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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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- Gretchen's English Fete
- Gretchen Dee is galvanized by the prospect of bringing her ideas and experiences to the College of Chicago. After receiving her bachelor’s degree from Carleton College, Gretchen spent two years traveling around the world, eventually settling in Europe. While living in the Netherlands, she received her M.A. in Social Science from the University of Amsterdam; her thesis on contemporary conceptualizations of the astronomical universe was recently nominated as one of the most remarkable theses in the history of the ISHSS. Over the past ten years, she has worked as an English instructor on three continents, teaching both adults and children in Bangkok, Thailand and Amsterdam, Holland. After returning to the US, she has served as the director of English for Sabio Academy, where she specializes in writing instruction and has instructed several winners of prestigious essay competitions. In 2009 Gretchen became the Program Director at the College of Chicago where she also serves as the TOEFL and Advanced Integrative Instructor, helping many students to realize their dream to attend college or university in the United States.
In addition, the story demonstrates a meaningless life, in particular the futility of life. In the play, two main characters wait for Godot that nobody recognizes what it is and seems not to come see them. We are not able to see the exact purposes of their waiting through acts and talks of the characters, as the characters don’t get anything in the story. Specifically, the characters don’t see any hope even on the tree which is only sat on the stage. They are talking as follows. “Vladimir: He said by the tree. Do you see any others? Estragon: What is it? Vladimir: I don’t know. A willow. Estragon: Where are the leaves? Vladimir: It must be dead. Estragon: No more weeping.” This part reflects hopelessness of our lives by showing no leaves and no weeping. Actually, even though there is one, the tree, which at least the characters can trust to remember the location, even the tree doesn’t give the hopeful potentials them, and it disappoints them.
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