How William Shakespeare is Still Relevant Today

Throughout history, we have seen many writers blossom and impact the English literature communities as we know it. One famous writer and playmaker is William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is a big role in English and educational society. Though some may say we must take Shakespeare out of the classroom. Shakespeare inspires teenagers and young adults, Shakespeare created beautiful works of art with his unique use of the English language, and Shakespeare is important because he has made a significant contribution to the English literature through his work on drama or plays. Hence, Shakespeare should still be more relevant.

Throughout high school, students have had some of Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Although some students think that reading Shakespeare is outdated and also difficult to understand, it has some benefits. Shakespeare has formed the way we see and write and can go to do so in the room. Numerous songs and films nowadays have cited Shakespeare in its work. Shakespeare is a huge part of history that is even common after four hundred years.

Shakespeare described the terrifying great thing about the adolescent so early in its development, so definitively so thoroughly, that it’s only slightly an exaggeration to mention that he invented teenagers as we all know them today. “Romeo and Juliet,” his extended study of the humiliations and glories of adolescence, is that the biggest hit of all time and, unlike most of Shakespeare’s works, it’s never slipped out of fashion. it’s been adapted across genres and eras, into operas and ballets and musicals. State laws that allow judges to exempt minors from statutory-rape charges are called, naturally, “Romeo and Juliet provisions.”

This shouldn’t be surprising: People just like to watch one or two of dumb kids discover and die. the good French scholar Philippe Ariès concluded that for many of the Medieval period “people had no idea of what we call adolescence, and also the idea was a protracted time taking shape.” Yet our whole modern understanding of adolescence is there to be found during this play. Shakespeare essentially created this new category of humanity, and in situ of the standard mixture of nostalgia and loathing with which we regard adolescents (and adolescence), Shakespeare would have us cross-check teenagers in an exceedingly spirit of wonder. He loves his teenagers as he paints them altogether their absurdity and nastiness.

Of course, the most important feature of adolescent rebellion is that it’s doomed. In this, as well, Shakespeare was right there at the start. He defined what it means to be “star-crossed.” The opposition between the adolescent and also the mature orders of the planet can have only two possible endings. One is comic: the teenager grows up, develops a way of humor, marries, has kids, moves to the suburbs get fat and become boring. the opposite is tragic: the teenager blows up in an exceedingly blaze of glory. We much favor to live comedy. We much favor to watch the tragedy. 

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