Macbeth

On Tuesday, listening to Professor Appel's presentation was very motivating and inspiring. His story about his parents inspiring him to pursue his passion of acting and the liberal arts was a heartwarming tale to listen to, with his mother advising him to go to a good liberal arts school first. Professor Appel did something that I doubt I could truly undertake at my age. He really risked the stability of his life studying at Princeton to move out to New York to attend Julliard to put everything into his interest in acting. To be able to continue pursuing your goal after being jobless for more than a week or so in New York really stood out to me that Professor Appel was truly willing to continue pursuing his career and goal in spite of the possibility of being penniless. Professor Appel's ideal truly showed me that there was a possibility that an elective could really catch my attention. his story spoke to me and told me that I shouldn't be afraid to risk everything, the stability of my life, the comfort of my home to pursue something I'm truly passionate about.
On Friday I went and watched Macbeth, expecting a play with a full set of actors in costumes acting out a play in the medieval setting and boring me with endless talks of how to kill my traitorous incestuous uncle who killed my father for the crown of king. Professor Appel's Macbeth, however, turned out to be something entirely different, with an abstract set of actors in nothing but black acting out the characters of Macbeth as well as collaborating to form thrones and manifestations. His version of Macbeth truly awed, horrified, disgusted, yet intrigued me simultaneously. It was genuinely a dark piece of work that was much more fascinating than I had first expected.