Can you really appreciate SHAKESPEARE?

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I literally hated Shakespeare. When i was in high school, there was a class on literature which I had to take for 2 years. That 2 years for me was pure torture. I didn't understand most of the literatures and definitely have problem answering questions. Luckily at the end of 2 years, we had the choice whether to continue or not. Shakespeare if i'm not wrong uses old english, and this is one I really cannot make any sense out of it. I would study anything else to do Shakespeare!!

Actually my friend never read or try any book of shakespeare, I just seen few of his work through movies... sorry..

To tell you the truth, I don't but I try. Shakespeare is, in my opinion, one of the greatest writers in the world. Whether he did write his plays, sonnets and everything is always up to debate but I think the Shakespearean writing reveals as much humanity can be in the particular era that it was written. I am a prolific reader but even the archaic language and style can turn me off. Like you, I'm not much of the classics fan (unless somebody does the world a favor of simplifying the classics without ruining their meaning) but I try to read and appreciate them somehow. Maybe becuase they are the classics and I consider as the cornerstone of every reading endeavor. Reading the classics forces me to go beyond the meaning, even though the effort is very difficult, most especially for the contemporary reader. The contemporary use of language in reading today makes the meaning plain and easier, making them appreciative by contemporary readers. if we then we read the classics, we feel that our brains are beginning to burst. It's a common rpoblem - appreciating the classics but they are called classics for a reason. They are timeless and the lessons they impart are also like that. I can appreciate Shakespeare or any of his tribe to a certain extent but I cannot claim wholly. I guess that is a challenge for people who try to study the classics itself.

To trust in the intelligence of the other, the one you read. Are giving to them by what you write, a few scattered hints in writing, which reveals to them alone. To offer him a mixture of elements from which to choose what he wants to understand or feel. For literature to be impregnated with the thought, should give food for thought, he must incite the reader to build himself and other configurations of the text. Because literature is not only amorphous substance of which must burst sound thinking. For it offers us only the simplest thing possible, we find ourselves. If a person moves, speaks, interacts with another person, grab something that triggers in him a wave of emotions, memories and regrets, we can say that we are dealing with a perfect story, the one who says it story is a special person, endowed with an amazing talent as a writer. But if you go through the ear narrative storyteller excited to hear your voice, then of ourselves there were only a wall of sound that break a mirror that reflects someone else's words without leaving us to think we need to capitalize on ourselves and not only that we should find life image of a fictional narrator, not only that we should identify with a character or another. Literature, today, needs this increase need to think. We would do well therefore to try to fully realize the obligation to write, and more to think about writing. Trying to muster on us and we fully realize the absolute necessity of putting thought into the letter. Will not be easy. We have many obstacles to the past ...

Classical literature is the epitome of intelligence. It is shear brilliance because you have to decipher what it is they are telling you and when you finally realize the message you would say they are right. It is so fascinating that it gets your mind riled up and your brain begins to function.

no. got a headache once i begin to read one :)

The works of william shakespeare are unique in their words and their style. it takes a true heart of the Shakespearean times to appreciate their worth. just because the words are different doesn't make them timely.