Works by William Shakespeare are an important part of my high school curriculum. We had read plays such as A Midsummer's Nights Dream, as well as Romeo and Juliet. These two works introduced me into the writing style and grammar of Shakespeare. Over time it has become easier for myself to comprehend his writing. My college English class has recently began to read Macbeth, a play about a British thane who finds out he is destined to become King of Scotland. Macbeth is constantly plagued with fear and stress of carrying out this task.
After reading all of Act I of the play Macbeth, I have began to get a grasp on how to understand William Shakespeare's writing. Scene 1 consists of the three witches meet to discuss a confrontation to Macbeth after he finishes his time in battle is finished. The conversation opens with the sentence, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair". The witches could be paralleling this phrase to life itself. For example the yin yang. A yin yang possesses bad in the good and good in the bad. The idea of 'foul' being 'fair' and 'fair' being 'foul', could be explaining that every good situation possesses bad and vice versa.
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