The story follows the ill fated love story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet the teenage children of feuding families It is set in a time when nobility wealth and family honour and name provided a life of privilege Marriages were arranged between families and it was considered important to marry within your own nobility and class to maintain family honour and social status Themes of love such as Parental Love Romantic Love Love of Family Honour and Friendship are explored through the dramati
Shakespeare uses light and dark imagery in this scene to describe the blossoming of Romeo and Juliets romance As Romeo stands in the shadows he looks to the balcony and compares Juliet to the sun He then asks the sun to rise and kill the envious moon Romeo had always compared Rosaline to the moon and now his love for Juliet has outshone the moon Thus as Romeo steps from the moonlit darkness into the light from Juliets balcony he has left behind his melodramatic woes and moved toward a more genu
Discuss how Juliets relationships are established in Act 1 scene 3 How do these relationships change and develop later in the play In William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet the relationships of Juliet Capulet are established as being that of the stereotypical Shakespearean adolescent she is in relationships where she is innocent obedient nave and truthful However during the play she transforms into a passionate assertive and confident young woman The change in her behaviour alters the night she
Although Romeo and Juliet is classified as a tragedy it more closely resembles Shakespeares comedies than his other tragedies The lovers and their battle with authority is reminiscent of As You Like It and The Winters Tale Characteristically those comedies concern themselves with the inborn unargued stupidity of older people and the life affirming gaiety and resourcefulness of young ones The lovers thread their way through obstacles set up by middle aged vanity and impercipience Parents are stu
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage star crossd lovers 1 whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families It was among Shakespeares most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet is one of his most frequently performed plays Today the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity Its plot is based on an Itali
Violence and conflict Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare is the most famous playwright in the world but not all the facts of his life are known We do know that he was both born in 1564 and buried in 1616 in the town of Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire Shakespeare was one of eight children the first son of Mary and John Shakespeare His father was a prosperous worker with and seller of leather goods such as gloves At the time of Shakespeares birth John was an increasingly important man in th
Immaturity and Love Displayed in Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a timeless tale of lovers whos misfortune and immaturity was a cause of their own destruction The characters individually show immaturity and together demonstrate how ignorance of the world effects more than just their own lives Romeo and Juliet as expressed in the succeeding examples fall in love quickly as a result of their naivety Juliet is shown to be immature in a opening scene where her father tells the bride seeking Pa
In Shakespeares introduction Romeo is telling Benvolio how depressed he is over Rosaline Alas that love O brawling love O loving hate in Act I Scene i Lines 168 173 This is supposed to tell the readers that Romeo is an emotional boy on the other hand in the movie Romeo is shown writing a poem about Rosaline in his diary The way Baz Luhrman did Romeos actions in that scene made the fans more attracted to the new Romeo instead of Shakespeares Romeo because he is shown very young cute and emotiona
Hay Fever was a comical play with a strong message The actors throughout this play steadily used others to gain their own attention The message this play left behind after many laughs was do not use others plain and simple The space was a well constructed thrust stage however the stage was not raised off the ground and the seats appeared to be mobile which lead to the belief that this is an Environmental Theater As for the layout of the stage there was a couch and a table in center stage for th
One of Shaws aims in this play is to debunk the romantic heroics of war he wanted to present a realistic account of war and to remove all pretensions of nobility from war It is not however an anti war play instead it is a satire on those attitudes which would glorify war To create this satire Shaw chose as his title the opening lines of Virgils Aeneid the Roman epic which glorifies war and the heroic feats of man in war and which begins Of arms and the man I sing When the play opens we hear abo