Thinking Outside The Box

Plato focuses on the point that if we don't expand our reasoning and thinking skills we'll forever be ignorant and not see beyond the shadows casted by the fire in the cave.  However if we were able to think outside the box we'd be able to experience the outside light and become intellectuals escaping the "hell" that was inside the cave.  Sartre uses a more literal form of hell being the room and their close minded thinking led them to continuously torture each other for eternity however if they were to overcome their initial judgements of each other according to Garcin they could be redeemed.  Unfortunately none of the characters were able to help each other escape hell because they couldn't overcome their own ignorance.  Sartre's version of hell was hell because it was very monotonous and never changed the environment and the way they thought similair to Plato's in that the prisoner's never saw beyond the shadows.  Freedom of thought and expanding their mind only came when they were willing to make a change such as how change could've occured if the three dead characters from No Exit could've changed themselves.

Sonnet

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

–William Shakespeare

AP Hamlet PLN

http://millsenglish.com/wordpress/?cat=16

I picked this site because it seems very similair to our own blogs and program also the layout was very nice.  If I ever needed help on things outside of Hamlet this site also has information about other books and videos about the books.

http://litcharts.com/lit/hamlet/backgroundinfo

I feel like this site gives a good summary of the story and if I ever needed to refresh my memory of a particular scene or idea I could use this site as my source..chatham.edu/pti/curriculum/units/2006/Mathews.pdf
http://www.shakespearehelp.com/hamlet.htm

This site is kind of a hub of information about Hamlet and I could use this site to find out anything I wanted to about the story because of how large its collection of sites is.

http://www.sccenglish.ie/2011/01/hamlet-resources.html

This site has a wide variety of ways to learn about Hamlet, it has videos, podcasts, and summaries done by other students which gives a similair perspective of the story to someone like me.

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/curriculum-planning/teaching-methods/3544.html

This site is the work of a collaboration of teachers that interpreted Hamlet and then tried to simplify it for people to understand it easier.  It also helps you appreciate the literature and the characterization more than I might've originally.