My paper was an extremely agonizing ordeal. The dissecting of the passage was easy. I had a bunch of themes and a bunch of patterns. Ok, but Booth wants us to “avoid relating the themes and structures and how it says something about Macbeth, Macbeth, or the speech as a whole. I’ve spent my whole English career here learning HOW to do that, and I can finally do that well!

So my paper was gray. I wasn’t sure what he wanted. I felt it was stupid to just identify all all the “f” sounds and “t” sounds and alliterations. And I tried imagining Booth reading it in class as one of his lectures. Oh well. What’s done is done. I still feel better about this paper than about my 176 one though. At least that’s a good thing.