Is it possible?
Can I be free?
My savior told me we will be
He gave me the courage to want to be
It was him all along
He was the one to give me strength
He promised we will leave
Not only my savior but a savior to others
He risk his freedom for another one
O no did the witch find him
Where is he?
I won’t leave without him
I wait for him because without him I can’t be free
He’s back in person but that’s not him
The witch took him but I won’t let her
He is still going to be free with me
My savior took me out of misery so I do the same for him
Now we can be free together
Finally, freedom.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Lobotomy (CN Part 3)
A lobotomy is a neurosurgical procedure, a form of psychosurgery. It consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex. Lobotomies have now fallen out of use, as doctors use various drugs and psychological therapies to treat mental health issues. Lobotomies were used mainly from the 1930s to 1950s to treat a wide range of severe mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, clinical depression, and various anxiety disorders, as well as people who were considered a nuisance by demonstrating behavior characterized as, "moodiness" or "youthful defiance". The patient's informed consent in the modern sense was often not obtained. After the introduction of the antipsychotic chlorpromazine, lobotomies fell out of common use and the procedure has since been characterized "as one of the most barbaric mistakes ever perpetrated by mainstream medicine".
Electroshock Therapy (CN part 2)
Electroshock therapy was introduced to mentally ill patients by Ugo Cerletti, an Italian psychiatrist. He first saw electroshock therapy being used to pigs in a slaughter house. The pigs that were being shock went unconscious and was easier for the workers to slaughter them. Cerletti saw this as treatment for mental illness patients.
Electroshock therapy is the concept of having electricity pass through your brain. Electroshock therapy is also commonly called electroconvulsive therapy or ECT. One year later, ECT was introduced to the US by the New York State Psychiatric Institute. For about thirty years, patients of all ages received ECT. ECT was used for what doctors thought were disorders, including, depression, mania, schizophrenia, and homosexually.
By the end of the 1960s, ECT almost vanished from the psychiatric scene. Novels like “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” played a major role in discrediting ECT. ECT was put on hold after a while. Many new doctors felt other therapies were better.
Electroshock therapy was one of the most drastic procedures used for psychiatric therapy. Today it is rarely used to “cure” people the way it used to.
Electroshock therapy is the concept of having electricity pass through your brain. Electroshock therapy is also commonly called electroconvulsive therapy or ECT. One year later, ECT was introduced to the US by the New York State Psychiatric Institute. For about thirty years, patients of all ages received ECT. ECT was used for what doctors thought were disorders, including, depression, mania, schizophrenia, and homosexually.
By the end of the 1960s, ECT almost vanished from the psychiatric scene. Novels like “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” played a major role in discrediting ECT. ECT was put on hold after a while. Many new doctors felt other therapies were better.
Electroshock therapy was one of the most drastic procedures used for psychiatric therapy. Today it is rarely used to “cure” people the way it used to.
The One (CN part 1)
God, provider, commander, women, the one
The one holds everything, my life, my emotions, my sanity
With her I’ll go crazier then what I am
Without her I’ll have nothing
Her power is much too great for her to can handle so she as help from her angels, slaves, demons
Society has named as unworthy of their god so they send me to one for help
She is my savior but enjoys my fall
She lives for my humility
I live for her pleasure
I’m so afraid I pretend not to hear her commands
But there is one other who is my real savior, my hero, the one
The one who is not afraid and will save me from this hell.
The one holds everything, my life, my emotions, my sanity
With her I’ll go crazier then what I am
Without her I’ll have nothing
Her power is much too great for her to can handle so she as help from her angels, slaves, demons
Society has named as unworthy of their god so they send me to one for help
She is my savior but enjoys my fall
She lives for my humility
I live for her pleasure
I’m so afraid I pretend not to hear her commands
But there is one other who is my real savior, my hero, the one
The one who is not afraid and will save me from this hell.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Response to Lantern Theater performance
Hamlet was not my favorite play, but The Lantern Theater’s performance was a decent
one. The reason I say decent and not extravagant or appalling is for various reasons.
When I first walked into the theatre I was a little taken back by the set and it’s structure. My first reaction was what in the world is going on, but as the play started I liked how the actor’s were coming out from all different angles and were right in front of me. I felt as though they were performing for me. I liked how the lights were coming on and off and lighting different spots of the set or actors.
