i feel like if i title this 'to be or not to be' i will be beating a dead horse..

In class last week, majority of time was spent watching Hamlet.  I had read the play in my AP English class in high school, and to be quite honest the content is very intriguing.  When you actually make sense out of the jumble of words Shakespeare presents, his words make sense.  As a matter of fact, sometimes the guy is hilarious.  I believe watching this play helps point out humorous or tragic lines.  When watching Mel Gibson perform and put feeling into his words, it is easier to understant what exactly Shakespeare is trying to get across.  Because of this, I belive that watching the movie in class is vital in order to understand Hamlet.

is it ever as simple as it sounds?

Dr. Tucker asked us all a very important question: "If we could live our exact life over again, up until this point, would we?"  Would we change anything, do we have regrets, what would you do differently?  When I contemplated this question, I found myself having a shouting match inside my head.  To say the least, the offer is very tempting.  Knowing what I know now, I could turn around my choices.  I could fix the mistakes and errors I made in the past, and I could get what I wanted.  Correction - what I think I wanted.  Let's just say the logical half of me won the argument.  If I were to change my past, who's to say I would like the outcome?  Or that that one change could lead to other changes, and I wouldn't like who I was?  The point is, I like where I am now.  Even through all the terrible choices I have made in my past, they got me here.  One small change could change where I am now - who knows, I could have died.  One different turn or word would change everything.  And let's be honest, who wants that? Well.. some people.  But not this girl.

Who's to Blame?

Society or the individual?  When discussing Utopia, we really took a present day look at the matter Raphael was trying to dissect.  Personally, I feel as though the individual plays a greater role than society.  Granted, society decides what is right and wrong.  Ultimately, however, the individual chooses which path to take.  Just because society says something is right, an individual could have varying morals.  However, society molds an individual's morals.  I believe this debate goes back and forth, making it difficult to choose a side.  Discussion in class about these issues was extremely interesting.  I love the way Dr. Tucker took the subject matter from the reading and related it to current events and beliefs.  What I love more, on the other hand, is this Spring Break :)