Norman Maclean once said “All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren’t noticing, which makes you see something that isn’t even visible”. This is how people think about Shakespeare and see what is noticeable. If they looked long enough then they will see what is not visible to most; language and how it affects his writing. William Shakespeare in the story The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet achieves the effect of contrast through personification, antithesis, and dramatic irony to bring out the love and the hate, and the good and the bad.
Shakespeare used antithesis to show the love and hate of Romeo and the good and the bad that the Friar sees in the plants. When talking to Benvolio, Romeo said, “Here is much to do with hate but more with love.”(1.1.172). This is the contrast between the hate between the families along with the love they share for fighting. Even though Romeo is only talking about the fight on the street the audience knows it is bigger then that. The friar while out in his garden is setting the scene with this line, “The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,” (2.3.1). This is the difference between the night and the day. Through this the audience knows it is dawn. The friar then moves on to compare the dangerous and wonders of nature and the plants, “With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.” (2.3.8). This indicates the deathly plants yet they have flowers that can be helpful to man. While he is talking about the plants, the audience if paying attention compares this to Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. This demonstrates that the antithesis is greatly used to allow the audience to see both sides of the story.
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...s, /And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.” (5.2.95-96). Romeo not knowing she faked her death believes
that death is holding her beauty still for his self. While the audience knows that she is waking up from the potion. Using dramatic Irony to tell a story keeps the audience on their seat and engaged in his writing.
The effect achieved by his writing allowed the different feelings, emotions, and differences to be brought out. People who thought long enough could seethe literary terms that Shakespeare was using and get the word play. While people who think only enough can only see the underlying meaning of words and what they mean modernly. The people who only think enough to see what is on the surface only gets what the words are doing for the story. If Norman Maclean is right then people who can think about it can get what Shakespeare is trying to say.
In the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, the author portrays certain themes of antithesis that are outlined from the play. The major form that we have interpreted from the play is love and hate or that of violence and peace. These themes are portrayed strongly in many scenes of Romeo and Juliet, and it is what keeps the plot going. Shakespeare may have wanted to show how hate and love, violence and peace, can lead to something that is great in the
Shakespeare uses many themes in all his play that attract audiences throughout history. The things he wrote about are as relevant now as they were in his time. Death and Sin were issues that are always around. In his plays, Shakespeare could comment on these things and make audiences see things that they could not before.
Did you know Shakespeare wrote 37 plays? In his plays, poems, or anything else, Shakespeare used figurative language in many ways. In the play Romeo and Juliet, by Shakespeare, figurative language is used to reflect detailed imagery to the reader. Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English language, created over 20,000 words we still use today. With these words, Shakespeare creates imagery in the mind of the reader. Through Shakespeare’s use of similes and personification throughout Romeo and Juliet he provides creative and masterful use of imagery for the reader.
Queen Elizabeth had such a great impact on the performing arts and what they are today. She had been fond of many different poets and play writers, although she seemed to take to William Shakespeare the most. He was born just 6 years after she had ascended the throne so by the time they were able to meet performing arts was at it’s peak. This helps us to assume why Shakespeare was so fond of the arts being that we do not have much documented about his life. Shakespeare is one of the most mysterious men in the history of literature the events in his life were not very well chronicled. Although, he still had a large impact on literature during the Elizabethan Era.
The English language is a way to write and speak that helps us see a motive or point in a piece of writing. Depending what style an author uses, whether if it tells the detail of a situation or descriptive of an object, the author tries to "paint" a picture into the reader’s mind that may seem imaginative, analytic, expressive, or judgmental. Writing styles that involve imagination or a hyperbolic phrase is the best way to develop that image. The brush that most imaginatively paints the color on to the paper is the figurative language.
Shakespeare's times were a lot different then the times we have now in two thousand and sixteen. There are many ways that times then and times now are different. Shakespeare's plays are so famous that they are still being played to this day. There are little facts that you might not know about this time period. In those days their hygene was very different because they would only bathe like once a year. Also the boys had to dress up as girls for the plays because in their time they gave little rights to women. It is crazy how much the world has changed in 500 years. The world now actually does have some stuff that is simular with Shakespears time.
