Re: I am Franny!!! / We love Bill

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:03:11 +1000

> Ok, let's talk Romeo and Juliet.  A person in Connecticut, and a person
> in Moscow, have a HECK of a lot more in common with each other cuturally
> than either one of them has with a person born and raised in Saigon,
> Calcutta, or Central Africa.  If people from all five of these regions
> read Romeo and Juliet, I suspect the Russian and the Connecticut people
> would approach the text with a lot more common assumptions than the other
> three would.  

True - but have you considered  that different people may get different
things out of such a text? For example, if you're a gang member in South
Central LA or a strict Muslim woman, you're going to be affected a lot more
by the gang warfare and arranged marriage subplots than most other races.

Camille 
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