This provokes Benvolio because Mercutio is accusing him of being hot-headed for no reason, this is ironic because Mercutio is the hot-headed, fiery one while Benvolio tries to keep the peace and avoid a fight. In the prologue the audience are told that the play will end in tragedy, so when Tybalt comes into the scene, the audience are on edge because he is looking for trouble. Tybalt says ‘gentlemen, good e’en. A word with one of you.’ This will make the audience excited because this line sounds
In an opening full of stirring action that is sure to capture the audience’s attention and designed partly for that purpose, Shakespeare provides all the background information needed to understand the play . In the brawl, he portrays all of the characteristics of the Capulets and Montagues. He further provides excellent characterization of Benvolio as thoughtful and fearful of the law. Tybalt as a hothead, and Romeo as distracted and lovelorn. While showing the deep and long-standing hatred between the Montagues and Capulets.
It is obvious from this first soliloquy that Shakespeare has moulded Richard to look almost monstrous and noticeably deformed. From the beginning of the play we are aware of Richard’s feelings about his body and how much contempt and disdain he has for being given such a repugnant body. “Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished” (1.1.19-20) Richard draws the audience in, and endeavours to attract our sympathy by addressing his deformity. By doing this he is clearly trying to manipulate the audience. He talks about how he has “no delight to pass away the time” (1.1.25).
He is now angry with Tybalt and wants revenge. ‘Fire-eyed fury be my conduct now.’ Romeos change in mood is significant as it leads to the death of Tybalt and Romeo being banished . Shakespeare also uses dramatic irony to make Act 3 Scene 1 such an intense and significant scene. When Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt all the other characters are confused as to why. ‘Good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as my own.’ The audience know the reason why Romeo won’t fight Tybalt, which is because Romeo and Juliet are now married.
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.
Hamlet assumes these actions from the actor because these are the actions that Hamlet would use to express his feelings. Hamlet then feels that he is not courageous enough to bravely kill Claudius and all he can do is mope. He puts himself at the peak of frustration since he has not accomplished anything yet and begins to doubt his ability to for revenge and calls himself a coward. He says he should have killed Claudius a long time ago. He then comes up with a plan to have the actors put on a play that is similar to the Murder of King Hamlet.
187-8.) This pretense of madness Shakespeare borrowed from the earlier versions of the story. The fact that he has made it appear like real madness to many critics today only goes to show the wideness of his knowledge and the greatness of his dramatic skill. In the play the only persons who regard Hamlet as really mad are the king and his henchmen, and even these are troubled with many doubts. Polonius is the first to declare him mad, and he thinks it is because Ophelia has repelled his love.
Relinquishing to strong feelings and emotions often lead to situations of conflict. In Othello, this is portrayed continually throughout the play. Othello’s deep love for Desdemona fuels various conflicts that arise. Emotions of inner conflict such as betrayal and Jealousy cause Othello to express physical conflict by slapping Desdemona- something completely out of character that “would not be believed in Venice” as Lodovico says. If Othello’s emotions were not so invested in Desdemona, he would not have been so consumed by jealousy and frustration to entirely change character and become a mere reflection of his true self.
Jealousy and deception are central themes in many of Shakespeare’s plays, and are often what leads to the hero’s downfall. There are a number of key scenes in Othello that represent these themes of jealousy, deception and tragedy throughout the play. In Act 2 Scene 3 Iago uses different techniques in order to deceive Othello and change his opinions of Cassio. Iago says: ‘I would rather have this tongue cut from my mouth, then it should do offense to Michael Cassio.’ Iago is setting up his later deception, as he is tricking Othello into thinking that he likes Cassio and would never speak ill of him, which enables him to seem more believable when he later deceives Othello about Desdemona’s affair. This deception is confirmed when Othello says ‘I know Iago, thy honesty, and love doth mince this matter, making it light to Cassio.’ Othello is suggesting that Iago may not tell the whole truth as he wants to protect Cassio.
Pia Brinkschulte February 20, 2012 ELA 30S Mr. Grynol Othello In Shakespeare’s Othello, the main antagonists Iago, starts off from being simply jealous, to turning revengeful and obsessive, making perversive decisions for his need of power and control. Critic A.C. Bradley suggests that this longing to satisfy power is Iago’s main motivation and driving force for his acts and behaviour throughout the play. The chief reason for Iago’s vindictiveness is that Othello chose Cassio over Iago to make him his Lieutenant. Iago feels rejected and despised, he is very bitter towards Othello who downgraded his service and experience in favour of the arithmetic skills that Cassio has. Because Iago’s career path is blocked by a mere lack of paper qualification he first begins to start developing feelings of revenge on Cassio who stole his job.