Why Is Shakespeare Still Relevant Today

William Shakespeare is still relevant to modern students today as his poetry & particularly his plays, they are still among the greatest ever and always will be. His work will always be unmatched in the history of the English language. Even though Shakespeare’s sonnets were written over four-hundred years ago, they are still relevant today because all of the ideas and issues that Shakespeare addresses in his sonnets are still relevant to people today. Shakespeare had a very good understanding of many of the subtle characteristics in human nature and emotions. His sonnets have reminded popular, as the issues they raise are the ideas that they state. They are about humans and the human nature that they contain, which are both unchanging over
He uses this technique to develop his conceit through his sonnet he creates. for his contemporary audiences and readers he demonstrates love beauty and death that are some of the many concepts he uses, that people have faced and have to live with in societies today. The sonnets that Shakespeare creates they help us understand some of the many concepts he uses. People today can still relate to the beauty of a summer’s day and the darkness and the emptiness of death. Death is still feared in societies today everyone is afraid of death to when it will come and what will happen. Love and beauty are still desired as they are good things that many want and or have. This is why some sonnets are still relevant
This is evident and shown in Sonnet 116, where Shakespeare talks about love “It is the star to every wandering bark” Here Shakespeare is suggesting that Love is like a guiding star in the sky, as a “bark” is a ship and all ships lead to safety and happiness. In Shakespeare’s time, stars were used for navigation of the sea, and stars are still used for the navigation of the sea today as fifty-eight selected navigational stars are given a special status in the field of celestial navigation. Shakespeare is trying to say that love is like a star to a wandering bark that is fixed in the sky above us. Stars can always be relied upon guidance as they will always be there above us in the sky. They last forever, and they are not affected by any earthly problems such as storms “ That looks on tempests and is never shaken”. The message that Love is unchanging and everlasting and will always be there. As many people can relate to this message