play Macbeth it is essential consider how the original 17th century Elizabethan audience would have interpreted it. Macbeth is the story of the regicide of King Duncan of Scotland‚ by the war hero Macbeth and Macbeth’s bloody rise to becoming a tyrant‚ leading to his downfall resulting in his death. Macbeth depicts key issues from the early 17th century such as ideas of supernatural powers‚ witchcraft‚ kingship and loyalty to the king. An Elizabethan audience would have responded to Macbeth in a
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class‚ we began learning about reading as a process. While discussing this topic‚ it was pointed out that when a person reads a text they bring their own life experience with them and it influences the way that the content is perceived by that person. It was also stated that‚ whenever a person reads‚ they go through three response stages in what is labeled as their reading response analysis. These three stages are: perceptions‚ affective response‚ and associative response. The perceptions are the reader’s
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1.) Love - In ’The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ love is shown in many different ways: the love between friends‚ between family members and between a teenager and his first big crush. Feelings‚ and how to express them‚ are confusing for anyone‚ but Charlie has an exceptionally difficult time with it. 2.) Friendship - I really liked how friendship plays an important part of Charlie’s life. His only friend Michael had committed suicide and Charlie was still coping with the loss of his friend‚ but when
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Adrian Kong HILD 10 11/15/2011 Tuesday 6 Reading Response Week 8 In the readings for this week‚ from Mair entries 54-59‚ the various author’s wrote poems to describe the life in Song China. These poets shared their stories by using beautiful imagery to describe it for them. Stories that describe the noise of rats to the paintings of bamboo‚ the writings of the Song poets conveyed the outlook of the Song Dynasty. Although these poems served as an art for entertainment‚ the poems‚ in a deeper
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Reading Response to Ali and Nino The most evident and reoccurring theme that I noticed in Kurban Said’s‚ Ali and Nino was the importance of religion and cultural backgrounds. In many different places in the story it is evident that Ali and Nino have been taught some completely different things about the world in general. The first major example that I found is when Ali speaks with his father and Nino’s father about marrying Nino. Although they are both somewhat supportive of the marriage‚ they
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Reading Response Journal- "The Destructors" In my opinion‚ the main idea of the story‚ "The Destructors" by Graham Greene is that when humans let their own personal feelings get in the way of doing what is right‚ it leads to a feeling of detriment and dissatisfaction. Also the Wormsley Common Gang chose poor decisions that affected their innocence throughout the entire story. These poorly made decisions took away their youth innocence and replaced it with selfishness and destruction. In the story
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Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s greatest and most intriguing female characters. She is evil‚ loving and witch-like all at the same time. However‚ during the play we see her in two different ways. At the time when we first meet her‚ she is a brutally violent‚ power wanting witch‚ and later on she turns to a shameful suicidal grieving woman. At the beginning of Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth is very vicious. She thinks nothing of killing King Duncan. She has no sense of what is wrong and right‚ and
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Reading response to a poem: Richard Wilbur Boy at the window D. Jones ENG125 July 1‚ 2012 For: Jennifer Miller Reading response to a poem: Richard Wilbur Boy at the window When one is considered naïve‚ it has been thought to determine one as “having or showing a lack of experience‚ judgment‚ or information; credulous” (www.dictionary.com). In Richard Wilburs’ poem‚ Boy at the Window‚ Wilbur uses simple form language to paint the image of the boy staring out the window at the snowman
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Indian Education Reading Responses 1. The overarching tone of this piece is shamefully miserable. Sherman Alexie conveys this by using negative diction‚ for example; Alexie begins his first grade excerpt by saying‚ “My hair was short and the U.S. Government glasses were horn-rimmed‚ ugly…” The author uses the word ‘ugly’ to indicate young Alexie lacks in self confidence and is ashamed of his appearance. Alexie continues on saying‚ “… in school the other Indian boys chased me from one corner
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the Well By Ira Sher The entire time I was reading this story I couldn’t decide how I felt. The very first paragraph draws you in when the narrator mentions the day he discovered the man in the well. It’s immediately mentioned how the man calls out for help‚ but then skips to how the boy and his friends thought it was important that they decided not to save him. This paragraph almost immediately forces you to do a double take. When you first start reading and hear about the man trapped in the well
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