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I still think about Lord of the Flies and how I much just didn't like it (literature.cafe)

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I still to this day don't understand the point that book served. I don't know if it was just a product of its time but I don't think a bunch of children would behave like that in the event of being stranded

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[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe -1 points 1 year ago

No, all Brits don’t think that any more than all Americans think it. But curriculum developers and legislators appear to think it.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is my favorite of all Shakespeare’s works. Macbeth is a close second. I can’t stand Romeo and Juliet and I’m at best ambivalent about Julius Caesar. Ironically, I think I might like R&J if it were presented at a more appropriate grade level. But then, it still wouldn’t be a love story but a tale of the adult romantic relationship between a 15- and a 12-year-old in which six people died.

Please don’t think I’m picking on Shakespeare. There are plenty of authors I loathe because well-meaning but ham-fisted teachers demanded that I read them at an inappropriate time (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Steinbeck leap immediately to mind).