Cultural context influences the production and interpretation of texts
This assignment is written on how the context of Greek culture has an impact on the interpretation of texts, in this case, plays. This essay was made for my Ways of Reading class.
From this assignment, I learned about the ways that Greek culture interpreted the role of tragedy in plays. I analyzed the text of Oedipus and the King to provide an accurate example of how significant tragedies were in the texts of the Greeks.
Before this assignment, I did not know much about the topic of plays nor greek culture. This new knowledge did not fit in with the “traditional” things I had been learning before.
This analysis of tragedy in Greek plays was an important aspect in teaching me how to approach varieties of text that are culturally different than what I am used to. As an English major, it is important to be versatile and considerate of the influence culture has in the interpretation of texts. This new knowledge compels me to do more research about how other societies or cultures may have interpreted different texts like, the Bible.