Category: Communication

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Why do people portray Richard III as  horrible man?

-Shakespeare made big impact. Shakespeare made all monarchs like villains because at the time a lot of them were killers and conquerors. Shakespeare exaggerated a lot, especially about his hunch back.

Did The Real Richard III Resemble Shakespeare’s Horrible Creation?

-A lot of what he described was not factual and there is not enough evidence to state that he was that bad

source- bbc 3/ radio 3

In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare explores the in many ways. He uses it to communicate his idea of how everything is set up in plan for Romeo and Juliet’s life, and god is in control of it, and not them. In this essay I will explain the ways in which he uses them and what effect they have on the audience of the play, and explains how you supposedly cannot escape fate.

One of the ways that he communicates the idea of fate is in the chance meeting of Romeo and Juliet. From Romeo seeing the invitation for the party to him falling in love at first sight with Juliet it could not be a coincidence. They were meant for each other, they were star crossed lovers and god had decided it should be that way. When Romeo stumbles across Peter in the street Peter happens to not be educated. The Capulets could have chosen any man go and deliver the invitation yet still the man that they sent happened to find help from Romeo. Also in real life it is not usual to suddenly see someone and both people fall in love at the first sight.

William Shakespeare also demonstrates the use of fate in the chorus. The chorus is used to narrate what is happening, and so in the intro he tells everybody what is going to happen: Romeo and Juliet are going to kill themselves.

“A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.”

William Shakespeare does this to demonstrate that characters cannot escape their own fate. This also gives the audience a fell of power and awareness over the characters lives. The audience throughout the play hope that Romeo and Juliet will not die, so this gives suspense throuout the play.

Another use of fate is where the characters themselves unconscionably predict there own future. For example:

“JULIET (gesturing towards Romeo)

What’s he that follows there, that would not dance?

NURSE

I know not.

JULIET

Go ask his name: if he be married.

My grave is like to be my wedding bed.”

In this text Juliet describes how if Romeo were to be married then her ‘grave shall be her wedding bed’. She Is therefore predicting the future, as her grave does turn out to be her wedding bed.

Using words again to explore fate, Shakespeare uses Metaphors. The metaphor is a very powerful use of language, but is not always noticed when reading or watching a play.It is where certain words are used to make a picture of something -in this case- that will happen in the future. For example:

LADY CAPULET
What say you? Can you love the gentleman?
This night you shall behold him at our feast.
Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face
And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen.
Examine every married lineament
And see how one another lends content,
And what obscured in this fair volume lies
Find written in the margin of his eyes.
This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
To beautify him only lacks a cover.

All of these word in bold have something to do do with books, suggesting again that he play is a book and the fate of Romeo and Juliet cannot be changed. Also when Lady Capulet says “To beautify him only lacks a cover.”, she is implying that Juliet needs a man- that she should marry Paris, she is hinting to what will happen later on in the book. There are many of these metaphors in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and they all have something to do with what will happen.

As well as the wording and text of the play there is also use of fate in the actual events. At the end of the play, Romeo is banished from Verona and when Friar John goes to tell Romeo about the plan to get back Juliet he manages to get caught up in a quarantine and so cannot deliver the message, meaning that he thinks Juliet is dead. Likewise, the same happens, when Friar Lawrence does not make it to the tomb in time. Both of these things lead to Romeo killing himself which made Juliet kill herself. They would not happen on an ordinary ocation, and so plays it’s part in fate.

William Shakespeare uses all of these things to play their own part in fate, and together they show how god is in control and how you cannot change your fate. Athough if Romeo has killed himself- which is the most terrible thing to do as you are taking the decision of your life into your own hands- then how can it be his fate that he takes the decision about his life away from God?

I have decided to do the following dramatic monologue:

ROMEO: But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid, since she is envious.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.
It is my lady; O, it is my love!
O that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold; ’tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!

Mercutio:
“True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
And, being anger’d, puffs away from thence,
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.”

Shakespeare used many metaphors in his plays, this made them great pieces of writing. In this speech Mercutio is describing dreams and fantasy being the wind.
“More inconsistent than the wind”
“A vain fantasy-thin as the air”
Dreams come and go, but are not solid substances, just like the wind. It’s there but you cannot reach out and grab it.

Your task is to identify the metaphor present in the following excerpt and then write a paragraph that explains the metaphor and its effect on the meaning of the passage it is embedded in.

MERCUTIO

True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
And, being anger’d, puffs away from thence,
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.

Feel free to watch the presentation again from this lesson to remind you of how to approach a passage that contains a metaphor:

Written: Analytic essay

Spoken: Dramatic monologue

Created: Film a scene from romeo juliet

SUNDAY MORNING:

-There is a big fight between the two rival families when they meet.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON:

-Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona, attempts to prevent any further conflicts between the families by decreeing death for any individual who disturbs the peace in the future.

-It is found out that Romeo is in love with Rosaline.

-they get an invitation to a ball where Romeo’s cousin wants to show that they are more beautiful girls than her.

SUNDAY EVENING:
At the ball:

-Romeo goes with his cousin to the ball

-Romeo is spotted by the other family, one of them wants to get rid of him but the other tells him not to, so as not to disturb the ball and to keep peace.

-Romeo sees Juliet and then they fall in love, although they do not yet know who each other are as everyone at the ball are wearing masks.

-Romeo waits outside Juliet’s window for her and they make long speeches about each other in private.

-They decide they want to marry each other (even though they have not yet spoken a hundred words to each other yet.)

THE NEXT MORNING:

-Friar Lawrence gives a speech about how herbs can do great good but can also do bad. He compares it to humans.

-Romeo walks in and asks the friar if he can help him and Juliet to be married.

-Friar Lawrence agrees as he thinks that if the two are married it will converge the families and it will be the end of the feuding.

-Sends her nurse to get news from Romeo.

-Romeo and Juliet get married

-As the Montagues walk in the street, Benvolio suggests that they go indoors because he fears that otherwise they may get into a fight with the Capulet family.

-Tybalt enters with another of his men, he asks whether ‘his man’ (Romeo) is anywhere, he begins to insult Mercutio until Romeo enters.

-Tybalt describes him as an enemy, but Romeo says that he must love Tybalt as                 we and Romeo know (all of the other characters don’t) he is secretly married to Juliet so he must love Tybalt as a cousin.

-Romeo’s friends do not like this as they think Romeo should treat Tybalt badly and not love him as they are not supposed to like the other family.

-Romeo does not want to fight with Tybalt, so Mercutio says that if Romeo will not fight then he shall. He draws his sword. Romeo tries to stop the fight,but as he does so Tybalt shoots through the gap next to Romeo’s arm and the bullet hits Mercutio.

-Mercutio says it is only a scratch- but then dies ,off stage.

-Tybalt then turns to Romeo, They fight and Tybalt falls.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed, Michael Jordon

Failure is success if we learn from it.

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