Historical Narrative In The Novel 'I Am Juliet'

In the scene of the Nurse, Lady Capulet and Juliet, it shows that the Nurse knows more about Juliet than Juliet’s own mother when Lady Capulet didn’t know her age. Even though Juliet and Lady Capulet are related by blood, the Nurse is more of a mother to Juliet than her. Another significant thing about this is that Lady Capulet looks at Juliet like an object just to get

Often in life, tragedies that occur have a lot to do with the bad timing of events. In William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers who live in the beautiful city of Verona, Italy fall madly in love at first sight. The problem with this is that their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding for centuries. After a secret marriage, the two lovers are separated because of the actions of their families. The play tragically ends with the married couple committing suicide because of imperfect timing and confusion. Throughout this play, timing continuously plays a major role in all of the characters actions, eventually leading to tragedy.

When Juliet finds out that Tybalt has been killed and Romeo is in exile, for killing Tybalt, Juliet feels both passionate about Romeo and disappointed in both Romeo and herself, which reveal her inner struggle. In Act 3, Juliet’s Nurse comes back with this news that Tybalt is dead and that Romeo is such an awful person for killing him. Juliet fights back at the Nurse, and herself, for speaking bad about Romeo. She claims, ““Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, When I, thy three hours' wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband.” (3.2.99-101). This shows that Juliet is passionate about Romeo, because first of all, she says that she was wrong to say bad things about her husband.

The story of Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare he was baptised on April 23, 1564 and he was dead on April 23, 1616 at the age of 52 years old, he has three children Susanna Hall, Hamnet Shakespeare, Judith Quiney and his wife is Anne Hathaway. Romeo and Juliet story is the one of the famous story in the world. The characters is Romeo the boyfriend of Juliet Montague his father Mrs. Montague his mother, Benvolio their kinsman, Balthasar romeo’s seving man, Juliet the girlfriend of Romeo, Capulet her father Mrs. Capulet her mother, Paris the Prince’s kinsman and the Juliet suitor, and others.

In many literary works, there are methods that authors use to make a story better. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, dramatic irony is the driving method. Dramatic irony is something in which characters do not know something, but the reader or audience knows what the true reality is. According to some researchers, “A staple of Elizabethan and Shakespearean drama was dramatic irony” (Halio 25). Furthermore some researchers also belive that dramatic irony is very prominent in the play, “ One of the more prominent literary devices in the play is irony” (Sauer 673). Romeo and Juliet, and also their friends and families face a lot of instances of dramatic irony in the story. Dramatic irony creates suspense and adds to

In Romeo and Juliet we learn how Shakespeare uses vivid language to build character and depth in their roles. Shakespeare was a poet, playwright and an actor with a great love for language. Shakespeare was of great importance when it came down to the moulding and developing of the English language. Shakespeare had such an immense love for language that he created neologisms that we use in everyday life. Some of these neologisms he created include words such as puke, lonely, bedroom, democracy etc. in the play he developed numerous characters that played incredibly believable roles. An example of how Shakespeare made his characters believable was Tybalt, who spoke only forty lines in the entire play. Though he

Star-crossed lovers, both from a different family, both enemies meet at a party. They pushed things too fast and within a month they decide to get married in secret and only the Fryer knew. But in the mean time there was a fight about to start on the street and it was a hot day which could make even the most humble man angry to start a fight the Montagues crossed paths with the Capulets, a relative of the prince Mercutio and Tybalt a Capulet, both died, Mercutio by Tybalt, Tybalt by Romeo.

This morning I had awakened from my beauty sleep and there was something odd, my mother had called for me. This never happens, we never speak to each other, thy nurse is more my mother than Lady Capulet. I heard her talking about someone gets married and something about if I shall meet someone at a party that we were having, but thy ear was not listening. My mother at once had gotten thy attention for my nurse and they were arguing about my age. How does your mother forget your age, I am thy only child and she does not even know my age. However, she was saying that we were hosting a party and she wanted me to meet Count Paris for my father wants me to marry him. I am not much for getting married right now, but for I had followed my parent’s wishes. I never had the thought that marriage came so quickly.

