Literature is often used to bring public attention to real-world problems and situations, this sentence exploits a very important feature of literature, its relationship with the society. Through the history, literature played a very important role in expressing society problems and gathering people and sometimes changing the political situation, literature always had the power to change the world and the brightest example for all times to express this is William Shakespeare. Shakespeare in his works discussed serious problems like love and how the society deals with marriage as a pure business, in his master piece Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare brought the society awareness to this serious issue, and how the business they do ruins the lovers …show more content…
Even Bacon pretended to believe in witchcraft, and made no protest when a Parliament of which he was a member passed a law increasing the severity of the punishment of witches. The climax was reached under the Commonwealth, for it was especially Puritans who believed in the power of Satan. (Russell, 4-5) Shakespeare brought the society attention to the problem of inheritance through King Lear, how giving all inherits for the first children, whether he’s legitimate or not. This problem is very sensitive, as it touches the royal families before anything else, as it was a custom that the first son will follow his father in being the king, whatever the case of the first son and what his legitimacy for this position is. Then this touches the aristocratic formulation of the society then, and it’s thought that one of the reasons for the French revolution was Shakespeare’s