Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet
ROMEO AND JULIET Does the prologue and opening scene prepare the audience for what follows? Shakespeare opens the play with a prologue of 14 lines. This prepares the audience for the content of the play. These 14 lines are basically a summary of the play.
Within ?Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare focuses on many different themes such as love, hate, violence, fate, life and death. The prologue is written about these different themes that take part in the play. It gives the prologue a contrast to the content of the play. He also writes predictions, which also eventually come true in the play. The prologue sums up the whole play in just 14 lines.
?Romeo and Juliet? is full of violence and the prologue shows this ? civil blood makes civil hands unclean? …show more content…
yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin this fear full date? He almost knows what is to come and that the love that he is about to encounter will end with his ?untimely death?. All the way through the play ?Romeo and Juliet? have fate encounters. It is also said that the letter mix up was fate and not just an accident because they were supposed to fall in love and then both die. The whole play was perhaps revolved around fate, the fact that the nurse was so deeply involved, the fact that Friar Laurence could ?put Juliet to death? could have all been destiny and fate orientated just so the lovers could meet, fall in love and die. The pattern, which the lovers go through, is all too much bigger coincidence and so is it fate?! In direct contrast to the violence and hate mentioned at the beginning of the play, a thick stream of love runs throughout. There are many different types of love at work within the play. Firstly seen is Romeo?s love for a girl whom is not a character in the play ?Rosaline? but unfortunately his love for her is not returned ?she?ll not be hit by cupids arrow? Rosaline does not love him back and he gets very depressed over this. His love for Rosaline is perhaps not sincere as at the party he does but glance at Juliet and his love for Rosaline is gone. This time his love is returned by Juliet but perhaps too young to know true love and just
Within ?Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare focuses on many different themes such as love, hate, violence, fate, life and death. The prologue is written about these different themes that take part in the play. It gives the prologue a contrast to the content of the play. He also writes predictions, which also eventually come true in the play. The prologue sums up the whole play in just 14 lines.
?Romeo and Juliet? is full of violence and the prologue shows this ? civil blood makes civil hands unclean? …show more content…
yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin this fear full date? He almost knows what is to come and that the love that he is about to encounter will end with his ?untimely death?. All the way through the play ?Romeo and Juliet? have fate encounters. It is also said that the letter mix up was fate and not just an accident because they were supposed to fall in love and then both die. The whole play was perhaps revolved around fate, the fact that the nurse was so deeply involved, the fact that Friar Laurence could ?put Juliet to death? could have all been destiny and fate orientated just so the lovers could meet, fall in love and die. The pattern, which the lovers go through, is all too much bigger coincidence and so is it fate?! In direct contrast to the violence and hate mentioned at the beginning of the play, a thick stream of love runs throughout. There are many different types of love at work within the play. Firstly seen is Romeo?s love for a girl whom is not a character in the play ?Rosaline? but unfortunately his love for her is not returned ?she?ll not be hit by cupids arrow? Rosaline does not love him back and he gets very depressed over this. His love for Rosaline is perhaps not sincere as at the party he does but glance at Juliet and his love for Rosaline is gone. This time his love is returned by Juliet but perhaps too young to know true love and just