The Development of the Storyline and Tension in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Act 1 introduces many characters, these characters have extremely different personalities, which gives a wide verity of contrasting atmospheres this keeps the audience attention. The range of atmospheres can change from rude humor to poetic language. Act 1 establishes that some of the characters have a philosophical approach to life. Act 1 scene 1 begins with a very dramatic opening and the writer uses his characters Sampson and Gregory to portray a rudely humorous atmosphere for the audience. Shakespeare uses this line to convey Sampson and Gregory as being boastful and superior to the Montague’s. Shakespeare in this scene creates an atmosphere of excitement for the audience and this keeps the audience interested. The tone drastically changes when two Montague’s enter the scene, which emphasizes the extremes of Act 1. Shakespeare uses a serious tone to emphasize that the grudge between the two families is in all generations as Sampson urges Gregory to quarrel with the Montague’s for example ‘Quarrel, I will back thee.’ Sampson insults Abram, a member of the Montague family, by saying ‘I will bite my thumb at them’ Abram is extremely offended by this and the insult progresses until they are ready to draw their swords. Benvolio enters and shows a strong side of his character when he acts as the peacemaker when he says ‘ Part, fools! Put up your swords, you know what you do.’ Tybalt a member of the Capulet family enters the scene and conveys his character as an energetic and oblivious character for example ‘What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate ... ... middle of paper ... ...ns such as Tybalt and Lord Capulet deciding what to and with Romeo at the banquet. The settings in Act 1 are constantly changing to hold the interest of the audience. They can change from a poor market street to a rich banquet hall. This is so the different classes can see how each others way of life. Shakespeare uses a variety of writing techniques in his language. Blank verses are used to create variety of atmosphere. He uses a prologue. When he wants to emphasize certain lines he uses rhyming couplets to emphasize the point. A sonnet is used between Romeo and Juliet, to explain their love. All these techniques helped to create contrast. The audience would have stayed interested in the play even though they were standing up for two hours and it is because of the variety of techniques and dramatic performance.
Comparing Two Interpretations of Act 3, Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story, which plays with its audiences emotions throughout the play. This dramatic play by William Shakespeare is about two young people from different families. Romeo is a Montague and Juliet a Capulet. They live their romance secretly.
All of these lines are said to Tybalt's uncle, Lord Capulet, by Tyblat. Right from the start Tybalt says Romeo is a villain, a trouble maker. He states that he will not stand for such a horrible person to be at the party. Tybalt feels that it is a shame. Being ignorant also means not knowing the whole truth.
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 ...
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Baz Lurhmann's Film Version Previously, in Act 2 Scene 6, we have seen Romeo and Juliet marrying one another thus binding the Montagues with the Capulets together. The marriage had to take place in secret, due to the war between the two families. We see at the beginning of Act 3 Scene 1, the behaviour between Romeo, Mercutio and Tybalt reflect the hatred between the Montagues and Capulets. Throughout this essay I shall be looking at the main characters of Act 3 Scene 1, also I will discuss the way Shakespeare presents the characters in the play and in contrast with Baz Lurhmann's film of Romeo and Juliet, to see if Lurhmann adds anything to how the characters are represented in the film. At the start of act 3 scene 1 we see Mercutio's arrogance, as when confronted by Tybalt, he tells him that he "will not budge".
How Shakespeare Develops Tragedy in Romeo and Juliet In this scene Juliet is faced by a dilemma, should she stay married to her rebellious husband or should she get married to the true gentleman County Paris? Her parents threaten to disown her if she does not marry Paris; in this situation Juliet grows as a person and becomes more mature as how to handle her problems. This scene opens with Romeo and Juliet talking in bed, the morning after there wedding night. Juliet is trying to convince Romeo not to go because she thinks it is still night.
In Act 1 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare has used a number of
In act one scene three of Romeo and Juliet Lord Capulet states “…She hath not seen the change of fourteen years. Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.” This means that Juliet is not quite fourteen years old and her father is not sure if she is ready to become a wife and mother. There are many differences between how people marry today, and how they married in the time of Romeo and Juliet. Some of the differences are when the people marry, why people marry, and also the level of maturity people marry at.