What is the difference between saying “yes” and “yeah”? How do these replies, though they have the same meaning, alter one’s perception of the speaker’s level of education, courtesy and personality? William Shakespeare successfully explores the effect of speaking mannerism on perception in his tragedy Romeo and Juliet as characters use varying poetic meters, literary devices, diction and length of sentences in order to enhance characterization. Furthermore, he implements these diverse characteristics and social classes in order to release tension and reinforce theme. Thus, through Shakespeare’s manipulation of language in Romeo and Juliet, it is undeniable that he effectively reveals social class and develops character, consequently providing
Shakespeare's plays were and still are famous for his wordplay and writing. In all his plays he incorporates comedy ranging from insults to messed up identities. Many elements of comedy are instituted in his play A Midsummer Night’s Dream including a frequent show of character comedy or exaggeration in the character’s personality, which can help spice up the play to make it more enthralling. Shakespeare incorporates comedy into his plays to make them more interesting and funny, which produces more lifelike characters.
Shakespeare uses imagery of light and dark to enhance the images between good and bad. Light and dark, day and night, good and bad can be noticed throughout the course of the entire play. Darkness is squeezed between light and is used to intensify the moment and catch the audience’s attention. The motif of light and dark can be used in a literal use, but it also takes on a symbolic meaning of one’s ambition and deceitfulness that can lead them to their ruins.
Shakespeare wrote many different types of plays such as histories, tragedies, and comedies. He had multiple ideas that he wrote about in his work, all ideas are still relevant to us today as they were then. Themes that he wrote about included relationships, love, mercy and forgiveness. He often used the Globe Theatre to add to his performances as in some plays he had the actors rising from the ground on trap doors and had actors changing behind poles to let the plays flow into different acts.
William Shakespeare, poet and playwright, utilized humor and irony as he developed specific language for his plays, thereby influencing literature forever. “Shakespeare became popular in the eighteenth century” (Epstein 8). He was the best all around. “Shakespeare was a classic” (8). William Shakespeare is a very known and popular man that has many works, techniques and ways. Shakespeare is the writer of many famous works of literature. His comedies include humor while his plays and poems include irony. Shakespeare sets himself apart by using his own language and word choice. Shakespeare uses certain types of allusions that people always remember, as in the phrase from Romeo and Juliet, “star-crossed lovers”.
Due to his immense love for another person, a sonneteer wrote a Shakespearean sonnet dedicated to his beloved one. Split into three quatrains and a couplet, the sonnet immediately parallels the sonneteer’s love as an angel, which appears throughout the poem. Adjectives such as “heavenly” and “angelic”, as well as nouns such as “blessing” draw the sonneteer’s views of the woman as a gift from God. In the 3rd line, the author uses anthropomorphism to describe his love’s laughter as a medicine to his sorrow, describing strong feelings towards her physical qualities. The feelings in the simile “like caramel” reference the woman’s nickname, Caramel. Using an allusion to a song he once wrote, the poet goes on to ask for his darling’s love. In the
The functions of language are deeply rooted in human behavior, which allows us to construct linguistic stimuli that would then acquire control over the characters. The structure of a language affects the ways in which its speaker is able to conceptualize their world, altering affecting in their interactions with others. In William Shakespeare’s Othello, the reader is given insight to the character through their words, therefore giving words magnificent power on revealing human behaviour. In Othello, by William Shakespeare the various characters are illustrated through their dialogue and alter language patterns. Within Othello, Iago speaks in a vulgar context, while Othello charms people with his noble speeches. Also, Shakespeare portrays the
Shakespeare wrote plays that captured true human emotion and conflicts in life. He grew fame from writing these plays. His plays had different genres such as tragedies, comedies, history and tragic comedies. His most famous plays were Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. Many proclaim
Words can be beautiful, destructive, and manipulative. Language is central to all our lives, and arguably the cultural tool that sets humans apart from any other species. Language enables us to express our wishes, feelings, likes, dislikes, and ideas; it can be a symbolic function. Language also plays a role in how we affect other people, and how we make others feel, achieved just by our choice of words. By observing the language and the behavior of other people, one is provided with valuable information about personality type. If one listens closely they can better understand a friend’s temperament. By paying close attention to others, how they speak, how they dress, and facial expressions, we can better understand the wants of those around as and how they function as a person. The play Othello is full of rich dialogue with characters speaking eloquently and exquisitely to one another, “Yet I 'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental