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After reflecting back on this week of watching Macbeth I realized that the other people in that room watching with me were all getting a different message from the tragedy depending on what critical theory lense the group chose. In a rubix cube there are multiple ways to solve it, there are many different ways to read or watch a story unfold depending on your view point. It is truly facinating that there can be a many different messages hidden in just one story. My group chose the feminist theory, so we were looking for the ways that women influenced the plot, as well as how William Shakespear protrayed the women in his tragedy. Shakespear wrote to relate to his time so how he makes the women characters act is similar to how they were seen back in the day. Our group noticed how every woman character was sawn as evil and diabolical but maybe the other group didn't pick up on that because they were looking at the psycology and how Macbeth came to be so crazy. Although our groups were looking for different things there is no doubt that Macbeth went mad. https://www.prestwickhouse.com/samples/301548.pdf
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Throughout the school year I felt an utter sense of doom, teachers would tell me that high school and other schools before it were set in place to prepare us for college. This didn't feel like the case for me because classes came easy and I never felt truly challenged. At the same time we were being told by everyone parents, students, teachers that college is very hard. My ears perked up at the beginning of the beginning of the week when the topic of critical lenses and theory was introduced to us for it came to out attention that critical theory isn't introduced to college students until their junior year. After looking into the different critical theory lenses I could see that depending on which lense you use the stories you read can have a completely different meanings, as if wearing glasses in contrast to sunglasses or no glasses. After choosing the feminist view to watch Hamlet in I realized that the feminist theory has been around for longer than I thought. It can be dated back to the mideval times with Lady Bath from Cantabury Tales. http://www.mpsaz.org/rmhs/staff/rkcupryk/aa_jr/files/microsoft_word_-_literary_theories.pdf I am sitting in class when the teacher at the front of the room tells me that we are going to do a progect, where we research a topic and then present about it. This is a normal thing that happens in basically every class. I had thought that what all teachers expected the same thing from all presentations: you stand infront of the room with your presentations and you try not to read off every word from the presentation. But that isn't the case. As in writing you can convey a topic in a presentation in different ways. The Pechakucha style presentation challenges us to condense our thoughts because the presentation is only twenty seconds per silde. Many times when I would present I wouldn't practice what I wanted to say bcause I alwasy thought that if I have a good grasp of my topic I won't have to practice. With a Pechakucha presentation it encourages me, especially to practice what I want to say because I have to get to the point. Something that makes other presentations boring to me is when the presentor either repeats the same point in different ways, or goes on a tangent that does't relate to the topic. The Pechakucha persentation will help me to grow in ways of being more entertaining and sticking to my topic. http://www.pechakucha.org/faq |
AuthorLindsay is thinking in AP Lit Archives
March 2017
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