School-required reading

Meh, finally finished SparkNotes. I think my favourite work of literature that we read was The Crucible because it's just so powerful, although Othello is a close second because I love the language of Shakespeare so much.

Then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well,
Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought,
Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinable gum. Set you down this,
And say besides that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by th' throat the circumcised dog
And smote him thus. (V.ii.352–365)

I realised this evening that everything we've read so far ended tragically. Every single one. That's rather depressing.

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