Analyzing Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Analyzing Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story between two teenagers who fall

head over heels for each other in their forbidden love.

The story is riddled with violence, hatred and revenge, these powerful

themes along with others keep the audience on the edge of their seat.

Shakespeare wants to create an impact with his play he wanted to

something different, do something no one else would dare to do.

Romeo and Juliet turned many heads as it was against the norm of the

Elizabethan society back in those days.

He had a lot of criticism but this made even more people go see what

was so bad about the play.

He challenges the rights and wrongs of the Elizabethan society and how

its people lived and behaved, for example it would not be thought of a

girl to disobey her parents but this did happen many times in Romeo

and Juliet and Juliet disobeyed her parents to marry Romeo.

Shakespeare’s techniques of movie making are adapted even to almost

all modern day films, techniques such as: romance, sex, revenge,

violence and humour.

Shakespeare has themes relevant today, he wrote about things that

everyone experienced so everyone can connect and relate to what he was

saying in his plays.

These are the themes everyone can relate to in his plays: revenge and

betrayal, violence and hatred, relationships, love and romance,

friendship and loyalty and religion.

Shakespeare creates characters that are individual so it makes it

easier for to audience to identify with them and connect with them,

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...ust made their special bond grow more as the nurse helped Juliet

out with what ever she needed as she acted more as a mother to Juliet,

then Juliet’s biological mother.

Nurse

The nurse was an unusual character as she was funny, bubbly and

exciting at the same times. She had a very different personality to

all of the other characters in the play which made her special.

She worked for the Capulet’s and shared a special bond with Juliet as

she was there from the moment Juliet was born, breast feeding her,

changing here teaching her and nurturing her.

I think part of the nurses personality shows in Juliet as the nurse

speaks freely and so does Juliet, I think Juliet saw the nurse as a

role model as she was the only person Juliet knew, this is where I

think Juliet got some of here traits while developing others.