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In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare brings the theme of the “Individual against society”. 

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In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare brings the theme of the “Individual against society”. 

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What the two lovers want, the individuals, is against what the society wants, what their families want. The two families won’t stop the feuding just because of the love of two teenagers. Romeo can’t dishonour his name and never deal with his family. Juliet too wants to rebel and she was about to make her dream reality, but then they both die. Just this tragic event makes the two families, the Capulets and the Montagues, change their mind. At least they made the difference.

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Nowadays we have some leading figures that with their belief and tenacity make the difference in this world. For example when Greta Thumberg for the first time manifested outside the European Parlament she was alone against the government. Greta made the difference, she encouraged all the students, all the people on manifesting on Friday (the famous “Friday for future”). It seems that she is little by little involving all the society. Now her precious will is becoming the will of everybody and we are sure her story won’t have  a tragic end.

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There Is No Escaping Shakespeare | The New York Times

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Romeo and Juliet's love is so powerful that it went against the prejudices, a more important love than family bond. A similar love is expressed in so many films, plays and books so we can say “Shakespeare inspired all the playwrights, writers and film makers”.  A similar love is expressed in “la vita è bella”; a love between a Jew and an italian during the Second World War. Or during the Racial Segregaion in America there were the so called “mixed couples” that ran against the rules.

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This theme makes it clear that every action to correct a wrong one should be reasoned and not emotional. For example Hamlet’s death is “ennobled” by his honourable will  to destroy the sources of corruption within the State.  Also Hamlet fakes his madness to find out the truth about his father's death; so he first thought about what was the best action he could do and he didn’t let his mixed emotions take over his actions.

These theme has an  important pedagogical meaning. We all shouldn’t act before thinking just because of some emotions or then the world would be at the mercy of everyone feelings. The world would come back to the time of primitive men when everyone thought just about their own survival. We all should act in an honourable way thinking before acting and thinking about the fellow’s feelings too.

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Always in Hamlet Shakespeare express a doubt: “how does one separate what appears to be real or absolute from what actually is so?”. He introduces the theme of the Existentialism.

In the third act first scene Hamlet starts with the famous sentence “to be or not to be: that is the question”. This is an inner conflict based on dubt; Hamlet doesn’t know what to do: to die or to live, to stop all the pain but without knowing what there’s next or to live fighting what the luck throws your way.

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In the Elizabethan age , the Church, the State and the people did not accept revenge but they enjoyed seeing it in plays. In most of the tragedies heroes' revenge was because a sexual or violent crime against a family member of the protagonist that the law coludn’t punish.  Hamlet wants to revenge his father death killing Claudius, but he also wants to revenge the corruption that has overrun Denmark.

We all know the sentence “ take revenge by myself” and we all know that it is not possible or else anyone could do what they want. But there was the “honour crime”  that stated that a man could have  killed his wife if he would have caught her cheating on him. There was a punishment for this kind of crime but, like the word says “honour crime”, it was nothing compared to other crimes punishment. So during that time a lot of women were killed for their husbands' revenge.

In the society we can’t” take revenge” because we all stand under the Law so we can just trust the Law’s  jurisdiction.

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In the Merchant of Venice Shakespeare introduces the theme of  “anti-Semitism” . Actually we don’t really know what Shakesperare thinks about Jews, but he gives us a big description of their conditions in the Elizabethan age. There was a “ghetto” were all the Jews lived, they were portrayed as villains,mocked or marginalised. In Shakspeare time Jews were discriminated by Christians and it seems that Jews weren’t even equal to Christians before the Law. So at first Shylock seems like the villain of the story. He asked Antonio “ a pound of flesh”  if he wasn’t able to return the money to the Jew. But at the end of the story Shylock seems like the victim of the society and he represents all the Jews that have been mistreated and abused in a Christian society.

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And finally, but not less important, there is the importance that Shakespeare gives to women.
In the Merchant of Venice Portia and Nerissa disguise themselves as the lawyer Balthazar and his assistent in order to save Antonio. They are the characters with a key role. Without them Antonio wouldn’t have won the process.  Also Jessica can put up a plan herself to escape with Lorenzo; she ‘s indipendent so she dresses up as a boy and manage to escape with her lover.

In Romeo and Juliet the strong character is Juliet. While Romeo resemble the typical courtly lover Juliet is a rebel, is a women determined, with a very strong personality. She even tries to convice Romeo to disown his name, his father to escape with her. She is the owner of her future so she wants to decide what is better for her. I think that Shakespeare gives so much importance to the women for the period he lived. It was the Elizabeth the first reign and we all know that her reign was considered England’s golden age. It was an age of stability, of victory at sea and also the time of entertainment and the rising star Shakespeare.  She was a very clever woman that managed to govern perfectly. She took regular tours around the country, the royal progresses, to show her person and her power. She was loved by anyone and received hospitality form her richest subjects.  She was a figure of extreme  relevance, she governed alone and of course she was a woman.

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Actually the theme of “human existence” is always recurring from Socrate to the fathers of the Existensialim: Saint Augustine and Cartesio. This being is very confused, like Hamlet, because we don’t really know how to handle this theme.  The philosophical “truth” isn’t something a human can reach, we don’t really know what this truth is and yet we’re scared of what is undiscovered. This is very similar to Hamlet's fear of death. This fear makes us coward, less resolute.  Hamlet isn’t able to suicide as sometimes we are scared to get involved.

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William Shakespeare has always been an enigmatic person with a lot of curiosities.  One of them is that Shakesperare was a very rich and successful  playwright and to understand the reason of his success we have to look inside ourselves first.

We all felt once in a lifetime jealousy, revenge, fear of death, fierce love, ecc… so Shakespear, in his plays, was able to let all the audiences relate to the characters. The themes of his plays were current in Elizabethan age and their are present even now.

Furthermore his words, the words of his characters, were impactful for the English people of his time.

In front of Napoleon threat William Wordsworth colud write “We that speak Shakespeare language have to be free or to be death” .

Nowadays even TV series are ispired by Shakespeare’s plays. For example the famous “Game of Thrones” follows the same storyline of “Tito Andronico” and the scenes o f violence are similar of Hamlet’s.

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The “antisemitism” is also a “modern problem”. Some days ago Angela Merkell declared :” zero tolerance for the Anti-semitism”. The antisemitism reached his paek with Hitler and the Shoah. We should never forget our past mistakes; the “Justice should protect each person with his culture and needs”.  Instead of forcing a Jew to convert to Christianity (like  they did to Shylock) we should look at the different culture as a precious treasure.

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So the women have always fight for their rights. We can mention the “suffragettes” that  fought for the right to vote; or  Mary Anne Evans that to publish her books had to use a male name, a pseudonym, “George Eliot”, and her books were very successful; or Malala Yousafsai that has become a famous activist for female education. She’s the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.  When she was 12 , using a pseudonym, Malala wrote a blog for the BBC in which she described life under the Taliban.  He banned girls from attending school, but Malala defied this order. She was co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle against the suppression of the children and young people for the right of all children to education.