The End

                Throughout this semester I have learned a lot in my Shakespeare class. At the beginning of the semester we were asked to keep a blog, writing one per week. This will be the final one and I have to say it is bitter sweet. At the beginning of this course I had not read much of Shakespeare, but now I can honestly say that I enjoy reading his plays. Though out the semester I have gotten insight on the plays from my classmates and professor that I would never have thought of myself. I believe this may be one of the reasons I enjoyed the class so much. Every class we got to talk and discuss the play together, which really helped to understand the material. If I had to chose which plays I liked the best I would have to go with the tragedies. I am not sure exactly why they seemed to be my favorite, but one aspect I loved was how dirty and manipulating the characters can be. One of the most resent tragedies we discussed, which prove what type of character I am talking about, is Othello.  In Othello you could really see the types of characters that Shakespeare uses in his plays. The character Iago is the perfect demonstration of how his tragedy characters are manipulating. I am not sure if you can find another character and manipulating as Iago. Another aspect I really enjoyed about the tragedies were how bizarre they were. For example in Titus Andronicus, the ending is crazy. Everyone really dies, besides in Shakespeare’s tragedies, where would you ever see this? It is wonderful to read!

                In general, it is not only the tragedies that I have come to like, honestly I have come to like all his plays. For some of the comedies I did not like parts of them because I could not see the humor that others did, but I think if I went and saw a production I would appreciate them more. Although sometimes it took the class discussions to help me understand some aspects that I did not quite understand when I first read it, by the end of the class discussion I usually understood it a lot more. This is why I really enjoyed how our classes were ran. Although sometimes I wished we got to spend more time on some of the plays I still liked that we got to cover so many of Shakespeare’s plays. I am happy the semester is over, but I can honestly say I enjoyed the class.