Use of Humor in Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. One,
could give many reasons as to why this play became such a huge success, but
one of the most important reasons could be the use of humour in the play.
The main reason for doing this could be to relieve the tensions in the play,
and to entertain and keep the Elizabethan audience interested.
Humour plays a very significant part in the play as it allows
Shakespeare to create a lot of contrasts and moods, as and when he wants to.
In Romeo and Juliet humour occurs in three forms. The first being, humour
by the use of puns, irony and jokes. The second being through the actions
of characters and by their behaviour and the third by the incidents of the
play. Shakespeare uses characters like Mercutio and the Nurse to bring out
the comical element of the play, and each character does this in a
different way.
One of Shakespeare's tools used to evoke humour is the mockery that
is aimed at a particular character. Some of the funniest moments are when
one character is sarcastic to another. One of the best examples of this is
when Capulet asks Lady Capulet for a sword and she replies "A crutch, a
crutch! Why call you for a sword?" In this line the mockery of Capulet is
obvious and appealing to the audience as it is direct.
Shakespeare is known to be fond of puns and uses them quite
regularly but he doesn't use them as often as the Elizabethan audience
expected him to. Shakespeare starts of the play with a lot of humour, with
the conversation between Sampson and Gregory, both of them using a lot of
puns. This type of punning, for example on the words "coals," "collier," "
choler," "collar", goes on till the end of the play. The Elizabethan
audience used to like puns and hence although Shakespeare has used many
vulgar puns, it still has a positive effect on the popularity of the play.
Although in the Act I Scene 1 there is a fight between the families the
humour in the scene makes us forget the seriousness of the fight.
the plot of the play, this worked well as he still kept the essence of
William Shakespeare's Use of Dramatic Devices in Act 3 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet
Initially MACBETH is seen as a great soldier, a fearless fighter who has loyally defended his King against a treacherous rebellion. However, he is corrupted by evil in the form of three witches and their supernatural prophecies, and by ambition, not so much his own at first but by Lady Macbeth's ambition for him to murder Duncan, thus attaining the crown of Scotland.
seemed to turn the play into a comedy at times: but some can say that
the viewers that it is modern. It is effective to have the play in a
In act 1 scene 1 there is a feud between the Capulet and the Montagues
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In conclusion I think that the stage directions and dramatic irony are significant to the play, and without them there would be no need for a lot of the events that happen in the play.
In Shakespeares “Macbeth”, Macbeth is an anti hero. He is very ambitious and courageous. However, he is also a moral coward, this is Macbeths fatal flaw, which in the end leads to his doom. Shakespeare defines Macbeth as a hero very clearly. His valor in defense of Scotland is significant in the opening scene. However, he is very ambitious to be king. At the beginning of the play, he was loyal to the king. While he did imagine the murder his mind rejects it and said, "Why, if chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me," (1.3.12-13). Yet his ambition increasingly defeated his good nature.
...is warning him of what will happen. To further extend my point, the second and third apparation go on to say ‘Macbeth shall never be vanquished until Great Birnam Wood to High Dunsinane shall come against him’ which again warns Macbeth of What is to come. I believe Macbeth would have done such deeds as he goes on in the play to talk about his ‘Vaulting ambition’ This line suggests that Macbeth all along could have had a burning desire to be king and just needed the edge from the witches to kill King Duncan. Throughout the whole play we could consider Lady Macbeth as a fourth witch as she try’s to persuade Macbeth to kill King Duncan.
to create comedy in the play, which is one of the major themes of the
of interest to the play making it a great play to read and also act
are still in place in today's society. The play is a comedy but to a
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