I think that Shakespeare's plays are very useful and should be used in English classes. Many students don't like Shakespeare because of his writing style. When I first started reading Shakespeare's work back in 9th grade, I didn't like it at all. I didn't understand the way he wrote and it confused me throughout that year. Slowly, as I started to read more of his plays like Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth, I could understand his writing style better and enjoyed reading them more. My favorite out of all of Shakespeare's work is Othello. I just really liked the plot and I thought Iago was a really interesting bad guy. I usually don't care too much for the bad guy in Shakespeare's work but I liked how Iago was so cunning and witty.
For my senior year, we have read Macbeth in my English class. Overall, I really enjoyed the book. It was a little hard to understand the plot and know what was going on in the beginning but once it got going it was a great story. It was sort of confusing trying to figure out how each person related to each other. I kept forgetting who was who which made it a little confusing going throughout the play. I thought the end was very fitting. I'm sort of glad that Macbeth was killed the way he was. At the beginning I liked Macbeth but after all of his greed and selfishness I despised him. I didn't really see what Lady Macbeth was thinking throughout the story. I thought she was more crazy than Macbeth. Even though there were a lot of crazy people in Macbeth, I still enjoyed it. I felt that it was different than the other plays he wrote. Macbeth wasn't really a love story like most of Shakespeare's work. This was about power and greed which was a nice change to what I was used to.
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