martes, 28 de abril de 2009

"What women love most"




What do Nancy Meyers, the director of "What women want" with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt, Chaucer, writer of "The Wife of Bath´s Tale" and women in general have in common?

That we all ask the same question: What do we really want?

If we realise and compare, the reality from the movie, the song and the book are TOTALLY different. However it seems that the requirements that women have are not being completely fulfiled by men.

Perhaps men will never understand that, for example, we need freedom or we need to be understood. But there's something wise that men always say: "do not try to understand women, just love them"

Nowadays, for men, understanding women has turned into an extremely hard task. If we analize Chaucer's text, the main character, a woman, exposes that women want to be free, to be loved, etc. But, was she really being listened by men? Did men understand her? Are we being listened by today's men?

Now, if we see the film by Mel Gibson, he really tries hard to understand what we want, but in the end, he does not get to any conclusion, because he has difficulties after difficulties when trying to do so.

Having this analized, I didn't get to any conclusion, because there is a vast list of things that we'd want. Even for me it's difficult to say what I really want...

miércoles, 8 de abril de 2009

what's an epic poem, for me?


According to the Cambridge dictionary, epic "describes events that happen over a long period and involve a lot of action and difficulty".

When I read Beowolf, it was really hard to understand it, because of its english. So I looked up on the Internet what is the poem about. Now I can come with a definition.

Taking into account the definition and what I think, an epic poem is a long story told by someone with a hero, structured like a poem, perhaps with rimes, etc.