Who is the Outsider

This week has been very interesting. Tuesday we discussed or opinions on Plato which is about Socrates (Plato was his student) and how he has ruined the children’s lives by placing fallacies in their minds. Socrates was a great philosopher and at that time people thought he was a liar and a deranged man, that just because he was different he was put to dead.
At the end of this week we began reading Othello and his also began shedding some light about Shakespeare’s meanings in his plays. Othello was considered the other in this story he is very easy to pick out of the story, because Desdemona’s father doesn’t like him because he’s black and he thinks he stole his daughter and many other things, and I am sure that more things are to be unraveled by the end of this play. But in a way I kind of think that Iago is sort of an outsider too but he is deviant in his doings, he is always trying to stir something up.

Jan 22, 2009

This week has just given me a feel of how this semester will be although there is a good amount of reading, it all pays off when we enter the classroom. The one thing that really helped me this week other than reading the stories and giving my opinion and hearing other peoples opinion of the stories was in the last couple of mintues of class Dr. Smith made us think about what the two main characters within each story have incomon. I really never made the corolation while reading the stories but inreality just was discussed in class they have alot in common. first the were both concidered the other... meaning that they were not a norm of society. Although Gregor really didn't have a choice of how to deal with his problem he was still seen as an outcast. On the other hand the Narator had a choice to be normal or an outsider but to him being as far out made him in. I look forward to next weeks class.

Brittanay Dickerson