Romeo and Juliets is a tragic love story but it is the meaning behind the words that made it such a beautiful play. Romeo and Juliet’s dreadful events took place in Verona. Juliet born into the Capulet family and Romeo being a Montague destined to be enemies but fall deeply in love. The audience knows the love between the characters because of the significance behind Shakespeare’s dialogue. When Juliet has temporary died dramatic irony is introduced to the storyline because the audience learn that Juliet is alive but Romeo and the nurse are devastated and felt a great loss. Nurse has come to awaken Juliet since it was planned that she marry Paris but instead Nurse found her dead in her bedroom. The Nurse states, “I must needs wake you. Lady! Lady! Lady!-/ Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady’s dead!/ O, weraday, that ever I was born!/ Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! My lady!”(4.5.13-16). Given that Shakespeare’s uses literary elements dramatic irony is presented in the scene because the audience perceives she is not deceased. Also shows the love between Nurse and Juliet because of how worried she was for Juliet. …show more content…
Romeo is using a metaphor to compare Juliet’s voice to lovely music. In Romeo and Juliet states, “How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,/ Like softest music to attending ears”(2.2. 167-168). As a result from this metaphor the reader can fully grasp an image of Juliet and Romeo’s affection towards her. In the same scene Romeo says that with her beauty she will kill the envious moon. In the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet states, “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,/ Who is already sick and pale with grief”(2.2. 4-5). In other words Romeo has illustrated the beauty of Juliet and the inclination he has for his lover, Juliet.The reader can illustrate Juliet because of the personification and metaphors that Romeo
In the drama, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, there are several long speeches that show different types of figurative language and structure. One that is particularly intriguing is the speech Mercutio makes when trying to persuade Romeo to go to the Capulet party. In this speech Mercutio describes Queen Mab, who is a fairy like woman that controls dreams. She makes ladies dream of kisses, soldiers dream of the blood of enemies, and lawyers dream of money. Within this speech about Queen Mab, Shakespeare uses metaphorical language, imagery, specific tones, and structure to create an image for the audience and contribute to the larger plot of the play.
The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare shows how Romeo and Juliet meet. The play takes place in Verona, Italy. The Montagues and Capulets have ongoing feuds with each other. Romeo Montague meets Juliet Capulet at one of her family’s parties, instantly fall in love, and decide to secretly get married the the day after the party. Throughout the play, both Romeo and Juliet show character traits they have which leads to a tragic ending.
The magnificently written Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare is a tragic tale about lust and love, and the lovers take their own lives. The tale takes place in a Italian city called Verona were two rival family are in a dispute against which house is superior, but out of this, two destined lovers found each other and fell in love. But in thinking too fast their plan gets crushed and turns into something far more depressing then it should have been.
Romeo and Juliet, one of many Shakespeare tragedy plays, reveals that Shakespeare thinks love brings sorrow and grief. The play tells a story about “two star-crossed lovers” named Romeo and Juliet, who live in two different households that hate each other. Many problems arise with Romeo and Juliet loving each other, but being enemies in nature. The story is told by many characters, including Romeo and Juliet. Through this, Shakespeare uses dramatic irony, repetition of epithets, and pathos to show how love brings sorrow and grief.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is set in 16th century Verona, Italy. A play that relays the story of two young lovers whose ill-fated deaths end an ancient family feud. The two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, come from families who disapprove of their love. Their situation complicates as the play progresses, with an arranged marriage and several deaths. Romeo and Juliet both fall to the consequences of their secret marriage. Even from the beginning, their decisions were rash; especially from Romeo. Shakespeare use of various tactics in developing Romeo’s character in the play. He shows that Romeo has an impulsive and emotional disposition. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is irrational.
