Romeo And Juliet
William Shakespeare wrote many famous plays such as “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Macbeth”, however one of his more famous plays was “ Romeo and Juliet”. “ Romeo and Juliet” is a love tragedy where “two star cross’d lovers” are tragically split between two rival families; the Montague’s and the Capulet’s.
All of Shakespeare’s plays could meet and appeal to a wide audience; I think this was because of the variety of lines in the play. For example there were lines of sexual innuendo but also there were lines of serious sophisticated language, which could bring the tension up.
Shakespeare creates atmosphere, tension and emotion throughout the play, between and within scenes; he does this by having a high-tension scene followed by a low-tension scene. Not only does this help the flow of the play, but also it makes the scene that follows the low-tension scenes seem even higher in tension.
An example of this is in Act 1 Scene 5 when Romeo enters the evening ball, Tybalt noticing him advances towards Romeo to start a brawl but Capulet drags him back, “Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone; He bears him like a portly gentleman”. This is quite a high-tension point in this scene. However it is shortly followed by the first time Romeo and Juliet meet, quite a huge change from tension and violence to love.
In the scene prior to Act 3 Scene 5, Capulet and his wife are discussing the issue of marriage with Paris. At first, they reject his request [pic]to marry Juliet due to Tybalt dying. Capulet finally agrees to allow Paris to marry Juliet. Paris leaves and Capulet tells his wife to prepare Juliet for the wedding. “Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day. Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho!” They then all leave.
There are many different types of juxtaposition throughout the whole play, for example
Shakespeare makes us feel sympathetic in this scene by making Juliet use ambiguous language like “Madam, I am not well.” This has two meanings; she's...
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