Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on how love is presented through in Shakespeare's: Romeo and Juliet and how love is presented through a series of sonnets (18, 130 and 134). ... I will look at how Shakespeare has created characters and comment on the action of the play and how Shakespeare has used dramatic devices and structures. ... A sonnet is commonly used, especially with Shakespeare, to talk about love within the story. ... Shakespeare uses oxymoron when describing Romeo's sadness. ... We can compare this type of love to that in Sonnet 130. ...

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Shakespeare explains the idea of men in love with a fatal tragedy or sometimes a comic resolved endings. ... Also, Shakespeare displays that both the men in love, Romeo and Benedick, are very dangerous and reveal that love is potentially divisive. ... Romeo is initially presented as a Petrarchan lover, a man whose feelings of love aren't reciprocated by the lady he admits he is in love with, Rosaline, and who uses the poetic language of sonnets to express his emotions about his situation. ... By Shakespeare making Romeo poetic he presents the Prologue as a sonnet in order to point to the...

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In Act I Scene V, Shakespeare uses a sonnet for the first dialogue that Romeo and Juliet share; a sonnet has fourteen lies and ten syllables in each line. ... Shakespeare uses this type of monologue to inform the audience of a characters feelings and thoughts. ... Shakespeare has chosen to use deep imagery in this scene, portraying fire and explosions, ownership, wealth and music. ... Shakespeare's use of imagery in this scene relate to the light/dark and day/night motifs used earlier in the play. ... The language that Shakespeare uses throughout the play mixes various themes religion, l...

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I used my knowledge of the techniques and factors that were relevant during Elizabethan times and which Shakespeare included in ""Romeo and Juliet"" to develop a modern transformation of the play, the film ""Romeo Must Die"". ... I have altered the relevance of the grudge to reflect my opinion that today's society is, in the majority, a great deal more money hungry than that of Shakespeare's time. ... I have developed this character from that of the Nurse from Shakespeare's Romeo an Juliet who is also employed to take care of Juliet and has a humorous side that is reflected thro...

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Claire McMurdock 10.A Year 10 'Shakespeare' Assignment 'Romeo and Juliet' Discuss the ways in which Shakespeare creates dramatic tension based around the transformation of Juliet's character. 'Romeo and Juliet' is one of Shakespeare's famous love tragedies written during the Elizabethan times. Throughout the play Shakespeare creates dramatic tension by portraying a transformation in Juliet's character. Shakespeare uses the Elizabethan times and society to help him do this. ... Juliet and Romeo play with religious imagery throughout their so...

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His Romeo and Juliet released in 1996 is a unique adaptation of one of William Shakespeare's finest plays. ... The film really brings light to how fantastic Shakespeare's plays are and many would agree that it does him justice. ...

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