David’s Evil-er Than Most Blog

To do this assignment, I managed to get ticket to the school production of the Tempest. In rettrospect, I probably shouldn’t have waited to long to do this post…Oh well. The production was good, as high school plays go. the actors knew their lines, and I only saw the slightest of hesitation. Maybe that was stage fright. But maybe just characterization. I’ve no idea, I’m no good with analysing how actors should be unless I’ve studied the script.

And about the sciprt. I can only assume that they stayed close to the story, seeing as how I’ve never read the tempest before, but it sounded Shakespearean. It has the fancy words and whatnot that characterize his writing. The lines were clear, and nothing really stood out as a detriment. Some of the actors were better than others though…oh well, such is ego.

 In ways of stage, i think it was to be expected. The backdrop and props weren’t really amazing, but they were there. It didn’t have an special effects, but then again, it is only a high school production.

8.5/10

This year, most midterm election canidates are focusing on the issue of the Iraq war. Should we stay? Split up the country into thirds for less conflict? Take the troops out? Take only half of them out? Or even take all of the troops out, but only bring them halfway home? (Stranded in the atlantic…) With the president’s 32% approval rating, many people are leaning towards the side saying “out with the troops!” They believe that this “peace-keeping” mission is ineffective and bad for the american military and public. I agree with what they are saying.

It is my opinion that the president should remove the troops from the country. Inour involvement so far, we have ousted a dictator from power, yet not much else. Yet since this coup only claimed 50 American lives, what is the Army doing that can claim over 3000? Nothing, that’s what. For all our efforts thus far, we have little (if anything) to show for it. The country is still divided, and the democracy we should have made is constantly attacked by more and more insuregents. They use IED to undo all of our work, costing the American people more and more money, all thanks to those angry insurgents. Speaking of which, the more we staty and interefere with the country, the angrier they get, and the more they attack us. If we should stay in Iraq and it’s environs, then I would guess the number of deaths would increase expodentially. Oh wait, it already has. 

There have been 3,078 coalition deaths, 2,839 Americans, two Australians, 120 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, six Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 32 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, two Romanians, five Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of November 8, 2006, according to a CNN count. CNN

Well, turns out I was right, again. The book finishes itself in a great culmination of understanding. I can’t give away any plot details, but the story suddenly became a lot clearer in the last few pages. Eveyone’s role flips around, and we see what the world is like through the eyes of a madman. the art in these last few pages also makes a huge impact. Dramatic shadowing, non-inclosed facial shots, all those pretentious sounding artisitic terms are in full force to wrap up this book.Not only that, but the way that the author overlaps the propaganda in the background with the speech in the foreground is very convining of a tyrannically run England. The only bad thing i can say about this book is that the coloring makes it somewhat hard to distinguish what character is which, since they all wear long coats, rarely says names, and have the same hair. the only easily identified characters are Evey and V. Maybe there’s a reason for that…

Speaking of various character choices, my suspicions were confirmed. *MINOR SPOILERS* Evey is just as much a main character as V is. Over the course of the book, she is educated in very mentally forcefull ways, and by the end of the book, picks up the sword herself. She is as much as, if not more so, a main character as V himself. This book shows that, in anarchy, it is not the person doing the revolution, but the idea leading the way.