It causes many terrible events. Many people argue over whether it was bad luck (fate), or bad management. Shakespeare smartly hints at the outcome throughout the story making the reader hope for more and more that Romeo and Juliet end up living together, happily married. Unfortunately, the fate in Romeo and Juliet isn’t a very desirable one. Bad luck, can be defined as an inescapable and often conflicting results; destiny.
Essay- Romeo and Juliet How does Shakespeare make Act 3 Scene 1 such an intense and significant scene in the play ‘Romeo and Juliet?’ Shakespeare makes Act 3, Scene 1 from the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ such an intense and significant scene through the use of contrast, dramatic irony and forshadowing. Shakespeare uses contrast through out this scene, which makes it such an intense and significant scene in the play. The previous scene, act 2 scene 6, was when Romeo and Juliet got married. The mood of the play suddenly shifts from a peaceful wedding ceremony to a violent scene with the death of two characters. This scene would be intense to watch as the mood suddenly shifts from love to hate.
The play introduces the primary characters and their ongoing feud with each other, which eventually leads to the fatal death of the two main characters. In addition, the rhyming couplet at the end begs the audience to be patient and to pay attention to the play, because if they don’t understand, the “toil” of the actors will surely clear up any misunderstandings. In Act One Scene One, hate is the strong emotion that emerges before love; Shakespeare introduces the emotion of hatred before love because it lays the foundation and also established the feud between the two houses, so the audience can see how hard Romeo’s love for Juliet is later on in the play. Shakespeare’s ironic use of the sonnet tells the audience that ‘A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life’; this spoils the ending of the play by subtly saying that both Romeo and Juliet are going to die in the end. During Elizabethan times the stars were thought to control people’s destinies, being ‘star-cross’d’ or against the stars, creates a sense of fate.
Chance in “Romeo and Juliet” William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is considered to be one of the greatest tragedies ever written. Shakespeare is very masterful, he makes us feel that it is destiny, which brought Romeo and Juliet together and killed them. “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life” . The ideas of destiny, chance and fortune are very strong in the play. But is it really a destiny, which killed them?
In this essay I am going to explain how the theme of love has been presented in Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare shows many different types of love from the unreturned love between Romeo and Rosaline to true love between Romeo and Juliet. Their love was hard ending in a tragic death. Elizabethans believed that true love is one that happens at first sight, like Romeo and Juliet. At the very beginning of Romeo and Juliet, before the play even starts, Shakespeare uses a prologue to give us an outline of what happens during the play.
The creation of disruption is a key theme in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ that Shakespeare uses frequently. This is mainly to portray the volatility of the relationships between characters. In Act 1: Scene 1, we are introduced to the disruption of Lysander and Hermia’s relationship by Egeus when he claims ‘and she is mine, and all my right of her.’ This is a disruption of the blossoming romance between the young couple, and of the desire they have developed to be with one another. By using the word ‘right’ Egeus is using the law at the time, along with social conventions, to get his own way and marry his daughter off to his chosen suitor, without any consideration for how she feels herself. This shows the context where marriage would be used to enhance a families place in society rather than for love.
In the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’, William Shakespeare brings to the audience a strong idea of ‘fate’. Shakespeare tells the tale of two star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, whose short romance is plagued with tragedy. One of the main themes and significant factors in Romeo and Juliet is fate. This indicates that Romeo and Juliet's life could be influenced by some power other than their own. During Shakespeare's time most Elizabethans believed in fate and the idea that everything would eventually fall into place.
How does Shakespeare present conflict within Romeo in the opening half of Romeo and Juliet? The first half of the play sees Romeo swinging from hopeless love with one woman to another in the space of a day - which seems like the sign of a fairly confused/confusing character. Shakespeare uses vast amounts of techniques to create very dramatic conflicts. With immense amounts of contrast in Romeo this leads to the readers/ viewers to have a spilt opinions of Romeo. Romeo has a lot of conflict, which he approaches with different, changing attitudes, which we know as contrast.
How does Shakespeare present the theme of conflict in Romeo and Juliet? Throughout the play “Romeo and Juliet" one main theme is conflict. Conflict is present from the beginning of the play; a prologue is performed, before scene one, this was to imply the general idea of the play, because in Elizabethan times it was very hard to concentrate during the play. In the prologue death, conflict and bitterness are all mentioned. Romeo and Juliet who are both mentioned in the prologue are presented as “star crossed lovers”, “fearful” and “misadventured”.
The play “Romeo and Juliet” was written by William Shakespeare, a famous English poet, play writer and actor. “Romeo and Juliet” is about “a pair of star cross’d lovers” who are born into two different families of which has an “ancient grudge” between them. This leads to both Romeo and Juliet’s tragic deaths. The play has strong violence and conflict involved in throughout. Shakespeare uses different types of conflict throughout the play and I will talk about these types of conflict in this essay.