Scarica Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare. e più Temi in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Romeo and Juliet. In the city of Verona, there are two families that are enemies: Montague and Capulet. Frist Act: Romeo Montague reveals to his cousin Benvolio that he’s in love with Rosaline. Rosaline will be at a party at the Capulet’s house that evening, Romeo’s friends persuade him to go there. Romeo meets Juliet there and they fall in love. Second Act: Romeo and Juliet declare their love and their desire to be married. This act ends with the secret marriage of the two lovers in the chapel by the priest, Friar Laurence, who has expressed the hope that this marriage may end the families’ discord. Third Act: Mercutio, Romeo’s friend, is killed by Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, during a street fight. In revenge Romeo kills Tybalt and is banned from Verona to Mantua. The act ends with Romeo and Juliet’s wedding night. Fourth Act: To avvoid the marriage with Count Paris, Juliet take a drug. This potion makes her appear to be dead. The friar sends a messenger to Mantua, but before he arrives, Romeo hears that Juliet is dead and decides to return to Verona. Fifth Act: Romeo arrives at Juliet’s tomb and take some poison. At the moment Juliet wakes and seeing Romeo dead beside her, she stabs herself with his dagger. Setting Shakespeare chose Verona as the setting of this play because Italians were considered violent and passionate. Characters Romeo Montague is presented as a man belonging to the ‘courtly love convention’ because of his intense adoration and respect for a lady who is chaste and impossible. It’s his love for Juliet which makes him dynamic and brave: he risks his life to be near her. At the end he commits suicide rather than live without Juliet, which is the ultimate proof of his loyalitu and love for her. Juliet Capulet immediately shows determination and strenght in her open confessions of love and desire for Romeo. She is a real woman. When she wakes in the tomb and finds Romeo dead beside her, she does not kill herself because she is weak, but because of her strong love. Juliet’s suicide needs more determination than Romeo’s because she kills herself with a dagger. Themes The power of love. Passion and violence: The same passion leads to violence. The two families’ hate is as strong as two lovers’love. Individual aganist society: what the lovers want as individuals conflicts with what their families and society want. The power of fate: the tragic ending results from a pattern which includes the elements of chance and the more powerful element of incomplete knowledge. Style The style is immature. His rhythms are regular; rhymes are common, often used in couplets. Occasionally Shakespeare inserts a sonnet into the dialogue. There are a lot of oxymoron: life and death, love and hate, dark and light, Montagues and Capulets, peace and fighting, young and old.
