Week 11- Speeches

To bring our lessons of Hamlet to a close, our class has to memorize speeches of Hamlet. Memorization of situations, event, and occurrences are simple to memorize and remember, but a speech is difficult with a busy life.
To those who are professional public relations, politicians, actors, and actresses it is amazing how much they are able to absorb into their memory. But I also think it is passion that drives them to memorize and absorb lines, keywords, objectives, and main points that help and benefit them to reflect and memorize it so quickly and efficiently. Not to mention accurately. For environmentalists when researching landscapes and the biodiversity of the habitat or atmosphere guidebooks are used, unless of course they research and cite organisms on a daily basis to the point where they become so familiar with the area and the native organisms.
Now do not get me wrong memorization is a helpful and resourceful skill to have in everyday life and their are some things that I remember right away easily, but for these 25 lines consisting of some words that are not used in everyday language; I find this difficult. Funny how memorization of lines was so much easier to remember a year or two ago.
 It was amazing how Hamlet just recited numerous lines from a play that he has only seen once. Once! How this emotional genius did this I do not know. But what I do know is in the words of Albert Einstein: 

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”

Words of a genius. Words that I wish was true for this case.