When people act on impulse it leads to terrible endings and suffering to others. In the beginning of the play Romeo shows his tragic flaw when he goes to the Capulet party and falls in love with Juliet, completely forgetting about his first love Rosaline. When Romeo sees Juliet at the party he says, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (I.v.50-51) This shows his impulsiveness by not mentioning Rosaline at all and starting to fall in love with a girl he does not even know.
The coronation of Poppea was made up of 12 scenes divided in to two acts that tell us the romantic but painful love story of royal family. The opera described the atrocious emperor who killed his teacher and abolished the empress only to marry Poppea. The opera ended up with happiness, which eulogized the power of love which can fight against everything. This very first amazing work in opera was composed by Monteverdi and plays a significant role in operatic literature history opening the era of baroque music. The prologue itself was very funny.
Friar Lawrence affects the action of Romeo and Juliet by marrying Romeo and Juliet, helping Romeo escape Verona safely, and helping them reunite by giving Juliet a sleeping potion to fake her death. In Act II scene III, Friar Lawrence says, “For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households’ rancor to pure love (II, iii, 94-95).” This means that Friar Lawrence will agree to marry them, but only because he hopes their marriage will end the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues. In Act III scene III, Friar Lawrence says, “Either be gone before the watch be set,/ Or by the break of day disguis’d from hence./ Sojourn in Mantua; I’ll find out your man,/ And he shall signify from time to time/ Every good hap to you that chances here (III,iii,171-175).” This quote states the plan that Friar Lawrence made to help Romeo escape Verona and keep him updated on what happens there. In Act IV scene II, Friar Lawrence says, “There’ll be no warmth or breath to prove that you’re alive. / The color in your lips and cheeks will fade/ to pale ashes; your eyelids will close/ like death when he shuts up the last day of your life (IV, ii, 100-103).” In this quote, he is describing the effects of the potion he will give Juliet to fake her death.
The word “dove” suggests she is both beautiful and a figure of peace. Shakespeare represents strong feeling of love and how it is effectively presented through this quote. This is ironic because her family is the Montague’s enemy and conflict before peace arrives between the two families. The “crows” could represent the Capulet’s who are the Montague’s enemies, but can also represent the other females at the ball. It can be said that Romeo uses the word “crows” to contrast Juliet to the other females; it is evident that he finds her to be one of the beautiful beings.
Jared Gnyp SPBHS 5-27-12 ELA 1. Dramatic Irony- occurs when the audience or the reader knows something that a character in a play or story does not know. 2. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet has dramatic irony through out the whole play. Some of them were hard to point out but some were easy.
Homophobia, Masculinity, and the Black Arts Movement Upon analysis of the Black Arts Movement and the literature that was produced during this time period had an unorthodox rhetoric that few authors used. Some of the contributors of the Black Arts Movement employed bigotry ideology toward homosexuals. Ultimately, this strategy can be interpreted as an attempt to portray a hyper-masculine mentality. There are several pieces of literature that are prejudice toward homosexuals and other groups. These homophobic elements that were used in numerous writings attempted to stage a sense of militancy for the Black Arts Movement and gain a sense of “credibility” among the followers.
In Death of a salesman we learn of the affair that Willy Loman had which would suggest that this view is true and similarly in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof we learn that both Big Daddy and Brick have fallen out of love with their wives. We have Willy’s affair hinted at with the constant presence of the character only made known to the audience as “the woman”, before the play reaches its climax with Biff’s discovery of the affair. Miller uses dramatic irony to accentuate our feelings of sympathy towards Biff and our judgment of Willy. We see Miller use dramatic irony in the line “Dad – I let you down” (p.92) from Biff. The hyphen shows a pause in the delivery of the line which implies hesitation and guilt.
William Shakespear is a wonderful writer that uses different methods to get his message across in a creative and interesting way. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” he uses the different categories of the English language to bring to the audience attention that Romeo and Juliet are “star-crossed” and fate brings them together. Inevitability of fate would be one of the main themes of the play. Romeo and Juliet’s love for one another brings them closer together but the fight between their two sides would lead to the death of these two lovers. William Shakespear often us motifs to paint a picture of what’s going on in the story.
Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays. This is probably because at the time that it was written it had themes of forbidden love a theme that was never touched upon before Shakespeare. The story is about two young people who are from feuding families who at one families masquerade ball fall in love at first sight, and even when one parent tells Juliet to marry someone else she refuses and would rather be disowned than marry some one else. To be able to be with Romeo she takes a poison that would make her appear dead. When Romeo hears of her ‘death’ he is so distraught and depressed that he kills himself at the side of her death bed.
Later in the day, the Capulet’s hold a party where Romeo sneaks in. During the party he meets Juliet where soon, they fall in love and marry the next day. The next day, there is a fight between the Montagues and Capulet’s and Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin Tybalt and fled the scene. The prince orders that Romeo is banished from Verona. Most of Romeo’s actions in the play shows Romeo act in madness because he marries Juliet, kills Tybalt and commits suicide.