I do not like the readings for this week. I feel lost in each one I read. I do not think I like the writing of people from the past. For me it lacks any action. Most of the writing is describing Queen Elizabeth in one way. No one ever seems to be able to highlight both sides of her. What the heck are these readings try to get across to the readers anyways? I think I just must be thinking about too much and trying to see a deeper meaning in these writings for none of it is making sense.
In the first one, is Francis Bacon saying that her religion was an issue? I feel like he is talking of her religious belief and behavior as something that was overdone. She is also described totally differently from what I thought. In the reading it talks of how she did speak of age and even death. She talked about how on her tombstone she wanted something simple and quick. She just wanted her name linked with virginity, talk of her success, and how she brought religion back. I do not think any normal queen or king would be fine with just that. Plus I though Elizabeth hated talking about age and always wanted to be remembered as young and beautiful. Maybe I was wrong.
These readings are just hard for me to get into. I think there is too much running through my mind right now. I am going to try to reread them and grasp the meanings behind them so I can have something to talk about in class. These so far are the hardest for me, besides the earlier play with all the weird typing. That was probably the worst for me to get through! Hopefully it gets better though!
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Hey Sarah,
ReplyDeleteI also had a hard time with finding a topic to write about in this week's reading.
I ended up leafing through the play we had to read and writing a bit on that.
It is a little disconnected how you mention that we've talked about in class that Elizabeth did not talk about death, her old age, or her successor, but I think it is still likely that she talked to her closest advisors, maybe Bacon being one of them, about what she would want on her tomb stone. I am sure she was rational enough to know that she WILL die, and being so concerned with her image, would probably want to have control what her tomb stone would say.
You are right though in that she probably did not like this topic. But who does? I certainly do not want to plan how my funeral will be like, it feels like asking for death to come by doing that!