blog 1: Literature Relationship

Literature has indeed made a lot of change about my mindset about the English language. Ever since i started studying literature, it has opened my mind and enabled me to be more grammatically skillful in my English writing. It has exposed me to know more elements of writing like the use of idiomatic expressions and other figures of speech. Most literature books that i have read are mostly made of fiction but at the same time provide interesting aspects of life that we as human beings can mostly relate to. one example of literaure stories is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakepeare. the Romeo and Juliet story is about two different young people from two diferent families which enemies of each other. But the love between Romeo and Juliet brought the two different families together even though the story ended on a sad note. Even though it is a fictional story, we can still see a lot of these situations happening in our lives or in the lives of others. Another literature story known as Taming of the Shrew, which was also written by William Shakespeare, was a comedy type of story which depicted a very young beautiful and arrogant, stubborn woman named Katherine, who was viewed by the society as an uncontrollable woman and therefore everyone thought no man can humble her character. but along came a man named Petruchio, who took the bold step to marry Katherineand gradually changed the disrespectful woman into a presentable and humble wife. This is also another aspect that is seen in people's lives everyday. Some people reviewed the Taming of the Shrew as "battle of the sexes" under one roof as Petruchio went through the struggles of training and shaping Katherine into the woman that he wanted her to be. At the first stage of the marriage she was rebelling. But as time went on, he found his own strategies and patiently transformed the lady into a calm and respectful wife.