chooky_girl26 said:
geezz ur smarter than me
hhaha... the coin flipping is pointlessly funny... heads over 90 times in a row?? comeon... lol ... interesting transformation... but there was no point playing heads and tales... somewhere it says it is a double heads coin :S Then in other parts it says it was a tales... meh... haven't finished R and G yet.... think i'll fail english
lol.. yeh i understand what u mean, but don't u think that were a point is not obvious.. a point can be invented....
heads and tails.. question the philosphy and fact behind probabilty.... probabilty is not factual at all.... it is the most likely sequence of the occurance of an event.. or the chance that a certain event may occur... and how many times it may occur...
ok.. let me try and make a moral behind the story of the coin tossing...
well the probabilty of tossing a coin and having it land on either heads or tales is 1:1.... now as u mentioned "heads over 90 times in a row"... this could be connected to a barrier... a wall... a wall present in Robert Frost's poem "Mending wall".. which u may have studied in the preliminary course...
Anyways... this barrier or wall is more of a test of fate.. a test of chance.. its more of a change that the human may undertake by consistent experimentation... if Ros and Guil did not perform the coin tossing... they would have not tested the philisophy behind probability....
The chances that were taken by Ros?...( I think Ros was lossing the coin toss.. im not quite sure).... familiraisies with our every day lives... if Ros had not had a firm belief in the probability of the coin landing as a tail or a head as being 1:1... and if he saw that it wasnt fact rather it was merely a form of chance based on fact...(i.e the coin having two faces).... he may have not proceeded in playing the game.. seing as though he appeared to be having a lifeless day....where Ros and Guil may have never known that 90 heads in a row was even close to possible...
Now what hamlet does.. is experiment with the likeliness of probailty also...
in the scene "the mouse trap".... now theres a probability that his victim will feel guilt.. and run out of the theatre screaming (reffering to 2000 film version of Hamlet).... now his victim could have merely played the role of an innocent husband....doing his part in keeping the family together (i.e marrying the Queen)...
but instead he runs out of the theatre gasping for air... so similarly to the chance that was taken by Ros and Guil Hamlet also takes this chance and proves the philosphy behind probability to have the capabilty of being tested... it is merely taking that chance were we discover whether manipulation may overtake probailty based on fact.
As i stated above:
"where Ros and Guil may have never known that 90 heads in a row was even close to possible..."
Now, this can all be related back to psychology.. which allows the transformation to take place...
The human psychlogy is rather complex but it merely takes simple thinking and logic to manipulate the human thought...
we could say that Tom stoppard takes a major concept in Hamlet and formulates it into a game of chance.. which appears to have no meaning...
I could go on all day attempting to make relations and comparrisons.... although many would disagree.. but that is where probability may prove itself inaccuarte.... because every human judgement may differ... it's merely how, where and why they coincide with each other which allows transformations to take place...
