MACBETH

The last lesson we talked about Macbeth which is one of the most significant tragedy of Shakespeare . It is about ambitious that easily hurts the people .

In this tragedy , everything begins with witches. They say to Macbeth , he would be made thane of Cawdor and eventually king of Scotland and his friend Banquo , not himself , but one of the man who is in his family would be the king of Scotland . Then they go their way and Macbeth learns that he is the thane of Cawdor . He knows he would be the king of Scotland and makes a plan with his wife to kill Duncan who is the king of Scotland . However his wife makes is only for him, Macbeth, and his career . Macbeth becomes the king and he thinks what witches said to him .So he kills every member of Bonque's family. After this murder, she regrets and always sees his blood in her hand and she puts an end to her life. And finally witches tells him, he would not be killed by any man born of woman. But he is killed by Macduff in a war because Macduff was born by cesarean section .

To sum up , In this work we can see ambition of kingdom and power. But even if we have all earth , one day we will die. 

Romeo and Juliet

This week, our topic was Romeo and Juliet. This play is one of the most important plays of Shakespeare . He wrote it perfectly.

Shakespeare is still important author not only in Europe but also world wide. He wrote a lot plays and sonnets. Shakespeare gained so many word to English literature , in addition to this He wrote his plays with quite a lot of vocabulary. I think , he describes love gloriously and his metaphors really intelligently .

Rome and Juliet which is most important work of Shakespeare ,is a tragedy . It is about a love story of Romeo and Juliet who love deeply each other. Unfortunately they were children of two enemy families. I want to mention about their story. They met for the first time in a feast which was in Juliet 's home . As soon as they see each other, they fall in love . And they get marry in a little while . But Romeo kills her cousin and he is exiled from the city . Hard days come and Juliet's family wants her to get marry with Paris as they do not know her daughter married with their enemy ,Romeo. However She does not want to get marry with Paris and she goes to Priest and they make a plan . When the marriage day came , she pretended as death person and every body thinks that she died . Romeo's servant sees that and as he does not know she pretended , so he goes to Romeo and tells him what he saw. Romeo takes a poison and goes her tomb. He poisons himself . But, when Juliet wakes up, she sees his death body and she kills herself , too. This love story end with tragedy. At the end of play two enemy family make peace and every thing reveals .

Shakespeare wrote this play like a poetry . His sentences , his metaphors are really magnificent . When we read this play , we can feel their love, with the help of his poetic language. However , when we read or watch this play , we can see some social elements. For example ; Juliet , Romeo or any body go to Priest and ask about his ideas. Therefore we can see Church effect in this period.

To sum up , in this play we can easily see, love could not prevent. In my opinion , love is the most excellent thing in the world and Shakespeare reflect it marvelously.

Shakespeare

The last lesson, we talked about Shakespeare and his period. He is great actor and playwright. I want to talk about his life , feature of his period, his plays.

Shakespeare was born in Stratford in 1564. He was an actor at the same time play writer. when he was eighteen years old , he got married with a woman who was eight years bigger than him. He was very successful in literature . He gained a lot of vocabulary  to English with  his works . Because of impressions of  Renaissance Period , He reflected human figure dominantly in his works. He created person who has such a lot psychological status , internal strife and compound character . His works affected people indeed. His works are still most translated to other languages. In these times, Although every body  used limited number of character , plays of Shakespeare had more than 35 characters . As women were not equal with man , all players were man.

In his period , Renaissance, people were so dirty , they never took shower. So there were a lot of fatal diseases such as Black death , cholera , malaria and smallpox ... Their house did not have indoor plumping. So they could not find drinking water and some fatal diseases spread  with even water . People did not drink water ; Therefore their popular drink was beer . Although London was very popular , metropolitan , big and wealthy city , It was extremely  dirty .

To sum up , Shakespeare is important person in English literature . His works and characters are interesting . I can not wait to read Romeo and Juliet.