Act 3 Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Act 3 Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

In the romantic tragedy `Romeo and Juliet` William Shakespeare uses

dramatic techniques and devices to convey emotional inclines and

declines, emphasise breaks and linking tensions as well as to

underline the outlying plot diversification.

Preceding Act 3 Scene 1 we see Romeo fall madly in love with Juliet

and marry her, both showing his instinctive nature, and setting the

scene for this dramatic twists soon to follow. In this way Shakespeare

creates a semantic field of happiness, which he shows by the use of

"positive" phrases, which are colourful and effervescent. This causes

the audience to feel an even greater shock at the sudden change of

temper and the impulsive peak in tension.

In Act 3 Scene 1 the attitudes of various characters is emphasised by

the use of effects such as the difference between prose and verse.

This enables the audience to realise a deeper understanding of the

enjoining tension surrounding the varying characters.

The Bard uses epic, powerful expressions such as "For now these are

hot days, is the mad blood stirring..." which acts to raise the

stretched temper of the scene, building on the importance of events

that he tempts you into imagining.

He takes advantage of short sharp phrases such as "thou art a villain"

to give an insistent finality to Tybalt's words causing the tension to

grow and demonstrating that Tybalt is set in his ways and will not

change his feelings or mind set of and for Romeo. However Romeo's long

rambling expressions, for example " Good Capulet which name I tender

as dearly as my own be satisfied…" conversely shows th...

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and that she is desperate to clear the family name more than Tybalt's.

When the watching audience learn of Romeo's banishment we reach a full

realisation of the impending tragedy that awaits the "star crossed

lovers". The audience now sees what "Whole misadventured piteous

overthrows" signifies, and are anticipating the final misfortune that

will end the feud, of which they have been forewarned in the almost

prophetic words"Which, but their children's end, nought could remove".

So Shakespeare has managed to shock the audience, whilst showing of

his consistency (each event that happens helps us understand better

the prologue) and his overawing skill as one of our counties

wordsmiths. This holds true despite the fact that he is not the for

the most part the best in terms of enjoyment in the contemporary

epoch.