BIG IDEA: We are so unworthy of this play that we need you to make it great in your mind.
Ideas in service of the big idea
Rhetoric
Imagery
This Play is too good.
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
We don't have worthy actors or stage, we need princes etc...
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Simile: Harry like war, Harry=war
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
Crouch for employment.
But pardon, and gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits that have dared
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object:
Are we able to do this here and now?
can this cockpit hold England South Bank
The vasty fields of France? or may we cram
Within this wooden O the very casques
That did affright the air at Agincourt?
We need your help.
O, pardon! since a crooked figure may
Attest in little place a million;
And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,
On your imaginary forces work.
Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Are now confined two mighty monarchies,
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts
The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:
Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;
Into a thousand parts divide on man,
And make imaginary puissance;
Think when we talk of horses, that you see them
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,
Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,
Turning the accomplishment of many years
Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,
Admit me Chorus to this history;
Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, heroic couplet
Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play
Monday 17 October 2011
Sunday 16 October 2011
Empathy and Discipline
Empathy, the action of feeling another entity’s pain, whether it be physical or mental discomfort. Discipline, self discipline, discipline in a group, discipline enforced over someone else. Basically making sure that another entity will follow rules established by that same or another living being.
Empathy and discipline are two values that humanity in general really tries to enforce, even though both of these go against the very nature of Homo Sapiens Sapiens and every living thing to ever be present on this earth. Life and anything it is present in is destined and biologically programmed to fight for it using any means necessary. Empathy is a value that people think is very important to have to be viewed as a good human being. Technically, to be a good or a real human being, the values you would need are versatility, ruthlessness and a sense of what is appropriate in a community. Discipline is arguable on this kind of subject.
Discipline is a good human quality in certain situations. In a community, you need discipline to make sure it stays together. Alone, self discipline in a human being is nearly completely useless. The only way that not having a sense of discipline when living outside of a community is if you perform actions that might affect your health permanently and in the end might end your life.
Both discipline and empathy are abstract things. They can be shown physically in certain situations and in different ways. Discipline can be demonstrated through a multitude of situations depending on which kind of discipline we are trying to show, whether it be giving an order or forcing oneself to do something that one does not wish to do. The feeling of empathy, however, is much harder to show, if it is even really possible at all. One might claim that one may demonstrate it through acts of kindness, but that might be only that: kindness. Empathy is a completely invisible emotion or way of thinking. Empathy might be caused by neurons.
Neurons called mirror neurons, which are used, mainly physically, to make your own body feel what another is feeling. Once a human being sees another creature being hurt, mirror neurons act up and make him feel that pain as well, although on a smaller scale. It is possible that Homo Sapiens Sapiens’ brain has evolved in such a way that there are mirror nerves capable of reflecting emotions or feelings to the observer on a similar scale. It might also help if the observer had past experience in those very emotions since the neurons which react when these emotions are felt have done so before and can communicate that very information to the mirror nerves.
Empathy and discipline are two values that humanity in general really tries to enforce, even though both of these go against the very nature of Homo Sapiens Sapiens and every living thing to ever be present on this earth. Life and anything it is present in is destined and biologically programmed to fight for it using any means necessary. Empathy is a value that people think is very important to have to be viewed as a good human being. Technically, to be a good or a real human being, the values you would need are versatility, ruthlessness and a sense of what is appropriate in a community. Discipline is arguable on this kind of subject.
Discipline is a good human quality in certain situations. In a community, you need discipline to make sure it stays together. Alone, self discipline in a human being is nearly completely useless. The only way that not having a sense of discipline when living outside of a community is if you perform actions that might affect your health permanently and in the end might end your life.
Both discipline and empathy are abstract things. They can be shown physically in certain situations and in different ways. Discipline can be demonstrated through a multitude of situations depending on which kind of discipline we are trying to show, whether it be giving an order or forcing oneself to do something that one does not wish to do. The feeling of empathy, however, is much harder to show, if it is even really possible at all. One might claim that one may demonstrate it through acts of kindness, but that might be only that: kindness. Empathy is a completely invisible emotion or way of thinking. Empathy might be caused by neurons.
Neurons called mirror neurons, which are used, mainly physically, to make your own body feel what another is feeling. Once a human being sees another creature being hurt, mirror neurons act up and make him feel that pain as well, although on a smaller scale. It is possible that Homo Sapiens Sapiens’ brain has evolved in such a way that there are mirror nerves capable of reflecting emotions or feelings to the observer on a similar scale. It might also help if the observer had past experience in those very emotions since the neurons which react when these emotions are felt have done so before and can communicate that very information to the mirror nerves.
