romeo and juliet

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Antony Shawcross 11YP

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Romeo and Juliet

The play of Romeo and Juliet is about a young man and lady who meet at a family party and fall in love instantly, although they are not allowed because both of their families hate each other and are war. Romeo’s family are called the Montague’s and Juliet family are called the Capulets. There is nothing in the play telling you the exact time of the play but it seems to be around 1200 or 1300 hundred. The genre of this play is a tragedy; a tragedy is a story with an unhappy outcome based on human suffering that offers the audience pleasure.

Act 3 scene 1 is the climax of the drama; it is of particular importance because of its placement. Before this scene, Romeo and Julie have just got married after only knowing each other for one day. After this scene Romeo gets banished from the city of Vienna.

The atmosphere at the start of the play is tense because Shakespeare says that it is a very hot day “I pray thee good Mercutio, lets retire: The day is hot, the Capulets abroad” As Shakespeare’s play says the day is hot this shows the audience that people will get set off very easily, so it shows you that something bad is about to happen. In the beginning Benvolio says to Mercutio lets go home, “I pray thee good Mercutio, lets retire.” He says this because he knows that the Capulets are around and they are both bound to start fighting, Benvolio doesn’t want to fight because of what the prince had said to them before, he said that the next person to fight will be killed. Mercutio just simply says no, and at that time it shows the audience that Mercutio wants a fight.

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This scene relates back to other scene in the play, this happens as, in this the two families are fighting once again and there is someone else that gets involved and faces the consequences, the scene that this also happens is the first scene when the Capulets start a fight with the Montague’s and there is a very bad outcome. This is telling the audience that something ad is abut to happen, it shows this because prince said if your families keep on fighting and disturbing Vienna, they will be killed, who ever is caught. Even though this warning ...

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