It's eleven o'clock at night and I am doing homework for the book "Othello", by William Shakespeare. I find this book very interesting. If it didn't have a lot of the same paralles as my life, I'd probably like it even more.
I've never really liked reading, ever. I still don't. I want to desire to read, but it's hard for me because I feel like there's always something around me better to do. I get distracted a lot as well. However, throughout high school, the class has read many shakespeare peices together. This isn't individual reading which I like. In fact, it is said that Shakespeare is to be read out loud and be heard, rather than individually quiet reading it.
So far in high school, I have read "Romeo and Juliet", "Julius Caesar", and "Othello". I didn't particularly understand, or like "Julius Caesar" as much as the other ones. Probably because of the student teacher that we had. haha. But I found all of these plays to be interesting because of their powerful themes, and relativness to modern day society.
Much of Shakespeare's plays have to do with relationships, and the social aspect of life. They all end in tragety and sorrow, which for many of us is common. In one sense, this is what makes a play complete. However, I wish sorrow and tragety was not what made real life complete.
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Personally, I have to say out of all the Shakespeare I've read (probably 10 plays with however many sonnets) that "Hamlet" is still my favourite. There's not much to be said aside that since the story of Hamlet is fairly well known.
I thought "MacBeth" was slightly overrated.
"Merchant of Venice" was awful.
However, keep in mind that not all Shakespearean plays are tragedy; just the ones you've sampled so far. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a comedy and so are many others.
Shakespeare is still quite relevant. I don't necessarily agree with many English teachers that he's the best author that's ever existed, but I do believe he deserves a lot of credit for his plays and their uniqueness. They're still even unique modern day, like you mentioned, and their themes are still relevant today.
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Haha. We had a packet of ideas we could pick from (we had to pick 3 things) as homework assignments for Othello.
I wrote a poem, I did a painting, and I... made a board game. All the players die at the end--but the first one to die was the winner. It was a pretty morbid game. I wonder if I kept it. I'll bet I could market it or something. ;-)
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