How does Shakespeare link language and imagery to build tension towards an explosion of violence in which results in the death of Tybalt?
Imagery plays a key part in Shakespeare’s plays because the audience had to create a mental image of what is happening through the emotionally charged language and provides an insight into a character’s mind, “hot days, is the “mad blood stirring” ”, in which nature describes how it is hot and the tension is rising, with short tempers in the opening lines of act three scene one. These appear, usually, as similes or metaphors, “hot a Jack”.
Shakespeare uses blank verse, which is plain text but it has rhythm, yet no rhyming words or couplets. He also tends to write in “Ianbicpentameter”, with five stressed and unstressed syllables, “a plague on both your houses, I am sped”. There is a possibility that actors may read out the distinct syllable definition and so they have to speak ordinarily and, in this scene, dramatically to increase tension. Nicknames are given to some characters that reflect their personality, for example Tybalt is called a “rat-catcher”, by Mercutio, due to the fact that his nickname is “King of Cats”, also describing his agility in combat which tells the audience that a confrontation will happen soon, arising from the taunts that Mercutio persistently uses, “Make haste, lest mine be about your ears”, building up tension from Mercutio’s speech.