1. shakespeare
This scene conveys to the audience how quickly a young couple's hopes and dreams can be transformed into despair and tragedy. ... Romeo descends bye the balcony, "Farewell, farewell; one kiss and I"ll descend." ... She plans to have Romeo murdered, "I"ll send to one in Mantua, Where that same banished runage doth live, Shall give him such an unaccustomed dram, That he shall soon keep Tybalt company; " Lady Capulet then continues to deliver the news to Juliet that on the following Thursday Juliet is to marry Paris. ... I feel it would be appropriate for this part to be...
Romeo was looking to this power, asking of this power to direct him, not to an untimely death as he foresaw in his dream, but to just steer him, because that is the control which he knows he does not have over himself. ... Romeo and Juliet throughout the play have dreams or visions of their deaths. ... Dreams or experiences often hint to things or have a meaning. ... The Prince was fed up with them and their brawls, such as Act I, scene i, "...By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets...If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the ...
In my many years of schooling, I have had to write many stories, papers, and essays. ... The first thing that I asked myself was why is Shakespeare so important in our literature? As I sat down and pondered this question, the solution that I came up with was that in this world the quality of the writing that is done is often diminishing. ... Some people might only be able to dream of having a true love like theirs. ... In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare presents love as a silly, childlike emotion. ...
In my study I will compare the language of Romeo and Juliet in this famous scene. ... By observing the language Romeo and Juliet use, I find Juliet is more practical. ... I am afeard, Being in night, all this is but a dream." Romeo is afraid that since it is night his romantic meeting with Juliet may be a dream, too pleasing sweet to be true. ... "Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest." ...
Shakespeare's actors would have just been on a blank stage covered with a canopy. ... "He jests at scars that have never felt a wound". ... "Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny what I have spoke, but farewell compliment". ... This is a complete contrast to Romeo who is saying how he would hate for it all to be a dream. "I am afeard being in night, all this is but a dream". ...
"Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance". ... "Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. ... Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight, It is too rash, too unadvised, to sudden, too like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens". ... In act 5 scene 1 Romeo has had a dream in which Juliet finds him dead which has disturbed him. ... Or did I dream it so?". ...
The sky was dark. I was sure that a rain's about to come. I had no choice but to settle inside my room. I was watching the hands of the clock move as time passed by. Raindrops were loudly pouring outside. The day was awfully boring. I suddenly felt the urge to write a story. There's a music video I'...
Her mother also agrees with her husband and disregards Juliet's emotions when she quotes, "Talk not to me, for I"ll not speak a word. / Do as though wilt, for I have done with thee," as Juliet asks for her support. ... She quotes, "O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I ever had" and "My dearest cousin and my dearer lord." ... The Nurse quotes "I would say thou had sucked wisdom from thy teat". ... He admires and dreams about her yet never actually comes into contact with her. ... In the end something positive emerges from much suffering and despair that the 2 young people have endured and h...
They kiss Juliet Have my lips the sin that they have took? ... Another example of Juliet's character happens early on in the play - Juliet had told her mother that she didn't want to get married, "it is an honour I dream not of" (1.iii.66), yet she went against her word and married Romeo even though she knew he was a Montague, the enemy of her family. ... This would have shocked the audience as never before had they known a member of the weaker sex to speak to a man like so. ... What she actually means is: " I never shall be satisfied with Romeo till I behold him. ... It would...
What is even more amazing is in those short lengths of time, he wrote beautiful poetry and prose, and many quotations and common phrases have been adopted in everyday language today. ... The death of Hamlet's father results in his goal to have revenge on Claudius, and as the plot unfolds, innocent bystanders die, such as Ophelia and Polonius. ... Similarly, the forest in A Midsummer Night's Dream where the lovers retreat to, is a magical place, removed from the conventions of reality. ... Viola realizes the complicated situation she finds herself in when she says, "Disguise, I see...