The concept behind Romeo and Juliet is not original to William Shakespeare. However, the play is arguably the most famous work written using the idea of two lovers who kill themselves so they do not have to live without each other. Due to their families being foes, Romeo and Juliet’s love is kept secret. Eventually there is a misunderstanding and they each kill themself upon learning of the other’s death. Something in his writing that sets Shakespeare apart from other authors is that he beautifully uses literary devices to add richness to his writing. A literary device is a tool in writing that deepens meaning and clarity or adds effect to a story, such as a simile or irony. Shakespeare uses English in an elegant, metaphorical way through literary …show more content…
There are many instances where dramatic irony adds suspense to the plot. In Scene One, Romeo tries to avoid a fight between Tybalt and himself, because he is now married to Tybalt’s cousin, Juliet. Romeo’s lines may seem cryptic to Tybalt, who doesn’t know about the marriage, but to the reader, they make sense. Romeo’s “reason to love” (III.i.65) Juliet’s cousin is that he is now related to Tybalt, and it wouldn’t be pleasant for Juliet to find out that two men she loves would willingly fight each other to their death. Romeo is smart to try and stay away from a fight, and correct in saying Tybalt “knowest [him] not” (III.i.68). Because the marriage is a secret, Tybalt does not know that his enemy is referencing it, but the reader does know. This causes the dramatic irony, or the audience knowing something a character does not. Even though Romeo tries to stop any fight between Tybalt and himself, a brawl ensues, and Romeo ends up killing Tybalt, which leads to another example of dramatic irony. In Scene Two, Juliet is daydreaming about her night with Romeo. She is very excited and happy, unknowing of the fact that Romeo has just killed her cousin. The audience is aware of Romeo’s crime, which causes dramatic irony. A final example of this literary device is in Scene Four of Act Three, when Lady Capulet talks to Juliet about Tybalt and his killer. Lady Capulet doesn’t know that Juliet is married to Romeo, but the audience does. Juliet's lines have double meaning therefore, and are interpreted differently by the reader and Lady Capulet. Juliet tells her mother she “will not marry” (III.iv.122) and that if she ever does, “it shall be Romeo” (III.iv.123) she gets married to. Her mother thinks this means it is improbable Juliet will ever willingly get married. The reader knows that Juliet twists the words, so that she is not lying nor exaggerating, because she has already
Did you know that Romeo and Juliet was one of the biggest love story of all time. Romeo and Juliet is a story of two star-crossed lovers from two families the Capulets and the Montagues. The Capulets and the Montague had a big fight that made the families very angry at each other. Romeo and Juliet decide to get married. The two couple marry and run away. In the process both of them will die. When it comes to Romeo and Juliet who are the top three people that caused the two to die. The two people that are chosen are Friar Lawrence and Lady Capulet. Friar was chosen because he is the one that married Romeo and Juliet. Lady Capulet was chosen because she is forcing Juliet to marry Paris which is making Juliet want Romeo even more. The third thing
Who would be willing to die for their loved ones? Romeo and Juliet would and did. Romeo and Juliet’s love and death brought two families together who could not even remember the origin of their hate. When the parents saw what their children's love for each other, they realized that their fighting had only led to suffering and insoluble conflict. Romeo and Juliet loved each other to an extent that they killed themselves rather than live apart. They did it with no hiatus. Juliet says before she kills herself, “O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.”( 5, 3, 182-183) demonstrating how she would rather die than not be with him.
William Shakespeare is really famous for his writings, especially Romeo and Juliet. A pair of two star crossed lovers take place, on their mission to unite two houses, Capulets and Montagues, once and for all. In the play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare presents a lot of paradoxes. This provides a lot of contrast to the text and allows readers to think harder and better understand the intricacies of this writing. In this play, there are many paradoxical themes expressed through the text for example good versus evil, love versus hate, and many more. All these paradoxes are communicated through figurative language, characterization, sound devices, and literary foils. These are literary devices that authors use to help readers to visualize
William Shakespeare’s diverse use of rhetorical and figurative language enhances and develops the moods he conveys, thus creating vast and various atmospheres throughout his works. An example of one his works that uses many of these devices is Shakespeare’s renowned Romeo and Juliet. In the famous play, the two lovebirds (Romeo and Juliet), fall in a forbidden love as the long-lasting rivalry between their two families continues its onslaught. The couple later on tragically commit suicide, which ultimately ends the feud. During the journey of the two lovers, Shakespeare expresses clearly the mood of each scene using figurative language.
