11/29/11 Journal

Today was Tuesday, which means it is our one day of theater history. A lot of people find it a little boring, but I actually think it's interesting. Even with normal history classes, people always say "Why do we need to learn this, it's the past." I guess I kind of used to think like this too, but since starting theater history this year I finally know why. We need to know the things that lead up to how we live today. In today's lesson, we learned about naturalism. Naturalism was influenced by Charles Darwin and his theory in his book, Origin of Species, that genetics play a big part in peoples actions. Naturalists were very against Melodrama and Romanticism.