William Shakespeare

Often times, an English class curriculum consists of at least one book or play written by William Shakespeare. For the past three years I have read multiple Shakespeare plays including Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, and now MacBeth. I personally find them to be extremely hard to understand. Although there are translations to the side which can help very much, it becomes annoying having to look over to the side of the text after reading each sentence. I also do not understand what good it does for us to be able to understand what Shakespeare is trying to say if that was many years ago. It does not apply to today's language, and we will most definitely not use it in our future. The only reason I can think of that it may help us with is the vocabulary on our SAT's. Some words may be directly rooted from other Latin words that may be on the list of words. Other than that one reason, I can not think of any other positive ideas that reading any form of Shakespeare in an English class that will benefit students.