The beginning of the play started off as I expected or pictured it would. Everyone was dressed as I pictured. Even Hamlet’s outfit was what I thought it would be, because I always saw Hamlet as a rebel, so I expected him to dress more dark and different from everyone else. The person who threw me totally off and rubbed me the wrong way was Ophelia. Ophelia had a J C Penny’s Easter dress and a CVS pharmacy headband on, when her own father and brother had on robes and vest made from royal fabrics. Before I saw the play I already didn’t care for Ophelia, so her standing out just enhanced my dislike for. Not only was it the way Ophelia dressed, but the was she acted was getting under my skin. She kept whining and was acting like a child. There is a possibility that I might be one minded because I am basing this off my interpretation of the play and the Hamlet movie I was shown, where Ophelia was this older mature women, so I expected her to be that way in this play. But I also feel because she wasn’t mature is the reason that led her to insanity and suicide.
The play that I thought was striking was Hamlet. This Hamlet was cunning, passionate, and sarcastic. I like this characteristic because I can relate to them because these are traits of people I surround myself with. It also puts a twist on Hamlet that is modern even with the original text being said. It was helpful to my understanding of what was going on. Hamlet kept my attention so I wasn’t bored which is important to the audience.
Hamlet wasn’t the best play I ever experienced, but not the worst either. Though I was entertained, I will never like Hamlet because of the story line and the deceit that it based around.
one. The reason I say decent and not extravagant or appalling is for various reasons.
When I first walked into the theatre I was a little taken back by the set and it’s structure. My first reaction was what in the world is going on, but as the play started I liked how the actor’s were coming out from all different angles and were right in front of me. I felt as though they were performing for me. I liked how the lights were coming on and off and lighting different spots of the set or actors.
The beginning of the play started off as I expected or pictured it would. Everyone was dressed as I pictured. Even Hamlet’s outfit was what I thought it would be, because I always saw Hamlet as a rebel, so I expected him to dress more dark and different from everyone else. The person who threw me totally off and rubbed me the wrong way was Ophelia. Ophelia had a J C Penny’s Easter dress and a CVS pharmacy headband on, when her own father and brother had on robes and vest made from royal fabrics. Before I saw the play I already didn’t care for Ophelia, so her standing out just enhanced my dislike for. Not only was it the way Ophelia dressed, but the was she acted was getting under my skin. She kept whining and was acting like a child. There is a possibility that I might be one minded because I am basing this off my interpretation of the play and the Hamlet movie I was shown, where Ophelia was this older mature women, so I expected her to be that way in this play. But I also feel because she wasn’t mature is the reason that led her to insanity and suicide.
The play that I thought was striking was Hamlet. This Hamlet was cunning, passionate, and sarcastic. I like this characteristic because I can relate to them because these are traits of people I surround myself with. It also puts a twist on Hamlet that is modern even with the original text being said. It was helpful to my understanding of what was going on. Hamlet kept my attention so I wasn’t bored which is important to the audience.
Hamlet wasn’t the best play I ever experienced, but not the worst either. Though I was entertained, I will never like Hamlet because of the story line and the deceit that it based around.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Hamlet Act 2
In Act II, something that stood out to me was Hamlet’s soliloquy on lines 563-622. In the movie, the actor displays Hamlet’s range of excitement profusely. In the Kenneth Branagh’s, Hamlet, understanding of how Hamlet started off calm, and then rose to rage, then calmed back down to a conclusion. The soliloquy didn’t so much catch my attention, but the way the movie portrayed this section made me go back to the book and re-read it. In my opinion, I believe Kenneth Branagh did a good job expressing Shakespeare’s idea. The areas where Kenneth Branagh expresses his rage is exactly where Shakespeare adds exclamation marks. You see in the book where Hamlet gets excited, as portrayed in the movie, and also where he calms down. The punctuation is key in figuring how Shakespeare wanted this section to be read.
Hamlet Act 1
As I started to read this play, I was immediately disgusted by the fact Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother and queen, married her deceased husband’s brother, Claudius. Not only did she marry him, but also the wedding ceremony’s food was provided by Older Hamlet’s funeral. At this point I feel as though any action Hamlet does that is seen crazy is very normal for the position he is in. Hamlet must feel as though everyone he loves is gone. I believe he feels he lost both his parent’s, because his mother betrayed him and married his uncle, her brother-in-law, after his father died. The only person that is truly there for him is his friend Heratio, because no one is holding Heratio back from being a friend and support system for Hamlet. Heration even expressed that he came to Older Hamlet’s funeral, not Queen Gertrude’s wedding. Even though Hamlet loves Ophelia, she has her father holding her back from being by Hamlet’s side, and right now he doesn’t need that drama and stress in his life. That could possibly make his life worse.
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