Famous Lines from Shakespeare's Plays

From Midsummer Night's Dream

Your eyes are load star and your tougue sweet air
More tunable than lark to sheperd's ear
When wheat is green, when Hawthorn buds appear.

Come, sit upon this flowry bed
While I thy amiable cheeks do coy
And stick musk roses in thy sleek smooth head
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy

Mislike me not for my complexion
The shadowed livery of the burnishd sun
To whom I am a neighbor and near bed
Bring me the fairest crerature northward born
Where Phoebus fire scarce throws the icicles
And let us make incision for your love
To prove whose blood is the reddiest, his or mine

Beshrow me for I love her heartily
For she is wise, if I can judge of her
The fair she is, if that mine eyes be true
And true she is if she hath provd herself
And therefore like herself wise, fair, true,
Shall be placed in my constant soul

My Overall Reaction on Shakespeare's Works

Having the subject Shakespeare helps me a lot especially in my major. Learning his sonnets and poems gives me a vast idea on what a literature is. His writings are rich of expressions, ideas, omaginations that makes his writings unique and influencial. Eventhough there are rumors or articles saying that he just copied it with other play, well still he made to come up with another play, it's just a rumor. I considered that Shakespeare is really a great playwright, to come up with so many poems and play is a genius, he just not focus on the literal aspects of his play, behind those play and poems are the reality that he want to convey to us. during those times, he didn't not made these plays not just for the sake of entertainment, instead he wants to impart to the audience on what is really happening to our society. Shakespeare writings is timeless, still we can applied it now a days.

Romeo and Juliet

Theme: Tragedy, Romantic

Social Implications
Family

• Young age of marriage.
• Rivalry of two parties or members of the family.

Society

• The love potion is the caused of the death of the young lovers, instead that it is the solution to their problem, it leads to tragedy because of misplanning, they fail to inform Romeo about the plan, but the other vside of it at the end of the story, both member of the family reunited.
• Most problems o r situation in our society leads to death, there are lives need to be vanish because of unawareness of the people as well mas the people in the position. Instead of their looking forward on waht will happen, they just wait and not doing any action and they will just ealized it at the end.

The Merchant of Venice

Theme: Comedy

Social Implications

Family

• Courting- suitors court the girl, the guy should have something to give to the girl.
• Eloping- Jessica, the daughter of Shylock eloped with Lorenzo. In reality we can see this situation

Society

• Money is powerful, it can acts as a maen of manipulating people, if you have the money you can do anything you want you want, you can makre your revenge with the use of it.
• Discrimination, when it cimes to religion, like in the case of Shylock.
• Peolpe easily deceive on the appearance of a thing what is beautiful for them is the outside appearance of it, they don't look beyond of it, that's why ay the end, regression takes place (not all glitters are gold)

Important thing in the story: The three Caskets

Midsummer Night's Dream

Theme: Comedy

Social Implication

Family

• Fixed marriage- influence of parents wuth regards of choosingthe person to whim you will marry like in the case of hermia and her father Egeus.
• Eloping of lovers because of disapproval of parents usually lovers used to elope for they think it is the way or solution to their problem.
• Importance of the wedding.

Society

• In the story, the love potion has the important part in the story for it manipulate most of the characters. In relation with our society, the lovw potion can be the power or money because it can manipulate or deceive people.

Analysis on Hamlet

Implications: Family, Strong love for father, incest
Society: Corruption, Greedy in power,

Theme: Love and revenge

This play also want to convey to us the reality, the real scenario on what is really happen to our society, Shakespeare wrote the play not just to entertain but to awaken the mind of the audience or the readers.

King Laius is responsible for the death of his brother King Hamlet, father of Hamlet. King Laius is the picture of greediness in position, he will mdo anything to get the throne from his brother and this lead to kill Kiong Hamlet by pouring a powder poison on his ear. Now a days still we can see another King Laius for there are still people who are craving for th power and they will do anything just to have it.

Analysis on Othello

Implications: Family

• There is always jealousy occurred in a relationships.
• Parents are still responsible for your marriage, they afe the one who choose the right one for you whether tou likre it or not.

