Shakespeare in the Bush

The Tiv people of West Africa who had never read Hamlet who interpreted the story have a completely different culture than ours as Americans. The details that we see and read in popular literature are examined to our best of knowledge based on the traditions and the ways we live our lives on an every day basis. The Tiv people see their priorities and life lessons according to what they know and what they have grown up with. Their interpretation of Hamlet proved a much different interpretation than ours; discrepencies and confusion provided a wake up call to Bohannon making her realize that just because she, in her own culture saw the story one way inside and out, did not mean other cultures would have the same take on it, which had never crossed my mind.