Understanding The Drama In Life

Questions after questions kept flashing in my mind as I read one of Bernard Shaw’s famous plays “Pygmalion”. What does it mean by real education? Does beauty reflect virtue? What is the importance of one’s appearance and how does it change someone’s life? Through the main character, Eliza Doolittle, I noticed that the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated. Eliza manages to fool the society about her “real” identity and has successfully made others think that she is a princess from the way she dressed and the proper way of speaking. Is this the education that she needs in order to make her feel accepted by the so-called noble society? Is this the real education that she is talking about? To me Eliza is a smart girl. She knows what she wants in her life. Eliza, despite her lacking of education, has learnt that external changes are never enough to make her an educated lady. She realizes that the real education th...

When we were assigned to work on eblogs, it reminds me of the online forums that we had last semester. It was an exciting experience indeed working on the forums. Eblogs are quite similar to online forums except that we have a wider range of audience and we are free to write about anything that we want to regard the main title that we had chosen. Having to post my writings on eblogs is just like having my personal diaries read by others. Whatever I have learnt in my Literature class have somehow given me the chance to make my own reflection and how I relate to those happenings in real life and finally have my thoughts displayed on this eblogs. For me, writing eblogs is, in the many ways, an ideal tool for both teaching and learning because it provides novelty and opportunities for language learning especially for the students. Besides private chat rooms where students can experience authentic environment and real audiences for students ( some people believe that chatting is...

Last week my classmates and I were assigned with our first simulated teaching for this semester. However just before the class started, I realized that I have forgotten to bring my CD, which I’m going to use for the set induction. Without any delay, I grabbed my car keys, ran down a flight of stairs, walked hurriedly to the parking lot, started my car and quickly drove home. Along the way I can’t help but to be angry to myself. How could I be so careless? What was I thinking? After less than 15 minutes I found myself standing right in front of my study table searching for my CD. Bingo!! Found it!! After putting it safely in my bag, I rushed back to class. The minute I stepped my feet in the classroom obviously the class has started when I saw one of my classmates performing her simulated teaching with Dr. Edwin sitting at the back of the class evaluating her. I managed to squeeze in quietly hoping that I will not be disturbing others. After panting a breathe of exasperation, I heard my...

Having to study one of Shakespeare’s famous plays “King Lear” was really a great experience for me. Not that I have never read any of his plays before, but the difference is that this time I am to analyze his words and why he uses them besides studying the plot and etc. However I was quite surprised to know that Shakespeare had been using the Modern English Language for his writing. My God, if that kind of English I found it rather difficult to study then what more can I expect from playwrights before him, Chaucer, for instance? Recently I found out that Chaucer has actually used the Middle English Language where it was recognizable to the English speakers’ eyes. They find it difficult though but slightly better than the old English. English Language is a very old language indeed and it has gone through a lot of changes. Old, Middle and Modern English are languages that are from mixed languages from others like German, France, Latin and Greek. Well whatever it...

It has been quite some time since my classmates and I completed studying Sophocles’s “Oedipus the Rex” but believe it or not, till this very moment his play still keeps lingering in my mind. I keep thinking about the fate of Oedipus, why such calamities and complexities in his life? Is he to be blamed for all the pain and sufferings that he had gone through? What did he do to deserve all that? One question after another kept throbbing in my mind. Through my observation and my experience, I strongly believe that we can never escape from fate no matter how much you wanted to run away from it. If it is your fate, your destiny, then nothing in this world can ever stop it from coming. I am meant to be a teacher even though 17 years ago I was so involved in hotel and catering management that I could see myself as one of the executives in a leading hotel. Unfortunately, it was obviously not my path despite having opportunities that came knocking at my door. It was my f...