greek tragedy- sophocles [oedipus against tireseas]

The character of Tiresias in the play “Oedipus Rex” is significantly important for most of greek tragedy play. He was the one who has the clear insight and could see the truth although he was physically blind.

While discussing the play, Dr.Edwin assigned us to find out who is Tiresias. At the beginning, I did not understand why he asked us to do so, but later on I began to realize that Tiresias exists in many Greek Tragedy plays as a blind prophet of Thebes. It means that, this character is much more important to reveal the truth of the prophecies. However, I wondered how this blind prophet knows everything because he was not there. Yes, he is a prophet, so he should know everything in future and in the past. He tells the truth in details which the normal people like Oedipus could think of it. The things are; how he could know all these things, the prophecies, the incident that happened and the future?

These questions that I bore in mind gave me power to do a mini research about Tiresias like Dr. Edwin asked us last week. There were many histories about Tiresias himself and I did not know which one is true. I kept reading all the histories during day and night and finally I came to a conclusion. “Tiresias's background, fully male and then fully female, was important, both for his prophecy and his experiences.” This is the important part of the entire make up histories for Tiresias. I believe that his experience made him aware of the surrounding and he could see things clearly even though he is blind. I was solemnly respecting his role in the play Oedipus rex because I think he is genius. He did say thing directly to Oedipus as he wanted Oedipus to think deeply what he has done in the past by giving him some hints. Should I say Tireseas is genius or the person who created this character is more genius?????????

-: terengganu :- where nature embraces heritage

I come from Terengganu, a state where nature embraces heritage. I’m proud to be there but, I neglect about something precious about this state – its traditional dances.

Terengganu is not the only state which owns traditional dances, the other states too. I did ask my late grandmother, what traditional dance is and how it was formed in our country. She explained a little bit about it and I became more aware of our heritage. I hope that one day I could encourage the next generation to preserve our heritage.

Traditional dance does not belong to one society in fact. It becomes an identity for Malaysians in the eyes of the world. My participation in Zapin dance when I was in IPTI was an amazing experience. It was so fantastic and awesome! Since that, I fell in love with traditional dance and I felt I have become a part of it.

That was true – we will never know something till we try it. Whenever there was a cultural or traditional dance shown on television, I would watch it because I think it is an important element – especially in traditional Malay Theatre.

A unique blend of numerous races, each with it rich culture and heritage, and a strong influence from its neighbours Indonesia and Thailand, has formed the foundation of a very lively dance culture.

For one thing, I felt quite upset that our generations tend to forget our heritage. Some of them do not even know what traditional dance is and what it looks like. Are they become foreigner in their own country? Or it is not necessary to know about it? Who should be blamed? Our folk? Our government? Or ourselves? I can’t answer it but I really hope we should do something to keep it living for next generations.

script to be - i like prada

Writing a drama script was actually an impossible thing to do for me. I have never thought of writing a script – no matter a script for play or drama. Frankly, I have no talent at all to write any scripts. My English is poor so as my vocabulary. To write a script, one needs to have a high determination and good English. This is important for a script to be meaningful for a play.

However, I have no any other chances for this semester. Writing a script is a requirement for our coursework – EDU 3217. Hence, I have to develop my English skills in order to write a good script. It is just not only as a coursework, but more than that. Writing a script helped me to be wiser. I need to consider a lot of thing when writing a script especially the audience, the language, the setting and so forth. It is a piece of hard work actually. I can’t believe that I could write a script at the end even though it can’t be a good script among all of us. It was a very precious experience for us.

Besides, we need to write a note for teacher in order to guide them to have a clear idea what is the drama all about. The teacher can also change and modify the drama to suit the surrounding like setting and the character. If the teacher wants all of the students to get involved into the drama, teacher may add the minor characters to boost the students’ confidence. In all, it is up to the teacher on how teacher want it to be.

The title – it was very difficult to choose one. Ahhhhhhhhh.. What should we consider when choosing the title? Is it the message of the drama or the main scene of the drama? It is very confusing for us. Till now, we still consider it although we have submitted the last draft.

The language and grammar? Of course it was so miserable. As the three of us are just at the same level, we can accept any mistakes. It was okay then. We know there will be a lot of mistakes in our script. Hahahahha. No wonder. Harold has been so kind to us. Not too much mistakes only a bit on tenses for stage directions and time transition. Overall, it was a good experience of writing scripts. I think everybody should try once.