Romeo and Juilet

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Pavlo Dyadyk

To what extent is Shakespeareans’ use of language and dramatic techniques important in resolving the plot in Act 5 Scene 3? D o you think this is a satisfactory conclusion to the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’

The play Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare, it was written between the years 1594-1596. The plot of this play raised some important issues of the time, such as marriage. At these times rich and important people didn’t marry for love, they married for money and power; this was one of the reasons why Romeo and Juliet’s love was forbidden. They also were not allowed to be together because women were possessions of their father and their husbands when they married, so fathers were the ones who chose who they marry, if they disagree, they would be thrown out of their house. Family and civil disturbances were common at the time, which is clearly shown in the play. In Romeo and Juliet it mentions that their fate was written on the stars and that they were fated to dies, this is exactly what people at the time this play was written believed. Shakespeare wrote the play in modern English, this was how the Elizabethan audience were familiar with the language and dramatic techniques used in the final scene.

Two very powerful families, the Montague’s and the Capulet’s, fight over many years, but the children of the two families fell in love. The two, Romeo and Juliet, decide to get married in secret, since their love was forbidden. A fight breaks out and Romeo is banished from Verona, because he killed Tybalt. The next day Juliet’s father says she has to marry Paris or leave his house. Juliet agrees to marry him, and then runs straight to Friar Lawrence; he comes up with a plan for Juliet to take a potion that will make her sleep for 24 hours, making everyone think that she’s dead. But the plan goes wrong when Romeo hears that Juliet is dead before the explanatory note from Friar Laurence gets to him. So he runs to Verona buying a poison on his way there, he gets to the tomb and he then drinks the poison and dies, Juliet wakes up, and Friar Lawrence enters, sees that the plan has gone wrong and tries to get Juliet to leave but she refused he leaves and she kills herself with a dagger. The feud between the Capulet’s and the Montague’s was significant to the relationship between Romeo and Juliet because we know that their relationship would never be allowed and this will lead to more secrets and killing.

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Shakespeare uses some techniques to draw the audience in to the last scene. One of the techniques he uses is dramatic irony, we know that Juliet is not really dead, and because Romeo thinks she’s dead, this causes anxiety, the audience would want to know whether she will wake up in time or not. The audience know that Romeo will die before Juliet wakes up. Romeo at this point thinks that when he dies he and Juliet will be together, but we know that she will soon wake up. I think that Shakespeare uses dramatic irony, so that the ...

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