Implicature

We have learnt about implicature in fifth and sixth week. Implicature is an underlying discourse which means what is said but suggests something else. As a reference and activities, we were asked to look at ‘Now Read On’ on page 107 until 112 and on page 167 until 169.
Based on what I have learnt from Harold Pinter’s play A Night Out, I can see the implicature used in the play from the characters’ (mother and Albert) conversation by trying to understand what actually the mother wants from his son which is his attention without state it directly. Instead, she kept delaying his son from going to the party.
Also from Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Important of Being Earnest’. Here, the characters are trying to convey the message of hatred to one another by acting and saying good things at first. But then became more sarcastic and overwhelmed by their feelings.
It makes me realize about how people often use implicature in their life whether they realize it or not especially things that include emotions. For example, when a mother tells her naughty boy to go play outside after several times telling not to; actually she means not to go play outside.
In my opinion, impicature is not for negative purposes only. It is useful in certain kind of situation for example in order not to put a shame on other people.

History of Theatre Overview

Reflecting the slideshow about theatre that I have learnt in early classes, we have been exposed to the history of theatre which includes Greek, Roman and Medieval theatre. We also have been explained about types of drama and its component.
During this lesson, I gain a lot of knowledge about theatre which I did not know much before. Now I know and can differentiate between what are tragedy, comedy, farce, and catharsis in drama. I also know how to compare between Aristotelian plot and Brechtian plot. I really think the slideshow helps a lot in my understanding about drama.

what's important for a performance

It is not easy to make a performance. In my opinion, crucial things that I consider when doing a short performance are:-
1. Facial expressions
2. Gestures
3. Tone and intonation
4. Costume
My reason is because it will affect audiences’ attention and interest toward the performance. It will also affect audience understanding about the play that you are performing. The costume also plays important thing when doing a performance because the audience can differentiate and guess the role of the actors.
For me, if these things are taken lightly, the performance might not be as successful as it should be and the audience will lose their interest toward the performance. Most of all, I think these things require the actors or actress talent a lot which of course comes from practices.

Different perception in perceiving life

Entering Oedipus Rex for this post, what I found in Oedipus Rex about ages of man is in the deadly sphinx’s riddle. Here, there are three ages of man mentioned which Oedipus answered correctly. He answered as a baby he crawls on all fours, then as a man he walks erect, then as an old man he uses a cane. While in William Butler Yeats’ poem, ‘Four Ages of Man’ talks about life of human as some kind of struggle.
In William Shakespeare’s play, ‘As You Like It’, he mentioned about seven stages of man which are infant, childhood, lover, soldier, justice, old age, and death. In the play, it shows that stages of man or life of a human is like a process.
Sum all this up, in my opinion, different people has different perception in perceiving life. But the basic is just the same. We play numerous roles in life starting from born to death. As a child, as an adult, and as an older person in society. The most important thing is, we should not took our life for granted.