Additionally used by Shakespeare was ‘repetition’; this was used to provide theatrical force. The expressions and phrases, rhymes and word sounds would be repetitive to add a touching moment to either create an intense or a humorous outcome to the picture.
Puns presented a very much-anticipated suspense, and were extremely popular with the Elizabethan era of individuals.
“…Ask for me to-morrow and you shall find me a grave man.’’
This is a brief illustration of puns contained in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ this shows a joke or a key phrase with two different outlooks. This is a serious line but is lightened up by the usage of puns, ironically it has the meaning he will be dead tomorrow, which later we find he will be, and also the sense that he will be a glum man.
Foreshadowing was used often in Romeo and Juliet principally it states the obvious, it is known from the beginning of the play the pair will die but through the performance more clues indicate this. Foreshadowing is the use of symbols to show what will happen in the future. This method of language begins in the prologue. Foreshadowing is the usage of symbols to show the future
“No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough, ‘twill serve: ask for
me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
Mercutio has just been stabbed but still he insists that he is well.
In my judgment this plays’ most important characteristics are the themes, the three used in the stage production are based highly Act III Scene I. In this scene the audience can discover the types of love which Shakespeare wants his characters to experience. The two main characters already are experiencing true love by this point in time in the play, they encountered this from late in Scene I.
In Act III Scene I every man is trying to fend for themselves and their others, this is where ‘revenge’ kicks in tough; Tybalt was looking for Romeo for the episode in the Capulet Manor. But Mercutio is slain by Tybalt, which makes Romeos love for his family modify to disgust and he turns and kills his fresh wife’s cousin. The hatred between the two families later kills their adored children. The lives of both Romeo and Juliet could have been saved, if only the ancient feud was settled earlier.
“O, I am fortune’s fool”
Throughout the whole play the responsibility of ‘fate’ would have to rule over all the themes, Romeo and Juliet were the original star-crossed lovers as the prologue at the beginning of the play states, people in the Elizabethan period were weary of the stars and what they told them. It was said if the two persons stars in question were crossed they would under no circumstances remain as a pair. It is apparent to all from the outset of the play the lovers would not live blissfully ever after, as revealed in their deaths. In Act III Scene I Romeo didn’t want to dispute with Tybalt. But as Tybalt killed Mercutio, Romeo demanded vengeance. Things still could have worked out between the two lovers as after adequate time passed, Romeo and Juliet could tell their families what had materialise and Romeo could return to Verona. No one today knows whether or not fate as was saw in the play exists or whether things happen for the reason that we desire them to.
The characters in this performance mainly show their actions in speech, basically this is when the performer explains their following behaviour in the lines before it happens.
“This shall determine that.”
This line gives you an insight into Romeo’s feelings and his actions, which follow he is prepared to kill the one who had murdered a dear companion that he loved and treasured.
The main dramatic devises in Act III Scene I are the usage of dramatic irony to build up tension, therefore the audience know more about the future of the performance than the characters on stage know. The audience are all well aware of the marriage between ‘Romeo and Juliet’ which forces them to think when the two families find out about the relationship the feuds will end on both parts, but this changes when Romeo reacts to the killing of Mercutio.
Shakespeare was cleaver in the way he wrote, as he knew there would be no fancy props or lighting in the time he started to stage this play. As later productions were made Shakespeare’s way of writing stage directions in the lines helped new directors to understand and elaborate on the performance, with the newer equipment that came in later stages of technology and history. In Baz Lurmen’s version of this production he uses the lack of stage directions in the fight scene well he stages it on a beach, Lurmen uses the effects of water to help create a dramatic atmosphere, we notice this from early in the film as Romeo and Juliet’s first sighting is through a water filled aquarium. Later on in this act, they meet again and fall into a water filled pool to hide the fact that the two rival families were talking in a loved-up manor. The fight scene included waves crashing against Mercutio’s corps and the rain falling on Tybalt when Romeo had killed him. In a sense this method does give away clues to the plot in the story, but this is not relevant as from the outset it is known to the entire plays plot. These factors lead back to both dramatic irony and fate.
This scene is the most dramatic out of all of the others because it includes all the dramatic elements I have mentioned and the fighting obviously affects the rest of the story with Romeo getting banished. No other scene include as many dilemmas or dramatic elements.
English Coursework: Romeo and Juliet
Act III Scene I
