Fear

I'm going out on a whim here, but this is how I interpreted The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

It's about the gossips, the unoriginal, the box, the drab, the same ole same ole. He sees this society where we worry about day to day things that don't matter. He sees the uniformity. The lack of adventure.

He wants to break free.

He wants to speak out.


But he's afraid.


Slowly, a random line sticks out. More and more: it becomes more frequent. It loses structure. He experiments.


He's afraid.


He returns to structure. He pokes at breaking it here and there. He goes back.


He's afraid.


A journey through life, afraid. He grows old. He follows the structure.



He dies.


It's the end.



~Scribbles

Identity Crisis

First off, Ophelia is mad. Anything she says could just be insane ravings. That said, I'm not quite sure what she means. It's kind of like Hamlet's "I loved you once; I loved you not" thing. It's just a contradiction of a madman (madwoman).

Then again, she could be saying a sort of "We know we are human, but we know not what human is" kind of thing. It could be a jab at immorality, lies, murder, etc.

Or she could just be mad.

I'm biased, I know =P

~Scribbles

Screen or Paper?

I personally perfer the book, but that's only because my attention span for the movie is severely limited. The movie, however, puts an image to the book, so it helps in understanding the book better. Yet, I can't stand it when movies deviate from the book they are based off of, and the movie is starting to do that. That aside, the movie does a pretty good job at displaying emotion, but I'm wondering if it's only the way the director sees it. If that is the case, it might not be the way Shakespeare intended it. So overall, I generally perfer the book over the movie because then while I am reading I am fully aware the way I interpret it could be completely wrong.

As far as comparing how the movie captures the characters to how I see them, the movie is pretty different. But then both views could be VERY different from how Shakespeare wanted it to be. So I guess the only way to know which way is right is to go back in time and see the play for myself. Now THAT would be cool.

If only we could. Oh well.

~Scribbles