How does Shakespere use violence and conflict to build dramatic tension through the play? Make particular references to Act 1 Scene 1 and Act 3 Scene 1.

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Perry Taylor 10.3        English Coursework

How does Shakespere use violence and conflict to build dramatic tension through the play? Make particular references to Act 1 Scene 1 and Act 3 Scene 1.

Shakespere wrote three types of plays, comedies, histories and tragedies. Romeo and Juliet is a tradgey wher the main protagonists die.

The play opens with a prolouge and is spoken in Chorus. The Chorus is a fourteen line sonnet, which gives details of what is going to happen and that the two households have an ancient feud, but they do not know why, and the result of the feud will result in a violent and bloody conflict between the two households.

Shakespere makes it clear to the audience that they are watching a tragedy where the two main characters will die. " From fourth the fatal loins of these two foes. A pair of stair-crossed lovers take their lives".  The prolouge takes away most of the suspence but it makes the audience to concentrate on the characterisation and the presentation of the play instead of wondering what is going to happen next.

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Shakespere provides the life of two perspectives  of life in Verona throughout the play, one from nobility and one from the servants. We see the feud between the two households in Act 1 Scene 1 from the servants perspective. The opening scene of the play is full of action to create dramatic tension.

Act 1 Scene 1 is set in the streets on Verona, and there are two Capullet servants called Gregory and Sampson and they engage in a arguement concerning the Montague household. Gregory and Sampson then come accross two Montague servants and Sampson insults them and bites ...

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