Romeo’s love matures in course of the play, from a shallow desire to intense, profound passion. Juliet’s sensible observations, such as the one about Romeo’s kissing, seems just the thing to snap Romeo from his superficial idea of love and to inspire him to begin to speak some of the most beautiful and intense love poetry ever written. Romeo’s deep capacity of love is only a mere part in his larger capacity of all intense feelings of different kinds. This shows that Romeo lacks the capacity for emotional moderation. His extreme feelings dominate his character throughout the play.
Shakespeare’s use of Iago Critics for years have argued about the characters whom William Shakespeare has created. Othello is a tragedy that illustrates how hatred can escalate between complex characters who have significant roles. In Shakespeare’s play Othello, the character of Iago is essential to the progression of the plot. Iago’s jealousy, his chameleon like ability, and his own ambition and ego ultimately cause the play’s tragic end. Shakespeare understood that a “love of power, which is another name for the love of mischief, was natural to man” (Bloom 432).
Prologue and Act One scene One. Romeo and Juliet Is a famous play written by Shakespeare. This is a well know play for the endless love between Rome and Juliet and how it is a tragic play of forbidden love because of an ancient grudge between both families , but in fact Shakespeare makes it clear that the play contains allot of conflict and it actually includes more violence than love. In the Prologue the audience is presented with a brief summary of the play. This informs the audience as it helps them decide whether the play is worth watching from the beginning.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy, but Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, characters love each other that Hermia loves Lysander, so does he, and Helena loves Demetrius, so does he. Although Hermia, Lysander and Demetrius were in the love triangle, and Helena loved Demetrius, each love was finally matched, so that story has a happy ending. On the other hand, Romeo and Juliet is tragedy that two of characters ended death by misunderstanding. Bringing to sad ending to Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare maybe wanted to show that though they love each other, it can be tragic ending.
Shakespeare quite obviously plays with the conventions of Petrarchan characters and their views of desire throughout the play but most significantly towards the beginning. Romeo is introduced as a character that seems to be blinded by love, his desire for Rosaline is over powering, shallow and foolish – “He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost” (1.1.225-226). Shakespeare has created Romeo to resemble the typical ‘Petrarchan lover’ speakers that are found in Petrarch’s sonnets, we hear Romeo obsessing over Rosaline whom like ‘Laura’ from Petrarch’s sonnets is unattainable to Romeo, as she is choosing to remain celibate - "She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow / Do I live dead that live to tell it now” (1.1.216-217) Shakespeare has purposefully created Romeo and Rosaline with these similarities to Petrarchan conventions in mind as he is able to successfully critique the discourse of desire through the growth of Romeo in the play and the introduction of Juliet. Shakespeare also relies on the fact that his audience are aware of ‘what’s in store’ for Romeo, allowing him to create a clichéd and conventional character - “The theatre audience knows that
He was someone who saw that there was more to life then hatred. He states, “Here’s much to do with hatred but more with loves” (Act I, Scene 1, line 165) He knows that the fight is serious foolishness. (line 168) However, Romeo lets the force of illusionary love take hold of him which causes this young intelligent mind not to function to its full potential. From the very beginning of the play, before he even meets Juliet, he gives in to illusionary love with
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.
How does Shakespeare make this act 1 scene 5 dramatically effective? Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written by William Shakespeare in 1589. The play is made dramatically effective through the playwright’s use of contrast. There are two contrasting themes, these are love “star- crossed loves” and hate “ancient grudge”. Before Romeo and Juliet meet, the audience is only aware that he is a Montague and that she is a Capulet.
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.
In the story there is constant conflict between love and hate which creates drama; for example the play opens with a fight between the Montagues and the Capulets. Shakespeares ‘Romeo and Juliet’ explores many different kinds of love. For example in loco parentis this means in place of the parents. The nurse is in loco parentis for Juliet she is more like a mother to Juliet than Lady Capulet. She always wants the best for Juliet that’s why she agrees to arrange the secret marriage of Romeo and Juliet because she wants to make Juliet happy.