Shakespeare's Engagement of the Audience in Act One Scene Five of Romeo and Juliet At the beginning of Act One Scene Five, Shakespeare engages the audience by using the servants as they rush around getting everything ready for Lord Capulet's party. "Where's Potpan that he helps not take away? He shift a trencher? He scrape a trencher? ". Although the servants are minor characters they are important at the start of this scene, because they create a busy and lively mood as they organise every thing. "Away with the joint stools, remove the court cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save me a piece of march-pane, and, as thou loves me, let the porter Susan Grindstone and Nell. (He calls) Antony and Potpan!" This is a different atmosphere from Act One Scene Four as Romeo is unhappy just before they go to the party because he is in love with Roseline, and Roseline doesn't love him. Romeo and his friends wear masks to avoid identification when he finally agrees to go. An Elizabethan audience would have been engaged in the masked ball and the mystery of it. Shakespeare emphasises this light party atmosphere by using Lord Capulet to be in a nostalgic mood that increases the party atmosphere. "Welcome, gentlemen. Ladies that have their toes unplagued with corns will walk a bout with you." The Elizabethan audience would have been involved in the atmosphere of the Globe Theatre's production because of the dancing and music going on upon the apron stage and their closeness to the action. Romeo's dialogue differs to other characters because he speaks in rhyming couplets. "(To a servant) What lady's that which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight?" The servants speak in prose as they have a lower status. Lord Capulet speaks in blank verse -lambic pentameter to distinguish him from the servants. In the party Romeo instantly falls in love with Juliet at first sight and uses rhyming couplets to describe her as all thoughts of Roseline go out of his head.
of tune”, is a lark, not a nightingale and thus it are dawn and Romeo
Romeo and Juliet are madly in love with each other and will go to any lengths to be together.
How Shakespeare Engages the Audience in Act I scene v In Act I, scene v, Shakespeare alters the tone of the play into a lighter mood. However, despite this, there is an ominous sense of fate overshadowing the pair of star crossed lovers. Even today, the tragedy resembles a blue print of the problems the young adolescents of the twentieth century face each day. Shakespeare uses a masked ball to create suspense and mystery, as this would have engaged an Elizabethan audience. However the audience already knows what is going to happen due to the Prologue - "Do with their death bury their parents' strife" - but despite this knowledge the anticipation of the events leading to the arrival of these final tragic scenes adds excitement.
...rt”. She wants to see Romeo again so asks the Nurse to go to Friar Lawrence’s cell. Therefore the events of Act 3 Scene 1 strengthened Romeo and Juliet’s relationship, making them less able to live without each other. Had Shakespeare not used Act 3 Scene 1 to set up the rest of the play, Romeo and Juliet’s relationship would not have been intensified by the drama and trauma of the scene. It may have weakened as the exciting first phase of their relationship and marraige came to an end. If consiquently they were less in love with eachother, they may not have gone to such extreme lengths to be with eachother and may have not felt the need to end their own lives at the thought of living without their spouse. Act 3 Scene 1 has more effect on the future of the plot and the characters, therefore sets up the rest of the play substationally more than Act 1 Scene 5 does.
whether he was really in love with Rosaline, or did he just want to be
The Ways in which Act 3 scene 5 Prepares the Audience for the Tragic Ending of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
They also had an argument on how long ago they both went to a masked
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It is Act I Scene V in the play and Shakespeare starts it with the servant’s talking and welcoming the guests. This part is completely cut out in the adaptation, it is substituted with dances and Mercutio singing. The substitution wasn’t a loss, in fact it brought more action to the film and introduced character’s costumes. This part is also shown from Romeo’s point of view. The characters is one thing that really gives the director a credit. He made them all really interesting. On the costume feast the costumes symbolically represent the inner worlds of the characters. Lord and Lady Capulet thinking of themselves as the supreme dressed up as Caesar and Cleopatra respectively, Benvolio and his friends are shown as barbarians, not seeing anything around himself Paris wearing a space suit and Tybalt is shown as a devil. Romeo dressed as a knight in shining armor, whom each girl waits for. Leonardo Di Caprio played Romeo as no other actor could, he fully represented the image of Shakespeare’s Romeo. Juliet dresses as light angel as she is. Juliet played by Claire Danes and she is symbol of love. Sweet, young Juliet is not a perfect beauty, she is the girl-next-door. Shakespeare’s Juliet is young and not looking for love, and Lhurmann’s Juliet is romantic, dreamy, innocent, not capable of hypocrisy and betrayal. Mercutio dressed up as a diva from cabaret. The director was able to make this character really interesting. Drugs and indifference help him to hide from the outside world very well. The way he dressed up for the party is another symbol of modernism. High heels, make-up, diva’s wig help make him a great example of a showman of the twentieth century. And the thing that he dressed as a woman not just shows how much fun Mercutio is, but also that he hasn’t come to terms with his sexuality
William Shakespeare introduces the reader to one of the main characters, who is describing their love at a banquet. Shakespeare’s passage in Act 1 Scene 5 conveys a foreshadow of death, that affects the way Romeo thinks about love, in order to understand its divineness.
This rhetorical feature is only one of a large arsenal that Shakespeare utilizes to convey his story. Romeo begins his ritualistic display of affection in a grand manner, his language resplendent with beautiful imagery. At the open, there is little dialogue; Romeo must first woo his intended. This being achieved through antithetical couplets to highlight the differences between Juliet and everything inferior around her; 'Juliet is the sun...Kill the envious moon ', 'She speaks yet she says nothing ', are prime examples of this technique. This is also often assisted by; 'godly ' references that of 'heaven ' and that of the 'angel, ' to emphasize his rhetoric. Indeed, the rhyming verse adds a pleasant sound to the ear, to heighten the effect of Romeo 's words, a technique very much commonplace in that era of
The Ways Shakespeare Makes Act Three Scene Five Full of Tension and Exciting for the Audience
Romeo and Juliet is a famous play that was first performed between 1594 and 1595, it was first printed in 1597. Romeo and Juliet is not entirely fictional as it is based on two lovers who lived in Verona. The Montague’s and Capulet’s are also real. Romeo and Juliet is one of the ten tragedies that William Shakespeare wrote. In this essay, I aim to investigate what act 1, scene1 makes you expect about the rest of the play.
impact of these on the audience. In this scene Capulet welcomes his guests to the ball and encourages them to dance with. Some of the ladies are a bit shy and Capulet teases. them that if they don't dance people will think that they've got corns. on their feet.
Scene 4 Act 1:Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio, and other members of the Montague house go to the Capulet feast. They are all wearing masks to hide their identity. They talk it over and decide to stay for one dance. Because Romeo is still in love with Rosaline, Mercutio teases him about being a hopeless lover. Mercutio then starts a long tale about how fairies deliver dreams to humans as they sleep.