♦Capulet and Lady Capulet – Juliet
♦Nurse – Juliet
♦Juliet – Tybalt
♦Romeo – Mercutio
The different techniques that Shakespeare use to show his ideas to show love is the way the language is. Like all love talk is in verk and everything else is written in prose. Most of the language in Romeo and Juliet is love language and hate language, so just different types of languages. This is in everyday life style, love and hate. But they have something in common, the person you love or hate, you think about them all the time.
What visual techniques used by Shakespeare to show his ideas in Romeo and Juliet. Like entrance, exits, positing on stages, props, etc… when you are seeing everything that is going on, but none of the characters are not say anything, buy you understand what is going on in the play. For example, when Romeo first meets Juliet at a Capulet masked ball, we cannot tell who is Capulet or Montague because they are all wearing marks. Another example the balcony scene’ when Romeo is climbing up to speak to Juliet.
Main Body
The attitude towards love and marriage at the time that Shakespeare wrote this play were that the father had the right to arrange marriages for his child. The father would find a good person that has a lot of money in the family, so it work out all right for the father. The expectations between father and child in that time were that the child would do what father said to do. If the child did not do what the father said to do, the father would shout and tell them off, as well would hit the child, until the child did what he/she was told to do. Shakespeare does not go against the expectation of the time. He does all the arrange marriage stuff, as well he adds in the child not doing what he/she is told to do. The different types of love shown in Romeo and Juliet are:
♦Arrange love - Paris and Juliet
♦Natural love – Romeo and Juliet
♦Fleeting love – Romeo and Roseline
♦Family love – Capulet and Lady Capulet to Juliet
Nurse and Juliet
Juliet and Tybalt
Romeo and Mercutio
How Shakespeare use language to create an idea is that love talk is written is verk, for example a quote from Romeo in Act2 Scene2. “When love wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out, and what love can do, that dares love attempt: therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.” With the love scene the talking is like a poem, which is romantic.
In Romeo and Juliet as a play with the entrances and exits effect the play in some way. For examples at the end of the play, When Romeo is too late to save Juliet, but Juliet is alive. Romeo did not get the message, so Romeo kills himself. Then Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo died. So then Juliet kills herself because she could not save Romeo. So they are needed for every scene because every scene has the different characters.
Now looking at the characters in play. Juliet is young to get married, she is only 14 and the way she behaviors it looks like Juliet was in her 20’s. How the parents are shown in the play is that, Capulet and Montague so hate each other and their wife’s, Lady Capulet and Lady Montague, just go along with their husbands. They do care for their children a lot and they are proud of their name. Both of the families seem to have the same amount of money, has big house etc… that was a good thing back in Shakespeare time.
Conclusion
With all the points I have made about love and marriage and refer back to the question at the beginning. How Shakespeare has presented the themes and if the play is effective as a comment on love and marriage. The way Shakespeare has done this is that in Shakespeare’s time, love and marriage was very important because of money, as I said in the first paragraph the father must arrange marr5iages for his children and the entire child does what they are told. In the play, Shakespeare has used the Capulets with Juliet. The language in the play is prose expect the “love talk” that is in verk, it’s like a poem, as I said in the second paragraph. So after all love and marriage was very important in Shakespeare time.
