Comparison of Tao Ch'iena, a Chinese Philosopher, & William Shakespeare

Tao Ch’ien was a great philosopher who spread knowledge throughout his era, and established his dynasty. Tao Ch’ien talk about nature, and how the cycle of life goes, which is a cycle that has been taking place for many years. Tao live in a cottage with five willow trees, hence that is how he got his name. His book-related/writing-related work is also an extremely and amazingly good thing that someone created; and showed that he was very in tuned with his family member who lived long, long ago and often able to talk to them through mental concentration. even though there is the existence of the difficult situations of a farmer's life and frequent food shortages, Tao was satisfied and happy, writing poetry, helping grow the flowers that became in a way that permanently joins two things connected with his poetry, and drinking wine, also a common subject of his verse.

Because the taste of Tao's other people of about the same age was for an elaborate and not made by nature/fake style, his simple and plain/honest/easy poetry was not fully appreciated until the Tang period of time with the same powerful family rulers period of time with the same powerful family rulers. A master of the five-word line, Tao has been described as the first great poet of tian yuan "fields and gardens", wide view of a nature scene/wide area of beautiful land poetry given great ideas from peaceful, beautiful scenes as against the then-beautiful shanshui "mountains and rivers" poetry. almost completely/basically a Daoist in his related to thinking about how people think outlook on lifeand death, he also freely adopted the elements of Confucianism and Buddhism that most appealed tohim.

Tao Ch’ien was a Chinese poet/ writer who was also very successful. Like Tao Ch’ien, William Shakespeare was an artist of many talents; baptized on April 26, 1564 to April 23, 1616 Shakespeare was an English playwright, actor and poet also known as the “Bard of Avon” and often called England’s national poet. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, he was an important member of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men company of theatrical players from roughly 1594 onward. Written records give little indication of the way in which Shakespeare’s professional life molded his artistry. All that can be deduced is that, in his 20 years as a playwright, Shakespeare wrote plays that capture the complete range of human emotion and conflict. Shakespeare has written more then a dozen plays, he is the most prolific writer during the 16th century. Known throughout the world, the works of William Shakespeare have been sang, danced, acted, etc., in front of people in huge numbers of hamlets, villages, cities and big cities for more than400 years. And yet, the personal history of William Shakespeare is somewhat a mystery.

There are two first or most important sources that provide history experts with a basic outline of his life. One source is his work - the plays, poems and 14-line poems - and the other is official paperwork that proves or supports something such as church and court records. However, these only provide brief sketches of particular events in his life and provide little on the person who experienced those events. Tao Ch'ien and William Shakespeare are very like nothing else in the world with there style of writing. Tao Ch'ien "Master of Five Willows" was one of Tao Ch'ien greatest writing. Tao Ch'ien view of himself as a person is best seen in his short writing piece, "Life story of Mr. Five Willows" "Wu-liu hsien-sheng chuan", which is, by agreement, a thinly disguised self-portrait. "Mr. Five Willows is a native of one knows not where. Nor does one know his name. Since there are five willows by his house, he has been given the nickname of "Mr. Five willows." He is a man of few words, retiring by nature. He has no desire for money or for fame.

A loyal and interested reader, he does not however, look for extra and unnecessary understandings/ explanations. Whenever he finds certain books capturing/stopping his interest, he forgets his meals. He has a special weakness for wine, but being poor he cannot always afford it. His friends, aware of this, often invite him to drink. Then he drinks to his heart's content. But when he is drunk, he takes leave at once. The walls surrounding his house are broken-down, giving little protection from the sun or wind. His rough gown is old and dirty and old and worn; his rice jar is often empty. Yet he lives in satisfaction and happiness, and writes poetry to make happy himself and to express how he feels. Worldly gain or loss does not concerned hint. This is his way of life".

William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet is a well-known play through out the world and even too this day. Romeo & Juliet is an extremely and amazingly good thing that someone created just like Tao Ch'ien, Master of Five Willows; Apart from the early Titus Andronicus, the only other play that Shakespeare wrote before 1599 that is classified as a terrible event is Romeo and Juliet, which is quite unusual of the terrible events that are to follow. Written more or less at the time when Shakespeare was writing A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet shares many of the features/ qualities/ traits of romantic comedy. Romeo and Juliet are not people of amazing/very unusual social rank or position, like Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. They are the boy and girl next door, interesting not for their related to thinking about how people think ideas but for their appealing love for each other. They are character types more suited to Classical comedy in that they do not come from the upper class. Their rich families are almost completely/basically middle-class. The eagerness with which Capulet and his wife court Count Paris as their possible/likely son-in-law clearly shows their desire for social moving ahead or up.

Tao Ch'ien and William Shakespeare both were amazing/very unusual and they both shared the same writing style. Shakespeare and Tao use different form of physical things that refer to ideas or emotions, similes, and giving non-living things qualities of living things/existences of perfect living representations of things. Tao Ch'ien and Shakespeare were both skilled performers that were very in-tuned with nature, most of Tao poems were about nature: whereas Shakespeare plays happened outside under the stars in the Globe theater. These skilled performers definitely change the perception of modern books with their style of writing and word play.