“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous and it pricks like thorn.” (Act I, Scene IV) In the popular literary novel “Romeo and Juliet” love is ecstatic, forceful, even violent. This theme shows throughout the play, causing a tension which constantly grinds against itself and creates a heightened plot. The play is carefully constructed to not be sappy. In turn Shakespeare creates a clear divide from the books and plays which make up a large portion of the love genre such as A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks, or The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. Both these books are world class, selling millions of copies each, but they certainly are different. By separating the play from the others like it, Shakespeare crafts …show more content…
This driving force urges Romeo to indulge in things he might not regularly do to satisfy this need. After successfully leaving his friends, Romeo met Juliet in the garden. As they looked into each other's eyes, Juliet said “Deny thy father and refuse thy name.” Up to this point the garden scene had been completely one sided, with Romeo wandering in and Juliet being in the right place at the right time. But after this moment we can see Juliet also tempting fate and saying she would rather love Romeo than listen and deliberately disobey her father and her family. Now of course it is already scandalous that they love each other, but this act takes serious amounts of courage as well as drive, almost like someone, or something is forcing this fate upon …show more content…
But, as Shakespeare illustrates, it is also violent, chaotic and forceful. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” life is squandered through love. Throughout the story the forcefulness of love causes many pent up emotions and actions which end up causing catastrophic effects. Shakespeare constantly increases tension through the story to a point which no other story, book, or play can, death itself. Although this is one interpretation of the play, in any interpretation one can find the tenderness yet forcefulness of love strewn throughout the ravenous bloodshed of two families as well as their
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a Renaissance poet and playwright who wrote and published the original versions of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, and often called England’s national poet. Several of his works became extremely well known, thoroughly studied, and enjoyed all over the world. One of Shakespeare’s most prominent plays is titled The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. In this tragedy, the concept that is discussed and portrayed through the characters is love, as they are recognized as being “in love”. The general umbrella of love encompasses various kinds of love such as romantic love, the love of a parent for a child, love of one’s country, and several others. What is common to all love is this: Your own well-being is tied up with that of someone (or something) you love… When love is not present, changes in other people’s well being do not, in general, change your own… Being ‘in love’ infatuation is an intense state that displays similar features: … and finding everyone charming and nice, and thinking they all must sense one’s happiness. At first glance it seems as though Shakespeare advocates the hasty, hormone-driven passion portrayed by the protagonists, Romeo and Juliet; however, when viewed from a more modern, North-American perspective, it seems as though Shakespeare was not in fact endorsing it, but mocking the public’s superficial perception of love. Shakespeare’s criticism of the teens’ young and hasty love is portrayed in various instances of the play, including Romeo’s shallow, flip-flop love for Rosaline then Juliet, and his fights with Juliet’s family. Also, the conseque...
Love, what a small word for being one of the most powerful and complicated emotion someone can receive. Love grants people an experience of other emotions such as, sadness, happiness, jealousy, hatred and many more. It is because of those characteristics that love creates that make it so difficult to define the emotion in a few words. In the play, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, defy their parents in hopes of being able to be together and live a happy life. The characters in “Romeo and Juliet” show the characteristics of love through their words and actions throughout the play. The attributes the characters illustrate throughout the play are rage, loyalty, and sorrow.
Cassandra Clare, author of the best-selling novel City of Bones, once wrote, “To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed”. As an author of a series of young adult books, Clare wishes to send a message to adolescent readers regarding the destruction that young, passionate love can lead to. A similar theme is explored in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, where two adolescents from feuding families fall in love with one another. When they first see each other on the night of the Capulet party, they quickly fall in love and are soon married by Romeo’s friend and mentor, Friar Lawrence. Their love, being full of passion in its quick course, faces many trials such as Romeo’s banishment from their hometown of Verona, as well as Juliet being forced to marry Paris, kinsman of the Prince. The affection they feel for one another, being all consuming, often leads them to want to sacrifice everything for each other, including their own lives. Their self-destructive, rushed love ends with their deaths, occurring just a multiple days after they first met. In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, many characters such as Friar Lawrence, Romeo, and Juliet illustrate that young, passionate love is a powerful force that leads to destruction.
Dramatic Tension in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet There are many reasons for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. For example, fate, the feud, domineering fathers, adolescent passion, Friar Lawrence, Friar John for failing to deliver the letter, or was the tragedy caused by love itself? This creates tension because, although the audience is omnipotent they never quite know what will happen next, or who will be held responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare creates dramatic tension with his creation of the characters and the language he uses pertaining to love, hate and fear. He uses oxymorons, repetitions, metaphors and similes to formulate imagery, puns and sonnets.
