What Do We Learn About Juliet's Relationship with Her Father from Act 3: Scene 5
What Do We Learn About Juliet's Relationship with Her Father from Act 3: Scene 5? Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet tells the tragedy of two 'star-crossed lovers,' who are divided by feuding families but united by love. For many years, an on-going feud between these two families has caused much disruption in the city of Verona, Italy. The play takes place in the city of Verona and Mantua, Italy, over the course of five short days. Verona is the home of the Capulet and Montague families and Mantua is where Romeo is banished. Italy was seen as an immoral country, famous for sexual affairs and violent crimes, many playwrights including ones completed by Shakespeare are set here. The length of the play consists of five acts containing twenty-four scenes, which is the same in various other plays written by Shakespeare. He wrote this play in five acts in order to introduce new ideas, characters, setting and basic situations. It helps develop the main plot of the play and it helps to introduce complications and incidents. The structure of the play itself is the fate from which Romeo and Juliet cannot escape. In that time, people were very wary of the stars. If two people's stars were crossed in the sky, they would never remain together. Obviously, Romeo and Juliet didn't live happily ever after. Shakespeare's audience already knew the story of Romeo and Juliet, a popular story which
Discus the significance of the balcony scene Act 2, Scene 2 in Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'
Discus the significance of the balcony scene Act 2, Scene 2 in Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' The star crossed lovers, trying to fight fate ended up falling helplessly in love, eventually ending with the death of both of them. The significance of the balcony scene Act 2, scene 2 in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is of great importance. In the time of Shakespeare, society was very different; marriage didn't occur for love, it happened because your parents chose a suitable life partner for you. More often that not, class married class and money married money, in order to keep the high standards of living in the family. Children from the young ages of 13 and 14 were able to be promised to other families for marriage and often were married at that young age. It was also almost impossible to marry anyone without parent's consent and therefore Romeo and Juliet's marriage was not only forbidden it was against every rule ever made in society. Act 2, scene 2 is the most famous and romantic scene in the whole of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the way Shakespeare has portrayed their love in such a unique and diverse way has created a new way of showing a forbidden love. The audience can really sense a change in the way the lovers feel about each other. For example at the beginning of the play the writing is in iambic pentameter creating a romantic atmosphere to carry on
How and in what way does Shakespeare present the theme of love in act 1 scene 5 and act 2 scene 2?
'Romeo and Juliet' How and in what way does Shakespeare present the theme of love in act 1 scene 5 and act 2 scene 2? William Shakespeare wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet' in about 1595. It is classed as a tragedy, rich in imagination and poetry. It is undoubtedly one of his most famous works. 'Romeo and Juliet' is so familiar to us today that it has been co-opted as a universal love story that transcends time and cultural differences. It is an icon of romantic love and has been a constant presence in our culture. Many in the English speaking world who have never even read a word of Shakespeare will have heard of the tragic ill fated love between 'Romeo and Juliet'. Countless times over a period of four centuries, 'Romeo and Juliet' has been reworked and reinvented. Many books, films, music, operas and television adaptations have been created, the most famous; Westside story, Baz Luhrmann's adaptation, Zeffirelli's film...to name but a few. Shakespeare derived his inspiration from Italian folk stories and was also heavily influenced by the sonnets (a complex and highly artificial verse form, popular in the 16th century and generally regarded as the proper medium for love poetry) of Francesco Petrarch, an Italian poet who wrote love poems in verse. The plot of 'Romeo and Juliet' was based on the life of two lovers who lived in Verona, Italy (1303) who died for each other.
Discuss the different kinds of love presented by Shakespeare in "Romeo and Juliet"
Discuss the different kinds of love presented by Shakespeare in "Romeo and Juliet" In 'Romeo and Juliet' love is the overwhelming subject in the play, but love is a very complicated subject. Shakespeare does not only focus on true love, through out the play he explores many different kinds of love. In fact, Shakespeare does not allow the audience to escape form the idea of love. The most overpowering love in the play is made up of strong emotions, physical attractions and intense commitment - true love: "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight. For I never saw true beauty till this night" Romeo and Juliet first encounter each other at the Capulet ball and even at first sight they are passionately drawn towards each other. Shakespeare allows the audience to sense the depth and energy of their enraptured feelings almost from the first touch, "If I profane with my unworthiest hand/ This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:". Shakespeare shows Romeo to be quite experienced with women by the way he speaks to Juliet, "Give me my sin again", and Juliet is easily lured into his witty repartée of Romeo. Once Romeo and Juliet had been in each other's presence, the thoughts and loving emotions began to flood through their minds. The repeated references to light, "What light", "Juliet is the sun!", bright angel", all indicate the strength of this deep affection and show
How does Shakespeare Prepare the Audience for the Tragic events of Act 5 Scene 3?
