This was the first full week of school in the past two weeks and originally I thought I was going to die, but in all reality it wasn’t that bad. It actually kinda sucked not having the full weeks to get our presentations and essays together, but we made it work. I know that for the two weeks where we were going to school only every few days I did find it a little difficult to focus when we were in class and while we did get work done, I noticed that my group changed what we had done during that time period. Once we got back to going to school on a daily schedule we did get a lot of work done, and we did meet a couple times out of class just so we could polish our essay and presentation. Doing the presentations it was really interesting, because everyone’s presentations we so different. There were a couple of groups that had chosen the same critical theory to focus in on while watching either King Lear or Macbeth but everyone’s presentations were super different. Everyone had different takes on their theories, and how they decided to discuss it with the class. I think the differences came from each group’s beliefs and how their discussions with Dr. McDermott helped to shape their presentations and guide their presentation. While only actually having school around 10 days in the last three weeks I really liked everyone’s presentations and I found that they were really polished. I really liked getting to see into everyone’s thought process and while I did think I was going to die having to go to school a full week it didn’t end up being so bad.
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After a day of struggling to figure out how to put our critical theory lense into words, having a CMU professor come and talk with us about our papers seemed really intimidating and scary trying to tell her what we were planning on achieving even though we had no clue how we were going to do that. However, after talking about how existentialism basically denies the existence of a higher power I feel like we had a better understanding of both Macbeth and the critical theory lense that we had selected, existentialism. I also thought that it was really cool getting to hear from Dr. McDermott talk about My Shakespeare, and to hear about the impact that Shakespeare has had on the world. While he was one of the biggest playwrights of his time, he is now considered the only playwright of his time to many people. I could also see a big similarity between Shakespeare and Lin Manuel-Miranda, a.k.a the guy who created Hamilton and In the Heights. Both of them wrote about stories that are somewhat tragedies and they both wrote/write for the masses (both rich and poor). While tickets for Hamilton are hard to come by right now due to the hype of the show, I imagine that it was difficult to also get tickets to see Shakespeare’s works when he was at his peak. Before Hamilton and before actually reading Shakespeare they seem like really stuffy old guys who you can’t relate to today; however when you actually look into who they are, what they stood for, and what they wrote for you come to the realization that these guy are actually the biggest bros ever. Shakespeare wrote for the common and rich folk alike while Hamilton was literally a bastard orphan from the Caribbean who wanted help create America. These old stuffy guys helped create the world as it is today, and it makes me sad that not as many people see them this way. Having Dr. McDermott share just a little bit of her Shakespeare knowledge with us was really helpful for our paper and made Shakespeare seem more like a friend than a dreaded enemy. |
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