“The Flea”

First week,We read The Flea written by John Donne.He was being humorous and ironic.He really is talking about fleas that share his body and their blood so that it is almost like himself and even more than a marriage because they not only share each other's body but also merge.The Flea and John Donne and his lover share their lives and bodies more honestly than a married couple.It is kind of funny that I have read poem. :)

Macbeth

Before I attended this lesson,all I know about Macbeth was that it was a play written by Shakespeare that was said to be cursed and terrible things happened.I want to mention about Macbeth shortly.All tragic heros have a tragic flaw that leads to their death or downfall.For Macbeth,its ambition,at first he isn't that ambitious and is just satisfied being thane of cawdor,but then he gets like obsessed with the prophecy and his ambitious actions like the murders lead to his death.

Actually,Macbeth is a tragic hero because he acts out of love for his wife. He does what he thinks she wants -- even though it means committing a murder.

Romeo and Juliet

I didn't attend this course but I know Romeo and Juliet 's story already.Boys told me you watched movie about this story in my class.Actually,I would want to attend this lesson.Before I write this page , I collect much more knowledge about Romeo and Juliet.So,I am as if I attended this lesson.You can believe me :) .
One final thing,I love Shakespeare step by step :)

William Shakespeare

In this week, we can learn a lot of knowledge about Shakespeare.Actually,I first heard Shakespeare with Romeo&Juliet,Macbeth and Hamlet.But I didn't know what they include.Now,I have knowledge about Shakespeare and his works.

William Shakespeare scarcely needs an introduction. Born in 1564, he was an English playwright, poet, actor, favorite dramatist of queens and kings, inventor of words, master of drama, and arguably the most famous writer of all time. In his 36 plays and 154 sonnets, he left behind the evidence of a brilliant mind, a wicked sense of humor, a deep sensitivity to human emotions, and a rich classical education. We know all about his work.

William Shakespeare scarcely needs an introduction. Born in 1564, he was an English playwright, poet, actor, favorite dramatist of queens and kings, inventor of words, master of drama, and arguably the most famous writer of all time. In his 36 plays and 154 sonnets, he left behind the evidence of a brilliant mind, a wicked sense of humor, a deep sensitivity to human emotions, and a rich classical education. Shakespeare changed the English language, inventing dozens of new words we still use today. His plays have been translated into more than 80 other tongues and performed in dozens of countries, where diverse audiences all still recognize the timeless elements of the human experience as depicted by a young Englishman 400 years ago.


Shakespeare's Complete Works form one of literature's greatest legacies. Shakespeare's plays are divided into comedies, histories and tragedies. From famous tragedies like Macbeth and King Lear to tragic love stories such as Romeo and Juliet to epic historic plays like Antony and Cleopatra, enlighten, sadden, teach and most important of all, entertain.

Doctor Faustus

  This week in the English Literature course our subject was about Doctor Faustus. We watched a movie which is relevant to it. It was written by Christopher Marlowe and published in 1604 after Marlowe’s death.
 I  made a research about this and I will mention about him and his work.
Dr. Faustus is a play written by Christhopher  Marlowe.This is a fantastic story  which is based on superiority. A doctor  who wants to be a perfect human and a devil power which can give the doctor whatever he wants. Of course, everything has an end and you have to pay a price. But,the most important thing is ,unfortunately,to become regretful as the doctor.

   

At the beginning of Doctor Faustus, Faustus takes a closer look at the collected wisdom of centuries of scholarship and has only this to say: codswallop! Instead, he turns to magic not only for the power and wealth it can bring him, but also because of the forbidden knowledge it promises to reveal to him. In the end, Faustus doesn't care about the knowledge itself—just what it can do for him, and that kind of thinking is exactly what winds him up in a pact with Lucifer. So while Faustus may be knowledgeable, the play suggests, he's certainly not wise.

The Renaissance

This week’s subject was the Renaissance.Renaissance was the period of enlightenment in the field of literature, art, science etc. This period is also described as rebirth. Starting of this period shows differences according to countries. The most important feature of this period was humanism. The idea of Christianity in Middle Age lost its value and humanism gained importance. Humanists dealt with this world, on the contrary Christianity dealt with the other world. According to humanism, this world is created in order to be made use of by humans. All caused self-discovery of humans. Therefore, this idea was reflected to literature and works. 

And we learned important figures of this period.We learned somethings about Shakespeare.We watched the scenes about Romeo and Juliet.

The Wife of Bath :)

I am going to mention about The Wife of Bath because this caracter attracted me last lesson.

The Wife of Bath is intriguing to almost anyone who has ever read her prologue, filled with magnificent, but for some, preposterous statements. First of all, the Wife is the forerunner of the modern liberated woman, and she is the prototype of a certain female figure that often appears in later literature. Above all, she is, for the unprejudiced reader, Chaucer's most delightful creature, even if some find her also his most outrageous. Her doctrine on marriage is shocking to her companions, evoking such responses that the single man never wants to marry. For the Clerk and the Parson, her views are not only scandalous but heretical; they contradict the teachings of the church. In fact, her views prompt the Clerk to tell a tale of a character completely opposite from the Wife of Bath's tale.

Her prologue presents a view of marriage that no pilgrim had ever conceived of and is followed by a tale that proves her to be correct. She expresses her views with infinite zest and conviction, with such determined assurance in the correctness that no pilgrim can argue with her logic; they can be shocked by it, but they cannot refute it. As she unfolds her life history in her prologue, she reveals that the head of the house should always be the woman, that a man is no match for a woman, and that as soon as they learn to yield to the sovereignty of women, men will find a happy marriage.

In her prologue, the Wife admirably supports her position by reference to all sort of scholarly learning, and when some source of authority disagrees with her point of view, she dismisses it and relies instead on her own experience. Because she has had the experience of having had five husbands — and is receptive to a sixth — there is no better proof of her views than her own experience, which is better than a scholarly diatribe.