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Shakespeare's Use of Violence in Romeo and Juliet Without violence in a love story the story would be less appealing to an audience. Shakespeare uses violent, bloody, angry scenes in-between lovely, happy romantic scenes, so that the audience will find the story much more absorbing. The violence in the play also propels the story forward. Shakespeare sets his story during the Elizabethan times. A time when it was acceptable for men to carry swords. Also rich families had their own private armies! In the 16th Century, there were duels. Duels were when two people armed with weapons would fight, until one person gets killed. In those days if you said no to a duel, you would be known as a wimp. You wouldn’t be man enough and lose your honour. So in the Elizabethan days where Shakespeare grew up, violence was normal. Even the Victorian people, they would stand and cheer for the men when they fight. Also when someone was being executed, the local people would gather to watch. Shakespeare sets his story at fair Verona, which had two households the Montague’s and the Caplet’s with their own private armies. They had both been enemies for such a long time that they couldn’t even remember why they hated each other. The prologue tells us about this, it also tells us what the story is about and what will happen. That there will be two people Romeo from the Montague’s and Juliet from the Capulet’s. They will both fall in love, but will cause trouble and they will die. “ A pair of star crossed lovers take their life’s”. So this sets the audience expectations of the story that their would be violent dramatic, sad scenes as well as plea... ... middle of paper ... ...ot the answer as it will lead to a sad ending. Violence has made the audience watch the whole play, as we kept wanting to know what will happen next. The use of language created the suspense and sense of danger, stage directions, setting and entering of characters has drawn the play through. There was great engagement, tension and violence in certain scenes, from the next tragedy, leading to the end! And mostly each scene was important as it set the next scene. The violence has excited us, made us love and hate particular characters, Tybalt. Shakespeare has used violence well in a love story. I thought Shakespeare was very clever the way he made violence important. Without the violence in the play, the play wouldn’t be exciting, tension would not be built and the audience will find the play boring especially men.
In the Shakespearean play, Romeo & Juliet, aggression is represented in different ways by the different characters in the play. Tybalt, Romeo, Benvolio, and the others all have their own way of dealing with hate and anger. Some do nothing but hate while others can’t stand to see even the smallest of quarrels take place.
In the article “Juliet’s Taming Of Romeo” Carolyn Brown discusses that Juliet “tames” Romeo in the play Romeo and Juliet, however, I do not really agree with that. While some believe that Juliet controls Romeo throughout the play, I maintain that it is almost impossible for Juliet to completely control Romeo because of the fact that they barely talk throughout most of the play and because Friar Lawrence is controlling most of the play.
Conflict has many different meanings for both physical and verbal abuse. Conflict could be a viscous feud or a full on physical fight. These days in television soap dramas we intend to see more verbal conflict than physical violence. But over the last couple of years new television programmes have been released which contains a lot of action-packed fighting and physical conflict of some kind. Some programmes include physical and verbal conflict including, “Eastenders”, “The Bill” and other programmes similar to these. The releasing of films such as, “Indiana Jones”, and “Rambo” catches the audience’s attention by involving action-packed, exciting features such as heavy arguments or thrilling battles. Some films are made to include action and excitement but when audiences watch it they cannot help feeling sorry for the victim or just generally sad for the people having the fight. In the same way Romeo and Juliet presents conflict more intense than most soap dramas. When the play was first performed in “The Theatre”, in Shoreditch in the mid 1590’s, the Elizabethan audience was shocked at how Juliet disobeyed her father and also how Romeo and Juliet disobeyed their families. Sympathy must be felt for the audience because they would have never known the idea of a son or daughter disobeying their father. The law at that time stated that the daughter was the property of her father until the daughter got married then her husband “owned” her as property. From this sympathy must be felt for Juliet because she is a victim of arranged marriages. When the play was first performed it got massive great responses which then lead to the play being transferred to The Globe theatre at the start of the 1600’s. Props and different costumes helped ...
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the city of Verona there was violence, mayhem and murderous these past days. Which lead Romeo the son of Montague and Juliet the daughter of Capulet breathe one's last beside one another. One man, one brutal man, one coward man and holy man caused for all the blame in this tragedy, that man is Friar Lawrence by tracing back to his first words.
Does Romeo and Juliet show that good intentions are no match for anger? At the opening of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ we are told that, “Two households, both alike in dignity… From ancient grudge break to new mutiny.” This is the cause of both, Romeo and Juliet’s death and peace between the two families. Already, within the first three lines of the prologue, we are told what is going to happen.
Shakespeare's Use of Violence and Conflict in Romeo and Juliet in Act 3 Scene 1
William Shakespeare was born on 26 April 1564 (died on 23 April 1616), in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. Shakespeare was a poet, playwright and actor and has written about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems. Shakespeare wrote many successful plays such as, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet was written at the mid-1590s in London and even today it is considered to be one of the greatest plays ever written. It is a play based on a long dispute between two families, the Montague’s and the Capulet’s, and takes place in the cities of Verona and Mantua, Italy, over the course of four short days. From constant quarrels to deaths and a banishment, Romeo and Juliet go on loving each other until the end. The play starts with a somewhat happy and a tad comedic feeling but ultimately ends as a tragedy. In this essay I will be analysing how Shakespeare presents the consequences of impulsive behaviour of Romeo.
In William Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet", Prince Escalus exclaims at the end; "All are Punished." Is this true? Montague and Capulet have certainly committed a crime of upholding an ancient grudge that has claimed many lives. The Friars crime was to run away from a suiciding person and also to mastermind Romeo and Juliet’s wedding and plans to run away, which eventually lead to the death of Romeo and Juliet. Even the main characters, who are painted as innocent and saint-like, have committed crimes punishable by the law. We know that the main characters have committed the crime, but do they all serve the time. The paragraphs below explain if they do.
of what is to come or what exactly is going to happen to a character.
The harrowing tale begins with a quaint story that is well packed with details to prelude the readers to the upcoming adventure.
what happens next even if you are already familiar with the story. It feels new.
... pulling them into the story, along with the detailed plot and interesting story line. The title itself gives away the theme upfront, leaving the reader to wonder what is written between the lines.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in the time of Elizabeth I. Romeo & Juliet is one of his most famous plays and has always been extremely popular in mainstream and in contemporary media, mainly because the ideals and issues brought up in the play are still very valid in modern times. The play revolves around the, aptly named, Romeo & Juliet and their forbidden love and their struggle to love one another with each others families, Capulets and Montagues, feuding with each other, underneath the romanticism it is a story of a plan going wrong. I am going to analyse and interpret how two very contrasting things; love and violence relate to each other in the play, the effect they have on the characters and the events that unfold.