During the play Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare manages to effectively depict the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. One way he achieves this is by creating sympathy for Romeo and Juliet‚ which consequently affects the reader and audience of the play. Three ways in which Shakespeare is able to create sympathy for them is through the general setting and plot structure‚ the language used‚ and also the characterisation of Romeo and Juliet. From the very beginning of the play (in the prologue)
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How does Shakespeare create sympathy for Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare creates sympathy for the two protagonists in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ skilfully using emotive language‚ sonnet form‚ alliteration and metaphor. Before the play begins‚ the audience are told that it will end in a disaster. This creates an emotive reaction in the audience throughout the play as they are reminded of the fate of the two young lovers. This is emphasised by the fact that the protagonists foreshadow their own
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play about love‚ romance‚ relationships‚ families and violence. Although mainly about love‚ there are many scenes that contain violence and conflict. This play opens with a fight and ends with reconciliation. The violence in this play occurs from a long standing disagreement between two families (Montague’s + Capulet’s). The events lead to the tragic deaths of ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ In this essay I will discuss how Shakespeare uses conflict to create the tragedy in which
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Romeo and Juliet is a famous tragedy written by William Shakespeare and was originally published in 1597. This book contains several suspenseful events in which keeps readers hooked‚ but just how does Shakespeare achieve this? William Shakespeare uses different dialogue between characters to create suspense and to set the mood and tone of the story. Dialogue is an important thing to have in stories because it allows readers to get to know characters on a more personal level. The story of Romeo
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Enter ROMEO MONTAGUE: a young man of about eighteen years of age‚ born into an influential family‚ center stage in one of the greatest and most renowned love stories of all times. Enter JULIET CAPULET: a teenage girl‚ member of a powerful family that rivals the Montagues in a perpetually bloody feud. Romeo dreams of his true love Rosaline‚ while Juliet aspires to please her parents by securing a husband in the wealthy suitor Paris. However‚ the two meet at a party and their attraction is passionate
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In the play‚ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare‚ the Capulets and Montagues long-standing feud had a greater effect on their children’s behavior‚ rather than the nature of their own growing and developing brains. In the beginning of the play‚ when the first quarrel occurs‚ Tybalt says “As I hate hell‚ all Montagues‚ and thee: Have at thee coward!’ (Shakespeare Mid-1590s). This “hate” that Tybalt and the rest of the characters have‚ have this belief engraved into their minds since they were taught
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Poling 1 Period 2 01/14/16 William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is widely known as a horrible tragedy about two teen lovers whose death bring their feuding families together. While there may be a dramatic ending to the play‚ it starts off as a funny and delightful comedy. To divert the audience’s attention from the cruel reality of the play‚ Shakespeare focuses on the parts that make it entertaining for the audience. If humor was not added‚ Romeo and Juliet would have been a very tiresome romance about
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Examine Shakespeare’s treatment of relationships in Romeo and Juliet. In this essay I will be examining William Shakespeare’s treatment of relationships in Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon‚ Warwickshire and was alive during the Elizabethan era. He was an English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language. He wrote at least thirty seven plays and also wrote poems. His plays were comedies‚ histories and tragedies and some
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William Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet" was based upon Arthur Brooke’s poem - "The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet" (1562). He wrote a play that the audience already knew - Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy originally written in 1599. The opening of the play creates tension‚ which is followed throughout the ply by the dramatic irony of the chorus giving the prologue to the play‚ making the audience start to wonder when things will happen. "Who will fall in love?" "Who will die?" "Who will
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Within the lines of tragedy and it’s effects‚ the tragic hero must receive sympathy in order to create the full tragic effect. In Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet‚ it is easy to sympathize for the main character who’s name happens to be the same as the title‚ Hamlet. Hamlet clearly struggles with depression‚ which is a beginning building block for sympathy. Off and on‚ Hamlet contemplates suicide. The struggle of ending his life‚ or enduring more hardships constantly weighed on his troubled mind. On
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