Journal 14: All or Nothing

The language and attitudes expressed in MOV are completely necessary to understanding the attitudes and history of Shakespeare's world and the literary world. To change any aspect of this play, whether it be the points of view, words, or the minimizing any staging, would diminish it's meaning and our understanding of the work, as literary students examining the message that Shakespeare may or may not have been trying to convey. The very idea of altering the work of Shakespeare in order to cater to sensitive readers makes me cringe, it has to be all or nothing with regards to this play. I feel as if Shakespeare wanted the reader and the audience member to confront these feelings and actions that are in his play and find their own personal opinions and decide where they stand on the issues presented in the play and more importantly examine why they may feel such a way. The play will always have to remain intact no matter who may be offended by such notions of racism or societal classicism, personally, I believe that yes racism and classicism was very apparent in Shakespeare's time, however it is still prevalent now and by reading Shakespeare's work as it is, unchanged in anyway, enables people to learn about the human capacity for love as well as hate.

Lovely.

Veronica,

This was incredibly powerful, and I enjoyed reading it very much. It makes me re-think a little about the path that I would take if I were to put the play on. I really admire how you articulate your view points, and the reasoning behind them.

Jennie

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