We are looking at the language in Act 2 Scene 2 and examining how it educates the audience about the characters and setting. ... There would also probably been a balcony where musicians would play in the party scene but also probably where Juliet would have acted the famous balcony scene. Act 2 Scene 2 begins after the party where Romeo and Juliet first saw each other. ... When Juliet appears Romeo says. ... This shows that he thinks he is in love although the audience are hesitant due to Romeo's relationship with Rosaline, where one minute he loved her and the next he loved Juliet. ...

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Aristotle is known to have said that a good tragedy needs to have one basic theme or plot. In the play Romeo and Juliet', this theme is love. ... This forms a stark contrast to Romeo's declaration in Act 1 scene 5 where he wonders Did my heart love till now?' ... In Act 5 scene 5, Juliet also has an ill-diving soul; Methinks I see thee now as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. ... As their tragic circumstances are one of the elements that make Romeo and Juliet's love seem so valuable, Shakespeare takes time building it up. ...

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In William's Shakespeare immortal tale, Romeo and Juliet, love and hate are juxtaposed to portray the antithesis between the two themes. ... Romeo and Juliet, dubbed as a romantic tragedy, is more about love than hate. ... As to many contrasts, hate is represented in the Romeo and Juliet to illustrate the idea of the balance in nature. ... In Act 1 Scene 1 of the play, Romeo and his cousin Benvolio met on the street, and Romeo sadly confessed his unrequited love for an aloof and indifferent young woman. ... Although Juliet does not return Paris's love, he continues with gestures such...

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At the start of Romeo & Juliet, we are introduced first to servants of the two feuding houses as they walk down the street of Verona, where the scene is set. ... Mercutio's death by Tybalt's hand in Act 3 Scene 1, is the catalyst for all of the following action within the play that will eventually lead to Romeo's death. ... These words send Tybalt into a rage because he doesn't understand why Romeo is refusing his challenge since no one else knows that Romeo has just married Juliet, Tybalt's cousin. ... His words function as a kind of death knell, predicting the ...

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There is no better example than in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ... Rosaline, Romeo's initial unrequited love seemed irrelevant once Romeo had set his eyes upon Juliet. ... Upon seeing Juliet all alone, talking in soliloquy, Romeo proclaims, "It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun," this metaphor enhances Juliet's beauty as it is exaggerated and pronounced as the beauty of the sun. ... (II.ii.57) Convinced that their love was pure, Juliet has been sold, in an unconventional act for a woman in those times, she takes the initiative and plans their future together; "If ...

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In Act 2, Scene 3, Friar Laurence states as much: "Romeo: Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline. ... Romeo and Juliet pine for each when they are parted. ... Romeo and Juliet were raised to hate each other. ... But Romeo has one purpose in being there, to kill himself and stay by Juliet's side for eternity. ... Romeo had one thing left to fight for, one thing that was going to go right for him. ...

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Moreover, to cater for a 'modern' audience at the time, the film tackled the issue of 'gender' by capturing a woman's desire to act on stage in the Elizabethan era and the frustrating journey she experienced due to the societal confines of her gender. ... Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard, is a romantic-comedy drama that depicts a lustrous affair between the privileged Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) and the upcoming commoner playwright William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) which transpires during t...

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One of the hardest things about writing one of these works is coming up with a topic. ... One of his most famous love stories is Romeo and Juliet. ... Well, one could say that it might have been the influence of what was going on in his marriage (Kinney, 1). ... Also in the play Measure for Measure, the act of premarital sex is condoned. ... Could this have been what influenced Shakespeare to write Romeo and Juliet? ...

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One story I remember the most was one she told about when he passed away; she thought they would grow old together, and a part of her soul died along with him. ... She writes, "If ever two were one, then surely we" (l. 1) She thinks of them as one being and there is nothing more important than her love for him. ... Browning's "How Do I Love Thee" has a Romeo and Juliet feel to it. ... Donne's poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", Valediction means "an act of bidding farewell". ... Today's society has lost that oneness. ...

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