Sears
Honors English 9 / Period 5
30 November 2010
Renaissance Writer: A Comparison of His Works William Shakespeare was born on April 26, 1564 on St. George's Day. As a young man, Ovid's writing filled Shakespeare's mind with images of violence and romance. As Shakespeare aged, he viewed himself as a poet. William wrote Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth, two very diverse pieces of literature that use blood and fate. Today, our society still has blood and fate. For example, people bloody murders and donate blood. Also, some people today still believe that fate controls love and death. William Shakespeare uses blood in Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth; yet he uses fate to symbolize star-crossed lovers in Romeo and Juliet, and