The idea of story telling is very interesting as we as people essentially use fiction to teach ourselves lesson’s that we are not observant enough to learn during our usual life. Humans for some reason need to listen to, read, or observe an interaction to take the morals from them and struggle to see it in their own life. The idea of symbols in storytelling have a very interesting connection to communication. Every single one of the words we use is a symbol for something else. These are all symbols that we have assigned meaning to and use to string together stories, plays, and in a way lessons that we are to learn from. This podcast really reminded me of a communications class I’ve taken where we discuss how symbols come to have their meaning. It is through our own perception that words and other symbols get their meaning. And eventually, stories and satire give words even more meaning than they have on their own in the language they are established in. I found it interesting how Shakespeare “forces” us to slow down with certain things like alliteration. The way that lessons can be shoved into our faces repeatedly and the way that we are made to take notice of them is very interesting. Yet somehow, we still seem to miss the point or the moral of the story. I think as readers or viewers we do not always take notice of what is being placed in front of us for us to observe or absorb. The lessons that can apply both inside and outside of context can be taken and applied to many different places in our lives. I think it depends on our own perception of these lessons if we actually make use of the lessons and apply them in other parts of our lives.