‘Romeo and Juliet’ Act 1 - Journal Entry 1 The Prologue What poetic form is the Prologue? And based on its description, list 3 things that might happen in the play. The poetic form is a sonnet with 14 lines written in the iambic pentameter, and based on the description we find that an ancient grudge will break to new mutiny, a pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life and civil blood makes civil hands unclean. The prologue mentions: love, hate, disagreement and death. Why do you think Shakespeare
The story of Romeo and Juliet is a romantic-tragedy literary piece written by William Shakespeare. Summarily, the story behind Romeo and Juliet is about conflicts between two rival families and facing challenges that forbid their love to one another. In the stage play itself, I may say that the entire plot and setting is based from the modernized life style and culture that we have nowadays in our society. It reflects to us Filipinos in such away it influences us to accept things in a new perspective
Whether it’s chaotic scenes from the Moulin Rouge filled with outrageously dressed characters or the revolutionary remake of the classic Romeo and Juliet film, Baz Luhrmann is yet to come short in terms of excellences in creating cinematic masterpieces. ‘Theater, circus, film – to me it’s all one’ says Baz Luhrmann. [Bergin; 2016] Some critics label Baz Luhrmann’s work as ‘Over the top’ and others fiercely state that his unique style is justified when one looks at the full meaning, message and context
English carries certain features and it has a great portfolio of literature.In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses a simile to portray Romeo’s amazement and wonder at Juliet’s beauty: “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! / Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, / Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear.” In this simile, Romeo is beginning the motif of light vs. darkness, where Juliet is always a spotless shining light, and everything becomes dark and shady around her. Robert
actions of man would not be weakened. For example in Romeo and Juliet, another Shakespearean tragedy, the tragic hero Romeo doesn’t get the Friar’s message about the potion given to Juliet. Romeo could have gotten the Friar’s message if Friar John met Romeo. However, because Friar John was quarantined after visiting a house of the sick he could not take the letter to Romeo. Another aspect of ‘chance’ in Romeo and Juliet’s tragic end is that Juliet didn’t wake up a minute sooner from her long sleep
have tread the same path. In the process, ‘magnificent’ literary treatises passed down have often used woman as a spicy condiment, eventually devaluing and debasing her natural role, even if unintentionally. From Shakespeare’s plays, wherein women have been rendered ineluctable paradoxes, to nearer home Arundhati Roy’s GOST heroine, who ultimately pays the unchaste ‘cost of living’—Wordsmiths have always muffled women with their literary tantrums. It’s widely accepted that the Bard-of-Avon broke