Tuesday, 8 November 2011

'Visual on Identity' project

1. What I am proud of about our projects is how we were able to come up with quotes from different and contrasting poems and short stories, and find a similar theme within each of them. I have never been to good at getting a deeper meaning behind a passage of words, and I am glad that we have done that successfully (I hope?) during working on this project.

2. While we were listening to each other's presentations, I think the one thing that kept on coming up each time was how identity can be changed and affected by so many factors in our world. Even those things that happen every day, like meeting our friends, going to school, making simple decisions, can have an affect on our identity, or what it could look like in the future.

3. I believe that this project gave us a bigger understanding of what identity is, compared to the composition. The visual project gave us many situations and examples of how identity can be influenced, so I was able to connect with how my identity has changed with this project. Even though the composition was not a bad project, I think that this visual project was more engaging, and I understood the topic a lot better.

Macbeth or Lady Macbeth

For my journal entries, I have decided to be Lady Macbeth. I think it might be interesting to see how she has evolved from a strong, powerful woman, to a remorseful, sad mortal who commits suicide days later. It is such a big contrast between how her personalities and identity changes, that it might be fun to see how I might interpret her thoughts. Macbeth would also be fun to do, although his parts are mainly on the actions he commits, while Lady Macbeth's role focuses on how she feels.