Well, it was a matter of plausible authorial intent, for me. When we read Macbeth and talked about the chain of being and how Elizabethans understood the universe to be ordered and how all of that was reversed by a regicide, I was into it. When we read Jane Eyre and the teacher started going on about how when Jane meets Mr. Rochester and Jane is standing up and Mr. Rochester is on the ground, this indicates the author's beliefs on feminism, I just started getting annoyed, because it was a story, and why couldn't we just be reading the story? But, like I said, I've learned to be more critical since then.
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Date: 3/29/04 12:56 pm (UTC)