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a love story that has been read for hundreds of years and is still studied today. The story is about a young boy and a young girl who are in love with each other but both of their lives end in tragedy. Many of the play’s character’s actions affect the outcome of the play, but no character can be put to blame of the outcome. The one thing that these events can be credited to is fate. Fate did many things in the play, such as caused Romeo and Juliet to meet and it caused Romeo to believe Juliet was dead.
What are we made of? I mean humans of course, but what are we made of. We know what our bodies are composed of but what is in our souls or spirits. Are humans really superior to other living things. Yes we can talk, but what are we made of? We are made of our feelings. Our standards, our way of life, our way of thinking and everyone is different. Some may be straight A students with a normal life while some have had a rough journey and less than perfect grades. But there are some things that I think most people have in them. It’s a positive spirit. Now, everyones is triggered by different stuff but we all have one. But, of course where there is a positive spirit there is a negative spirit which is much, much easier to catch. Even though The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet doesn’t scream positive messages about human spirit there are still some in it such as, love can make you do crazy things, in hard times people can unite, and that even when everyone is against you, you can still do what’s right.
Through the flaws in the characterization of his characters, Shakespeare allows their weakness to manipulate and cloud their judgment. This fundamentally leads to the outcome of Romeo and Juliet, with each weakness presenting a conflict that alters the character's fate. Being especially true to the star-crossed lovers, William Shakespeare leads their perfect love into tragedy with these conflicts. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet, Friar Lawrence, and Tybalt all contribute to conflicts that enhance the plot. From destructive flaws in their characterizations, Juliet, Friar Lawrence, and Tybalt are all consequently controlled by their weakness, therefore affecting the outcome of the play.
In act 1 scene 1, the characters are all individual and unique. Shakespeare has written this scene so that it starts from the lowest rank in the families, the servants, to the highest, the lords. By doing this, he has made the audience aware of the fact that everyone who is part of the families is also part of the battle. During this scene, we come across important characters these include: Benvolio, Tybalt, Lord Montague, Lord Capulet, Prince Escales and Romeo. Shakespeare has used the characters names to tell us what to expect them to be like for the rest of the life. The name Benvolio means good will, from this you can expect Benvolio not be involved in the battle. You can see this when he says “Part, fools! Put up your swords, you know not what you do”. The name Tybalt means tyrant this makes you expect him to be a cruel person. You can also see this when he says “What drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montague’s and thee”. Prince Escales plays a big role in act 1 because he is the representation of law and order. If you remove the letter E from his name it spells scales this gives evidence that the Prince wants things to be balanced and he is serious. You can see this when he says “If ever you disturb our streets again. Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace”. For most c...
Character Development Essay The play "Romeo and Juliet", by William Shakespeare, is a dramatic love story. The characters in this play have static and dynamic conflicts. Internal conflict is a conflict where the person has trouble making a decision. External conflict is when another person, society, or situation gets in the way of the character.
When people hear of Romeo and Juliet most think about a tragic love story of two young people who died because they could not bear being without one another, but how did that tragedy come about? Romeo and Juliet meet at a party one night and immediately fall in love. They soon find out they are from families that greatly despise one another and know that they should not be together but they are already too far fallen for one another. Romeo and Juliet's parents were bad influences on their kids because of their refusal to end a long lasting feud, teaching hate towards the opposing family and pushing their kids to do things against their will.
In scene 1 act 1 William Shakespeare establishes the feud between the Capulets (Juliet's family) and Montagues (Romeo's family), this is the very first proper scene in the play, excluding the play's prologue, and it opens with violence. This scene establishes the fact that this is a feud and not a little disagreement straight away as Sampson and Gregory are having a discussion of how to deal with the Montagues should they start trouble, stating things like: "On my word, we will not carry coals." Saying they won't take any insults lying down, also in the first scene Sampson states: "In choler, we'll draw." Meaning, if angry, they will draw their swords, another notable thing said during this conversation is when Gregory says: "Thou art not moved quickly to strike." Taking what Sampson says and spinning it to make it seem like he is not quick enough to act against the Montagues, perhaps trying to fire him up in case there is a fight.