

the play Oedipus is narrated in 3rd person. This effect puts us in the scene listening to every one's stories and point of views and how they talk indirectly to the audience. As if we were in a circle turning to each character that was going to speak next. Instead of talking to the audience the characters are talking to one another as if the audience isn't even there. This intensifies the conflicts between two characters if they are arguing. Using the tone of the characters voice that is how the tone is portrayed throughout the play. Like when the chorus speaks it flows more and is not so choppy. I prefer 3rd person narration due to the intensity of the conflicts and arguments between two characters, but it all may differentiate between other peoples opinions.

TWD Journal 3

In the Wild Duck there are many themes and motifs. The one motif that stood out to me was sight. In the play it repeats how Werle is going blind and how bad of a thing that is. On page 63 Gina, Hjalmar and Mrs. Sorby are chatting and the discussion of Werle going blind is brought upon. When ever the conversation of sight is brought upon it is in a bad way. Like when Hedvig is telling Gregers that her parents don't want to educate her because it will ruin her eyes. And the same with the painting. They do not want her to see the truth of when she would be educated by the outside. And Hjalmar does not even educate her. The second motif is the invention. There never is a true "invention" because Hjalmars invention is just something that convinces himself to think that he is happy. There is no real invention because Hjalmar never started one or finished one.