Hi everyone!! Today i'm going to talk to you about something that i like so much: books. Well, jus about my favourite one. It was hard to choose, but i've choosed that because it's very old, very beautiful and i really like how it shows the life: as a dream,
And the book is....Life is a dream, from Calderon de la Barca. It tells the story of the prince Segismundo, who have lived all his life caged in a tower, just guarded for an old man, because the oracle said to his father, king Basilio, that his son will overthrow him when he grew up. Segismundo grow up, and he seem a good man, he read lots, it was the lastone thing that he made there, and talk about how sad and lonely he felt. He didn't know anyone but his warden and he didn't know who he was. But his guard tell to the king how sad he was, and he decided to take Segismundo to the palace as a prince, if he was a good one, he will stay, if he doesn´t, they would tell him that it had been a dream. Well, he become a bad person. He killed a man, flaunting his power, he shout to people, he talk in a bad way to everyone, angry because they kept them caged all that time. So soon he was returned to his jail.
There he wake up thinking that it had been a dream, and very sad and he gives a beautiful and famous discours, that I wont write here, because i don't like how it sounds in English, but if you asked me one day, i can read it for you.
Well, in the end the people from the kingdom, knowing that there was a prince, demand to liberte him, He think that it was a dream again, and decided to live his life in a better way, because life is just the dream we live, he even offered his life to his father, for his bad attitude, but the king forgive him, and crowned him king, for that knew and noble act.
I read it for the first time a few years ago, but i knew the story because i had seen it in the theatre, There i didn´t understood it very well, but it called my atention. Years after that, in a boring summer afternoon, i look for something to read, and hidden with the unread books from my sister, was Life is a dream.
I liked so much for the way to see the life: as a dream, that you have to enjoy, because they soon end. Also it´s a way to see how relating our lifes are.