I was just thinking about what we were talking about in class a bit the other day - "why did Shakespeare write the characters and the themes he did?"
It got me thinking... Why exactly did Shakespeare write the stories he wrote? Could it just have been for the sake of it, could there actually be nothing deeper than the text itself? Are historians just on a "wild goose chase" looking for some deeper meaning?
There are so many possibilities as to why Shakespeare could have written the stories he wrote. Where do you guys think he got his motivation for the characters and/or the themes?
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Okay...I have a slight idea as to why. In that era, how many stories were put down into mushy kiddy tales. NONE. Take the Grimm brothers for example, Cinderella wasn't just yelled at to do her chores, she was beat in the original tale. Shakespear seems to just be fallowing suit with the other authors back then.
Authors these days are still competeing for "best book of the year", so they all write different stories, but they all have things in common. Most of the time, the main charactor gets stuck in a situation that they don't like and either have to escape it or they get rescued by their true love who they don't know about yet.
Shakespear was following suit, yet he wanted to show the true nature of people around him. The disceat, lies, horrors, and problems that the everyday person might have been going through. He only wanted people to see the originality of his work to all the other authors.
I believe that his motivation was experience.
I think that that is most people's motivation.
But can we ever really know?
Shakespeare inteneded to have powerfull stories that where revoluionary in every way!
As much as an experience for the audience, a trial of the heart where every one in the audience can relate or feel the strong morals and feeling Shakespeare seems to be able to draw into their hearts.
Shakespeare wrote in a time were to simply speak out of place was a thing unheard of and he brought a new standard for both theater and literature with his concoctions of passion,strange,humorous and morbid, And we all know its the most emotionally tantalizing of events that we truly remember.
I think Shakespeares stories are more realistic than anything, just in a sped up process. Like Romeo and Juliet falling in love in 3 days and then killing themselves over eachother, that seems very unrealistic, but maybe over a longer time period, things like that might have actually happened back then. About the magic in Macbeth and all that, that was just shakespeares way of getting through to the audience. He needed to keep them interested and people were believed to be very superstitious back then and believed all the witchcraft and sorcery. He wrote in a very different style than the author's today, mainly because of his language but excluding that, his stories could have been very realistic at the time they were written, and maybe the audience watching them believed that things that like actually happened.
I think Shakespeare was just trying to get across messages to the audience. In order to do that he might have felt that he had to do it in a controversial way. that's what usually gets people's attention and keeps it. because they want to see how other people, or in this case, the other characters in the play, will react to it. this might get the audience thinking about how society would act if something like that actually happened in real life.
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