In the center, specifically act three you see the use of irony to be more serious, often trying to lightly foreshadow and keep the audience interested. From Tybalt aggravating Mercutio and then Romeo with his death, after Romeo seemingly feels and professes ?love? for him due to his very recent secret marriage to Tybalt?s cousin, Juliet. Shortly after Tybalt?s death Romeo is banished due to his, a...
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name;” (Shakespeare, 536). In the book, ‘Romeo and Juliet”, by William Shakespeare there is a deeper meaning that Shakespeare is trying to portray other than parents cannot control their children’s hearts. He is trying to portray that a name is only a name and it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things and that even with a different name that person will still be the same person they have always been. Shakespeare is using the characters: Juliet, Romeo, Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence, and the Nurse to get this message across to the reader or the viewer.
In act one scene three of Romeo and Juliet Lord Capulet states “…She hath not seen the change of fourteen years. Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.” This means that Juliet is not quite fourteen years old and her father is not sure if she is ready to become a wife and mother. There are many differences between how people marry today, and how they married in the time of Romeo and Juliet. Some of the differences are when the people marry, why people marry, and also the level of maturity people marry at.
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, it may seem as a love story meant to be, but is really a story of obsession and desperation. Romeo’s obsession to be with Juliet overpowers his ability to think clearly, and this same feeling takes over Juliet as well. The obsession and desperation also takes over Lord Capulet, and Tybalt as well.
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Language and Dramatic Devices in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Introduction Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is known as a love tragedy. features many rhymed verses, especially when Romeo and Juliet first. speak.
The prince’s speech in Romeo and Juliet was given after a fight broke out in the market between the rich families by the name of Montague’s and Capulet’s. The Prince said during his speech “Your lives shall forfeit the peace in my city” Is a bit of foreshadowing and how someone might have to pay their life for taking away the peace of his city. Later on in the story Capulet gets killed by Romeo, therefore he will have to pay his life because he once again disturbed the streets of Verona. Romeo was lucky enough to have kept his life, but he is banned from Verona for the rest of his life. “Three civil brawls bred of an airy word,” Meant that this isn’t the first time that the two families have fought. “Bred of an airy word” the two sides had a great battle just because of a few words. Shakespeare’s also like to use Iambic pentameter to show that speakers are of a higher class. It means that there does not have to be a rhyme scheme. Shakespeare does play with the word he uses so every line has the same amount of syllables. There are also different stresses on each word to kind of give ...
Shakespeare’s language reveals the character's impulsivity, which causes a change of the ending of the play. In William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, The lovers from rival families lead to the tragic ending. The characters show that teenagers are impulsive and bad decision makers.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, is a well known play. That it is still performed in theaters and English classes to this day. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a play about two star crossed lovers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. They fall in love, despite of the feud between their families. They were forced to keep their love secret because of their families, and they also got married without their families figuring out. This story is still read now because of its strong usage of literary elements. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet endures time because of its expert use of literary elements including foreshadowing, metaphor, and simile.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story about two lovers who are from two competing families, and their eventual suicide. Shakespeare uses dramatic irony throughout the play to create tension for the audience and foreshadow the ending. Dramatic irony is when the words or actions of characters in a story have a different meaning to the reader than to the characters. This is because the reader knows something that the characters do not. Romeo and Juliet’s death could have been prevented if the characters in the story weren’t so ignorant of their situations, and often times the reader recognizes this.
To start off, Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to make the play thrilling and to emphasize a central idea. For example, in the beginning of the play, the reader knows that Romeo and Juliet are enemies in a long-standing quarrel between their two established families in Verona, but Romeo and Juliet are unknown of it. In Act I, scene 5, the suspense was enhanced when Romeo and Juliet flirted at the Capulet’s masquerade ball and Juliet asked Nurse for his name, “My only love, sprung from my only hate! / Too early seen unknown, and known too late! / Prodigious birth of love it is to me / That I must love a loathèd enemy” (I, 5, 139-142). At this moment, the reader is built with tension because they know that Romeo and Juliet are both enemies to one another. It is undisclosed to Romeo and Juliet that they are enemies until after they have fallen in love with each other. That makes the reader eager to know what is going to happen next. To add, Romeo tries to tell Tybalt that he has a reason for them to love one another, but he could not have done that without telling him that Juliet was his bride: