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    Romeo and Juliet’s Last love scene I think is the essence of the play it tells the audience how important their love is to each other and how they would do anything to be together‚ W.H Auden also expresses love like this in his poem "stop all the clocks" in the way he makes everything grind to a halt after his tragic loss. Romeo’s behavior when he spies Juliet is smitten at first sight‚ describing her as "Beauty too rich for use‚ for earth too dear!" (I‚ v‚ 49). This language is in direct contrast

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    Initially‚ in Act I of Romeo and Juliet‚ Romeo’s language is more infatuated and distressed‚ but after he meets Juliet in Act II‚ his language alters and becomes more lighthearted and mature. In Act I of Romeo and JulietRomeo is fantasizing about a girl named Rosaline. He perceives her as extremely gorgeous and also thinks he is in love with her. However‚ he has never spoken to her. As a result‚ Romeo is being melodramatic about many things. His speech pattern is more poetic and is centered around

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    Madison Cantrell 3rd Hr Pre-Ap English 1B Romeo and Juliet Scene 1 Act 1Scene 1: Sampson and Gregory‚ the servants for the house of Capulet‚ are walking through the streets of Verona. They both are venting to each other about how they despise the house of Monague‚ they both wish to have a brawl with the other house. They then see other see two servants from the other house and decide to “bite there thumb” at them in order to start a fight. The two houses have a fight‚ and the prince decides

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    someone acts when they are upset or inpatient could differ from when they are calmed down. The difference between these two is that they each could bring different repercussions. This is shown in depth in the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and in today’s world. In the play written by William Shakespeare‚ Romeo and Juliet both make mistakes because they were thinking irrationally and because they were either upset or being inpatient. In the beginning of the play‚ Romeo and Juliet meet at

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    Set in Verona‚ William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet shows the disastrous effect of love in the lives of the play’s key characters‚ Romeo and Juliet. The balcony scene of the Shakespeare’s play and Baz Luhrmann’s film is the most significant and important scene of the whole play. This scene serves to establish Romeo and Juliet’s love‚ it illustrates the barrier between the ‘pair of star-crossed lovers’‚ and how they confess their lover for each other and decide to get married in spite of the

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    I am going to be examining Act III Scene I and Act III Scene II to show how these two scenes create dramatic effectiveness for the audience. Act III Scene 1 (A Room in the castle) involves Claudius contemplating whether or not to send Hamlet away to London in order to deal with his troubles. This is also the scene of Hamlet’s famous soliloquy ‘To be or not to be”‚ whereby he is considering his life and what has been going on since his fathers death. Act III Scene II is where Hamlet has a play in

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    Romeo was a young man looking for love. He had just been rejected by his beautiful Rosaline and was distraught. Before he went to the party at the Capulet’s household‚ he had this premonition that something fatal was going to happen that night. He said "I fear too early for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night’s reveals‚ and expire the term Of a despised life closed in my breast By some vile forfeit of untimely death"

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    Romeo and Juliet Scene Study Act 2 Scene 2 1. What is the meaning of the passage you selected and what was happening in the scene at the time it was said? This passage‚ Romeo expresses his love for Juliet. Here‚ in the famous balcony sceneRomeo and Juliet reveal their love to each other‚ and at Juliet’s suggestion‚ they plan to marry. As Romeo stands in the shadows‚ he looks to the balcony and compares Juliet to the sun. “It is the east and Juliet is the sun”. Comparing her to the sun as Juliet

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    Juliet’s mind shifts from restless‚ to sorrow‚ to utterly distraught through the variety of scenes in Act 3. As we enter the Capulet’s orchid in Scene 3‚ we hear Juliet grow restless as she waits for the night. In the beginning of Scene 2‚ Juliet grows restless. She voices an eloquent soliloquy on her apprehensiveness as the night approached‚ expressing‚ “…night before some festival… [when] an impatient child that hath new robes‚ and may not wear them” (III. ii. 29-31) She uses a metaphor expressing

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    by Shakespeare. One of those elements is dramatic irony‚ which is based on the contrast of reality and misconception. In dramatic irony this contrast depends on the difference between what the character believes and what the audience knows to be true. The usage of dramatic irony‚ combined with other literary elements‚ builds suspense‚ tension‚ and concern for the characters in the play - one thing that the playwright or a writer desires to achieve. Dramatic irony is a plot device usually used when

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