William Shakespeare 's Romeo And Juliet

Pursuing further why Shakespeare should not be taught in school is because Shakespeare is very difficult to understand. “Shakespeare's way with words can be tough for students to grasp”.(DeBlasis) Shakespeare is a lot to comprehend because the way Shakespeare speaks is very different from today's text”.(DeBasis) Shakespeare is very tough to understand now days

People still admire Shakespeare and create modern versions of his work. The play version of his work made it clear that it is possible to modernize Shakespeare's work, and make it humorous in a way people can understand. Not many people may know this, but Shakespeare's words are expressions some still use to this very day. An example of an expression Shakespeare used that is used today is “break the ice.” This expression does not mean to literally break ice, but to get to know someone and get comfortable with them. No one needs to explain what that means because it is a common phrase, and that just shows how Shakespeare is still relevant

So, in conclusion, as you can see I have pretty strong feelings about Shakespeare and his plays. In the 21 st century, spending time with the confusion that is Shakespeare is about as useful as training doctors in the value of bleeding their patients as a means of correcting a problem with the four humours. By examining the great works of other cultures and religions we can learn about a major part of the world. Through the literature of many different parts of the world they're concerns will be understandable to us and we'll show our willingness to meet the rest of the world, not throw forts built of iambic pentameter with the occasional rhyming couplet to securely glue the walls together. If we ignore the future to sort of celebrate the western literary past we'll have a disaster of global

When you hear the word Shakespeare, you probably think that it is meant for the people that use intellectual language, the literary types, or even the people who have a higher reading level than the average person. Well, a college professor named Michael Mack argues that Shakespeare can be for everyone once you understand it and it can relate to the real world or be a reflection of it. Mack produces an effective argument that although Shakespeare is difficult, it is worth the effort. Through his use of rhetorical devices and counterclaims.

In the grand scheme of things, it seems quite odd that the vast majority of people have decided it is important to perform, study, and read plays written by a man who has been dead for over four hundred years. This of course, refers to William Shakespeare. For many people, the mention of his name brings up a faded memorized line or two from high school, but his impact on the world stretches farther than the perimeters of a classroom. Shakespeare revolutionized the English language to the point where half the time people are blissfully unaware of the fact they are quoting him. Whenever someone says, “What a sorry sight,” or, “I’m tongue tied”, they are not only empirically unoriginal, they are spouting Shakespeare.

“For all but a few...reading Shakespeare is a form of torture” (Robshaw 402) and “few people realize how much englished has changed in the last generation” (Robshaw 401). Shakespeare was taught so long ago that the generation we’re in now is much different, so the students now days don't really want to learn it because it's so old. Our English teachers should teach more things that are of our generation than teach us about 400 years ago.

Many of the words used during this time have been replaced or decommissioned as a result of their uselessness. When compared to modern english, “the stigma associated with most of Shakespeare’s work leads it to be considered “archaic,” “over complicated,” or too “elite” for the average person” (Annie Holleran). While language used during the Elizabethan Era is rather aristocratic, the language today has become ordinary and condensed. According to Annie Holleran, an author for PIT Journal, “It is easier for a 140 character tweet or a 3:00 YouTube video to catch the attention of a teenager than a 1000-plus line tragedy, regardless of content.” Many students today have grown up in a culture that is constantly attempting to abbreviate everything to make things move faster. Shakespeare does the opposite, drawing out his play scenes with elaborate character lines and actions, disrupting students’ normal short-cut habits. Not only do students struggle to understand this Shakespearean language, but actors and directors do as well, making it incredibly difficult for audiences to follow along. James Shapiro, in an article for the New York Times, claimed that, “Even if audiences strain to understand exactly what Macbeth says, they grasp what Macbeth feels — but only if an actor knows what that character’s words mean.” If the actors comprehend the

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” When he said this, Jimmy Dean meant that nothing could hold him back from his goals, and that he would change to accomplish them. If our goal, or our “destination,” is to understand Shakespeare’s original texts, then a modernized version can hold the key to comprehending them. In addition, Shakespeare should be modernized because even in Shakespeare’s time, his texts were difficult to understand, the context is not the same as it was 400 years ago, and most importantly because it is the preference of many students and teachers to help them to understand the original.

By doing this it makes it more entertaining and humorous for modern day audiences as some don’t enjoy or understand the language and aims of Shakespeare’s plays .

In conclusion, our world today is much different than it was back than for Shakespeare's time. The whole theater layout is different. We have lights, roofs, and really good technology, unlike back then. We today also don't discriminate each other about race, gender, and authority, unlike back then. People who were poor had to stand up on the floor without a roof. And the rich got seats under a roof. We also have many differnt grammer rules today than we did

The power of language holds great significance not only in Shakespearean study but of our daily lives as well. Every nuance Shakespeare creates leaves a clue to a greater truth or understanding of our humanity. Exploring the works of Shakespeare with this in mind allows for audiences to gain more appreciation and awareness of the depth of language and communication through his dialogue and characters as Shakespeare: “asks us to adorn the actor with our thoughts and ‘carry them here and there, jumping o’er the times’” (Bevington xiii).

William Shakespeare 's utilization of dialect still moves gatherings of people today, after 400 years. Four centuries of world-history, flooding with life, love, disaster, and misfortune, have breathed easy set the last accentuation stamp on Shakespeare 's work. Researchers have concentrated his legacy, looking for a comprehension of "why despite everything we give it a second thought", and, how it 's conceivable that "the plays have been performed in practically every dialect." Aside from his conspicuous ability with exposition, what is it about Shakespeare 's work that keeps him significant in classrooms, on stages, in movies, in hearts, in brains—and, "even in detainment facilities, [where] educators find […] Shakespeare offers

In a genre that contradicts a novelist's affluence of narrative explication, the language in its purest form becomes Shakespeare's powerful instrument, wherein he controls it with the unusual combination of force, subtlety, and exactitude”

Through evolution and changing social times, modern society has begun to question the literary works of famous poets such as William Shakespeare, for his use of predominantly male representation, overused themes, and debased comedy style. Nevertheless, although social progress is underway to broaden the range of literary works studied, it is important to examine Shakespeare in order to recognize his exclusive influence on the English language, depiction of universal characters, and representation of transferable lessons. Although, the overall ideologies involved are not agreeable to civilizations today, it cannot be erased from history, thus is imperative to a student’s knowledge of literature

Shakespeare's plays were intended for people that were illiterate and for those who want to feel emotion on stage when they could not read it. He wrote plays because they were meant to be acted out seeing visually. Heard instead of read and picked apart. This is why Shakespeare should be required in a drama class, not in a language arts class. As Mark Powell said in his article titled, Why we Must Take Shakespeare out of the Classroom, “Even before, and most definitely since, the recent plummet in drama’s status as a specialist subject in schools, many young people’s first experience of Shakespeare is in an English classroom taught by enthusiastic