"All the world's a stage." Those words will stand immortal through history. Shakespeare had a world very different from the one we live in today; he had a world of the Renaissance; of the Elizabethan Age; a world of exploration, discovery and art. He lived in a world dominated by men where a woman ruled over them all, such is irony. Though through those differences people have stayed the same. Is that not why we love Shakespeare even today. Yes, Shakespeare world was different in every way from its culture to its technology, but the personalities of people have stayed constant.
Shakespeare's era was a world of British dominance. England was the largest empire ever to exist with territory spanning almost a fourth of the globe. Perhaps you've heard that old expression: "The sun never sets on the British empire." That was because at one point the empire was so vast it …show more content…
Individuals might change, but people as a whole, human nature, never has and I doubt ever will. The quote I gave at the beginning: "All the world's stage." Still speaks to us today. We can still relate to fact that we are all actors and actresses on the greater stage that is life. Plays of love such as Romeo and Juliet speak to us today. Julius Caesar and Macbeth, great tragedies still create a sadness within our hearts, because that deep instinctual part of ourselves is what Shakespeare wrote to impress, and that part of ourselves will always be here. Love, tragedy, the struggle for power, can still be seen today, because that is who we are. In short, Shakespeare reveals that greatest similarity between our time and his, something that will be similar a thousand years from now: Human
Shakespeare's era was a world of British dominance. England was the largest empire ever to exist with territory spanning almost a fourth of the globe. Perhaps you've heard that old expression: "The sun never sets on the British empire." That was because at one point the empire was so vast it …show more content…
Individuals might change, but people as a whole, human nature, never has and I doubt ever will. The quote I gave at the beginning: "All the world's stage." Still speaks to us today. We can still relate to fact that we are all actors and actresses on the greater stage that is life. Plays of love such as Romeo and Juliet speak to us today. Julius Caesar and Macbeth, great tragedies still create a sadness within our hearts, because that deep instinctual part of ourselves is what Shakespeare wrote to impress, and that part of ourselves will always be here. Love, tragedy, the struggle for power, can still be seen today, because that is who we are. In short, Shakespeare reveals that greatest similarity between our time and his, something that will be similar a thousand years from now: Human