Thursday, February 27, 2014
Judith! O, Judith.
As stated it is clear and obvious that the Major Dramatic Question is, "Will Judith kill Holofernes?" I read over and over trying to come up with another great choice for the MDQ. I even thought there was none because a lot of small different questions came to mind. However, one question that stuck to mind was, "Does Judith has what it takes to kill Holofernes?" I believe this is a better question than just asking "Will she kill him?" Judith goes through many changes especially emotionally throughout the play. She is very different from the start of the play to the end. However, throughout the play it is evident that Judith just wants to be loved. Any being in search for love, could never be harmful right? Judith makes me retract that thought. She tows on rather she should go through with killing him and the servant has to remind her of the importance that it is to kill him. In the end, Judith does have what it takes to kill him. Then, I asked myself, is this fully true? Because after she kills him, she wants to have sex with the corpse. Its safe to say Judith was torn in the decision to kill Holofernes, but she decided to kill him and ultimately had what it took to do so.
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I definitely agree with what you put as the major dramatic question Dee. I had a hard time as well coming up with a MDQ and I honestly couldn't think of a good one, but yours seems to do the play justice. I think it's a really interesting question, it just expands on how much internal struggle Judith most likely went through to be able to kill Holofernes. But yeah, I definitely think you nailed the MDQ for this play.
ReplyDeleteI thought this play was was kind of confusing and difficult for me to think of a major dramatic question for this play too. But I like your perspective on the play. Judith seemed as if she wanted to be loved from the start and by the end she was very different as you stated. I think your MDQ is compelling and makes a good point to the play.
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