This week’s instructions:
As you journal about your interpretation of Breathers, please continue to consider the concept of social commentary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_commentary). For example, the zombie phenomenon (and zombies themselves) can be viewed as metaphors or symbols for a variety of social issues. What kinds of parallels can you draw between Breathersand real-life issues, events or dilemmas? Feel free to draw on other works we’ve covered so far, but I’d like your interpretation of Breathers to be the main focus.
WRITING A PERSONAL READING JOURNAL ENTRY
Every week you are required to write down some of your thoughts about what you are reading. In the Discussions section of the course, you will find a category called “Personal Reading Journal.”
Note that, unlike the other Discussions, these journal entries are only accessible by you and the instructor. Other students will not be given access to them. It is perfectly acceptable (even expected) that many of your Discussion responses will come from what you write in your journal, so don’t worry about repeating yourself.
While it is appropriate to journal about your basic response to the reading, your entries should also include a deeper level of examination of the text. I will not be looking at how “correct” your writing is; rather, I will be looking at depth of thought. Use this as an opportunity to have a dialogue with your texts. Try to answer some of the following questions:
What did I read?
What does it mean to me?
How does it relate to other things we have read?
How does it relate to our discussions?
What kind of questions does the reading evoke?
Does the reading differ from what I expected to find? How?
What kind of commentary does the reading offer on my culture?
The following is a sample of an appropriate entry for your first week’s Personal Reading Journal. This example shows appropriate length and content to receive a grade of B. More depth would result in a better grade.
Personal Reading Journal
Shakespeare MacBeth
I really enjoyed reading this play. Sure, the language is tough to deal with at first but you get used to after a while. I love the amount of action and intrigue! It was very much like a modern-day movie or something. Lots of blood!
I think that Macbeth regrets killing Duncan. He realizes how much pain and chaos it causes for everyone. He also can’t believe that he did it, and he just wants this to be over with. We know this because he kills Duncan and then goes to Lady Macbeth to tell her that it is done. She then gets mad at Macbeth because he did not take the daggers and put them back by the drugged watchers of the king. When she told him to put the dagger back he couldn’t go; he didn’t want to go back there. Also, when everyone found out that Duncan was dead and saying ‘Amen’ and showing remorse he couldn’t do it.
I think that this will always be a burden on his shoulders throughout the play but I also think that he’ll realize that Lady Macbeth is power-hungry. This is because in the beginning of the play he said ‘if fate wants me King then I’ll let faith do its job.’ By killing Duncan he’s not letting faith do its job. If Lady Macbeth wasn’t around pushing him none of this would have happened. Through the rest of the play I think that Macbeth is secretly happy that he is king but upset with how and the way he got it. But on the bright side he didn’t have to kill Malcolm who was next in line because he fled so he wouldn’t get killed.
It seems that Lady Macbeth is actually the main character. Nothing really happens without her permission and/or motivation. She is an awesome character! Full of ambition and drive. It seems that her desire for power is her prime flaw. I suppose from an Elizabethan point of view, another problem is that she isn’t very lady-like. She doesn’t act like a woman should. She is sometimes even more “manly” than her husband!
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