Monday, April 27, 2009
Shakespeare!!!!
It's the most wonderful time of the year . . . But I digress. Much Ado About Nothing----what's it all mean? From what we have seen so far, what might Shakespeare be trying to tell us about ourselves-----about what we need to be happy? Are we always in a position to know what will make us happy? Please refer to the blog guidelines and post your comments by Wednesday, 04/29/09.
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So what do we need to be happy? Hmm, this might be a hard question. It isn't always right in front of us. In Shakespeares "Much Ado About Nothing" we see that we have to look beyond to find happiness. What others might think will make you happy, actually might not. Only you yourself can find the right things to bring yourself happiness. You just have to go with your heart, and you'll know when you find happiness that it doesn't matter what other people think about it. If your in a situation with something and have to make a choice and neither of the choices will make you happy, just leave it go. Go find happiness somewhere else. Don't think you need to find it right away. Things take time, we all know.
-CharismaticEnigma ;)
I really have no idea what that means. Best guess, we spend so much time worrying about things that mean nothing. Like how everyone in the movie is trying to find love, even though they never can. I have no idea because that makes no sense, because the play is saying that you need love to be truly happy. The title to me makes no sense then to me, unless it is talking about something else, other then love. Maybe it means that we need to get over all of the nonsense that there is in dating. All that fooey foo foo garbage. There we go, that makes more sense.
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Happiness. That's something that very few want to show, because they feel very self-conscious. What we need to do, as Shakesphere puts it, is to let ourselves go and feel free, despite what others think. I mean, if you want to be funny, go and act wildly; you want to sing, rock out (or however you do it for slower songs); and if you love someone, go for it. Many of us feel that we don't want to have feelings of abandonment and loss of hope in finding happiness, yet we shut ourselves in and just give up. The trick is to never stop trying and keep your heads up high. Take it from me, I've had alot of bad moments and lost some things (especially this year), but I keep on rockin' and I look at the bright side of life. True, I don't have anyone to stand by me or be with me, but I'm no quitter. So open up, be yourself, never give up, and just be happy for what you make of yourself and others will too. Well that's all for now, so take it easy. Later.
-DarkNeon1 ;D
In Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing I think the movie is telling us that we need to find love to be happy. However, I think the title is telling us that finding love isn't always important and you can be happy without it. That is telling me two different things. I don't believe that I need love to be happy, but it'd probably make a difference. Some things make one person happy, and not another. Its up to you to figure out what makes you happy and no one can change that.
Hungry Garfield.
Well I think Shakespeare is trying to tell us that we are all different. That each of us finds happiness in our own unique ways. He is saying that we are too worried about finding happiness that when we see it, we over look it. We think about ourselves before others and are naturally selfish to some extend, but back to Shakespeare. I don't think we always know what will make us happy. Some of the most surprising and weird things make me happy. Shakespeare wants us to search for happiness from our hearts. He wants us to never stop trying to find it.
Aristotle once said "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." This quote is very powerful in the meaning and importance of happiness. Life basically revolves around happiness. If you don't have happiness, life as you know it would be very depressing. So I would say to all my classmates, do whatever makes you happy!
-AcuteMan309
Shakespeare basically is trying to show the audience that you have to look at things your own way to be happy. He is also trying to tell us that it shouldn't matter what other people think and we should try to find happiness in the little things in life. It doesn't take falling in love to be happy. You can achieve happiness all by yourself.
Izzy
I think Shakespeare is trying to tell us a lot of things that we what we might need. I think when he says about what we need to be happy, he means that life is too short so live life by the fullest and be as happy as u can. In the play they had thier up and downs. One time they were really happy until something ended up happening to them and they were hurt someway. They always found a way to become happy again. I dont think everybody knows what will make them happy always. I think you just have to keep moving forward and find something that makes you happy. I think when you find that something, you should use all what you can get because its way better to be happy. In the play I think its trying to tell us that love is important and everybody should love somebody. It also could mean that love is something that makes you happy. Go out and live your life to the fullest and have fun.
From looking up the word 'ado', i now know that the title means that people are making a big deal of nothing of importance. I disagree with the others that say that they title gives a different meaning than what the play is portraying. The characters really are making a fuss over what is happening. Or what isn't happening for that matter. Let's take Benedick and Beatrice for example: they both hate each other from the start of the play ad it almost seems like nothing could ever change that. But then Claudio and Hero get bored, they put this big plan into action to get Beatrice and Benedick to fall in love, hoping that in the end it will make them happier. The plan works, and they seem to secretly fall in love with each other after finding out about the others feelings for them are. Which secretly made them happy.
Now if we look at Claudio and Hero, we see that they are both extremely happy to begin with, and nothing could ever chage that. But Don Pedro does everything possible to chage that, he formulates a plan to make Claudio thinks she is having a love affair with another man. Claudio is enraged, but soon after he finds out that Hero is 'dead', he starts feeling the guilt and pain. Claudio and Hero end up getting happily married, and so do Benedick and Beatrice. I think that Shakespeare is telling us that things could change in a matter of minutes but in the end, if you follow your heart, things will turn out the best for you. Weather it's what you want at the time or not, it is probably the best thing in the end.
Much Happiness
In Shakespeare's, "Much Ado About Nothing", individual forms of happiness are portrayed in several ways. I believe that one thing Shakespeare is trying to teach us about ourselves as individuals is that we are different. Something that makes someone happy might make someone else sad. We all have our own individual wants and desires and they vary.
This play demonstrates the differences between everyone in comical ways. Beatrice and Benidict are a perfect example of this. They argue, and disagree on just about everything, but when it really comes down to the facts, they love each other. I think that Beatrice and Benedict also show us that love, joy and happiness can come in numerous forms, and sometimes we don't expect them to be demonstrated the way that they are.
Hero and Claudio show us another difference in ways we find happiness. They are very content with each other. They are happy and they love each other. They hardly ever disagree except for the one time when Claudio was decieved by lies of Hero's unfaithfulness. Claudio and Hero are much different from Beatrice and Benedict, however, they all are still happy.
Another point I think that Shakespeare is trying to teach us is that we don't always really know what makes us truly happy until we find it. A lot of the time we think that we have a good idea of what we want, need, and love but in reality we don't really know. We think we know but sometimes what we have planned out isn't always reality. We tend to think that we know ourselves, and we know what is best but unexpected things can happen.
This play shows us many things about happiness. Happiness can be far away, or right beside you. To a degree we should have goals and plans, but when it comes down to true happiness we never really know what will occur next. We just have to take it day by day and see what happens.
_-JustMagnificent :D
Well Shakespeare is messed up in the head all his plays are about love. I guess he is trying to tell us love will solve everything is he right or wrong i dont know. But in all his plays we ve seen so far that s what they revolve around. It makes everyone happy and feel good, i guess.
Randydr16
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