John Collins In 'Romeo And Juliet'
Madison Pendergraft
Classics 2220
Who is John Collins? In classroom 302 of Austin, I had the pleasure of interviewing and minorly getting to know one of my classmates. John Collins comes from a mid-sized town in North Carolina called Hickory “in the middle of nowhere”. He was raised mainly by his mother, because his father worked long hours, and therefore gains many of his ideals from her. Even though he appears to be a stereotypical college frat boy, as he is rushing Sigma Nu, he aspires to be a successful nurse. When questioned about his experience analyzing plays, he admits to having never read one on his own and only recalls reading Romeo and Juliet when he was in High School as part of the curriculum in which he states he learned that the same passage can mean many different things to everyone. He expands that he is intrigued by Greek literature and Greek military strategy, and how he loves the movie Troy for its lack of idolizing …show more content…
This is apparent when he talks about his mom. In his voice, you could hear an empathy for Medea and how he felt that “if I got cheated on even though I kept you safe and did everything in my power to make you happy and to give you what you wanted at all times because your needs would be in front of mine” that he sympathized with Medea and had a strong conviction that Jason was erroneous for what he did to Medea, and that his new wife was wrong for marrying Jason knowing that she was breaking apart their
Classics 2220
Who is John Collins? In classroom 302 of Austin, I had the pleasure of interviewing and minorly getting to know one of my classmates. John Collins comes from a mid-sized town in North Carolina called Hickory “in the middle of nowhere”. He was raised mainly by his mother, because his father worked long hours, and therefore gains many of his ideals from her. Even though he appears to be a stereotypical college frat boy, as he is rushing Sigma Nu, he aspires to be a successful nurse. When questioned about his experience analyzing plays, he admits to having never read one on his own and only recalls reading Romeo and Juliet when he was in High School as part of the curriculum in which he states he learned that the same passage can mean many different things to everyone. He expands that he is intrigued by Greek literature and Greek military strategy, and how he loves the movie Troy for its lack of idolizing …show more content…
This is apparent when he talks about his mom. In his voice, you could hear an empathy for Medea and how he felt that “if I got cheated on even though I kept you safe and did everything in my power to make you happy and to give you what you wanted at all times because your needs would be in front of mine” that he sympathized with Medea and had a strong conviction that Jason was erroneous for what he did to Medea, and that his new wife was wrong for marrying Jason knowing that she was breaking apart their