However, Shakespeare presents Benedick’s change in a more positive and light-hearted manner, whilst Macbeth’s change revolves around negativity and wrong-doing as the approach to each individual genre is different, where comedies are humorous and happy, whilst tragedies are gloomy and grief-stricken. INTRO: The opening scene of the play, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, is significant as Shakespeare introduces the genre of the play as a romantic comedy through the comic names given to Benedick and Beatrice by each other. Beatrice nicknames Benedick as “Signor Mountanto”, which uses sexual innuendo expressing their love hate relationship, created by the definition of the word ‘montanto’ (technical term for an upward thrust in fencing). This insulting, but hilarious comment would have only been understood by the Shakespearean audience. Opposing this, Benedick personifies disdain in the form of Beatrice, by calling her “Lady Disdain”, suggesting that she is in fact, the epitome of disdain or contempt.
How love is presented in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and a selection of poetry by Philip Larkin Many people consider Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ a stereotypical romantic love story. In some ways, it does meet these expectations. The archetypal lovers are brought up in ‘fair Verona’ by grand families ‘alike in dignity’. Because of the families' on-going conflict, the two 'star-crossed lovers' find themselves hurtling towards an ill-fated end. 'Violent passions lead to violent ends', therefore the romance becomes a tragedy.
We perceive this indication when Romeo says “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.” This insinuates that Romeo believes he has fallen in love at the mere first sight of Lord Capulet’s only born, since he suddenly wishes to kiss her (in contempt of the fact that he knows nothing regarding her). Possibly, the two lovers’ moods became even more intimate once they figured out that it was forbidden love. Throughout the play, the couple do not argue at all and their love seems to permit them to overlook everything their significant other does. One instance of this is when Romeo assassinates Juliet’s very own blood, Tybalt and all she does after the murder of her own cousin is question whether she should be ireful of Romeo for slaying Tybalt or if she should blame her cousin. However, then Romeo appears and everything she was contemplating goes out the window without a second thought.
This contrasts to where Romeo is with Juliet and time passes very quickly. Romero understands how deceptive, gripping and unforgiving love is. He explains that “love is a smoke made with the fumes of sighs… a madness most discreet.” When Romeo explains the smoke, he is expressing how love is a mystery and you can always understand it all. He says they are “fumes of sighs.” The part of this phrase which stands out to me is Romeo using the word sigh. People sigh when they are upset or angry.
Shakespeare tries to make this scene dramatic and sad. This is the last Scene in which Rome and Juliet talk together. It is hard for Romeo and Juliet to divide which is shown by the quote. Romeo wants a “last” kiss to descend with a good feeling. Capulet acts really disrespectful and mean to Juliet.
Tybalt coveted to extrude Romeo out from the reception except Lord Capulet tolerated Romeo because of his umpteen lauds. During the courtship party Tybalt recognized Romeo, “by his voice, [and that he was] a Montague [... their] foe; A villain, that [was] hither come in spite [...] content thee, gentle coz, [leave] him alone. ‘A bears him like a portly gentleman [...] he shall be endured” (I.5.59-84). Romeo would never have been able to meet Juliet if Lord Capulet had let Tybalt eject him from their gathering. Lord Capulet essentially endorsed Juliet’s relationship with Romeo without even knowing it.
This resulted in the blurring of gender lines, conveying the idea that gender and sometimes even social station are not static as determined by birth, but are rather very dynamic forces. In looking at Twelfth Night, central to this work is the crossdressing character of Viola, whose remarkable resemblance to her twin brother Sebastian facilitates her adoption of a male disguise as the page Cesario. Shakespeare utilizes this to create a bizarre love triangle. Viola-Cesario, the one who “can sing both high and low” (II.iii, 41), is loved by both the Duke Orsino and the Countess Olivia. As Catherine Belsey notes, this destroys the concept of sexual difference within the character of Viola and becomes a very liberating influence as far as sexual othering is concerned.
Through “Hamlet”, Shakespeare is able to share his views of heterosexual relationships and express his feminist side. In the play, they young prince stands out from the male-dominated crowd as supposed “madness” overcomes him; he rejects the concept of heterosexuality as a real from of love and possesses feminine traits. Observation molds the human mind. Hamlet was raised witnessing and being part of an incestuous relationship with women, contrary of what females were supposed to represent, purity. He generalized them into a stereotype based on their double-sided nature of appearance vs. reality.
These actions lead to unfortunate events and humility. In the play Twelfth Night, Shakespeare utilizes the actions of three upper class individuals, when confronted with feelings for love, to show that when blinded by self-obsession, anyone can be lead to foolish, self-demeaning actions. In the very first scene of the play, the audience is introduced to Orsino, the Duke of Illyria. Shakespeare uses Orsino to show that when someone is too absorbed in self-pity, they do not see the things that go on around them and tend to do things that are foolish and keep them from advancing in life. The Duke takes his romantic pursuits of Lady Olivia, a noblewoman that refuses to love him back, far too seriously.
Shakespeare’s concept was to involve some of his characters with this feeling. In Twelfth Night, madness is created by the misconception and misunderstanding due to love. Mainly, it is said that Love is one of the most significant types of madness. It leads to causes like confusion and chaos in mind, mentality, and behavior. In the Twelfth Night, the Duke Orsino falls madly in love with Olivia.