Along with his childhood affecting his writing style, we also saw his adult life play a huge role in his writing. When he first started traveling to try and get big in the business, he had so many things motivated to keep him going and made him want it that much more. Also, one of Shakespeare's children, Hamnet, passed away when he was at the age of eleven. This was for sure a huge tragedy in his life, affecting him in every way possible. These are all major situations that have made a huge impact on Shakespeare and his writing ways.
One of the very important things in Shakespeare’s life was his education growing up. This helped him to become the intelligent man he was and he learned to show it through his writings. “...the young Shakespeare was entitled to a free education in the town’s grammar school, which he probably entered around the age of seven. The school’s main subject was Latin studies, grammar and readings drilled into the schoolboys year after year.” "William Shakespeare." Great Lives from History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600 (Online Edition). Salem Press. 2013.) Throughout all of Shakespeare’s writings, he uses such a big vocabulary, …show more content…
This is, he had gotten married at the young age of 18. “Matters were not improved in 1582 when Shakespeare, at the age of eighteen, hastily married Anne Hathaway, the twenty-six-year-old daughter of a farmer”("William Shakespeare." Great Lives from History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600 (Online Edition). Salem Press. 2013.) Shakespeare and his family fell onto hard times through his teenage years. His dad had lost a lot of money and financially they had not not been doing good for a couple years in his life. When he finally met Anne, he saw a chance for the financial problems to become better and not have to worry about them. This life situation reflected in his story “The Taming of the Shrew”. In the story, Hortensio stops trying to be with Bianca and leaves and goes off and marries a rich Widow for her money. “ Hortensio stops trying to woo Bianca and instead marries this wealthy widow.” (Fredericksen, Erik. "The Taming of the Shrew Characters: Widow." LitCharts.LitCharts LLC, 11 Nov 2013. Web. 6 May 2018) The situation in the story relates very well to what happened in Shakespeare’s life, showing us the things he writes about in his stories may also be true about his own life. This shows us that Shakespeare believes that marriage is based off of more than just love. In the situation in Taming of the Shrew, is is