anyone ever study feminism in romeo and juliet (2 Viewers)

[Dr_stanley]

i know i'm asking for trouble and this has nothing to do with usual thumped stuff but.......

i have an exam on thursday and i have to write a feminist critique of romeo and juliet. i'm getting nowhere faster than i've ever gotten there before so any help would be greatly appreciated and rewarded with sexual favours.

also has anyone ever done spensers "view of the present state of ireland"......

fuckin arts degrees

 

[spectraljanitor]

Romeo and juliet is the ultimate feminist shakespearean play (it was written by a woman after all!). Chick makes guy climb up a balcony and then even when he does she won't give him any(*strike 1*). shit ensues from 'the man'. she fakes her own death. he thinks she's killed herself. so he kills himself (*strike 2*: all men are evil and should die!). then she wakes us see's him dead and kills herself(patriarchal notions of romance leading to suicide*Strike 3*). hows that for a fem lit crit of r&j?



and arts degrees are great....a BA= Burger Ability.

 

[Dr_stanley]

thank you, thank you

sexual favours in the post

 

[vertrauen]

spectraljanitor: I think you're a little confused as to what feminism is.

also, if Romeo killing himself = all men are evil and should die, surely Juliet killing herself should = the same (except for 'men' replace with 'women'). But what would I know, I haven't looked at the play since the Junier Cert (or since whenever it was released with Claire Danes).

 

[Dr_stanley]

could you explain that clearer, anyway i've changed my mind and i've started on much ado about nothing instead, i have so much work to do ahhhhhh. i hate edmund spenser

 

[spectraljanitor]

vertrauen! (are you named after that tinderstix song?)

i was only takin the piss!

and i do know what feminism is - after all i went to UCG!

i only saw the film also with mizz danes and it was lovely when exit music by rodeohood was used in the end bit.......awwww.

 

[Knacker]

"Shakespeare is shit. 'Thee' and 'Thou'... he sounds like a faggot"

Diarmuid O'Riain (allegedly)

 

[vertrauen]

I thought you may have been taking the piss, but (interestingly) someone else I know had said something very similar, but she was serious, so I was continuing on my rant from then (although not very well). apologies. I should think before I post.

Originally posted by spectraljanitor
vertrauen! (are you named after that tinderstix song?)

yes. yes i am. i couldn't think of another name, so i panicked.

 

[spectraljanitor]

i just love the way in college if yr studying english or associated disciplines that you are made apply 20th (oops! 21st) century theories to stuff from hundreds of years ago - e.g. a fem crit of shakespeare. its totally pointless revisionism. lets look to now. its like how morrissey gave me the ideal quote about why i don't like the smiths: "it says nothing to me about my life".

If i had my way (scsry thought) then all that'd be taught in english in college would be raymond carver, douglas coupland and lesbian separatist beat poetry. what the f**k am i on (about).....sorree.....

 

[Anne OMalley]

You asked for this...

I've tried to keep my nose out of this one, I really have but it's too late now...

Why do people apply contemporary literary theory to non-contemporary literature? Simple answer: for the same reason people apply 21st century theories in physics to objects that were created 5 billion years ago.

Originally posted by spectraljanitor
i just love the way in college if yr studying english or associated disciplines that you are made apply 20th (oops! 21st) century theories to stuff from hundreds of years ago - e.g. a fem crit of shakespeare.

 

[spectraljanitor]

physics and literature are diametrically opposed.

as keats (old dead english poet!) wrote

"Cold science did unweave the rainbow".

there's no magic in science, but there's magic in words.

 

[Burgerbarbaby]

Originally posted by spectraljanitor
physics and literature are diametrically opposed.

as keats (old dead english poet!) wrote

"Cold science did unweave the rainbow".

there's no magic in science, but there's magic in words.

Rubbish! What about Sherlock Holmes?

 

[Anne OMalley]

Oh.

Originally posted by spectraljanitor
physics and literature are diametrically opposed.

as keats (old dead english poet!) wrote

"Cold science did unweave the rainbow".

there's no magic in science, but there's magic in words.

 

[Pantone247]

Originally posted by Anne OMalley
Oh.

ha ha ha

you look so dumb right now

 

[Anne OMalley]

No. No. No. No.

I've given up attempting to reply to that message. Suffice to say that while the subject is still fresh, I am best avoided.

Originally posted by spectraljanitor
physics and literature are diametrically opposed.

as keats (old dead english poet!) wrote

"Cold science did unweave the rainbow".

there's no magic in science, but there's magic in words.

 

[Anne OMalley]

Oh great - here comes Pantone.

Originally posted by Pantone247
ha ha ha

you look so dumb right now

 

[thegoone]

feminisms great once i saw this film where one feminist shoved a glass tube up the other feminists punani and they let a gerbil run around the glass tube
wicked

 

[kstop]

Originally posted by spectraljanitor
physics and literature are diametrically opposed.

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
Their indices bedecked from one to n,
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!!

Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
And every vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space
Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways.
Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,
We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

I'll grant thee random access to my heart,
Thou'lt tell me all the constants of thy love;
And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove,
And in our bound partition never part.

For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler,
Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?

Cancel me not---for what then shall remain?
Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus and a node:
The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine!
The product of our scalars is defined!
Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind
Cuts capers like a happy haversine.

I see the eigenvalue in thine eye,
I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.
Bernoulli would have been content to die,
Had he but known such a^2 cos(2 phi)!

(More higher math than physics, but you could argue that the latter is just a subset of the former.)

 

[Anne OMalley]

See yiz down the boozer.

 

[snakybus]

Originally posted by Anne OMalley
Oh great - here comes Pantone.

best post ever!