3A: He Said, She Said

We all struggled through reading the large and confusing words of Shakespeare. The first time you pick up a book from him, maybe freshman year of high school and it was probably the infamous Romeo and Juliet (the only part which was enjoyed in reading that book was later watching the beautiful Leonardo DeCaprio play RomeoJ). You probably read the first page and felt as if you were reading some foreign language. Trust me, I felt the same way, and if you didn’t feel this way at first, please tell me your secrets. But overtime we grew used to it and it just became a second language.

Sadly, it’s been a while since I’ve read Shakespeare so my interpreting skills are a little rusty but I can try my best to interpret this:

“There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so” –Shakespeare

The first thing that pops into my head when I hear this quote is over analysis. Basically I think that everything is an action and it is sort or neutral to begin with, yet each person has a way of interpreting it, which they decide whether it good or bad; there is no exclusive good or bad, it is all a matter of opinion.

                Though people have their own voices and opinions I believe that people (such as parents) have a little say or persuasion to what we feel. Throughout our lives we receive incentives that play as extrinsic motivation or intrinsic motivation. When we get trophies or metals or even a good old pat on the back (though I’d much rather have the material incentives haha), we know what we are doing is good, so we continue to do it. But when we are punished; put in timeout as kids, or even sent to jail as adults, we know what we are doing is considered wrong in our society and should stop.

                But think about this: what may seem bad to some, may not be so bad to another. For example, a man steals from a convenience store. The law sees him as “bad.” But he says he stole for his children, so they could eat. His children, and maybe some observers of the situation, see this as “good” behavior or at least behavior that had to be done.

                With all this being said, some people are stuck in their ways, or have ha fixed mindset on how things should be. So their opinions are those in which they think is right or good. Yet there are the few that realize that there are multiple ways to look at a situation, and what may seem wrong to some, may not be to another.


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