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play about two star-crossed lovers toying with forbidden love, despite the ancient feud of the two families. One of the four major characters is Juliet Capulet. Shakespeare introduces Juliet as a young and innocent teenage girl with little thought about love or marriage, but at the end of the play she is viewed as quite the contrary. Her unwavering love for Romeo transforms her into a young, but mature, woman. Juliet’s maturity is portrayed through many different characteristics independence being a main characteristic amongst them. Her independence and stubbornness is being displayed when the Nurse pushes her to marry Paris, but Juliet strongly refuses and no longer trusts the Nurse,

Dizzy: that’s how I feel right now; completely dizzy. And everything is so blurry. Why? Why can’t I see…oh there we go! Everything is precise; but wrong. Where am I? “Juliet!” I call out. “I’m here Mercutio,” Juliet waves back. “Tybalt, Romeo, and Benvolio are all near me. Don’t worry.” “Mercutio!” Tybalt cries out and we embrace. “Oh no, oh no; we’ve been abducted. Oh dear,” Romeo keeps mumbling. “Shut up Romeo,” Benvolio groans as he rubs his temples. “Oh thank heavens, we’re all here,” Juliet says. “Yes, but where are we?” I ask. “Well it’s very hot in here, almost like a scorching fire.” Juliet points out. “Quite right,” I reply. Suddenly, a whole wall explodes, and a demon charges at us on all eight legs. “Run!” Tybalt says. We all run through the maze of hallways. I can feel myself get tired, panting for breath, yet I can’t slow down. I look back to see if the demon-creature is following us, but I can’t see it. I can hear it, feel its presence, but I can’t see it. It’s like I am going blind and unexpectedly everything blackens.

Shakespeare includes many literary elements in his writing of Juliet’s soliloquy from “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.” These literary elements draw more effect to the play. One example, how Shakespeare uses literary elements to deepen his writing is personification. Juliet is longing to be with Romeo and misses him dearly and she just wants him and his love, she says, “If love be blind, It best agrees with night” (III.ii.9-10). This literary element creates depth to what Juliet said.

Aren’t you tired? How can you do that without passing out? I can’t even run

Romeo and Juliet, a classic play by William Shakespeare, is known to many as a tragedy. But what makes this play tragic? Audiences favor this story because of the emotions evoked from a tale of love that sees two young souls torn apart. However, Romeo and Juliet when under my own definition of tragedy, does not resemble a tragic play. While the death of Mercutio and the deaths of Romeo and Juliet seem tragic, the story does not show one failing when trying to reach their full potential, instead the audience sees a forbidden love and death as a result, which does not demonstrate tragedy. Instead, Romeo and Juliet face flaws from within their families and society, forcing them to stay apart due to conflict. While both Romeo and Juliet try to reach the goal of being together and fail, the flaws of others cause the conflict, not the flaws of themselves. My definition surrounds the idea that the flaws of oneself leads to his or her demise, meaning that the play misses a key characteristic of the definition of tragedy. Both characters seem to die a “tragic death,” however, their death can only be considered sad or upsetting, especially to the audience. This play instead consists of somber scenes that show aspects of a tragedy, but not enough to place this play in a tragic category in the classic definition or in my own definition because the flaws of the main characters do not cause the fall of the characters as they try to reach their full potential. If a character who fell as a

This play was full of twists and major events and I am here to tell you only a few major ones. The first major event was the Montagues and the Capulets fighting at the beginning. The second major event is Romeo and Juliet meeting at the party. Lastly the third major event was at the end of the play when Juliet drinks the sleeping drug.

Jackie French used the first characteristic of the historical narrative genre, Uses accurate historical events/places/people to great extent in the novel. Her research into both Elizabethan and Renaissance times becomes very clear throughout the text. Even in the first passage of the book she used her knowledge to create a historically believable scene; “The tavern room smelled of chamber-pots. Rob Goughe, youngest apprentice actor of Lord Hunsdon’s men, scratched a louse bite under his cap. ‘Out, damn spot,’ he muttered. A night as lousy as his hair! Black specks in