tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477143695543382552.post5426979002754500767..comments2024-03-11T07:25:29.540+00:00Comments on Nicola Vincent-Abnett: Here I go again!Nicola Vincent-Abnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865608045342419682noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477143695543382552.post-47108386827311359032012-06-12T21:25:29.639+01:002012-06-12T21:25:29.639+01:00Hear hear...
Nothing makes sense except in the li...Hear hear...<br /><br />Nothing makes sense except in the light of evolution:<br />http://gombricharchive.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/showdoc92.pdfCarl Phillipsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477143695543382552.post-22977012047026638342012-06-12T18:26:56.501+01:002012-06-12T18:26:56.501+01:00I was about to say something along the lines of, &...I was about to say something along the lines of, "of course they still teach it! I studied Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Bronte, Dickens etc when I was in school!" but then realised that was 14 - 19 years ago.<br /><br />I feel old.<br /><br />As an aside, though, I always felt they taught the wrong Shakespeare at school. I didn't touch Othello until I was 18, and Iago remains, in my mind at least, as one of the most perfectly evil villains ever created. Emilia... she is possibly one of my favourite female characters ever, even if her role is only a supporting, but ultiately critical, one. In fact everything about that play fascinates me, and I didn't even study it in depth. I never understood why it wasn't taught at GCSE level, to be honest. <br /><br />We first studied Macbeth when we were 11, and considering I went to a rough school in a not so great part of the world, I can't remember a single one of my classmates ever complaining when we worked on that play in English Lit.<br /><br />Fast forward to A level and to Chaucer, well, translating it over into modern english was challenging at times, but our whole English class thoroughly enjoyed that module.<br /><br />Mastering a complicated play or book, that lightbulb moment when you can finally, truly, make sense of what is happening and appreciate how the writer has conveyed it to you ("be not afraid, this isle is full of voices...") is a wonderful feeling, regardless of your underlying "ability", and in a lot of wys think it is easier to relate to the past than to a present-day text. <br /><br />Which is a long winded way of saying, "I agree with you".Elizabeth Bramwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01693182585136055698noreply@blogger.com