Tuesday 4 October 2011
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Sunday 2 October 2011
C for Cool
Attention, coolness levels dangerously high! Verify the Various sources of this Veritably Vivifying essay if you will. V for Vendetta, a Veritable delight of a View for the Valiant person Vagabonding on their Vacation on which there is no Vacillating from the Verity that is boredom. V for Vendetta, A movie that made a name for itself so well that it has been immortalised on the internet by Various groups and websites. The dialogues, the scenes, the music and the depth of the characters, along with the original twists in the story which is in itself amazing. All these things were put together to create an immortal movie that will last throughout the ages. This movie is one of the coolest sources of cool in the history of cool.
“My name is Fawkes, Guy Fawkes. Guido for my friends.” Guy Fawkes is, in a way, a great creator of cool. He belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. The Gunpowder plot was a plan to assassinate different lords to establish what Guido and his compatriots believed was a correct government. The plan was to stockpile explosives under a government building called the Parliament. Guido was to guard the explosives until everything was put into action. The plot failed, but Guido and his friends’ idea lived on. It left such a great legacy that all over the world, signs that Guido’s sacrifice was not in vain still exist, from festivals to… M.
The Guy Fawkes Mask, a mystery to all. How could a mask look so strange and grotesque and yet be so cool? The Guy Fawkes Mask is a representation of Guido Fawkes, yet it is not only that. It has a much deeper meaning. A meaning that digs deep. So deep that it touches the very essence of humankind: Rebellion, the source of coolness. The Mask represents an anonymous, a person whose identity is meant to stay unknown, which in itself is cool. An anonymous that will fight against the forces that be, whether it is a government or “the system”, whether it be the rules in general or a person of authority. Whichever it be, the Guy Fawkes mask represents an anonymous that will fight against that very point of authority. This mask is part of the legacy left behind by Guido Fawkes. A legacy so great that in 2006, a movie was created. This movie was a Veritably Vivifying representation of Guy Fawkes’s story, only from the point of View of a present day Britain controlled by a Vicious and tyrannical government. And its main character is… V.
Voila! A mysterious and humorous anonymous with a penchant for the dangerous. That, ladies and gentlemen, is an accurate description of V, the main character in the amazing movie that is V For Vendetta. V For Vendetta is a sublimely cool representation of one of the coolest topics, coolest attitudes or coolest actions that has ever existed. Rebellion. Rebellion is the source of cool. It is a logical conclusion after all: cool, whether it is now in 2011, or at its origin decades ago, cool is what is different, what is new. Up to a certain level, something new is something rebellious, since no one is used to it. Rebellion, along with an amusing yet mysterious and deadly hero, add a few amazingly inspirational and dramatic scenes and you have V For Vendetta, a movie that will stay engraved in the minds of all who watched it as one of the coolest movies ever. And even better, on top of leaving memories that future generations will and have based themselves on, the movie in question is based on an inspirational historical event. Yes, future generations have already started basing their culture on this movie. Mainly on one of the major communication tools of our time and the time before…WWW.
The internet. Home to so many different communities. More than there are in the so-called “real world”, although that term may be argued upon. These communities, just like so many civilizations in the past, live, die and merge. When they merge, they adopt the culture of the most prominent website. And then there are the underground communities, communities that pick their members with care. Communities that influence the rest of the web by hacking, spamming and infiltrating. All of these communities, prominent or underground, are related. Information travels faster than ever before. And the legacy of Fawkes and V travels and spreads, as fast, if not faster than other trends. It is cool. Why is it still cool after 5 years, or hundreds of years? Because it is one of the most perfect representations of cool there is. It represents rebellion nearly perfectly. So many communities and websites follow the influence of V and Fawkes. It started with the Mask. The mask evolved into “memes”, cartoon faces that represent complex emotions in a huge variety of situations. These memes originated from the Mask, but also from the scenes in V For Vendetta, among other things. Scenes that can be described as… I.
Inspirational, inspiration the way to create something out of nothing. Without inspiration, there would be no creation and in turn, no rebellion. And without rebellion, there would be no cool. The scenes in V For Vendetta were created by the movie’s producers through inspiration. And they themselves decupled their power of inspiration through the movie and its viewers, inspiring a whole generation to create a trend. A trend that has lasted much longer than most. A trend that up until has remained cool. How? Why? What? One word. The source of cools coolness. One of humankinds most basic instincts, change, modification…R.
Rebellion. Rebellion, as said throughout this text, is the source of cool. However, that is not exactly true. Inspiration is the source of cool. Rebellion, is the source of coolness. Rebellion is what makes cool things cool, rebellion is the flavor, the topping, added to the food that is creation. Whilst inspiration is the kitchen in which it was made. Rebellion makes things cool because something rebellious is basically something new, and something cool is the same: cool is new, cool is something never done before, something… Original.
