Blog Entry 1 - Outline/First DraftFor my second Honors Assignment I choose to create a play on free will. The prompt that I'm following is included in the script to the left in the second line. Essentially I will be ordering a coffee, a pumpkin spice latte and Isaac Newton will ask me, "What caused you to choose to order that." The conversation will evolve to our opinions and perspectives on free will.
For now I have a couple of lines. This is just the beginning of the play. I read a couple of article about philosophers perspective on free will. One that I though was very intriguing was about religion specifically about Adam and Eve. I think that might be a bit interesting to explore for my project. For my play, I plan to talk about free will as a general topic but also about different examples of free will such as: crimes, maybe religion (Adam and Eve example), influencers, political views, and families impacting free will. |
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I had a lot of fun doing this project as a play write. Throughout the project, I did some research on Isaac Newton and different philosophers. It was very interesting to see how many philosophers view free will. And it was very eye-opening to learning about free will through a different lens.
Since I wrote a play, I had the freedom of being creative with the dialogue and the characters' actions. If I had done an essay, I would have been much more worried about the structure and grammatical errors instead of the dialogue itself. But with a play, all I had to do was visualize the conversation, which was really exciting for me. Even though I believe we have free will to a certain limit, I wrote about both sides; complete free will though Isaac Newton and limited free will though myself. It was really interesting to think of all the different scenarios and which have a deeper connection to free will. For my final script, I wrote about free will in terms of coffee, choices, family, influencers, and racism. |