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Exploring the Ways that Shakespeare Makes Act 1 Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet Dramatically Effective

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Exploring the Ways that Shakespeare Makes Act 1 Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet Dramatically Effective

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love but soon find out that their love is forbidden as they are from separate houses, the Montague and Capulet houses. They have to hide their love from their parent, problem a rise which causes death for both of the lovers and friends. There are many things that the prologue sets up. It sets it up the story as a tragic love story. It also sets up a situation of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters don't. I think this gives the play theatricality. Also as if destiny has brought Romeo …show more content…

The audience know that Romeo and Juliet are from to very rich and power Elizabethan families, Romeo and Juliet will become friends. They are children from two enemy families, that Romeo and Juliet were going to meet and in the end die. The audience knew this from the prologue. The audiences expectations of Act 1 Scene 5 was that Romeo would get into his enemy's party, the reason Romeo didn't get caught at the party was because it was a masked ball. It was Juliet's family's ball she was there to judge Paris. Paris had asked Juliet's father Capulet if he could marry her. Capulet had said that it was Juliet's choice who she married.

How Shakespeare makes Act 1 scene 5 dramatically effective. The opening of Act 1 Scene 5 is a discussion between servants and serving men these are of low status in the play. One of the ways that Shakespeare makes this scene dramatically effective is in the opening line 'Where's Potpan that he helps not to take away. He shift a trencher?' (Lines 13-14) You can see that there is a busy atmosphere where the servants are preparing for the party. Another one is from servingman 3 'we can not be here and there too, cheerly boys, be brisk a while and the longer liver takes all.' (Lines 25-26) The reason this is dramatic is because you can sense that the servant is beginning to get

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