Blog #3 - Pyro?

Compulsion--a strong usually irresistable impulse to perform an act especially one that is irrational/contrary to one's will. By using this definition of compulsion, I can safely conclude that Iago was not a moral pyromaniac and therefor disagree with Bloom's characterization of Iago. To be a moral pyromaniac, Iago would have had to have gone through his plan against his will; Iago's plan to detroy everyone was well thought out and complaisant{agreeable} with his will. However, I do agree that Iago's religion of war did shift to a game of war, in which Iago did set reality ablaze. I think that when Iago was a soldier, war was indeed his religion, as with all soldiers. And Othello is his God for the simple reason that Othello was Iago's commanding officer. However, it changes (shift!) when Iago comes to suspect Othello of betrying him. Then it becomes game of war which is fought in Cyprus (not in Venice because the war is not fought on the battlefield-Venice-but they act and keep the values of Venician principles).

Blog Post #2 - Indicative and Awesome

Awesome quotes that will be added on to periodically :)

"...Now you've been for me when no other could; will I now grow old to forget all those? Blow off sorrow, goodbye tomorrow."
-Coheed and Cambria

"Not this time, I won't lie to keep you near me. And in this short life, there's no time to waste on giving up; my love wasn't enough."
-Evanescence

"Don't look down, don't look into the eyes of the world beneath you. Don't look down, you'll fall down, you'll become their sacrifice. Right or wrong, can't hold on to the fear that I'm lost without you. If I can' feel, I'm not mine, I'm not real."

Blog Post #1 - Oedipus Rex and I

What I personally gained from Oedipus Rex was the fact that humanity does not have free will. Our fate is unchangeable, and anything we as humans try do to do to stop it will only enforce/catalyze the situation. This can be exempllified by Oedipus's running away from home to avoid killing his father, who in reality wasn't his father at all. As a result of leaving, he eventually met up with his real father, only to kill him under the understanding that he was a random man. I also gained a thorough and concrete understanding of dramatic irony seeing as that's one of the many literary devices that Sophocles decided to use in excess. And overall, I grasped a good sense of the Greeks and their surrounding culture, which to me, who loves all things classical (Rome, Greece, mythology) was deeply appreciated and well received.