Is Shakespeare's work still relevant to us today (is it still relevant for us to study Shakespeare)? If so, how is it relevant? If not, why is it not relevant?
I think that Shakespeare's work is still verry relevant, especially for us to study. It is important for many reasons, for one as Mr. Johnathan pointed out and as I'm sure many people have noticed it is referenced all over the place and if you have studied it you can understand references sometimes there are little jokes in things that you only understand if you have studied the material. It is also important because we can use Shakespeare's writings to learn more about the English language of hs time, and we can see where some of the words we use today came from. In the video they told us about some of the words that Shakespeare made up, and alot of them are still used today (eyeball, alligator, and assassination). Some may argue that we could just use no fear Shakespeare, but in doing this you can loose some of the things that are most important about Shakespeare's works, and things that he is trying to say are lost in the translation, so to speak. So in conclusion I think that studying Shakespeare is extremely relevant and important.
You seem to be pointing out things that we've already gone over in class, which is fine except you say it like its new information.
ReplyDeleteI liked that you pointed out what we learned in class, I thought the way you portrayed your point was very beautiful. Good job :)
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