According to college professor, Susan Hurn, “Macbeth remains a popular choice in high school English programs for several reasons. For a Shakespearean drama, it is fairly easy to understand, as the plot is straight forward and easy to follow with its absence of subplots. Its characters are very memorable.” Macbeth, by the prolific William Shakespeare, is a play dating back to the early, elder, and later 1600 hundreds. Frequently, Macbeth is debated to be considered an outdated text. Although, in multiple high-school classes, Shakespeare’s writings is considered valuable. Whereas in other classrooms, Macbeth is found to be outdated. Macbeth should be read and performed in multiple English classrooms. Macbeth is easy to follow along, the
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Shakespeare’s plays are too complex. People enjoy easy reads. Plays take processing. Commonly, the main reason many groups of people do not thoroughly enjoy Shakespeare’s works is because they find the way he wrote difficult to follow along. For example, Shakespeare uses words such as thy, thine, thou, ere, hither, and hence, which nowadays is not used. In modern text, those words mean your, yours, you, before, and here. Consequently, the way he wrote his plays, poems, and sonnets resulted in what is better known as “No Fear Shakespeare” versions of his plays for readers to be able to simply follow his old English text. Macbeth is one text that is easy to evaluate without using the “No Fear Shakespeare” version. As Susan Hurn stated, Macbeth has been the easiest play to follow due to Shakespeare’s structure and hidden truths. Macbeth is really a straight-forward play, which goes in sequence and thoroughly explains the events going on in the play. For example, in Act 1, scene 5 Lady Macbeth rants on, “Shall sun that morrow see! Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters. To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower, but must be provided for; and you shall put this night’s great business into my dispatch, which shall to …show more content…
This quote, “His impacts endures not only in the way we express ourselves, but how we experience and process the world around us,” gives us the knowledge that Shakespeare is still relevant. He gradually, intentionally, and cleverly moves to audience to think outside the box and cause the audience to be constantly aware of what is going on in the play. Shakespeare shows an important example of old English text. His works of Macbeth is simple to follow along, with memorable characters, and a history of a tyrant that is good to read to not be a behavior repeated. Shakespeare’s works, coined words, and old English have put impacts on today. For example, the term, “I couldn’t sleep a wink”, is still commonly used to today. I think it is important for Shakespeare’s tragedies, comedies, and histories to not go unnoticed. Macbeth should continue to be read and studied in English classes around the
Shakespeare’s plays are too complex. People enjoy easy reads. Plays take processing. Commonly, the main reason many groups of people do not thoroughly enjoy Shakespeare’s works is because they find the way he wrote difficult to follow along. For example, Shakespeare uses words such as thy, thine, thou, ere, hither, and hence, which nowadays is not used. In modern text, those words mean your, yours, you, before, and here. Consequently, the way he wrote his plays, poems, and sonnets resulted in what is better known as “No Fear Shakespeare” versions of his plays for readers to be able to simply follow his old English text. Macbeth is one text that is easy to evaluate without using the “No Fear Shakespeare” version. As Susan Hurn stated, Macbeth has been the easiest play to follow due to Shakespeare’s structure and hidden truths. Macbeth is really a straight-forward play, which goes in sequence and thoroughly explains the events going on in the play. For example, in Act 1, scene 5 Lady Macbeth rants on, “Shall sun that morrow see! Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters. To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower, but must be provided for; and you shall put this night’s great business into my dispatch, which shall to …show more content…
This quote, “His impacts endures not only in the way we express ourselves, but how we experience and process the world around us,” gives us the knowledge that Shakespeare is still relevant. He gradually, intentionally, and cleverly moves to audience to think outside the box and cause the audience to be constantly aware of what is going on in the play. Shakespeare shows an important example of old English text. His works of Macbeth is simple to follow along, with memorable characters, and a history of a tyrant that is good to read to not be a behavior repeated. Shakespeare’s works, coined words, and old English have put impacts on today. For example, the term, “I couldn’t sleep a wink”, is still commonly used to today. I think it is important for Shakespeare’s tragedies, comedies, and histories to not go unnoticed. Macbeth should continue to be read and studied in English classes around the