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Sitting in my seemingly small bedroom last night, I was reading the first act of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", and I couldn't help but feel sleepy. My mental stamina must've been declined from reading other publications from other classes. Moving forward, this morning when reading the same scene, my mind received the scene in a much more clear and understandable way. I like this scene because it involves a joker or a jester. These characters are interesting because they alwa...ys speak in riddles or deeper meanings, ambiguous so to say, are they joking or are they serious? That, is for the listener to decide. The scene: OLIVIA. Take the fool away. FESTE. Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady. OLIVIA. Go to, you're a dry fool. i'll no more of you. besides, you grow dishonest. FESTE. Two faults, Madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend. For give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry: bid the dishonest man mend himself. If he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the bothcher mend him, Anything that's mended is but patched: virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. If that this simple syllogism will serve, so. If it will not, what remedy? As there is not true cuckold but calamity, so beauty's a flow. The lady bade take away the fool: therefore, I say again, take her away. OLIVIA. Sir, I bade them take away you .

Another class ENGL 203 Early Modern Literature. So far dealing with philosophy and the pioneers of interlocutory inquiry, which means learning through conversational questions and answers; Socrates and his disciple Plato. A quote which I thought would note. ... "'Well, what about this?' I asked. 'Imagine someone returning to the human world and all its misery after contemplating the divine realm. Do you think it's surprising if he seems awkward and ridiculous while he's still not seeing well, before he's had time to adjust to the darkness of his situation, and he's forced into a contest (in a lawcourt or wherever) about the shadows of moral-ity or the statuettes which cast the shadows, and into a competition whose terms are the conceptions of morality held by the people who have never seen morality itself?'" This is basically asks that; if someone went to heaven, do you think they would want to come back down to earth where humans act like complete morons for unjustifiable reasons? I like these kinds of discussions because they scratch through the surface of what it means to be human. Also I'm mainly writing these things down for reference when I go to do a school assignment.

A quote from Richard II, a play by Shakespeare I read last semester. MOWBRAY. The purest treasure mortal times afford/ Is spotless reputation; that away,/ Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. (1.1.174)

A quote from the play OTHELLO by William Shakespeare, from the 1600s. IAGO. Virtue? a fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distrsact it with many - either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry - why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. If... the beam of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most prepost'rous conclusions. But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings or ubitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion Pg 29 A1.S3. This quote means to me that our bodies are our gardens and our power of will is the gardener who designs the condition of our gardens through willful actions. Although we may be overburdened with emotions and affections, we have the power of reason to analyze our states and change situations for the better. Whatever wrongs have been done to us, we do not react, but think and make smarter choices. Where love can be like a blinding emotion, it can be removed in order to do what is best for oneself.

This message is designed to get you (and me) to think twice before acting. changing your habits is important in determining what kind of person you want to be.