Hurrah!!!
I'm very happy today... I've finished the module on Dr Faustus, and boy, that was pretty hard going, but enjoyable!
I guess I'm one of the few people in Britain who managed to go all the way through school without doing any Shakespeare, so this was my first proper brush with that kind of play. This might explain why I found it quite so hard to get into - perhaps if I had had exposure to (or even exposed myself (oo err mrs)) to Shakespeare earlier, then Marlowe wouldn't have been quite such a chore.
Anyhow, I'm taking a break from him for a bit now while I do the chapter on Cezanne, which I think should be better (although I have to admit I'm not a massive fan of paintings of blurry naked ladies and bowls of oranges!) and then it's back to Faustus to write my first assignment - eek!
I'm still managing to keep my 2 week buffer at the moment, and it all seems to be going a bit too smoothly for my liking - I keep waiting for something to go wrong, but I guess that I should enjoy it while it lasts, I'm sure there won't be this much room for maneouver on my next module (whatever that will be!)
Showing posts with label dr faustus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dr faustus. Show all posts
Friday, February 13, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Chuffed
Well, I'm quite pleased with myself all in all! I've managed to work my way through the Cleopatra module of my course 2 weeks earlier than I was supposed to, result!
I have to admit, I sat down to work on the module with a not insignificant amount of trepidation, normally when I've done studying in the past, I've had to sit there with a bit of a glazed look as nothing was quite sinking in, however this seems to be a bit different. I was writing what I thought the answers were, and surprisingly was getting the same results as the books - RESULT!
That's made me think about ploughing on now as I was going to wait until the course starts in earnest to do any more, but I think I will try and keep this lead time going, then I can either have some time off when I need it, or spend a bit longer working on one of the trickier essays.
In the meantime however, I'm stuck at Liverpool Street Station as per usual due to a train fault, so it gives me the perfect excuse to not go and buy a pasty and to start reading Dr Faustus instead.
I knew I put it in my bag this morning for a reason!
I have to admit, I sat down to work on the module with a not insignificant amount of trepidation, normally when I've done studying in the past, I've had to sit there with a bit of a glazed look as nothing was quite sinking in, however this seems to be a bit different. I was writing what I thought the answers were, and surprisingly was getting the same results as the books - RESULT!
That's made me think about ploughing on now as I was going to wait until the course starts in earnest to do any more, but I think I will try and keep this lead time going, then I can either have some time off when I need it, or spend a bit longer working on one of the trickier essays.
In the meantime however, I'm stuck at Liverpool Street Station as per usual due to a train fault, so it gives me the perfect excuse to not go and buy a pasty and to start reading Dr Faustus instead.
I knew I put it in my bag this morning for a reason!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
