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__ Shakespeare’s Writing Style __

 The drama __A Midsummer Night’s Dream__ written by William Shakespeare has a different writing style than normal books.

Shakespeare started to write his books in the time of the Renaissance. In this time period, people started to have a better idea of the human condition. Shakespeare connected the human condition with love. In most of his books, he included love as a big theme. Shakespeare let the people start to think about their own feelings and about their experience with love. He used it in his writing in different ways to explore the idea of love to other people.

Shakespeare's writing style is different than the other author writing styles because Shakespeare divided his writing in three parts. It is split in structure, language and imagery.

The structure building in __A Midsummer Night's Dream__ is written in two types of writing. On one hand Shakespeare's upper class characters speak in verses and on the other hand all the lower characters speak in prose. To read a book in a verse and prose style clearly shows the difference between the characters. Speaking in prose is easier for the lower characters so they can speak like normal people would speak to each other. They can make jokes and speak normally to each other. During verses, Shakespeare could perfectly show the love between two people. Lovers would rhyme each other’s sentences, and it would sound very harmonious and show the real love between the lovers. The couplets also show the connection between the two people, which talk to each other. They take turns and relate to the sentence against their partner. Shakespeare's structure also included 5 Acts in every single book. The high spot is in Act 3. This structure used Shakespeare in most of his books.

Shakespeare has poetic elements in his drama. Not everything rhymes, but it doesn’t have to. With the uses of verses and his own personal language, Shakespeare shows how the people are connected to each other. Shakespeare used iambic pentameter, which makes his drama more interesting. It is quite difficult to write each line so it contains ten syllables. Shakespeare cheated in this part a bit. There are times when a line may have more or less syllables than he wanted. If the line had more syllables he would trim words to fit. For example, an imaginary line:  "Is it possible?"

would become:

"Is't possible?"

So instead of having two syllables, you have one syllable "is't". He hides this cheating effectively so that it sounds quite good and it fits.

The imagery of Shakespeare is also written in a realistic way. He wrote his play so realistic, that you can understand why people can’t find or hear the other characters, because it is dark and it plays in the forest. Also, different groups of people are at the same time on one place, but they didn’t see each other. He put most of the characters in one act with an intelligent way. It plays at a place, which no one knows perfectly. This place is every time in action because not only the people act there, also the animals and the wind are still heard. The people don't know the attendance of the others, which makes it very interesting. That makes __A Midsummer Night’s Dream__ really exciting.

In summary, Shakespeare's writing style is in my opinion really marvelous. Shakespeare let the readers be part of his drama. **(I like this.)** You can understand what he meant and sometimes people have connections with this drama, what let them think about it. Sure this writing style is totally different to others, but this makes Shakespeare so special. You can really understand how Shakespeare thought. His opinion about women and men is also shown clearly in his drama. Shakespeare brought his stories really impressively to paper. He gets the attention of many readers, not only in his time but also today.