collaboration

Collaboration. In order to make intellectual statements, you must collaborate with another intellectual. An intellectual may consist of many different types of people. The student, the teacher, the uneducated janitor... anyone can be considered an intellectual. Sharing your thoughts must be communicated to another person, whether he or she may be contributing to the idea or not, would be decided by their amount of knowledge on the subject, however, all imputs are necessary. Together, doctors influence diagnosis's of a patient for generations to come. Their research combines into the most valuable to human society while they make meaning and combat eachothers ideas and they prove or disprove theories.
In a classroom setting, the teacher is the operator, and the students are the operations. It is their job to decipher what the teacher is formally announcing to her students. In groups, their is a leader, workers, and piggy backers. Everyone has their own attributions to the group whether as idea formers, progressors, or followers. To make intellectual statements the entire group must form, rework, revise, and devise the plan in order to form what they agree on as a whole.
Take writing for example. As a writer, I read someone else's work and take their opinion on something. Then i decide how I feel about what they have written, thought about, and decided to use as a writer. Next, I take what I have felt to be true, elaborated, and edlted and put that all onto the paper I will take credit for. This is called academic writing, "writing about other people's writing" and made into something of our own. It take multiple intellects in order to come by a finish project. An idea is only that of many combined.

Sport Royal

Maria uses the term "sport royal" when referring to the trick she is planning in Act II Scene iii, "Sport royal, I warrant you: I know my physic will work with him." Maria has created a sort of game while she begins to plan her trick to play on Malvolio. As a servant, Maria would normally be portrayed as more dumb and lower than someone like the business man Malvolio, however in Twelfth Night Maria devises a plan to fool Malvolio. Maria's plan is clever contrary to the stereotypical servant character. The plan turns into a sport and the characters involved into the players, the trick turns into a conflict where once again everything in Illyria turns into madness and nothing is as it seems. Later in Act II Scene iv Maria says, "If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark his first approach before my lady..." when she comments on how her game will play out according to her plan. The entire play is apart of the game that Shakespeare is playing with the characters.

Concordance questions!

1. Thematic strand-
Body, lips, eyes, neck, nose, hands, ears, legs, feet
2a. Where does the data appear?
Shakespeare uses imagery of body parts throughout the entire play. I found that Act 1, Act 2, and Act 5 have body parts being mentioned mulitple times within each of the acts.
2b. In what context?
In the begininning of the play Shakespeare uses body parts to express feelings towards a person. He expresses beauty and lust with in the characters by talking about lips, eyes, and necks. The imagery he uses brings beauty to mind, and with beauty it brings love because we are lead to believe it is pure and true beauty. Towards the end we find that the superficial and shallow beauty of the body is false and untrue. Original thoughts of how we were lead to feel about the characters and their feelings towards eachother have all been rearranged and turned upside down. The darkness stands for the coming out of the truth.
3. Obsessive use of the data retrieved?
Shakespeare's obsession of the human body is portrayed through my data because the redundance of the descriptions of body parts brings imagery to mind to help you feel the way Shakespeare wants you to feel towards each character.
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III.i.148-9

Viola is speaking to Olivia when she almost gives herself away by saying, "Then think you right. I am not what I am." and Olivia completely misses the point when she says, "I would you were as I would have you be." in Act three Scene one lines 148 and 149. Viola is trying to convince Olivia that she is not in love with the person she thinks she is in love with, because she is not what she has claimed she is. She is hinting that Olivia does not know the real her, which is true considering she is a woman. Viola is so blinded by love that she does not catch the clue and continues to profess her love to Viola explaining that she wants her no matter who she is. Readers should pay attention to this quote because this is the point in the play when we realize that everything is nothing and nothing is what it seems to be. Everything needs to return to normal in Illyria and in this scene because if it does not then the whole bit is in shambles and will be ruined if Viola's character is outed by Olivia's pressing love for her.

FFW II.v.143-145

Malvolio has found the letter that the maid Maria has planted for him when he says, "...and yet to crush it a little, it would bow to me..." and is trying to figure out who the letter was meant for. By saying he could crush it a little, he means switch around the letters to fit into his name, meaning that the letter was for him. To crush something is to be harsh to it, and force it do what he wants it to. This would be the kind of leader Malvolio would be on Olivia's court because he would be a very controlling leader just like he wants to control what the letter says. It would "bow" to him because it would be saying what he wants it to say. M.O.A.I are the four letters that Maria wrote on the letter, that Malvolio is trying to rearrange into his name. Of course since it is a trick the letters are supposed to yield the result Malvolio is trying to force out of it... however, not from the right writer.

FFW II.ii.25

In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Viola speaks in a monologue where she discusses her belief that the character Olivia is falling in love with her. "I am the man." (II.ii.25) Viola's statement is attributed to the lunacy of the play because ironically she is not the man, nor is she any man because she is actually a woman. Her secret identity as a male servant to Duke Orsino has charmed Viola completely on accident. I think she is almost fightened by this because if Olivia continues to persue Cesario, Viola's cover could be blown. At the same time Viola is empowered by it because now she controls the situation, and she can be certain Olivia will not return Orsino's love. This means Olivia is falling in love with a dream of some sort because Cesario does not actually exist. Illyria is a delirious place with delirious ideas and beliefs because while Viola is in love with Orsino, Orsino is currently having Viola try and win the hand of Olivia for him. This love triangle is growing out of hand! In the same monologue as this quote Viola goes on to describe why she believes Olivia is falling for her. She says that Olivia does not speak much around her and her eyes basically say it all for her. When someone has a crush in real life, their eyes do much of the talking while he or she might remain some what speechless around the person. Viola has a problem because if Olivia finds out she is a female, it will blow her cover.