Shakespeare

Most of my classmates are interested in idol singers these days. They willingly buy the stuffs related to the singers regardless of the stuffs' prices. Also, in break time, they talk about their favorite singers and their songs so enthusiastically that the students who do not have much interest in singers like me know the name of the famous singers.

According to the psychology book I recently read, the phenomenon I mentioned is taking place because of 'Romeo and Juliet Effect' which is one of the main reasons why people fall in love with each other. My classmates like those singers but most of them can't be the girlfriends or boyfriends of the singers whatsoever. Likewise, 'Romeo and Juliet Effect' makes people fall in love with someone they should not be in love with -like singers or the people their parents dislike-. The effect was named after Romeo and Juliet, the tragic play written by Shakespeare. Through this example, I could know that Shakespeare's pieces are so famous that even psychologists use the title of his play to name a psychological effect.

When I was in the 1st grade, I used to stay in the school library for hours afterschool. There were so many books in the library. But I, who was very young, couldn't find the books I could read since most of the books were thick and difficult for young children.

Oneday, I was wandering around the storybook section of the library. Some new books in the section caught my attention. They were the pieces of Shakespeare. After reading the first page, I found that the books are very interesting.  Since then, I became a huge fan of Shakespeare.

In GLPS, I did a history presentation about the reason why people love Shakespeare's plays. At that time, I claimed that that was because Shakespeare's plays were so gruesome and horrible. But, now, I think that the phenomenon is also because his plays are something that 'people' like. I read a book about the way to make an awesome play and according to the book, writers who wrote a story that he (or she) liked couldn't succeeed as a writer mostly. Only the person who knew exactly what people want to read or watch could make such a famous play. This guideline for writers is quite famous nowadays but almost everybody did not know the fact when Shakespeare lived. I think that Shakespeare found the truth by himself long before the book for writers was published. He was truly a great writer.

I thought that Shakespeare 'created' all the plays for several years but I realized that I was completely wrong a few days ago. The E-book library of my school opened recently and teachers were encouraging their students to read a lot of books there. I once found a book about Shakespeare. The book said that Shakespeare did not 'create' his plays but just 'imitated' old stories of Eastern countries. Really, the plays were very similar to the falk tales of Europe. He just copied the tales and changed some parts of the stories. However, I think that Shakespeare was an awesome writer, though. I did not even know the existence of the folk tales although I liked Shakespeare's pieces before and so did my friends. But, unlike the folk tales, Shakespeare's plays are very famous in almost every country on the Earth (who knows? Aliens in other planets may read his plays.)

Of course, there are so many exceptional writers and some of the them are even better than Shakespeare. Yet, our ancestors loved Shakespeare's pieces and we did as well. His pieces told us so many important lessons. Also, Shakespeare knew how to appeal to people. I'm sure that our future generation will love his pieces like us.