With Close Reference to Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 1-101, and Act 5, Scene 3, Lines 44-End. Comment on how Shakespeare attempts to create dramatic impact on his audience. Refer to Action, Characters and the way in which language is used to create effect.

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With Close Reference to Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 1-101, and Act 5,  Scene 3, Lines 44-End. Comment on how Shakespeare attempts to create dramatic impact on his audience. Refer to Action, Characters and the way in which language is used to create effect.

   Possibly the most famous love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare and was first performed in 1595. Romeo and Juliet started off as an Italian folk tale. There was also a poem that Shakespeare used, written by Arthur Brooks in 1562. Shakespeare then converted this into a play.

   Set in the town, Verona, Italy “Romeo & Juliet” is set in the time when Italy was incredibly wealthy and feuds were quite common. Shakespeare takes this tale and turns it into an intensely dramatic piece of drama. Shakespeare does this by using “dramatic impact” to mystify the audience and take them through a range of emotions towards the play and the characters alike.

   I aim to prove this by paying specific attention to Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 1-101 with the fight with the Capulets and Montagues. I will be comparing it with Act 5, Scene 3, and Lines 44 to the End. I will be making references to other parts of the play to validate my points.

   The play opens with playful banter thrown back and forth between Samuel and Gregory as they mock each other about they’re enemy, the Montagues. They are saying what they would do if they saw a Montague, daring each other, with each declaration getting worse

“SAMPSON‘                T is all one. I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought            

                                    with the men, I will be civil with the maids; I will cut off their                            

                                    heads.

GREGORY                The heads of the maids?

SAMPSON        Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt

 

 

   As this is unfolding in front of us, Shakespeare introduces two other characters… Lo and behold! Two Montagues! Gregory and Samuel both start toying with the two Montagues emotions, trying to spark an old fuse while staying on the side of the law                                     creating tension in the air.

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SAMPSON                Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them, which is a                                                                                                                                              

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