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.