After getting comfortable with the classics, I moved on to read plays written by the famous William Shakespeare. He wrote many plays like Romeo And Juliet, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The twelfth Night,etc.My favourite is Macbeth. Though it is a tragic story i really like because of its storyline. Macbeth has been compared to Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra.
Both Antony and Macbeth as characters seek a new world, even at the cost of the old one. Both are fighting for a throne and have a 'nemesis' to face to achieve that throne. For Antony the
nemesis is Octavius, for Macbeth it is Banquo. At one point Macbeth even compares himself to Antony, saying "under Banquo / My Genius is rebuk'd, as it is said / Mark Antony's was by Caesar." Lastly, both plays contain powerful female figures: Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth.



I hope fellow teenagers will start reading classics because the classics are relevant to our current lives. I think most, if not all, classic books have been written about something that does not really change, a universal truth or question, like love, being yourself, standing up for what you believe in and accepting what is different. We can really relate these to our own lives.