Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Feelers and Personality


Shakespeare: the invention of the Human
Yes this is the title of Harold Blooms book, and this is where the idea has sparked from. Because I have been reading it lately… and loving it.

Does he really invent the human? Who can he? He was here ages ago, and yes he was brilliant, but did he really invent the ideology of the human?
This question has been in my mind for quite some time. I have been thinking about it, and how I was going to go about answering that.

So this is what I have come to. Shakespeare did in fact invent the human. His characters in his plays possess so much personality and feelers. Every character he writes has a strong sense of personality and posses just the right feelers for the play. All of his characters are so hard to keep up with because they contain so much personality. The feelers that they posses are incredibly overbearing and exhausting. There is so much personality in everyone. even the players behind the scenes he does not leave anyone out.

Every player is so different in every way. not one of them possess the same characteristics in the same play. Shakespeare made it ok for people (Characters) to have feelers, and to go on that emotion. He invented this ideology that it was good to have such a personality in everyone of his characters. He basically put every feeling that one could feel into the characters of his plays.
In order to be human one has to have these emotions and feelers. That’s what makes us human. And let me tell you, I am a very emotional person with a ton of personality. And I am human, because of it.

So I believe that he make it acceptable for society to have all of these feelers and emotions. So thus he is indeed the Invention of the Human.

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