Importance Of Shakespeare In Schools

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Shakespeare’s work should be mandatory for study in the Australian National English Curriculum. Students should be exposed to Shakespeare’s works because they include timeless themes, his work enriches students language, there is a lack of another modernized alternative and finally, because Shakespeare established the modern English language. Shakespeare is one of the most widely studied writers in history, as his work has been taught for 300 years till this very day. Therefore, Shakespeare’s work should become mandatory for study in the English curriculum and will hopefully remain so for the next up-coming 300 years.

Shakespeare’s uses timeless themes and emotions in his work that not only teach us valuable lessons in English and literature but also provide us with real life lessons. Shakespeare’s plays portray universally constant issues and topics that students still go through in their everyday lives. The issues are displayed to the reader with great power, tolerance, wisdom, humanity and expressive language. Therefore, by looking at how Shakespeare’s characters handle their tragedies and downfalls, students are forced to question their own moral choices and gradually learn to solve their own life problems and situations based on leanings from these characters. Providing the students with ethical role models to acquire from is extremely vital as they are at an age where they are still shaping their values, morals, and opinions of the world, and Shakespeare’s plays will guide them through the right path. Evidence supporting this argument is my personal experience with Macbeth, as through the study of Macbeth I learned that sometimes too much or supreme ambition and striving for endless power can destroy you. According to som...

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...rds from classical literature and foreign languages and created his own new words by The mastermind Shakespeare formed 2000 new English words during his 52 years lifetime, words that formed our modern language. Therefore, after all the achievements Shakespeare has accomplished towards the English language, the least we owe him is for his work to be mandatory in the English curriculum. We owe Shakespeare just as much as we owe the other historical hero’s we study about in history. For if it wasn’t for Shakespeare, English history would not have been formed and the language we use today would not have been developed. Evidence supporting this theory are some words and phrases we use while talking nowadays that were originally created by Shakespeare like: William Shakespeare coined English literature; therefore, it is only impartial to learn it from the very source.

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