Shakespeare's Use of the Chorus in Romeo and Juliet
The chorus appears at the beginning of act one and at the beginning of
act two. In the first chorus in act one they basically say that there
are two households that are both arguing lover a long term grudge and
that because of this both families children (Romeo and Juliet) are
going to die. This happens because they are both madly in love with
one another. Shakespeare tells us that our two main characters are
going to die at the start because it makes the audience tense and then
Shakespeare can focus on how it all happened rather than what
happened.
In act two the chorus stresses the problems with Romeos new found love
and how after all this time of loving Rosaline he just pushes her to
one side for Juliet. It carries on to talk about how they cannot meet
up and it has to be a secret. There are a lot of problems with this.
In each speech in the play of Romeo and Juliet there is a very odd
language that is quite poetic in a way that very few can understand.
Shakespeare loves to play with words rhymes and phrases to create a
whole new language. In each speech Shakespeare uses phrases, which to
a first glance you, cant understand but if you read it carefully and
analyse it you can understand the speeches and see what he means. For
example in the chorus it suggests that both families have pride; "both
alike in dignity," and that this certain feud has been going on for a
long time, he suggests this by using the word "ancient." This makes
the language more interesting and it makes the audience wonder why
this feud had been going on for such a long time. When using the
phrase "civil blood," this changes the mood and makes it very criminal
as if things are going on which should not be, if not possibly making
the audience come to the conclusion of murder as "civil blood," means
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