A Streetcar Named Desire..

In my opinion, this is an interesting and the most happening drama if compared to ‘Shakespeare Wallah’ and ‘Macbeth’ that I had viewed before. Though, the storyline is really quite slow but believe it or not I just feel the jerk to focus on the screen when the antagonist who is Stanley appeared. Here, I really amazed about the relationship between him and Stella. Though Stanley is very harsh, bad-tempered and unreasonable but deep inside he is never been rejected by his own wife. How can the wife succumb to his husband’s request and not to leave him though he had beaten her and being harsh to her? Here we see that the relationship is very extraordinary and strange. They even live in a happy life up to Blanche present, where the conflicts started. For me, this is the good movie to learn on how love is very blind like the blind Oedipus in “Oedipus The King.”

Shakespeare WALLAH...

This is another movie that relates with Shakespeare BUT do not mislead by the title as it is not one of Shakespeare works. It is a film that compile Shakespearean drama. The films is about a struggling English company of Shakespearan actors touring India, on an actual theater company called Shakespeariana. It takes place when English influence is dying and the world of Indian filmmaking is beginning to achieve popularity. Also the film portrays the separation of the ways of British and Indian cultures, but suggests that the cultural collaboration in term of races, cultures and religion. The film is not really appeal to me as it goes so slow and sometimes hard to follow. Perhaps, this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

A Bloody Movie..

On 4th March 2008, we were asked to watch Macbeth as our outside-class activity. For me, it was a very violent drama that I had ever watched from Shakespearean works. Throughout the movie the characters shows horrible descriptions of the murder, from the opening scene where the captain describes Macbeth and Banquo wading in blood on the battlefield, to the bloodstained hands of Macbeth and his wife. There are also series of murders towards Duncan, Duncan’s chamberlains, Banquo, Lady Macduff, and Macduff’s son . By the end of the action, blood seems to be everywhere. Once Macbeth and Lady Macbeth get on their cruel journey, they never live in peaceful as their life seems to be haunted by the guilt of their wrongdoing. Here, Blood is symbolize as their fault. As a consequence, they would never enjoy their live to the fullest though they had obtained the highest position in the kingdom. In brief, this is the movie that had cause me dizziness, nauseous and just like to throw out in the end as I cannot bear to see the blood even just for several minutes..I still can imagine it even during my meal. Oh what an irksome movie is this..

When induction set teaching begins..

After completing doing tasks on Oedipus the Rex, we were assigned to prepare for an induction set. Miss Baiti showed us a very good example on the theme Blindness versus Sightness. Then, I start cracking my head on what is the suitable activities that I am going to present.. When the time arrive, I had seen many of my friends done their job in a very fun and interesting way. Among them is Shahrazi who chose on the theme fate versus hope. He was not using any of teaching aids but was able to grab his students' attention. Besides, Sharizah who made use on multimedia presentation makes sense to students when she showed a videoclip about a blindman and a pretended blindman who are on their way to cross the road. This is appropriate to the theme "Metaphorical Blind."In fact, Khalis had made the students puzzling when he asked them to find the theme of the play by searching on the jumbled up words and numbers on the whiteboard. From all these activities, I can conclude that teacher must be creative to create activities that might attract students' interest and enhance their understanding about the lesson.