How does Shakespeare Prepare the Audience for the Tragic events of Act 5 Scene 3? Shakespeare opens 'Romeo and Juliet' with a love sonnet; a prologue that tells the end; a portent of things to come. The prologue tells the audience about the tragic ending so instead of wanting to know what happens in the end, we want to know how it happens. It is in this sonnet that there is the first mention of fate; 'a pair of star-cross'd lovers' meaning that their love is to be directed by fate. Shakespeare follows it with the word 'fatal'; this word encapsulates fate and death; fate meaning the unstoppable force acting on the lovers and death being what their love results in. In this opening fourteen lines Shakespeare introduces the idea that love will end in death and nothing can stop it because the stars and therefore fate are in control. This theme of fate reoccurs throughout the play- it is a constant reminder of the helplessness of Romeo and Juliet's love and the lack of control they have over the events that lead up to their inevitable death. This opening speech is then followed by the first scene- a fight between the Montagues and Capulets. The crudity of the language used is a direct contrast of the following part of the scene in which Romeo is first introduced. The men in the fight use sexual innuendos to show their masculinity, 'Ay, the heads of maids or their maidenheads,'
Romeo & Juliet
Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare How does Shakespeare create tension in Act 3, Scene 5, through his presentation of relationships between adults and children Act 3, Scene 5 is an important scene in the play because it shows a change in relationships which greatly affects how the watching audience sees some of the major characters in the play. It is also a part of the play which greatly increases the difficulty in Romeo and Juliet's marriage, and adds much tension, which translates on stage to entertainment. This essay aims to outline some of the ways Shakespeare uses the relationships between adults and children. In order to understand why this scene is tense, we must look at what has happened in the play before our key scene, and gain some understanding of Romeo and Juliet's awkward situation. Romeo and Juliet are from two prominent and feuding families who reside in the city of Verona, a real city in northern Italy. As far as the audience are aware, they are their parents' only offspring, the only other 'children' in the family are Benvolio cousin to Romeo and Tybalt cousin Juliet respectively. As only children, their parents are naturally protective over them, Juliet's father, especially. Towards the beginning of the play, in Act 1, Scene 2, Paris asks Capulet for permission to marry his daughter. In Elizabethan times (when the play was written and
'How is Love Presented in Romeo and Juliet in Acts - 1 Sc 5; 2 Sc 2 and 3 Sc 5.
"Romeo and Juliet" By -William Shakespeare In this essay I will concentrate on the love aspect in one of William Shakespeare's most popular tragedies, written during the 16th century - Romeo and Juliet. This essay will mainly concentrate on three key scenes and these are as follows - Act 1 Sc 5; Act 2 Sc 2 and Act 3 Sc 5. In these scenes I will show how Shakespeare portrays the love aspect in Romeo and Juliet - and in these scenes it is shown in a clear, clever and coherent way. Shakespeare shows this cleverly by the use of stage-craft and dramatic irony to show clear organisation of characters on stage when the play is being acted to a large number of audience. Even the structure in which the scenes are organised can be interpreted,noticed and referred to by the audience as the play graduates. Not only this; the ingenious linguistic features that Shakespeare uses can be used to show tension,timidness, love and even happiness. This essay will give a thorough analysis of the three ways in which Shakespeare portrays the love aspect. Structure, stage-craft, language and some cultural issues that might can show this. During Act 1 Sc 5, in terms of structure, Shakespeare has the audience waiting until this scene to introduce Juliet and the two lovers together. Shakespeare does this in order to inform us, the audience, about the history of both the Montagues and Capulets
Criticism on Hamlet
**HAMLET** [189] Act I. Scene i. (I. i. 63.) He smote the sleaded Polack on the ice. Polack was in that age, the term for an inhabitant of Poland: Polaque, French. As in a translation of Passeratius's epitaph on Henry III of France, published byCamden : Whether thy chance or choice thee hither brings, Stay, passenger, and wail the best of kings. This little stone a great king's heart doth hold, Who rul'd the fickle French and Polacks bold: So frail are even the highest earthly things. Go, passenger, and wail the hap of kings. Act I. Scene i. (I. i. 138.) If thou hast any sound. The speech of Horatio to the spectre is very elegant and noble, and congruous to the common traditions of the causes of apparitions. Act I. Scene i. (I. i. 153 foll.) Whether in sea or fire, &c. According to the pneumatology of that time, every element was inhabited by its peculiar order of spirits, who had dispositions different, according to their various places of abode. The meaning therefore is, that all spirits extravagant, wandering out of their element, whether aerial spirits visiting earth, or earthly spirits ranging the air, return to their station, to their proper limits in which they are confined. [190] Act I. Scene ix. (I. v. 154) Swear by my sword. Mr. Garrick produced me a passage, I think, in Brant ôme, from which it appeared, that it was common to swear upon the sword,
