In the recent weeks, we have been writing our critical theory essays and working on our presentations to go along with those essays. This week were able to sit and listen to each presentation about the chosen critical theory topic and either the play Macbeth or King Lear. Something I found very interesting about listening to the presentations was the fact that multiple theories were able to go with each play and even the same theories were able to match both plays in an accurate way. I enjoyed being able to listen to everyone's different interpretations of the different theories and listen to how the group thought it was incorporated into the play. In our presentation, we focused on Edmund and how he grew and who he became throughout the play while also focusing on the philosophical aspects of the play. This link includes the character analysis of Edmund throughout King Lear: http://www.shmoop.com/king-lear/edmund.html I think being able to listen to the songs people matched up with the play gave a really good idea of the parts they were talking about. It made it easier to connect and understand what the play was really about and it also made explaining it a little easier.
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As this was our first week back from winter break, we were able to use it to remember what we have been working on and what was happening in the class before we left. Before break, we were mainly working on our Shakespearean Drama Project. When we came back, we began to actually work on our presentations and started to write our paper. We were able to do this by going off of our proposal that we starts before break and the Cornell Notes we took about King Lear. I think we chose a good theory that goes well with the play because there is a lot of good information and examples from the play that we are able to look at to incorporate into our paper. We had a Shakespeare professor come in to talk to us and she shared some really good ideas with our group about what we can include. She pointed out key scenes and characters that would help us develop our ideas. I think hearing her input was really helpful along with the fact that we were reassured by her that what we had so far was good and correct. This link contains information about what Shakespeare's central philosophy is http://lithub.com/what-was-shakespeares-central-philosophy/ A final thing we did this week was the Poem of the Week. The poems this week were about spring and differing attitudes about the coming of the season. Personally, the poems were a little hard to think about and understand at first but after hearing other people's ideas and interpretations of the poem, I was able to better understand what they were about and create my own interpretation of them. I think it's interesting how different authors can have such different ways about writing about the same subject. |
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