Stages in Life

“The Four Ages of Man”by William Butler Yeats

He with body waged a fight,

But body won;

it walks upright.

Then he struggled with the heart;

Innocent and peace depart.

Then he struggled with the mind;

His proud heart he left behind.

Now his wars on God begin;

At stroke of midnight God shall win.

There are seven stages of life mentioned in “As you like it” by Shakespeare; however, there are only four stages of life in “The Four Ages of Man” by William Butler Yeats as I inserted above. Well, it is acceptable that each person has their own view of life. In my own personal view, it is up to our own self to believe. No matter how many stages of human living, we should take things for granted. We don’t ever know when the world will be over. Life is irreplaceable to waste a single second. This is our destiny; we could not go against what has been destined by God just as what happened to Oedipus. Appreciate what we have today as if there is no tomorrow. Expect the unexpected.

Stage Performance

Few things that I would probably consider in my stage performance would be;
1. Roles of character
2. The audience
3. Intonations and gestures
4. Setting
The roles of character should be studied seriously because this empathy sensibility would affect our performance. We have to feel as real as if we are the character assigned. I think audience is quite important due to the elements in the performance. If there are small kids or even school children, the element of violence should not be inserted; in contrast, it would be more applicable if there are elements of fairy tales in the storyline. I would be weak on the natural of intonations and gestures. It is kind of hard for me to make it natural in a way to represent the feeling of the particular character. Last but not least, the setting would be also considered whether it is comfortable or hot for example.

First Exposure of Teaching Language of Drama

I felt that this course is quite hard to score due to the reading of drama which I do not really into it. However, the first lecture had kindly release my worried throughout the semester. Our respective lecturer, Dr Edwin had started by introducing the term of point of view. There a few kinds of point of view; first person narrator is when the storyteller is one of the characters in the story. Third person is when someone does not figure in the action, and in case he knows the internal doings of everyone in the story (omniscient narrator) or some part of it (limited omniscient narrator).
On that day, we had managed to discuss few exercise linked to the element point of view. Frankly, I am a little confused when dealing with some other texts which required us to identify the point of view. After few further exercise I could trained myself to specify the pronouns used in the narratives. This first lesson had actually revised my knowledge on point of view which we had learned in previous semester and improved my understanding on it.

start with nothing..

Seriously, I am kind of excited to have a blog on my own. It seems that i have never got one. hehe. I'm not sure what am I supposed to put in here. This is my first time, so I will strictly catch up what I suppose to and all the task assigned to us by Prof. Madya Dr. Edwin Malachi, our respective lecturer. As the first time blooger, I feel very eager to keep up on my updates in this course and also others in this TESL 4 Group. I know later we will appreaciate the consequences of this task, beside improving our skill in using technology and most important, how we manage to indicate the info and guidance between each other. Keep up the good work..