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Romeo and Juliet - Interactive Lecture (Structure (Sub plots &…
Romeo and Juliet - Interactive Lecture
Structure
Repetition:
Rhyming Couplets
Foreshadowing
Sub plots & Dramatic Foils
Sub plots:
Dramatic Foils:
Dramatic Irony:
1) Prologue: "A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life"
, thus ending
"their parents' strife"
- characters have the occasional sense of foreboding, but they are largely ignorant of their fate.
Tension & Juxtaposition of events
Tension:
(Act 4)
When Juliet refuses to marry Paris as she is already married to Romeo although this is unknown to her father. She decides to fake commit suicide which will eventually lead to her and Romeo being together.
1) "Be not so long to speak, I long to die." - Juliet refuses her father's wishes to parry Paris and decides she will commit suicide rather than betray Romeo. (Act 4 Scene 2)
Juxtaposition:
(Act 1Scene 5)
1) "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night. Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear."
Throughout the play of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses Juxtaposition by comparing light and darkness. Romeo compares Juliet to a jewel. He says that she is a jewel that shines brighter when placed among dark skin; basically Juliet is the light and the dark skin is the darkness
2)"So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows. As yonder lady O'er her fellows shows."
Romeo compares Juliet to other females by saying she is the dove while the other girls are the crows, this is how he expresses that she stands out from the rest of the girls. In both quotes, Juliet is made to be seen as the light, and every other female around her is darkness. He also compares her to the beauty of nature, while the crow is extremely dark and ugly.
Language
Figurative language
Metaphor:
1) Act 2 scene 2: "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun"
- Compares Juliet to the sun .
2) Act 1 scene 5: "My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss".
- Romeo compares his lips to pilgrims when talking to Juliet.
Personification:
1) Act 2 scene 2: "Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon"
-gives human qualities to the moon. It is envious (jealous). 2)
Similes:
1) Act 2 scene 2: "Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books"
-Compares how lovers go to lovers as the same joy as schoolboys leave their schoolwork behind.
Alliteration:
1) Act 1 line 5 "From fourth the fatal loins of these two foils"
Hyperbole and Pun
Hyperbole:
1) Act 3 scene 3: "There is no world without Veronal walls. But purgatory, torture, hell itself"
2) Act 2 scene 2: "The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp"
- Juliet's cheek is so bright it puts the brightness of stars to shame.
Pun:
1)
Imagery
: 1) The sun and the moon- "it is the east, and Juliet is the sun"-
Connotations and lexical fields
Connotations:
Lexical fields:
Blank verse vs Iambic pentameter
Form
Play
(Aristotelian) Tragedy