Zuckerberg

So I am still working on my play, Will and Will. One of the hardest things I am having to deal with is the dialect of the two Will's. I am a little more confident with Faulkner's dialect, however switching between him and Shakespeare's dialog when they are conversing has proven to be quite difficult. I am writing the play on a program, and am trying to find a way to post it cleanly on here, as soon as I do I'll post what I've got so far. Big thanks to everyone who has commented and helped me out!

Dr. Burton has been talking all semester about developing patterns and habits in our lives to continually learn. One of the best ways to do this is with peers, however, eventually we won't have classes to go to, and so social learning will be a strong alternative. This can be accomplished a number of ways, and social networking and blogging is a huge part of that. I have enjoyed learning how to learn and how to document my learning here on my blog.

Mark Zuckerberg came to visit BYU last week and had a lot to share. One of the most important things that I took away was that Mr. Zuckerberg thinks. And he thinks differently than most people. He seems like one of those people that is constantly analyzing different situations, ideas and processes. He looks for ways to improve the world and to improve his company.

He is obviously a great example of learning socially, something that I can strive for.

Sources

This past week I worked on creating a SOURCES page, where I listed all the sources I have used in my research this far in the semester.

I also created an OTHER LINKS page for some of the less-academic things I find, such as YouTube videos and other fun things I find.

Will and Will Play

In an attempt to fulfill the "literary imitation" requirement of the "Engage Shakespeare Creatively" Learning Outcome I have decided to write a play, where William Faulkner and William Shakespeare meet. Basically Faulkner is going to get drunk, and in his dillusion he is going to meet Shakespeare, and gain respect for him. That's all I have now, but I'm going to be calling on all the playwrights out there for some criticism/help. Here is the first scene:

Characters

Just as Shakespeare used characters and plots from other playwrights, Faulkner also borrowed some of Will's stuff, so I guess it all comes full circle.

I was promted by Dr. Burton to look at some of the Characters in The Sound and The Fury in relation to Shakespearean characters. Here's what I've come up with:

Night Letter to the Reader

Well the article I was planning on reading for today's post turned out not to be what I had originally thought it was... so we will move forward to some Billy Collins poetry! Max had recommended that I check out Night Letter to The Reader.

Character Analysis of Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury

This week I am going to:

Finish my textual analysis of Macbeth's soliloquy.
Read, analyze and comment on the article: Shakespeare, Faulkner, and the Expression of the Tragic.
Start looking into Billy Collin's poetry.

This is my fourth post about Faulkner and Shakespeare, the second post specifically about Macbeth's soliloquy and The Sound and The Fury.

For this post I am going to look at some of the "lighted fools" of The Sound and the Fury.

Macbeth's soliloquy and Faulkner

My original focus was to look at modern allusions to Shakespeare's work in modern literature. However I've been finding a lot about Shakespeare's influence on William Faulkner's works. I still want to look at the poet, Billy Collins, and the playwright Tom Stoppard. For now, however, I'll be studying William Faulkner's works. This is my third post about Faulkner. (The first: praise for Faulkner, the second: power and fate in their works and the third: biographical similarities) This post is going to look directly at how Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury is littered with imagery and metaphor from a famous soliloquy from Shakespeare's Macbeth.