In the corporate world, if something can’t be measured, it doesn’t exist. This is the premise that almost every Indian household is built upon. Measurability allows one to easily assure success. In other words, good grades get you into a good college, and a good college gets you a good career. In my own household, the pressure to get excellent grades and standardized testing scores was integrated into my lifestyle at a very young age. My culture may have helped me with getting good grades, but as a consequence I let go of activities that detracted from my studying and homework time. As a result, I sacrificed reading for enjoyment. Abstaining from reading prevented me from developing a profound love and respect for literature, seeing as the only things I read were works with an academic payoff. These works often had little appeal to me, but I stood my ground and suffered through them in the name of straight A’s. My actions were only fueled by the values of my Indian culture. Novel-reading was scorned and …show more content…
She embodied rising above her time period’s implications in a way that resonated intensely within me. Lady Macbeth was alarmingly unorthodox in the way that she commandeered her’s and her husband’s relationship. She defied the cult of domesticity made up of women of her time by taking charge of her husband’s life when she convinced him to kill King Duncan. Although her actions were immoral, this was significant to me because I was able to witness the measures she took to achieve her goal of ambition. This made me feel that my goals of achieving a balance between academic excellence and an enjoyment of literature was attainable. Like Lady Macbeth who went against her culture’s standards, I was going against my own culture’s standards when I gained a passion for