Anshu Reads Stuff

I've read through act 3 and act 4, scene 8. I've been away from the text for a while. Mostly because I've been busy with homework, but Act 3 put me off the story. I found it hard to care about these characters after the battle of Actium. Both Cleopatra and Antony had their petty moments and even their upswings seemed vapid. I guess I've just gotten tired of the "love makes you stupid and leads to tragic downfall" story. Othello  did that much better. Othello didn't just love Desdemona, he also loved and trusted Iago. That's what allowed Iago to magnify Othello's sliver of self-doubt into crippling insecurity. That's what makes the story interesting. Othello begins and ends the story as two starkly different people, but I can believe that one grew from the other. Antony and Cleopatra are just two people who find each other really, really attractive. They have interesting traits--Cleopatra's expressiveness and Antony's occasional magn...

I'm reading Burke for a class I'm taking, and here's what he said about the National Assembly's first try at a constitution: "On account of the ambiguity and uncertainty of unauthorized general descriptions, and of the deceit which may be practiced under them, and not from mere formality, the house of Commons would reject the most sneaking petition for the most trifling object, under that mode of signature to which you have thrown open the folding-doors of your presence chamber, and have ushered into your National Assembly, with as much ceremony and parade...as if you had been visited by the whole representative majesty of the whole English nation." come on Burke they're doing their best