William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet is a traumatic love story between young adults Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet come from different families who have been feuding for years, the Capulets and the Montagues. Abandoning the indifferences between their families they go against it all, fall in love, and marry in secret. Little do they know their love story will result in a tragic ending, death. William Shakespeare writes this play set in Verona, Italy and to him this place is thought of as a timeless fantasy land. Even though Shakespeare sets the play in Verona the characters do not act the way people from there acted and their beliefs and customs were not the same. The way the families act and treat others in based more on
Romeo explains how love is a constant battle within him when he exclaims “brawling love” and “loving hate”. He lets out his sadness when he says “heavy lightness” which means sad happiness, and “serious vanity”, which means serious foolishness. All of this language is very complex and not clear, which is also a sign that Romeo is not truly in love. Romeo uses dark diction in his comparisons when he says “brawling”, “hate”, and “heavy”, which shows the darkness of courtly love and how it can eat someone up emotionally. Next, courtly love is shown through figurative language when Romeo uses an extended metaphor to describe his feelings for Juliet. Romeo states this complex metaphor in the quote, “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun./ Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,/ Who is already sick and pale with
In a passage from Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses negative diction to show how Romeo acts after hearing about his banishment. For example, when Romeo goes to talk to Friar Lawrence, Friar Lawrence says that Romeo has “wild acts”(3.3.120). “Wild” suggests that Romeo does not think straight which results in him making wild decisions, which puts him in dangerous situations. Also, Friar Lawrence compares Romeo to an “ill-beseeming beast”(3.3.123). “Beseeming” means to be worthy or fit for something. Therefore, “ill-beseeming” means that he is not worthy or fit for something. “Beast” suggests that Romeo is wild. A beast is a monster or animal that behaves rabidly. “Ill-beseeming beast” suggests that Romeo is unfit for something due to the rabid
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragic love story. The story concerns the love between two young people, Romeo and Juliet. This is set against a feud between their two families: the Montagues and the Capulets. This feud develops the themes of conflict, deception and dignity in the play. The play includes a lot of themes, love, family, hate, deception and revenge.
In act two, scene two, line 2, Romeo says“.It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” When Shakespeare did this, it showed that Romeo viewed Juliet as someone that stood out amongst all other things. It also shows that he was very immersed in to her and no one else. He was focused on her. He had tunnel vision in a sort. I think the reason Shakespeare implemented this into the play was because he really wanted to explain how Romeo saw Juliet. Also, when Romeo first sees Juliet, he says that it is as if she hangs on the cheek of night and is a jewel in an Ethiope's ear. When Romeo says this he means that Juliet stands out among all the other people, like a jewel. he means that she is the one thing that is in focus and all other things are blurred. he is totally focused on her, and has completely forgotten about Rosaline which he remarks later in the text. I think that Shakespeare uses this metaphor to better explain how beautiful Juliet really is to Romeo And how she stood out to him. Throughout Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare has used an overflowing amount of metaphors, some of which take multiple readings to realize, but if you look you will find
Throughout the existence of humanity, there have been many notable authors whose works are studied and admired. From the works of Aristotle, all the way to Stephen King, many famous and skillful writers have wrote beloved masterpieces that people still love to this day. However, none may be as notable as William Shakespeare is, and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is perhaps Shakespeare’s most admired, referenced, and beloved work. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a fateful love story between two teens who are repelled away from each other due to a feud between their families, the story takes place in Verona, an Italian city. The story is centered around a feud between two families, the Montagues, Romeo’s family, and Capulets, Juliet’s family.
In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare explores the tragic story of two star-crossed lovers. Set in the Northern Italian cities of Verona and Mantua, tells the story of Romeo and Juliet and their love for each other, even though their families are enemies. For generations the Capulets and Montagues have been at each others necks over everything, but this does not stop the two star-crossed lovers. Meeting one another at a masquerade ball and falling in love overnight. These two lovers do countless things behind their parents back and keep numerous amounts of secrets from their loved ones. Making multiple decisions without thinking of the consequences leads them to their tragic ending. So,
In Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare in 1595 is a play about a pair of star-crossed lovers who are victims to their fate. Picturesque Verona, Italy is home to the Montagues and Capulets who are two feuding families. The only children of the adversaries are Romeo of the Montagues and Juliet of the Capulets. The deaths of Romeo and Juliet change their feuding families to dignify eachother, and if it weren't for the opposition they wouldn't be dead.
‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a dark love story written by no other than William Shakespeare. It’s about two star-crossed lover from the two rival families in the City of Verona, Romeo and Juliet fall in love at the Capulet's feast. They may have been madly in love which caused deaths but before they died many people would agree that Romeo wasn’t the best friend in the city of Verona.
Romeo and Juliet is a great play. Who can forget the great balcony scene where Romeo and Juliet confess their love for each other. This scene was the most important part of the movie. Without it, Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t be Romeo and Juliet.During the whole Movie/ Book, they used multiple types of figurative language such as puns, hyperboles, similes, metaphors and etc. In this scene, I found Multiple Examples of Figurative Language. The first one I immediately notice was a Hyperbole. every single moment Romeo was listening to Juliet he kept on referring to her as an “angel”. I was immediately able to figure out this was