Macbeth
I've enjoyed watching that presentations from the past couple of days. I think it's interesting how universal Shakespeare can be and that it's able to be manipulated from its original form into something like “Throne of Blood” all the way to our classroom presentations. I liked how one group sat on stools and had their backs face the audience when not in a scene but turned around to face the class when they entered a scene. It made it easy to follow what was going on in the scene and avoided a lot of confusion. I think that dissecting the script in small groups is helping us to better understand the play. It may have been better for our class to have done this before we watched “Throne of Blood”.
It’s a great experience for us to be able to manipulate the text in our presentations. I also like the fact that we are able to delete what we deem to be unnecessary in our presentations. I was actually able to gain a greater appreciation for the play once I could fully understand what was going on. Watching other groups and how they manipulated their text was also interesting. It just goes to show that there are many possible ways one can interpret Shakespeare and although a translations may sound cut and dry, it definitely is not.
Many people have never read the play “Macbeth” and if we had studied it like we are doing now before we watched a movie based on it that was in another language, the movie would have been easier to follow and it is likely that more people would have been able to keep interest. I think a lot of people didn’t pay attention and did poorly on the “Throne of Blood” test not only because is Macbeth a new story but it was also rather difficult to follow something so foreign. Obviously there are people in the class who did not pay attention at all and fully deserved the grades they received but it is sometimes more difficult for others to grab this concept.
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