phew!
only had chance to blog today...
was doing my 4 assignments for the past few days~
Monday's lit lect had the highest ratings of all the lit lect i attended sO far..
it was on Oedipus Rex and we watched 3-4 versions of Oedipus Rex..
OMG.
damn funny...
Btw, the story of Oedipus Rex is that Oedipus ran away frm home because he heard of his prophecy that he will kill his father & marry his mother..
sO he came upon the city of Thebes where he solved the Sphinx and rescued the town..became king & married the queen (the previous king died tt's y the Sphinx took over)
However, he didn't noe he actually belonged to Thebes. His parents sent him away to have him killed when he was young becos the oracle told them their son will murder the father & wed the mother..sO it came true! The reason he ended up in another country was becos the shepherd couldn't bear to kill a baby and hence gave him away~
It was the part when the blind prophet comes and tells him he's the one who killed his own father when he wanted to investigate the murder of the prev king.
Funny bits:
1st version: the pple in the play spoke in a monotonous voice & dey shoot off like a machine gun hahhas...It was terrible when they have a speech of like 15 lines..make us luff even harder
2nd version: very modern but it looks like it took place in Heaven..jus tt everytime Oedipus feels threatened, he will always run to the steps and shout down..and he did tt quite a number of times hahas..
3rd version: same thing; scolding stuff but when Oedipus couldn't take it anymore, he removed his 1m high crown (!!) and took off his beard( !!!) ahhaas i wonder wad for...and ran down the steps and scold the prophet.
4th version: the opera version in Latin...very *goOsebumps*, then when the narrator came out, she spoke in Japanese???? lOlx..
We watched the 'poke fun' version called Oedipus with Vegetables..
dey had a potato for Oedipus, a tomato for his wife/mother & a broccoli for his father lOlx..
cOs Oedipus in the play had to blind himself (potato has many eyes) & the wife has to commit suicide (hence the 'blood' when the tomato splatters) lOlx..
Soci tutorial was oso rather fun ytd..
we were made to form a political party roOting for a certain kind of government/ society we want: democratic, pluralism, totalitarian, welfare state etc..
then the whole class was arguing like mad..ahas.
okie i dowan 2 type le..
have been typing non-stop for the past few days..
poOr fingers.
