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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