William Shakespeares Thoughts on Fatherhood

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." -William Shakespeare

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is one of the most prominent literary artists of all time. He is famous worldwide for his plays which include “Romeo and Juliet,” “Hamlet,” “Julius Caesar,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” and “Henry III,” among others. He has also written many classic poems, sonnets, and other literary works.

Explanation

Maybe one thing that sets human beings apart from most animals is the sense of parenthood, or at least that special responsibility that a parent extends to his child or children. It is actually given that a parent, like the father, would at least at one point of the life of his child, would be there to protect, raise, and guide him. The father, though he was not the one to carry the child inside him for nine months, still shares a special bond with his child or children. However, both father and child are completely independent human beings—both capable of respecting each other’s spaces. It is not uncommon for cases where a father does not even care about his child’s endeavours, problems, or feelings. Also, sometimes, however the father tries, he still seems to be desolated from his child. It is therefore quite an uncommon, if not entirely rare, and beautiful thing to know a father who knows his child up to the last way of the latter’s thinking. It is a wise thing to exert an effort to, for it will only be that way that he’ll really know how to protect and guide him, even to the time when he’s far away with his new life.