William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Introduction

Romeo and Juliet is about two equally rich and important families who

lived in Verona. The two families, the Montague's and the Capulet's

have an ancient grudge between them because of an old argument

carrying on in strife for many years, generation after generation,

after generation.

Their two children Romeo and Juliet cursed with bad luck fall in

"forbidden" love with each other. The children's misadventure ends the

fearful mutiny of their parents' tragic rage, finally bring peace to

Verona.

Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time in Act 1, Scene 5. This scene

prepares the audience for the tragedy that lies ahead in the way

Shakespeare has used the stage directions, stage craft, dramatic irony

and the language in the scene, Romeo's premonition written as a

soliloquy. The language (verbal+ body language) used by both Romeo and

Juliet. Also because of the events that take place before and during

this scene. The actions and language of the characters. Romeo using

similes and metaphors in Act 1, Scene 5 to describe Juliet. The

audience expect that a tragedy will happen because of the fact that

Romeo should not be there in the first place. This creates excitement

and anticipation in the audience and the audience become really

involved in the play. This is important because it keeps the audience

on their toes and it keeps them interested in the play and without

anticipation the audience loose interest in the play.

The themes of the play are in opposition to with each other. These

themes include: fate / freewill, language / reality, love / hate,

public / private and...

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...aths. This is when

Juliet talks about her grave being her wedding bed and Romeo talks

about his life being his enemy's debt.

The audience get a big hint that a tragedy will happen, this is when

Tybalt threatens vengeance against Romeo. So the audience know Tybalt

can not be stopped going against Romeo. The audience becomes certain

about this when Tybalt says that killing Romeo will not be a sin. So

they get a sense that a tragedy will happen.

We know that they will marry each other because in their quotes they

do not mention anything about them backing away from their love,

clearly suggesting that they will marry each other. We also get a big

hint that their love will end in a tragedy because like I said before

Romeo talks about his life being his enemy's debt and Juliet talks

about grave being her wedding bed.