Stephen Greenblatt: "So that represented my own little rebellion."
This man to me is amazing, his life in what he has accomplished is phenomenal. How he grew up encompassed with stories and other literature to me sounds like heaven, even though none of his family were people of the arts, they still made time for them. As well as allowed their children to engulf their subconciousness with themes, imagination and free flowing opinionated thoughts. I wish more families were like that these days. Mr. Greenblatt also speaks of how he was influenced by the many books he read as a child as well as a teacher(s), Sam Granger and John Harris, who opened his mind to the influences of intellectual integrity as well as showing him what can happen when you open up you mind to literature. And even though this brilliant man had the brains and college acceptances to go to law school, he continued to want to pursue English, specifically Shakespeare, because of the way it captured him. So in order to learn more he spent two years in Cambridge studying and learning all that he could, but at some point he decided to bite the hand that fed him, he engrossed himself in what was suppose to be uninteresting to him. He wrote many, many of his thoughts about Shakespearian literature as well as some of his own books in order to have people understand more, or uncover more about the things that were written. Overall the paths that this man took for his life made him extraordinary, and I hope that my paths may even possibly do the same for me.
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