Put me down as a “why” too. What the assignment really means is (a) Stop experiencing the play and start analyzing it in a freeze-dried corporate vocabulary without emotion or drama, and (b) Translate Shakespeare’s wildly inventive language into our everyday language, which can’t express 3/4 of what Shakespeare’s characters are expressing. Couldn’t the teacher have phrased the assignment in a way that didn’t kill the joy of critical thinking?
Put me down as a “why” too. What the assignment really means is (a) Stop experiencing the play and start analyzing it in a freeze-dried corporate vocabulary without emotion or drama, and (b) Translate Shakespeare’s wildly inventive language into our everyday language, which can’t express 3/4 of what Shakespeare’s characters are expressing. Couldn’t the teacher have phrased the assignment in a way that didn’t kill the joy of critical thinking?