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Ms.Hicks

AP English Per. 2

16 December 2007

King Lear Response

Watching King Lear was a very helpful supplement to the reading of the play. From a modern technical standpoint, there is very little amiss in the handsome but chilly production of King Lear. But there's also almost nothing earth-shattering, nothing that will truly redefine the play if you have a long-standing familiarity with it, or leave you with a long-lasting imprint if you're discovering it for the first time, as it was in my case. Although the play was enacted beautifully for its generation in motion film, the actors unfortunately simply stood there while ranting text verbatim, making the play lose its grandeur on film.

When people think of a "Shakespeare film," this production should have been what people of the late nineteenth century would have been envisioning: a massive set, elegant costumes, adequate, unobtrusive lighting, and a steady camera hand. Couple this (with adjusted film expectations) with a literature class of some twenty students that has just finished reading and analyzing the play; you have a brilliant method of teaching. Not only does the film reinforce the text a student has learned, but it also gives students a way to accurately envision how the play must have been acted out in the past when it was first written.

Reading and understanding Shakespeare without viewing this play would have been very hard for any student who has not had a firsthand experience at acting out plays themselves. Within the text of King Lear there were many lines that were hard to visualize at a first glance, and further insight is necessary. By viewing King Lear, I was able to finally see the connections between the lines of quote, and the places where they actually belong / what they were referring to. Such a quote would be in the last scene with Cordelia dead and Lear holding her in his arms. The actor of King Lear intermediately paused between his lines, letting them soak into the viewer, thus enabling the segmented lines be fully interpreted by the audience before going on. In this case, I was finally able to understand to whom he was referring to as “the fool” who was hanged by the guards… which was Cordelia.

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Ms. Hicks
AP English Per. 2
13 December 2007

Essay Question for Fall Semester Exam 2007

Write a short essay of one to two pages to explain how this comment relates to the play as you experienced it in this class.
You should include at least one SHORT direct quote from the play as evidence of your statement.
Cite your quote

Prompt #2

He finds himself bereft in an archaic world for which he struggles to find the clue.
Lear’s life is made up of questions “Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts?”
But in his journey from madness to serenity, he is like some philosophical detective anxiously trying to solve the riddle of humanity.
Note of speculative inquiry.

“He finds himself bereft in an archaic world for which he struggles to find the clue.” With these words, Michael Billington effectively sums up the whole deal of King Lear’s tragedy of death, and disorder of his past kingdom; watching it fall to pieces before his very eyes; and dying just in time to conclude the play. This comment relates to the play King Lear by how death and disorder are prevalent all throughout, and how King Lear is continuously questioning the enigma of humanity, and the true meaning of being human.

Being human is something left unanswered throughout Shakespeare’s play, may it be that to be human is to be a rock with no existence, but being; a flower with life, but no soul; or an animal with life, soul, and existence, but devoid of human traits. However, in an attempt to search out an answer to this question “like some philosophical detective anxiously trying to solve the riddle of humanity” King Lear’s journey from madness to serenity has an unfortunate cost. The life of his own, and his daughters; the death of Kent’s vigor, Edmund’s fall from power he never had from a bastard birth, an deaths that had no cause behind them – Cordelia and Lear’s Fool pointlessly hanged by Cornwall’s jocular soldiers.

In class, the experience of King Lear was limited to that of the physical text of the play, and a film that enabled us to view the play from a different perspective and put faces to names, voices to words, and finally be able to visually experience the disparity poor King Lear was made to suffer by his daughters. Lear’s last words show how much he suffered: “And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life!/ Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,/ And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,/ Never, never, never, never, never! /Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir./ Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips,/ Look there, look there!/ Dies.” (5.3.368-375). With these words King Lear shows how much disorder and pitiless the world can be to that of his daughter that really did love him, and same to his daughters that equally did not love as much as they had said they loved him.

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1. Vectors

   1. Components of (52-57)

   2. Addition of (49-57)

   3. Subtraction of (51-52)

   4. Resolution of (52-57)

   5. Resultant (49-51)

Vectors and Scalars

A vector is NOT a scalar.

Components of Vectors: Direction, Magnitude | measure displacement, force, and momentum.

Time, Mass, Temperature, Work, Energy, Power, and Electric Charge have nothing to do with vectors. ^^These are scalars^^

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Always check your units!

Your units are wrong! cried the teacher.
Your church weighs six joules — what a feature!
And the people inside
Are four hours wide,
And eight gauss away from the preacher!

imple Addition: 1m/s North + 1m/s South = 0m/s east-western?

Simple arithmetic can be used to solve vectors only if they are facing the same
direction. For example, person 1 walks 8km East, then 6km East the next day,
He has walked a vector of 14km East total. (This is called NET Displacement)

Resultant Displacement

The net change in position.

The "right-hand" rule for calculating vector cross-products and such things is just a convention. You would get all the same answers to any physical questions if you (consistently) used the "left-hand" rule.

When crossing your vectors at school,
You'll use your right hand as a tool.
But look in a mirror,
And then you'll see clearer,
You could just use the "left-handed" rule.

Example of resultant displacement using vectors.

Adding Vectors -The Parallelogram Method

Subtracting Vectors – Using your brain…

= Useful Formula Cheat Sheet = (Hint, Print out, and paste to T-Shirt’s breast pocket)

Credits to http://www.physics.harvard.edu/academics/undergrad/limericks.html for the sayings.