When someone mention about
literature, the first thing that comes to my mind will be ‘boring’. This has
happened since secondary school. When I recall the time my teachers taught us
literature, I realise that I actually I don’t hate literature but I don’t like
poem. As for short stories and novels, I love to read as long as I can
understand the story and the story of course must be an interesting story.
Now, Macbeth enters
my life. At the very beginning, I did not like the story because of the
language. As I said, if I don’t understand a story then I will not read it. But
for Macbeth, even though I don’t understand the story, I have to continue
reading it. So I force myself to find an alternative way to read Macbeth. For the
whole process, I checked the meaning of the words in dictionary, I watched
videos, and then watched the full movie, search for the synopsis and analysis
on internet, read Q&A in a discussion page and read the original text.
Hmmm, if I were to
compare the effectiveness of all the alternative ways mentioned above, I think
none of them can help me in understanding the story better if I only choose ONE
from all the ways. But if I use all the alternative ways above, then they help
me a lot. Now I understand more about Macbeth. In addition, we discussed some
of the scenes in class. This helped me more because Ms Dzeelfa explained to us
scene by scene. Ms Dzeelfa even told us the meaning of the words, the feeling
or mood in the particular scene and what are the characters doing and many
more. Although we had no time to go through all the scenes, what we have
discussed in class was enough and really helped me to know about Macbeth.
Maybe I am not a
literature person, so I have no initiative to search for more information about
the story like what others did. I just got the information from my friends and lecturer.
However, I realised this should not be the excuse for me to not to do my
homework especially read the novel. That is why I started to search for more
information in Sparknotes, Shakespeare’s website and eNotes. I really impress
those who love literature. I wish to have 50% of their brains. Anyone who wants
to donate some for me? :)
To conclude
everything, I am proud of myself because I never think that I would read Macbeth
the old English novel and even searched for information to know more about it. The
process did work on me but not 100% yet. What I would like to say before I end
my speech is; Macbeth is a great and an interesting story! I only need more
time to read and analysis the story. Thank you for everything Ms Dzeelfa. Thank
you for sharing your knowledge with us.
~ Emily Yoong Ai Nee ~ 154565 ~ Entry 10 ~
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