This week, we continued with my favorite thing - poetry. Okay, maybe I’m being slightly sarcastic. To be honest, we did something new this week which made it much more tolerable. We looked at two different poems, Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Sonnet 146 by William Shakespeare. Having two allows us to compare and contrast their similarities and allows us to think of the overall meaning in a new way. Writing the essay at the end of the week was slightly different, in both a positive and negative way. Comparing the poems allowed me to have a really solid extension of my thoughts as I could use multiple sources, but it made it harder to describe each poem individually. I know that poetry is still my biggest challenge in this class, but hopefully I will get better as time goes on. Speaking of Shakespeare, we started our new unit this week, which consists of our Shakespearean Drama Project. I chose Macbeth as the play I wanted to look at, along with Christina and Lindsay. We haven’t started reading or watching the play yet; we have only began understanding our critical theory lens. My group picked the Feminist Criticism as the lens we wanted to study, and I am really happy with our decision. Obviously, things have changed a ton for women throughout the years, so it will be extremely interesting to compare how the women of Macbeth are treated compared to now. While I don’t know much about Macbeth in general, I have heard a lot about Lady Macbeth. I know it will be very fun to analyze her actions and see how things may have been different if this play took place in present times. Here is an overview of her character http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/canalysis.html
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