Shakespeare:
It's a name known to most every student around the nation. To some, it brings images of characters professing their love on balconies, or perhaps the images of men in tights. To others, however, it just brings a very large sigh.
So what exactly is it about Shakespeare that brings dread to so many people's mind? Or is it even dread? Whatever it may be, it certainly exists because just the name Shakespeare has gained a reputation of meaning a lot of different things to many people.
I have to admit, reading Shakespeare definitely isn't one of the things on my top five list of fun things to do, but I think that might have to do with the fact that it takes a lot more effort for me to read it than other literary works. Cameo and I were talking about this on Monday in our little groups, on how you can't just read a page of Shakespeare. You're always having to look up word after word, trying to translate the language he uses! I wasn't joking when I said it could probably pass as a foreign languge! I enjoy the characters and setting he creates, but sometimes those things are clouded by the crazy-tongue-twisting words he uses!
When I walked down my hall and asked people what they thought about Shakespeare, I got a couple of different responses, but the majority came up with something I hadn't expected: they all enjoyed reading Shakespeare! I found that Macbeth was a favorite among the girls of McCandless, and they didn't mind the language he uses; actually, they LOVED the language he uses. One of my friends responded that her favorite part of Shakespeare was the language because she "loved how they talked back then. It just sounds so cool, and man, we just don't talk like that anymore!" When I asked people whether or not they found it hard to read because the language was so different, some said no, but many people responded that they enjoyed Shakespeare because it was hard, and because every single sentence has an underlining meaning.
Even though I've read a ton of Shakespeare's plays, perhaps I've never given them a chance to be favorites of mine. Even though they're harder to read, at least for me, than most pieces of literature, it could be this very fact (that they're harder, and they stick out) that makes them known and beloved by so many people!
It's a name known to most every student around the nation. To some, it brings images of characters professing their love on balconies, or perhaps the images of men in tights. To others, however, it just brings a very large sigh.
So what exactly is it about Shakespeare that brings dread to so many people's mind? Or is it even dread? Whatever it may be, it certainly exists because just the name Shakespeare has gained a reputation of meaning a lot of different things to many people.
I have to admit, reading Shakespeare definitely isn't one of the things on my top five list of fun things to do, but I think that might have to do with the fact that it takes a lot more effort for me to read it than other literary works. Cameo and I were talking about this on Monday in our little groups, on how you can't just read a page of Shakespeare. You're always having to look up word after word, trying to translate the language he uses! I wasn't joking when I said it could probably pass as a foreign languge! I enjoy the characters and setting he creates, but sometimes those things are clouded by the crazy-tongue-twisting words he uses!
When I walked down my hall and asked people what they thought about Shakespeare, I got a couple of different responses, but the majority came up with something I hadn't expected: they all enjoyed reading Shakespeare! I found that Macbeth was a favorite among the girls of McCandless, and they didn't mind the language he uses; actually, they LOVED the language he uses. One of my friends responded that her favorite part of Shakespeare was the language because she "loved how they talked back then. It just sounds so cool, and man, we just don't talk like that anymore!" When I asked people whether or not they found it hard to read because the language was so different, some said no, but many people responded that they enjoyed Shakespeare because it was hard, and because every single sentence has an underlining meaning.
Even though I've read a ton of Shakespeare's plays, perhaps I've never given them a chance to be favorites of mine. Even though they're harder to read, at least for me, than most pieces of literature, it could be this very fact (that they're harder, and they stick out) that makes them known and beloved by so many people!
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I am intrigued by the results you got from the girls in McCandless. Also, I have to agree that reading Shakespeare is not the most fun or easy thing to do, but I am constantly amazed by his creativity and style whenever I read something of his. Shakespeare's works are truly remarkable!
Nice detective work :).
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