Thanks to moving to a school that turned out to have an incompetent English department, I ended up doing Romeo and Juliet about 4 fucking times with 3 different teachers. (Yes you’re doing the math correctly, one teacher did the same play two years on the run)
The second and third teachers were also the sort that go ‘analysis this text, but agree with my analyst 100%, and I’m not going to tell you how I analysed it’
The fact that the two massively disagreed gave me the impression that analysing text is completely fucking pointless and effectively ‘the curtains are blue because they had to be a colour’
I’m still awful at analysing sections of a text. Though I’m pretty good at overarching themes, manly because that’s what the first teacher covered.
She gave me my favourite reading of Romeo and Juliet. The romance is completely set dressing. The real message is how blood feuds are stupid. It’s never actually stated what either family has against the other. If they just stopped fighting, Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t of had the ‘forbidden attraction’ and either would of never of noticed each other or would of only been interested in each other for a few days. Instead they felt the need to keep it a secret, get married in secret and 7 people died and both families lost all male heirs.
Thanks to moving to a school that turned out to have an incompetent English department, I ended up doing Romeo and Juliet about 4 fucking times with 3 different teachers. (Yes you’re doing the math correctly, one teacher did the same play two years on the run)
The second and third teachers were also the sort that go ‘analysis this text, but agree with my analyst 100%, and I’m not going to tell you how I analysed it’
The fact that the two massively disagreed gave me the impression that analysing text is completely fucking pointless and effectively ‘the curtains are blue because they had to be a colour’
I’m still awful at analysing sections of a text. Though I’m pretty good at overarching themes, manly because that’s what the first teacher covered.
She gave me my favourite reading of Romeo and Juliet. The romance is completely set dressing. The real message is how blood feuds are stupid. It’s never actually stated what either family has against the other. If they just stopped fighting, Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t of had the ‘forbidden attraction’ and either would of never of noticed each other or would of only been interested in each other for a few days. Instead they felt the need to keep it a secret, get married in secret and 7 people died and both families lost all male heirs.