At the start of Act 1 Scene 1 Sampson and Gregory start the scene off
Dramatic Tension in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare's, 'Romeo and Juliet', tells us the story of two feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues; whose children fall in love with each other and eventually take their lives. The prologue is a brief description of the play. As the play was written in the 16th Century, a time when many people who attended the theatre were inattentive, they needed help with the context and meaning of the play; this is what the prologue is for. The prologue also makes the audience want to know what happened in between the beginning and ending; which they already know. Dramatic irony is introduced this way.
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Playwright, William Shakespeare, conveys the different forms of love between characters in his drama, Romeo and Juliet. In the small town of Verona the different types of love are highlighted, through character actions and speech. Unrequited love is seen in Romeo and Juliet through Romeo 's 'love ' for Rosaline in Act one, while the forbidden love at first sight, also known as romantic love is seen between Romeo and Juliet. Furthermore, the motherly love/ familial love, Juliet and the Nurse share is also explored.
Juliet is orginally angry at Romeo for killing Typablt. After struggling with this, she decides she is mistaken in blaming him. She has mixed reactions because she thinks that Romeo as her husband wouldn't do a such thing to hurt her family. But she also thinks Romeo would do it because he mightve been jealous of Juliet and Tybalt's relationship. That is why she was having mixed emotions.
Dramatic Tension in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet is one of William Shakespeare's most famous plays, and was written by the Bard around the end of the sixteenth century. Though in actually fact, Romeo and Juliet was not an original story. Elizabethan audiences would not have expected fresh stories all the time, but "modern" adaptations of classic stories. Romeo and Juliet's plot dates back much further than the late 16th century, but existed in variations, such as Pyrimus and Thisbe, that were adapted and re-written by Shakespeare.
There’s many steps into making a fine play, the characters and choosing the right dialogue. Credibility is very important in working on a play because you have to be believable and convincing to the audience. The realistic of the play is what draws the audience. You also need to catch the people’s attention and keep the play moving. In order to intrigue your audience you have to write something that causes suspense. As you draw the characters into difficult/different situations. I think a great example, In Capulet’s house, Juliet longs for night to fall so that Romeo will come to her “untalked of and unseen”. Suddenly the Nurse rushes in with news of the fight between Romeo and Tybalt. But the Nurse is so distraught, she stumbles over the words,
Love is a very powerful force which some believe has the capability to overpower hate. Within the play, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare displays various events in which the characters convey the message that love can conquer all. The characters in this play continue to forgive the ones they love, even under harsh circumstances. Additionally, Shakespeare effectively demonstrates how Romeo and Juliet’s love for one another overpowers significant emotional scenes within the play, including the feuding between their two families. Furthermore, by the end of the play the reader sees how love defeats the shock of death and how Romeo and Juliet’s love ends the ancient feud between the Capulets and Montagues. Using these three events, the reader sees Shakespeare’s message of how love can conquer all. In the desperate battle between love and hate, Shakespeare believes love to be the more powerful force in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
Throughout the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, various types of love are portrayed. According to some of the students of Shakespeare, Shakespeare himself had accumulated wisdom beyond his years in matters pertaining to love (Bloom 89). Undoubtedly, he draws upon this wealth of experience in allowing the audience to see various types of love personified. Shakespeare argues that there are several different types of love, the interchangeable love, the painful love and the love based on appearances, but only true love is worth having.
Shakespeare has used the dramatic form of a tragedy to comment on the impact of violence on society and individuals which also gives us a valuable insight into the power of love. The tragedy centres around the collapse of Romeo and Juliet’s love, filling us with a sense of dread. The messages remain relevant to audiences across time as we reflect on human nature and are drawn into the circumstances of the play through Shakespeare’s effective use of dramatic and poetic devices.
Romeo has a passion for love that is unbreakable, and he will do anything to get who he wants, no matter the consequences that might follow. An example of this is when Romeo goes to Juliet’s balcony and confesses his love for her, but what he does not understand is that “if they do see thee, they will murder thee” (Shakespeare II.ii.75). Romeo has trouble accepting the reality that it will not work out for him or her because of family differences. The intensity of love in both of these texts becomes a dangerous and violent thing.