We've been watching our plays this week. I'm watching Macbeth and it's hella confusing. It's taking place in WW2 but the language still has that Shakespearean style which makes it hard for me to follow thoroughly. I've had to sparknote a few acts to understand them but I kind of get the broad picture of what's going on. I do like it, it is kind of creepy at times but this version is quite interesting. My group and I have found a lot of scenes that fall into the Psychoanalytical theory that we chose. Macbeth was once this noble war hero and just because three women (that are actually witches) told him he would be King, he ends up racing for the throne and ends up developing quite a bit of paranoia and he kills a bunch of people counting women and children. We learned that Macbeth is said to be cursed due to the witch spell they speak. It is said that this spell was a real wiccan spell. I think that is really strange and learning that and me being a bit superstitious, it's kind of alarming. Besides this, I’ve been finishing up Beloved and compiling information from it to put into my Pecha-Kucha presentation. I am very excited to do it. I really found a lot of key points in the book that fit well into my topic. Even though the book does have supernatural elements to it, I’ve looked past those. I really think the “ghost” is this heavy grief weighing on the whole family because of the violence and abuse they had to endure. That is just my perception anyway.
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This week we started our group project on shakespear. We had a choice between Macbeth and King Leer. I chose Macbeth and I am currently in a group of 3. What we are doing with this is chosing a theory and watching the play that we chose and seeing how said theory applies. We chose Psychoanalytical which basically says that there are subconscious forces that affect the physical actions and choices we make. This is a great theory I think for myself because I just took Psychology so a lot of the studies and theories that we are using for our play are still fresh in my mind from that class. I think this theory will be very relevant to the play because MB is very much manipulated by his subconscious from questioning how he will become king, to becoming king. Not only is MB affected by his own subconscious, but by those of others. His wife for instance wants to be queen so she pushes him along on the rugged path to the throne. This theory is applicable to reality because people do things from normal to crazy in order to get what they want. They are willing to put others down and kill to get more power, so MB isn't too unrealistic in that department. People are also pursuaded by others. This is seen through something simpler like school cliques. Popularity very much changes the mindset of people. They dress a certain way, talk and act certain ways, and like certain things in order to impress others, and to get in that "group".
We are one week deep into the second trimester. I have switched into AP Lit and so far I love it. I really needed a challenge this year and second trimester was that doorway for me. We came up with a proposal for our PK (Pecha Kucha) and we are reading two books to provide support for it. I am very excited to do this because not only will it challenge who I am (by presenting in front of everyone) but I will be tackling a topic that is important to me and that I have always been curious to question. It is extremely prominent in our global society today. My question was what makes people believe that it is acceptable to treat minorities with cruelty, brutalize and wrongfully prosecute them, and feel nothing but hate for them just because of what religion they are, or what color their skin is? I think it is very important to recognize these things because people are being hurt and denied their basic human rights still in 2016! Today we read a poem by Langston Hughes from 1930 called Make America, America Again. How crazy is it that everything he wrote about is almost exactly the same as it is now to some people in not only our country, but the world. Other than that, I learned that I really need to expand my vocabulary because I just about failed our practice AP Lit test and most of it was because I didn't understand what words they were using. We got the practice test back and I plan to scan over that thing and process and learn every single word.
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