enduring fame because he dared to be different‚ though he is known mainly through his plays. One of the most famous plays he wrote is Romeo and Juliet‚ a well-known love story. Also‚ he wrote Hamlet and Macbeth‚ two other well known plays. He is famous because of his creativty and giftedness with writing plays as well as his acting abilities . Althought his play " twelfth night " is a romantic comedy while " Romeo & Juliet " is romatic tragedy ‚ they both show that love can cause pain ; Many of the characters
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so its a tad bit rough. Romeo and Juliet Speech By Jordan Kirkaldy If you watch the news you will see that contemporary teenage audiences of today are motivated by selfishness‚ lust‚ immaturity‚ and violence. These themes have been relevant to teenagers all through time‚ even that of the innocent and romantic couple in the play Romeo and Juliet. Although the main characters are wholly in love and cannot bear to be apart they are unable to escape that of what they truly are‚ selfish‚ rebellious
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a play written by the well-known author‚ William Shakespeare. The setting of the play is the 1400’s in Verona‚ Italy. This is a play based on two families who have had an ancient grudge for many years‚ and their children who fall in love. What makes the story of Romeo and Juliet such a tragedy are the various decisions made by the characters of the play such as Romeo. Romeo made many decisions‚ some good‚ some bad; his decisions have a great effect towards other
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could remove " -The Prologue‚ Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare). Fate plays a major role in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The prologue describes Romeo’s and Juliet’s fate‚ which we see come up many times later on in the play. Throughout the play‚ Romeo and Juliet unwittingly realize they cannot exist in such reality and that a tragic fate awaits them. The two families‚ the Montagues and the Capulets continue being rivals all the way to the end of the play until the inevitable event takes
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The Church’s role in a Puritan Marriage In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ the church’s role in a Puritan marriage is very accurately described. Marriage is when a man and a woman come together and form a holy bond under God. The Puritan church had a very important role in a marriage during the 1700s; People lived their lives and based their marriages off of what the church was teaching. A very good example shown in the play is the marriage of John Proctor and Elizabeth Proctor. The church’s
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Initially‚ there are mainly two aspects of literature put into stories that are by far are the most important in influencing story plots and most importantly conflicts and resolutions in such stories. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ Yukio Mishima’s The Sound of Waves‚ and Authur Laurent’s West Side Story there are many similarities between these stories amongst the central conflict. For example‚ in all three stories there are two different groups resembling different sides of a rivalry
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that scene) and in two other Shakespearean sonnets‚ sonnet 18 and sonnet 130. William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets‚ they were themed poems normally based on love and time. Sonnets were very popular with audiences in Elizabethan times so they knew what they meant and how there were used. All Sonnets have the same structure‚ each one has 14 lines with three quatrains with alternate rhyme and end with a rhyming couplet (Volta). The rhyme scheme of a sonnet is always “a b a b‚ c d c d‚ e f e f‚ g g”-
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Despite being originally published during the late 1590’s‚ Romeo and Juliet is still remarkably well known today. How did a play remain prominent for over four centuries? The tale of the two star-crossed lovers dying at the mercy of unfortunate circumstances is still considered one of the greatest literary works of all time due to its unique plot‚ use of diverse characters and how well written it is. First of all‚ the story of Romeo and Juliet is like no other. The entire story is one big oxymoron
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The play Romeo and Juliet has been around since it was written by William Shakespeare in 1595. The themes inferred in this play have stuck around‚ despite the social changes that society has went through. We watched three different movies on Romeo and Juliet‚ and each was set in a different time period (1968‚ 1996‚ and 2014). They had many things in common and many things different. Some of the things in common was that the Montague’s and Capulet’s did not like each other at all. Also‚ another similarity
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of Pip and Romeo Pip and Romeo go through many life changing events that end of shaping their future‚ to something they never wanted it to become. The tragic tale‚ Romeo and Juliet was written by the author William Shakespeare. The novel‚ Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens. In the novel Great Expectations‚ Pip goes through his journey of growing up‚ and eventually becomes a gentleman after being apprenticed to Joe for several years. In the tragedy‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ Romeo goes through
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