Society:

• There is a jealous in terms of position.
• Manifestation of authority, discriminations.Power or authority most of us are craving for the position in the society because if you have it you can do anything you want that's why they will do anything like in the case of Iago, when he didn't get what he wants he takes a revenge, greediness takes place.
• Discrimination when it comes to color.
  

Theme: Love and revenge

Comedy of Errors

Implications: Family, seperated at the end re- united
Society: Power of Authority

Love and felicity will triumph over all.

Comedy in this play means mockery. Comedy of Errors, "the wrong identity", when you look on the broader perspective, it is the power, mistaken identity or mi staken responsibility. We, the people are the one who gave authority or power to those who are in the position, but where we are now, we are under of their power, folowing them for their already have the power to do whatever they want or to co ntrol us and most of th etime they tend to abuse it.

Difference Between Elizabeth Barret Browning and Shakespeare Sonnets

Although the basic action of both Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets is similar, it is the proportioning that makes the immense difference between them. Both present and then "solve" problems, the Petrarchan form in its octave and sestet, the Shakespearean in its comparatively initial twelve lines and then in its couplet. In the Petrarchan sonnet the problem is often solved by reasoned perception or by a relatively expansive and formal meditative process, for the sestet allows enough room for the enacting of reasonable kinds of resolutions. or outright comedy. The very disproportion of the two Parts of the Shakespearean sonnet, the gross imbalance between the twelve-line problem and the two line solution.
A sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem, traditionally written in iambic pentameter--that is, in lines ten syllables long, with accents falling on every second syllable, as in: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" The sonnet form first became popular during the Italian Renaissance, when the poet Petrarch published a sequence of love sonnets addressed to an idealized woman named Laura. Taking firm hold among Italian poets, the sonnet spread throughout Europe to England, where, after its initial Renaissance, "Petrarchan" incarnation faded, the form enjoyed a number of revivals and periods of renewed interest. In Elizabethan England--the era during which Shakespeare's sonnets were written--the sonnet was the form of choice for lyric poets, particularly lyric poets seeking to engage with traditional themes of love and romance
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) wrote a series of 44 sonnets, in secret, about the intense love she felt for her husband-to-be, poet Robert Browning. She called this series Sonnets From the Portuguese, a title based on the pet name Robert gave her: "my little Portugee." "Sonnet 43" was the next-to-last sonnet in this series.

Difference Between Italian and Petrarchan Sonnets

• The Petrarchan Sonnet is comprised of an octave and sestet.
  
• It has a rhyming scheme abba abba cdecde.

• The Shakespearean Sonnet comprising three Quatrains and a couplet.
• It has a rhyming scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.
• 1st quatrain contains the problem.
• 2nd quatrain contains the initial solution.
• 3rd quatrain contains the supporting solutions.
• Couplet, the final solutions.

Shakespeare sonnets intended:

• to a author
• to his mistress
• to a young man
  

Criticisms About Shakespeare

• Shakespeare was a gay because of the rumor that he has an affair with the nobleman.
• Shakespeare is not really existing.
• Shakespeare writing was based on others writings.
• There are articles saying that his plays were copied from others works.
• The uniqueness and power of his language used to criticize by the ojther scholars.
  

Life and Works of William Shakespeare

He was born at Sratford-Avon on April 23, 1564, he was baptized on April 23,1564. John Shakespeare is his father, aleather merchant and Mary Arden is his mother. He was educated in the local grammar school. He married Ann Hathaway at tyneage of 18 who was a bout 8 yrs. older. During he's lost years he became a miney lender, gardener, sailor, printer etc. He became part of a theater, Company of Actors, named King's Men. He died on April 23, 1616.

He wrote poems and plays, his sonnets are intended for his mistress, to the nobleman and other auhor. Most of the theme are about love, beauty,admiration, life etc. While his plays divided into four period, the thene are comedy, tragedy, romantic, historical drama. example of his play are Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchanr of Venice and etc.