Merchant of Venice was my first Shakespearean play that I have read in 8th grade. I have forgotten almost everything about what I read and who my teachers were, but still, I do remember the play. It expresses every sort of human feeling like love, anger, hate, greed, and vengeance through human characterizations. When I first read this play I was carried away by the feelings expressed by the characters. I was actually able to feel it. While reading you believe that you are only just reading the play but the fact is that you get involuntarily involved in it.
Douglas Bruster, a Professor of English at the University of Texas claims that Shakespeare wrote the most eloquent version of the code we call human character. Although Shakespeare has written hundreds of years ago, yet his writings still speak today. They talk about human psychology. Whether …show more content…
For example, Macbeth goes from moral, brave and honest man to a tyrant and wicked destructive lunatic. The factors that drive Macbeth’s ambition includes prophecies and her wife Lady Macbeth. The consequences of his greed led him to murder the King, lost the support of his friends and at last killed by Macduff. This shows ambitions and avarice weigh more than morals and often overthrows it. On the other hand, Lady Macbeth is cursed by guilt, has troubled to sleep and tormented by the thoughts commits suicide. Still, nowadays, people are killing their own brothers, sisters, and relatives to acquire their property. Olympian athletes have become insane, they are willing to do anything to do for triumph. They are undertaking to dope. They are injecting themselves with steroids, diuretics, hormones and