Why are we doing this?

I have to both agree and disagree with you Mr. Hurley. I agree with you for the reason that when we arrive at university and we start analysing Shakespeare plays and you've never done this before you are screwed. I have to disagree with you in the sense that this type of material is a bit to complex for high school students. It is not faire that only a minority of people like doing this kind of thing and actually find this easy to do, do to the great deal of effort they put into this, why don't all have the time to this. If I could give you a recommendation, why should analyse a much shorter play that would be easier to grasp then Hamlet. Also most people will never need this or go back over something like this so what is the real purpose to this. If you think of it this is a waste of time for probably 3/4 of the students, who ever is not going into literature is not going to use this again. So in the end, is this really the best use of your students time.