For this Language and Literature unit, we focus more on a specific Greek play written by Sophocles called Antigone. It is a Greek play that demonstrates a rebellion movement by the female protagonist to emphasize the importance of culture, identity, and community and how an individual connects to society. Throughout the unit, we accomplished two paper 2 writing, discussion, and the Morality and Marginalization Project which these three tasks are considered the most essentials materials to learn in this unit. For Paper 2, we did an untimed and timed one while writing prompts that focus specifically on investigating implicative or potential ideas that occurred in Antigone and to have a clear interpretation and demonstration of our thoughts on those prompt ideas. The work that I present underneath is the outline of the paper 2 untimed versions which is formed base on breaking the context, structure, and ideas separately in order to organize it efficiently, therefore, creating a better thesis statement and strong arguments with clear interpretation in the writing. I become to be more familiar with forming a decent thesis statement that can clearly be proven by evidence in the text and other symbolic representations, ultimately helping me in writing literature writing overall.

The discussion we did in this unit also helps me discover and found out the hidden ideas or implications represented in the play which help me better understand the perspective and identity of characters in the play. We have completed three discussions in this unit and each discussion we discussed the play in distinct perspectives and objectives in the play which help me interpret symbolic literature evidence in the play while also present personal connection and opinions in the discussion. Moreover, we also make connections to other literary work that we have studied such as A Doll’s House which we compare and contrast the similarity and difference within two plays, ultimately finding the purpose of the playwrights on presenting such ideas in the play.

Through the discussion, new ideas I had were the contemporary tension that links back to the literature text we studied. While I am doing the connection between modern and past well, as I continue in my literature studies and discussion, I want to focus on improving the interpretation and implication of the literary text. I will do this by exploring various ideas in the text, which help me on justifying the purpose of depicting the characters in a specific way from the playwright.

Lastly, we did a project called the Morality and Marginalization Project which we were divided into groups and present rebellion ideas either by debate or video. For my group, we chose to do a debate because we feel like it is better to understand arguments from both sides in order to identify if it’s a rebellion or not. Moreover, we chose “Greta Thunberg” to be the person we discussed in this debate because her climate change movement has been controversial in society and resulting in whether her action is a rebellion or not. We chose to work on the “climate change” global issue because we feel like this issue is somehow not been considered as much essential as other global issues and actions should be more actively taken. Our debate topic is about whether Greta Thunberg is a positive impact on society which I stood as the negative side of this debate. Consequently, we formed a website for this project and put up our works onto the website, “Making of a Rebel“.

Throughout this unit, I was able to investigate the relationship between society and individuals in-depth by different materials such as the play Antigone or the project. I realize the importance of the system of society can do to an individual’s identities and morality. Furthermore, I learned about the power of rebellion and the impact it could deal on society, which I believe a balance should be taken between upholding individuality and orderly society. Thus, we should cherish the rights we have nowadays to be able to express our individuality through a freedom society and democracy.

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After going through the second unit, political cartoons. I found out there are several similarities that can be compared to our first unit, A Doll’s House. The “tone” is an essential element for both units as it conveys different styles and feeling to the audience. The usage of tone is able to make an argument become more persuasive, which an effective usage of tone is able to use both in political cartoons and role-plays. For instance, several cartoons will provide a quote which very frequently uses punctuation to presents its tone on the argument and increase its persuasiveness to ultimately formulate a better product in both cartoons and plays. Furthermore, symbolization is another similarity between cartoons and plays. Both of these literate and non-literate texts are able to utilize a specific object to create unique implications to support the author’s main points and argument through either cartoons and plays. In conclusion, the two units have been somehow related in terms of the usage of writing techniques, which is able to strengthen their arguments in either the form of cartoon or role-plays.

For this ADH Unit, we have written a complete analysis of a specific act in the play. In this analysis, we focus on different scenes that occurred in act 2 and analyze it with deeper understandings and ideas. For my act 2 analysis, it focuses on the scene that Dr. Rank is being pessimistic about his circumstances in society. He receives a lot of fo pressure from societal norms and his illness as well, which he demonstrates his pessimism throughout different reasons in the play. I believe I can write a better analysis by providing more specific and detailed on the intentions of Dr. Rank’s interaction with Nora and has a more comprehensive overall view of the scene with a solid conclusion sentence.

Furthermore, in order to investigate more deeply on this play, we have several discussions about some specific topics that either directly or indirectly shown throughout the play. For me, I received a topic about “in what ways does the family depicted in the work help you to understand the culture surrounding the nature of love and marriage?”, which it is essential to look at the family especially on their tone and interactions with each other. Evidence and interpretation must be provided and explained throughout the discussion, and more essentially, this discussion benefits me by knowing some additional ideas or opinions from my classmates which help to strengthen my understanding of the act. I believe I can do better on explaining my own points and ideas with more confidence and fluency so that people will be able to truly understand my points. I think it will be important to provide a beneficial point of view from myself throughout the discussion.