The God Within. The Mystery of the Divine in Shakespeare's Plays


Essay, 2015

10 Seiten


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In the works of William Shakespeare there is often times an air of mystery often equated to forces of occult powers. It is my belief that the mystery conveyed through his plays is not mere tricks to entice an audience. Rather his methods involved a comprehensive understanding not only of human nature, but also of forces of higher powers. These powers are often talked about in religious studies and would have been known to most as “God”. So for the purpose of this essay we will think of God as a force rather than a being, a total and comprehensive all pervasive weaving in the fabric of time. To the person uneducated in the occult powers, it is easy to see the outrageous pieces of his art as magic. Which is like the ultimate cop out, just throwing away its value and meaning to the wind.

To read Shakespeare is to feel Shakespeare, not some rational understanding. To read Shakespeare is to transport from the ephemeral material world to the eternal realm of spiritual eternity. The sense that this brings to mind is where the aesthetic pleasure of reading Shakespeare envelops the world. It is why we are still reading Shakespeare today and will continue to do so for quite some time. But to know time is to exist on a different plane than Shakespeare inhabited. For Shakespeare’s world was that of the eternal due to a super conscious understanding of the Divine. More than likely these forces were working through him because he had found a way to open himself up to the muses in order to become a muse himself. In other words we are mere fools in time and Shakespeare suffered greatly to give the world a piece of himself.

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Titel
The God Within. The Mystery of the Divine in Shakespeare's Plays
Autor
Jahr
2015
Seiten
10
Katalognummer
V312850
ISBN (eBook)
9783668116634
ISBN (Buch)
9783668116641
Dateigröße
403 KB
Sprache
Englisch
Schlagworte
within, mystery, divine, shakespeare, plays
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Austin Gragg (Autor:in), 2015, The God Within. The Mystery of the Divine in Shakespeare's Plays, München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/312850

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