Comment on the significance of Iago in Act 1 Scenes 1 and 2. Iago is presented as a vicious villain‚ and through his representation of evil‚ results in the surfacing of key themes such as light and darkness‚ racism‚ and rank and power. Thus‚ by carrying out the role as a villain‚ he highlights the animalistic traits evident within people of the Venetian society. Although Iago is a white man who holds a fairly high status within Venetian society‚ he is crude and uncouth‚ often swearing and making
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types of irony (verbal‚ dramatic‚ and situational) in Romeo and Juliet by subtly putting it in his legendary play. William shows verbal irony in the play in act when it opens and says “Two households‚ both alike in dignity … to mend” (Prologue‚ lines 1-15). At first‚ when you hear this‚ you think that the two families honorable and dignified. But as the play goes on‚ you start to see that the families are violently competitive and undignified. Shakespeare also showed situational irony when he makes
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Shakespeare was a marvellous play writer and his best play was Romeo and Juliet‚ in the story he mixed the themes of love and violence. This will show you how and why he did this. The play is about romance; Shakespeare begins in the most peculiar way for instance‚ in the beginning of Act 1 Scene 1. Firstly he starts with violence with the houses arguing with each other and trying to resolve with a fight. Gregory bites his thumb (a highly rude gesture to the Montague’s). Then a verbal argument
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Romeo and Juliet‚ by Shakespeare‚ is a play which shows how prejudice leads to escalating violence. Prejudice leads to violence shown in the play when the feuding families‚ the Montagues and Capulets‚ fight. In each case‚ disruption‚ fighting‚ injuries and death occur. Also‚ the prejudice between the two families never was resolved‚ because they were enemies. The feuding started in Act 1 Scene 1‚ when the Capulets and Montague servants confronted each other. The Capulets’ servants insult the
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opposed to a novel or short story in the past the way i have been taught shakespeare was by reading the play as a class‚ and acting out the play mostly during important scenes I myself have not yet reached the point of full understanding most or all of shakespeares old english‚ but can grasp the idea on what is taking place in ever scene (the story line) In my opinion i think an on going journal would be an ideal way of teaching and understanding shakepseare‚ in the past i have not taken the approach
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indirectly.In Romeo and Juliet early on we learn that two families hate each other the montagues and capulets Romeo is a montague and Juliet is a capulet. Their families ancient grudge causes a downward spiral of death and sadness throughout the whole story and everybody is affected in a negative way because of the families grudge. In the story a young couple falls madly in love but their love is denied by multiple obstacles leading back to their families grudge. Romeo meets Juliet at a
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the Tragic Drama Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare set in the 1590s in Verona Italy‚ Romeo and Tybalt have two ways of looking at identity. Tybalt looked at one’s identity based on the family they belonged to and Romeo looked at one’s identity based on someone’s character. Two examples of this are how they both have different opinions on Romeo and Juliet being together and what they think of each other. In this book many different characters have opinions on Romeo and Juliet being together.
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Restraints. Romeo and Juliet’s impulses and self-control used in Romeo and Juliet. In the play of Romeo and Juliet‚ many characters show how they cannot handle the pressure that they are faced with which leads to impulse and action which is taken without thinking it through. Many of the characters show a lack of self-control and exaggerations which leads to broken-hearts and many unfortunate situations which result in deaths and miscommunications. Over the course of Romeos love life‚ he tends to act on
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people associate love with Romeo and Juliet because they killed themselves to be with each other forever. In today’s society love does not just happen in a blink of an eye it takes time to love someone. Romeo and Juliet’s love story happened in just five days so was it really love? In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Romeo has a tragic flaw which is his impulsive nature. With this flaw Romeo affected a lot of characters in the play but his choices mostly impacted Juliet and also her choices that
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The nurse is the Capulet’s servant‚ a faithful servant who tries her hardest to please Juliet and the rest the Capulet’s at the same time. The nurse is also a very important character in the play in the Capulet’s lives as she was hired for the job of breastfeeding Juliet‚ because she had unwanted breast milk due to the tragic loss of her little Susan; although she might just be another servant in the household‚ she has a far more superior responsibility. She plays an important role as Juliet’s confidant
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