What are the advantages and disadvantages of studying the plays and theatrical arts which were written centuries ago?

Nowadays, there has been a colossal upsurge in learning the century-old drama and plays as the part of the curriculum in schools, be it in an affluent or impoverished nation. However, this trend has both the merits and demerits, which are discussed with the suitable example in the following essay.

There are myriad of benefits which can be associated with the studying plays and drama which were written years ago. The most conspicuous one is that it makes the students aware of the traditions, customs, rituals, and lifestyle of the bygone centuries. This form of art not only succours in understanding the behaviour of their ancestors but it also teaches the valuable lessons from the mistakes which their forefathers had made. Moreover, theatrical arts enhance the creativity in students that would lead to broadening their horizons. To Exemplify, famous playwright Shakespeare’s works have immortalized his time, he is known as a dramatist of every century.

On the flip side, in the cutthroat competitive era, aspirants are expected to excel in their academic and make their career promising by attaining high degrees in the field of sciences. Furthermore, comic, tragic and romantic plays will work as a distraction in the mind of the vulnerable and sensitive youth leading to taking imaginary flights on the wings of fantasy. In addition to, such escapism affects their mental growth and they become sceptical in human dealings.

To recapitulate, from the above-outlined arguments, we can conclude that potential benefits of classical writing in the development of the mental and emotional growth of youngsters can be overwhelmed by a few downsides if the pedagogical approach is not followed.

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Average: 8.5 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, in addition

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.5418719212 104% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 6.10837438424 82% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 8.36945812808 131% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 5.94088669951 118% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 20.9802955665 86% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 31.9359605911 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.75862068966 69% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1447.0 1207.87684729 120% => OK
No of words: 272.0 242.827586207 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31985294118 5.00649968141 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06108636974 3.92707691288 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05669954184 2.71678728327 113% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 139.433497537 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.632352941176 0.580463131201 109% => OK
syllable_count: 442.8 379.143842365 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.65517241379 164% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 12.6551724138 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.5024630542 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.7006067197 50.4703680194 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.545454545 104.977214359 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7272727273 20.9669160288 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.63636363636 7.25397266985 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 6.9802955665 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 2.91625615764 69% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.176589992164 0.242375264174 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0590693020338 0.0925447433944 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0928724990225 0.071462118173 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0819202920929 0.151781067708 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0860668300571 0.0609392437508 141% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 12.6369458128 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 53.1260098522 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.9458128079 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 11.5310837438 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.4 8.32886699507 125% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 55.0591133005 174% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.94827586207 111% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.3980295567 112% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.5123152709 105% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 76.5 Out of 90
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