Considering the importance of Shakespeare’s work, as with similarities to this world’s modern day politics, there are additional reasons as to why these plays are so memorable. As explained before, each character was created to have, and express, their own individual personality, much like real people. While time does its continuous cycle of moving forward, people may end up changing their views over certain issues. Within editor Will Gompertz’s article, Why is Shakespeare More Popular Than Ever, he comments that one of the main reasons the bard’s plays continue to alter and adapt and model all of the beliefs of an ever changing society is, “because they had so many different audiences to please when originally written - one afternoon Shakespeare
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Some critics believe that this play was written as a satire, because of its use of overly gratuitous violence. Now, however, the work relates to the violence of the real world in its views on taking revenge. In a blind rage, people kill without thinking, completely aware that these kinds of choices do not just affect them. This, too, still happens; albeit, not in the way most expect it to. According to an article, by the simple name of Analysis of Titus Andronicus, “we see similarly absurd violence in the imperialist violence against Iraq, Libya, and Syria, giving rise to ISIS, whose violence in such attacks as those in Paris prompts retaliations in Syria, out of which refugees are pouring. Violence merely begets more violence, which never ends” (Analysis of ‘Titus Andronicus’). Much like in the content of the play, one single act of violence prompts revenge until there is simply no one left to continue the act. As Lucius, in the beginning, needlessly sacrifices one of Tamora’s sons, he created the cycle that was only ended after the tempestuous effects of their own blind rage lacked the fuel to progress any longer. The article concludes by explaining that revenge does not undo the original offence, rather, it will only brings in more hatred, destroying everything around it. Even the greatest of people can only control what they feel for so long before
Some critics believe that this play was written as a satire, because of its use of overly gratuitous violence. Now, however, the work relates to the violence of the real world in its views on taking revenge. In a blind rage, people kill without thinking, completely aware that these kinds of choices do not just affect them. This, too, still happens; albeit, not in the way most expect it to. According to an article, by the simple name of Analysis of Titus Andronicus, “we see similarly absurd violence in the imperialist violence against Iraq, Libya, and Syria, giving rise to ISIS, whose violence in such attacks as those in Paris prompts retaliations in Syria, out of which refugees are pouring. Violence merely begets more violence, which never ends” (Analysis of ‘Titus Andronicus’). Much like in the content of the play, one single act of violence prompts revenge until there is simply no one left to continue the act. As Lucius, in the beginning, needlessly sacrifices one of Tamora’s sons, he created the cycle that was only ended after the tempestuous effects of their own blind rage lacked the fuel to progress any longer. The article concludes by explaining that revenge does not undo the original offence, rather, it will only brings in more hatred, destroying everything around it. Even the greatest of people can only control what they feel for so long before