How does Shakespeare use dramatic devices in Act 3 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet in order to make it such an interesting, exciting important scene?

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                Ahmed Hanslot

How does Shakespeare use dramatic devices in Act 3 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet in order to make it such an interesting, exciting important scene?

In Romeo and Juliet there are two families; the Montagues and the Capulets, both of them bitter enemies. However as time passes the son of the Montague family, Romeo and the daughter of the Capulets, Juliet; meet each other for the first time and they fall in love at first sight. The families of them both would be against them meeting if they knew! How long can they keep seeing each other in secret? Will there relationship go further? What is there fate?

The play fits into the tragedy genre as both families have an everlasting feud and both Romeo and Juliet are pushed to their death as a result of their relationship. There are several different reasons to why they died near the end of the play. It may have been simply fate; bad luck, adolescent love, the everlasting feud between the two families; the differences between the fathers of Romeo and Juliet; the tragedy that had been caused by love or the Friars motives. Some of these may have been to blame for the death of them or all of them partially are to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet, it is dependant on the perspective of which you look at the play.

The general themes that run through the play is hatred; because of the feud between the two families and the opposite caring and love between Romeo and Juliet, Idle and free will; death and life, language and reality and public and private.

The whole play is set in the 17th century and takes place in the Italian city of Verona. The story, set in time of actual conflict between a number of noble families, has long since acquired a strong sense of historical reality. This was also a time of increased awareness of the tragedy of life.

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The scene act 3 scene 1 fits into the play just after the couple Romeo and Juliet set off in different directions on their voyage to get married and the scene comes just before Juliet sees the Nurse mourning towards the death of Tybalt, Juliet on seeing the Nurse mourning immediately thinks that Romeo is dead when Tybalt was slain by Romeo.

In this part of the play Shakespeare uses various different dramatic devices, in order to interest, involve and affect the audience with.

At the start of the scene Shakespeare creates mood and atmosphere by the ...

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