What's the Point?

It gets our minds out of the clouds and actually makes us THINK. Shakespeare's diction and syntax helps readers analyze, think critically, as well as abstractly. Sure, the language is difficult. But that's the point! It challenges us to analyze. While people work out in the gym to keep fit, what about a fit and healthy mind? The complexity of Shakespeare's works exercises our brain, which is just as important as exercising our body. His linguistic style - functional shift - excites brain activity in the hemisphere of the brain, and "...forces the brain to work backwards in order to fully understand what Shakespeare is trying to say" , according to researchers at Liverpool University. We're like detectives trying to put the pieces of a puzzle to understand the true meaning. Shakespeare also has the ability to summarize the range of different human emotions which makes his ancient works still so relevant to us today. Feelings of lust, jealousy, revenge, heartache are all in his different works and so readers today can still relate to it. Additionally he has revolutionized English literature and tragedy as well as transcending time and culture: our present stories are even based on Shakespeare in modern times, such as She's the Man (based on Twelfth Night), 10 Things I Hate About You (Taming of the Shrew) and West Side Story (Romeo and Juliet). Therefore, I do believe that Shakespeare does help us whether we notice it or not.

Shakespeare makes us branier!