William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a play based mainly around the theme of love. This

theme is good for building a play around because if there is love then

you can have hate to contrast it, and many other emotions can be

brought in. Love also makes the story interesting to an audience of

Shakespeare's time; also to audiences of more modern times as people

are still enjoying his work to this day. This shows his ability as a

playwright was very good. Love is particularly important in this play

though as it runs all the way through; this allows many different

aspects of love to be explored such as, the relationship between Romeo

and Juliet which is an exciting new love relationship. On the other

hand Shakespeare also shows that love can be cruel when Juliet's

parents are trying to get her to marry Paris against her will, they

want her to marry for security. An audience in Shakespeare's time

would of been able to relate to this more than a more modern one,

because in those days arranged marriages were much more common.

Parent's married their children off for security and money - not

everyone was able to marry for love. At the beginning of the play in

the prologue Shakespeare gives a short synopsis telling the audience

what is going to happen in the play, this creates dramatic irony that

runs all the way through the play, because the audience have heard

that Romeo and Juliet are going to die; but they don't know when they

will, this creates tension and suspense. Having two people die to

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The different types of love Shakespeare explores in this play are:

Love between two lovers, like Romeo and Juliet; love between enemies,

like Romeo and Tybalt and love between family members, like Juliet and

Lord Capulet. The theme of love makes the play have antithesis all the

way through because, the tragedy is mixed with the love story

throughout all the play. I think the play has become a classic love

story known across the world because, Shakespeare wrote it in a way

that people can enjoy it in their own individual way. Each different

person can interpret the images Shakespeare created, in their own

minds and everyone could get different images. I think Shakespeare is

trying to say that love is unpredictable and very complicated and

can't be controlled, also that it can be good and bad.