Final Blog Entry : overview of course

After reviewing my blog full of a semester worth of work for my English 102 class I was fascinated by the amount of work that I have accomplished. As I looked over nineteen posts filled with information that was based off of interesting writings with archetypes, monomyths, symbols, and supernatural themes I saw where how I could improve upon my earlier writings. Throughout this course I’ve realized how important it is to have as much background knowledge on whatever it is that you are interested in. With background knowledge such as the monomythic structure and archetypes, I’ve realized exactly how much work goes into the making of a supernatural themed piece of work. I have been writing a short story of my own and in this story I have a strict supernatural theme accompanied by a hero. This course has inspired me to do the necessary research that I had never before even thought of doing to help better my story in a professional sense. Even now while watching movies or reading books I can clearly see how symbolic actions and the monomyth come into play, I even tend to look for certain aspects of the monomyth as well as how the characters are seen and what type of archetypes they may be portraying. I have skimmed over my blog and realized several ways in which I could improve upon my earlier assignments by digging deeper into symbolic actions which are now obvious to me. I also began looking at other students’ work and I found a new appreciation for the different ways in which several people can see the same thing. I have always appreciated different viewpoints but it is hard to see several viewpoints if you are the only one writing. I stumbled upon one blog in specific, it was written by a fellow classmate name Jacklyn. Her blog was on the topic of archetypes and symbolism found in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.  The assignment was to upload a Youtube video of a scene in Macbeth that you found interesting then to accompany it with a couple paragraphs of your own analysis of the video using archetypes and symbols. She chose the scene where the three witches were in the midst of performing a spell on Macbeth. From her writing you can see that she really dug deeply into the symbolic actions of the witches. She wrote about every action that I saw in the video and even more that I didn’t even pay attention to; the witches coughing and the spitting on Macbeth’s severed hand. She spoke of how the coughing witch must be the oldest and have the biggest amount of strength in the powers of Wicca and how the spitting meant that the spell would take affect sooner then later. I found this extremely interesting because even after a full semester of intense symbolism and supernatural training, I am still learning things that seem to be elementary. I will continue researching, reading and watching movies dealing with the supernatural to further my knowledge and improve upon my writing skills in order to one day publish my final project or at least what’s left of it.