Macbeth

I had talked about Shakespeare and his unforgettable work Romeo and Juliet before. Now, I want to talk about his another important work Macbeth.

Macbeth is the most powerful and intense work in terms of literature in the world and it is still be taught. What makes it important is it has some universal values.  Although Macbeth is the shortest work of Shakespeare, it is one of the most important tragedies of him. That’s why it is still be performed today.

Macbeth is a successful commander and while he comes back from military expedition with Banquo, they encounter with 3 witches. They say that one day Macbeth will become a king. So, his wife begins to encourage Macbeth in order to kill King Duncan. She doesn’t wait until the fate will happen spontaneously. Then, Macbeth become a king and he gets Banquo killed. Banquo’s ghost begins to appear to Macbeth and he goes to witches to question why this is happen. Witches say that no one is going to kill him but if they were born by woman. Meantime, Macduff builds an army to kill Macbeth and he strikes out. Macduff and Macbeth fight and Macduff kills him because he was born by caesarean section. 

In this play, Macbeth’s wife plays an important role. She is the most frightening character of Shakespeare’s created and she always stimulates Macbeth to make prophecy happen. Macbeth chose harm because of his wife, he was aware of what could happen. If I were Macbeth, I would never listen to my wife and choose the harm. If one day I became a king, I would wait that day but the main idea is to see results of desires.

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is one of the best well-known works of Shekespeare. It is accepted as an important work in the world because of not only it handles the love story but also Shakespeare has own expression forms.

Romeo and Juliet has not lost its importance since it is written but its topic is known by all especially Turks. This topic has been used so many in Turkish movies so when I read it for the first time, I found it very familiar. Although it seems very simple in terms of its topic, ending in tragedy makes it an important masterpiece. I has an important place in literature because it has not only the richness of expression but also excellent use of language and written like poetry.

If Romeo and Juliet did not end with death of lovers and they lived happily till the forever, then it would not regarded as important. Maybe it would not be performed even today. Romeo and Juliet has such a significant story that its story is performed in so many movies. According to me, what I like mostly in this masterpiece is Shakespeare uses words very well and he uses metaphors very romantic. 

To sum up, this masterpiece is necessary for all people in the world because it provides to look at the life with a different perspective. I think, the most important thing is writing literary works not only to create a story but also to be attractive is important and Shakespeare did this very successfully. 

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE

Our topic in this week was Shakespeare who is the most successful author not only in English Literature but also in the world literature and we talked about his unforgettable work of art Romeo and Juliet. This is a famous work that I’ve always curious about but I had never a chance to read it. I’m regretful for this but now I have a chance to read it thanks to English Literature course.

Although I could not read Romeo and Juliet, I know that it is one of the most important gigantic works in the history of literature. It is about a love story between children of two feuding families. Once I’ve read some sonnets of it, I thought that Shakespeare was very professional at writing. I thought his wife actually did the right thing to him by being a bad wife because if he never interested in literature, we would be deprieved of his using language accurately and such  beautiful stories.  He created such powerful stories that many are still memorized, read, studied and performed, maybe even after centuries.

As well as Shakespeare wrote beatutiful stories, he used his own grammatical rules and words. This was an important event for the history of English. Many of them are used today. For example, he created words such as ‘’amazement’’, ‘’dislocate’’, ‘’premeditated’’, ‘’windle’’ etc. and used masculine singular pronoun ‘’his’’ for ‘’its'’. If Shakespeare was never born, English would  never have beauties of own language. 

In conclusion, works of William Shakespeare should be studied in any foreign language department because like Ben Jonson said, Shakespeare is not of an age, but for all time.