Our Shakespearean Theory project was the main focus of this week in AP Lit. We spent each day (except for the snow day Monday) watching our movies, either Macbeth or King Lear, and then taking Cornell notes on them. My group was looking at a feminist criticism in Macbeth. We watched a more modern version of Macbeth, that seemed to take place around the 1940’s. I found looking at the IMDd for the movie was helpful infiguring out who was playing what charcter. The actors in the movie conveyed the emotion of Shakespeare's play very well. Sense I was looking at how women were perceived in the play and how plot of the play was formed because of women characters, I was mostly watching Lady Macbeth. She was a very dark character and pretty scary at times. I think the movie was actually scary overall… although I get scared really easily. I think it was a good idea to watch the movie before we read the play in Shakespearean English, that way we had, at least, a small grasp of the plot. The actors in the movie did speak in Shakespearean English, but after a while it got easier to understand, and add subtitles was very helpful. I’m hoping by the end of this project I’ll be able to spell Shakespeare correctly without any autocorrect! This week we also did our normal creative writing and reading our books. My book for the 6 weeks is Wuthering Heights. The beginning was slow, and it was difficult to understand, but as I read on, I got used to the dialect of the characters and the plot got much more interesting. I’ll probably finish over break!
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