ROMEO AND JULIET - APPUNTI, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica ROMEO AND JULIET - APPUNTI e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! ROMEO AND JULIET PLOT -The setting in place=Verona; -The setting time=4 days and 4 nights; -Protagonist=two rival families: the MONTAGUES and the CAPULETS, particularly their children Romeo and Juliet. The first two acts are a love comedy Romeo and Juliet meet at the Capulet's ball, and they fall in love. They are secretly married to Friar Laurance; In the third act starts the real tragedy (deaths of Mercurio, Romeo’s fiend, and Tybal, Juliet’s Cousin); In the fourth act Juliet drinks a potion; In the fifth act a tragic conclusion: the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. THEMES -The power of love; -The feud between two families; -Individual against society; -The power of fate; -The lack of knowledge; STYLE -Regular rhythm; -Use of rhymes; -Use of sonnet in dialogues; -Imagery of light linked to life and the courteous love commention; -Imagery of darkness linked to death. MACBETH 1605-1608 diviso in 5 atti The protagonist of the tragedy is a generall of the king of Scotland Duncan. Macbeth and Banquo met three witches that explained then some prophecies: Macbeth will be named scan gentlemen of cawdor by the king of Scotland Duncan, and then it will ascend to the throne; Banquo, also without never ruining it will have a regal descent; These prophecy became to come true Macbeth inform immediately his wife Lady Macbeth that suggest him to invite his cousin Duncan and to murder him. Macbeth temporizes, but he is convinced by his wife and he kills Duncan. After prophecies came true, Lady Macbeth became mad, in fact she will see an his hands some blood, that she will clean some water. THE SONNETS William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, and like most sonnets written at that time, of ours are also largely desiccated to the theme of love, or themes related to love.