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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.