Basically, V for Vendetta cool, not only because of how well the movie was made and how the actors acted, but because of what it represents: rebellion, and because of what it has caused: inspiration. A whole generation was affected by this movie, and this generation was the first to have the most powerful communication technology at their fingertips. All this caused it to remain cool for much longer than any other movie, style or music before. And even when the movie itself becomes uncool, once technoolgy has surpassed 2D images and videos, the world will remember and use the legacy that Guy fawkes, V, and this generation will have left behind
“My name is Fawkes, Guy Fawkes. Guido for my friends.” Guy Fawkes is, in a way, a great creator of cool. He belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. The Gunpowder plot was a plan to assassinate different lords to establish what Guido and his compatriots believed was a correct government. The plan was to stockpile explosives under a government building called the Parliament. Guido was to guard the explosives until everything was put into action. The plot failed, but Guido and his friends’ idea lived on. It left such a great legacy that all over the world, signs that Guido’s sacrifice was not in vain still exist, from festivals to… M.
The Guy Fawkes Mask, a mystery to all. How could a mask look so strange and grotesque and yet be so cool? The Guy Fawkes Mask is a representation of Guido Fawkes, yet it is not only that. It has a much deeper meaning. A meaning that digs deep. So deep that it touches the very essence of humankind: Rebellion, the source of coolness. The Mask represents an anonymous, a person whose identity is meant to stay unknown, which in itself is cool. An anonymous that will fight against the forces that be, whether it is a government or “the system”, whether it be the rules in general or a person of authority. Whichever it be, the Guy Fawkes mask represents an anonymous that will fight against that very point of authority. This mask is part of the legacy left behind by Guido Fawkes. A legacy so great that in 2006, a movie was created. This movie was a Veritably Vivifying representation of Guy Fawkes’s story, only from the point of View of a present day Britain controlled by a Vicious and tyrannical government. And its main character is… V.
Voila! A mysterious and humorous anonymous with a penchant for the dangerous. That, ladies and gentlemen, is an accurate description of V, the main character in the amazing movie that is V For Vendetta. V For Vendetta is a sublimely cool representation of one of the coolest topics, coolest attitudes or coolest actions that has ever existed. Rebellion. Rebellion is the source of cool. It is a logical conclusion after all: cool, whether it is now in 2011, or at its origin decades ago, cool is what is different, what is new. Up to a certain level, something new is something rebellious, since no one is used to it. Rebellion, along with an amusing yet mysterious and deadly hero, add a few amazingly inspirational and dramatic scenes and you have V For Vendetta, a movie that will stay engraved in the minds of all who watched it as one of the coolest movies ever. And even better, on top of leaving memories that future generations will and have based themselves on, the movie in question is based on an inspirational historical event. Yes, future generations have already started basing their culture on this movie. Mainly on one of the major communication tools of our time and the time before…WWW.
The internet. Home to so many different communities. More than there are in the so-called “real world”, although that term may be argued upon. These communities, just like so many civilizations in the past, live, die and merge. When they merge, they adopt the culture of the most prominent website. And then there are the underground communities, communities that pick their members with care. Communities that influence the rest of the web by hacking, spamming and infiltrating. All of these communities, prominent or underground, are related. Information travels faster than ever before. And the legacy of Fawkes and V travels and spreads, as fast, if not faster than other trends. It is cool. Why is it still cool after 5 years, or hundreds of years? Because it is one of the most perfect representations of cool there is. It represents rebellion nearly perfectly. So many communities and websites follow the influence of V and Fawkes. It started with the Mask. The mask evolved into “memes”, cartoon faces that represent complex emotions in a huge variety of situations. These memes originated from the Mask, but also from the scenes in V For Vendetta, among other things. Scenes that can be described as… I.
Inspirational, inspiration the way to create something out of nothing. Without inspiration, there would be no creation and in turn, no rebellion. And without rebellion, there would be no cool. The scenes in V For Vendetta were created by the movie’s producers through inspiration. And they themselves decupled their power of inspiration through the movie and its viewers, inspiring a whole generation to create a trend. A trend that has lasted much longer than most. A trend that up until has remained cool. How? Why? What? One word. The source of cools coolness. One of humankinds most basic instincts, change, modification…R.
Rebellion. Rebellion, as said throughout this text, is the source of cool. However, that is not exactly true. Inspiration is the source of cool. Rebellion, is the source of coolness. Rebellion is what makes cool things cool, rebellion is the flavor, the topping, added to the food that is creation. Whilst inspiration is the kitchen in which it was made. Rebellion makes things cool because something rebellious is basically something new, and something cool is the same: cool is new, cool is something never done before, something… Original.
Basically, V for Vendetta cool, not only because of how well the movie was made and how the actors acted, but because of what it represents: rebellion, and because of what it has caused: inspiration. A whole generation was affected by this movie, and this generation was the first to have the most powerful communication technology at their fingertips. All this caused it to remain cool for much longer than any other movie, style or music before. And even when the movie itself becomes uncool, once technoolgy has surpassed 2D images and videos, the world will remember and use the legacy that Guy fawkes, V, and this generation will have left behind
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