The Final Days
(A Literary Analysis on Three Favorite Texts from First Semester) The amount of knowledge that I’ve gained from only being in Mr. McGee’s class for one semester quickly adds up to be more than I’ve learned in any other class in my three of a half years of high school. This semester has taught me more about myself than anything. There are three very important texts from the text book that have left a mark on me deep enough that I will maybe remember them through my first year of college. The three texts that I chose were Canterbury Tales, Macbeth, and Hamlet. The characters in Canterbury Tales intrigued me and were comical enough for me to actually not only understand what was going on but I enjoyed it as well, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth was a very shady character but it seemed that almost everybody wanted to know more about her, and in …show more content…
But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede” (Act 1, scene 3. Pages 49-55) Ophelias brother Laeretes doesn’t like Hamlet and basically tells Ophelia to not sleep with him, Ophelia gets mad and calls her brother out for double standards and being a hypocrite. There is so much more to the book Hamlet but the love story is what had me hooked from the beginning. Clearly I did not have enough time or space to write more about my favorite readings from this semester but those were ones that will forever leave a mark on me. There were so many other texts from the text book that I enjoyed. The characters in Canterbury Tales intrigued me and were comical enough for me to actually not only understand what was going on but I enjoyed it as well, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth was a very shady character but it seemed that almost everybody wanted to know more about her, and in Hamlet the passion and plot of the story was very
(A Literary Analysis on Three Favorite Texts from First Semester) The amount of knowledge that I’ve gained from only being in Mr. McGee’s class for one semester quickly adds up to be more than I’ve learned in any other class in my three of a half years of high school. This semester has taught me more about myself than anything. There are three very important texts from the text book that have left a mark on me deep enough that I will maybe remember them through my first year of college. The three texts that I chose were Canterbury Tales, Macbeth, and Hamlet. The characters in Canterbury Tales intrigued me and were comical enough for me to actually not only understand what was going on but I enjoyed it as well, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth was a very shady character but it seemed that almost everybody wanted to know more about her, and in …show more content…
But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede” (Act 1, scene 3. Pages 49-55) Ophelias brother Laeretes doesn’t like Hamlet and basically tells Ophelia to not sleep with him, Ophelia gets mad and calls her brother out for double standards and being a hypocrite. There is so much more to the book Hamlet but the love story is what had me hooked from the beginning. Clearly I did not have enough time or space to write more about my favorite readings from this semester but those were ones that will forever leave a mark on me. There were so many other texts from the text book that I enjoyed. The characters in Canterbury Tales intrigued me and were comical enough for me to actually not only understand what was going on but I enjoyed it as well, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth was a very shady character but it seemed that almost everybody wanted to know more about her, and in Hamlet the passion and plot of the story was very