This, to the audience, will seem ridiculous and unnecessary creating a subtle sense of humour. Nearing the end of Act 2 we learn about Viola’s plans for her disguise in order to appear less vulnerable. She then goes on to say ‘thou shalt present me as an Eunuch to him’ which will yet again appear an overdramatic act to the audience. In act 3, Sir Toby Belch is introduced into the play. Shakespeare’s wit and word play used even for simply just the names of the characters can build up laughter.
Shakespeare explored this theme by using Elizabethan English to make Romeo and Juliet’s love overly dramatic. He used iambic pentameter for the audience to see how young love inevitably results into catastrophe by writing, “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their lives.” Lurhman was also critical of young love and believed that it was very dangerous. He expressed his view on young love being dangerous by also making the movie overly dramatic. The scene in the gas station clearly shows that the movie is going to be dramatic. To show that he believes that young love inevitably results into tragedy, Juliet and Romeo die.
Sona Allahverdiyeva M4A Ms. Liz English April 4th, 2012 Impetuous behavior in Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a story full of all kinds of emotions, ranging from consummate love, to passionate hate. And it is the emotions that cause some of the main characters such as Tybalt and Romeo to act irrational, and make choices they soon come to feel repentant about. Whether overcome by love, or driven with hate, Tybalt and Romeo jump into action without any contemplation, which leads to major. Ignoring the advice they were given on considering their actions, Romeo and Tybalt continue with their rash behavior throughout the play, which leads to the deaths of their loved ones, and eventually their own. Romeo, being one of the two characters the story is based on, is extremely hasty, exaggerating every emotion that he feels.
Shakespeare, W (1999) Twelfth Night, Harlow Longman Jemma Sigee Word Count (without cover page) 1,876 To what extent does the final scene of Twelfth Night muddle our expectations of how a dramatic comedy should be resolved? Twelfth night is based upon the twelfth night of the Christmas holiday. In Shakespearean times, this holiday was celebrated as a festival in which everything was turned upside down – much like the upside – down, chaotic world of Illyria in the play. In Twelfth night we witness the typical conventions of a dramatic comedy where natural order is disturbed as the characters journey to discover themselves amongst all the chaos and confusion. As the play unfolds the audience do not gain any in depth knowledge of the characters, conclusions are made by the characters choices and attitudes.
Three of the plays, "TheLong Christmas Dinner, "Pullman Car Hiawatha," and "The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden," wereperhaps the most theatrically experimental written to that time by an American. "Pullman Car Hiawatha" inparticular shows that the ideas for The Skin of Our Teeth had been in Wilder's mind for a long time. Explain howWilder's ideas about theater develop and change between 1931 and 1942.8. The Skin of Our Teeth is sometimes described as a "tragi-comedy"; look up tragi-comedy and decide to whatextent The Skin of Our Teeth is one. What plays might it be compared to?
Throughout the play, Romeo exemplifies many instances of where his emotions take over. It is shown at the beginning of the play that, Romeo is portrayed as someone who is overly dramatic, as he has been sulking over a girl who does not love him back.“Well, in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow.”
This expresses Romeo’s love for Juliet, and disbelief that he will not be able to see her again due to his banishment. Anywhere Juliet is, regardless of it’s worth, is heaven to Romeo thus his love and amazement for her. The words “torture” and “not mercy” give off unhopeful and dejected feelings which better expresses Romeo’s hatred towards his banishment. In addition, Shakespeare uses enjambment in his play’s script, “Every cat and dog/And little mouse, every unworthy thing/ Live here in heaven and may look on her/ But Romeo may not,” (III.iii.32-35). The reason for Shakespeare’s use of enjambment is to show that Romeo cannot put forth all his words onto one line.
Romeo is talking in paradoxes; he does this to emphasize that love is confusing. He says that love is everything except for what it actually is. Since Romeo thinks that he is in love although no one loves him, love can be two things that are opposites at the same time. Although Romeo is happy to be in love, he does not like the thought of love itself because if no one loves him back, love will become more confusing. Romeo is hopelessly in love with Rosalind which he explains when he says, "I am too sore enpiercèd with his shaft To soar with his light feathers, and so bound, I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe.
Shakespeare twisted the story of Macbeth Mac Findaech to suit his needs Jonathan Hughes-Khatib ENG3UE/Rockland District High School/Monday April 7th 2008 Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is a play that features the fictional story of Macbeth, thane of Cawdor, Glamis and later king of Scotland. Most likely written in about 1606 the story revolves around Macbeth’s slaying of the “great King” (Shakespeare, page 8) Duncan and all of the guilt and supernatural happenings that occur afterword. Though sometimes taken as an actual historical account of what happened, most things in the play are very different from what actually happened during the rise and fall of the brave Macbeth Mac Findlaech. Macbeth’s entire character was changed, as was King Duncan’s, to fit the needs of William Shakespeare. Macbeth Mac Findlaech, the actual historical figure, has been almost vilified in society for how his character was portrayed in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”.
Alexander mention in his article that the only characters in the play who regard Hamlet as mad is the king and his henchman, even those were full of doubts and we can see this through the king speech when he ordered his henchman to go and talk with Hamlet and know from him why he puts on this confusion, this implies that the king understand Hamlet's strange behavior as feign and not real madness. Even Polonius; though he is the first person to declare that Hamlet is mad and has lost his mind, and the purpose of his madness is due to his love with Ophelia, yet he declares that Hamlet is clever by saying: "Thought he is mad, but there is method in it" (II.ii.203-4). This implies that Hamlet has purpose or plan for his madness; he assures that he is pretending. He ends his article by illustrating his point of view: There need no doubt, then that Hamlet's madness was really feigned.. . .