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How does Shakespeare shape your response to the lovers' first meeting in
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Yr 10 Romeo and Juliet coursework
How does Shakespeare shape your response to the lovers' first meeting in Act 1 Scene 5?
Shakespeare shapes our response to the lovers' first meeting in many ways. He continuously drops clues about their marriage in every scene leading to their first meeting and uses many different techniques and devices. An example of a device used is the chorus. The play was set in Verona, Italy. The story of Romeo and Juliet was around a long time before Shakespeare's version. Although Shakespeare used the original version he added his own bits as well. It was only about 1595-1596 before the story was both written and performed on stage.
The prologue was delivered by the chorus in the form of a sonnet. Sonnets were love poems and in Shakespeare's time were very popular. The chorus was used to inform the audience that the play was about to begin and was used as a dramatic device. It was important that the prologue was delivered as a sonnet as the story is about love and it sets the mood. The prologue was used to inform the audience what the outcome of the story was, this grabbed the attention of the audience, created tension and made the audience suspicious of how this outcome would be achieved. The prologue contains words to do with death, violence and love. The words to do with death are take their life', death-mark'd', children's end'. There are many words to do with violence, which are grudge', where civil blood makes civil hands unclean', fatal', fearful', rage'. And finally the words in the prologue to do with love, there is only one very important word, this is star-cross'd lovers'. These words are used as Elizabethan people were particularly interested in death, violence and love. The words star-cross'd lovers' introduce the theme of fate. These two lovers fate is hanging in the stars, they are meant to be together, no matter what they may do. Also using these words,...
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