The prologue
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- Created on: 17-11-18 10:14
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- The prologue
- It's a sonnet
- The 14 line structure was used in love poems
- It came from Italy
- Where the play is set
- It came from Italy
- The last part of the play is also a sonnet
- It has to follow rules
- The first 8 lines are a problem
- The fight between the families
- The 9th line is a plot twist
- R+J dying
- The last 6 lines are a solution
- Greif helps the families overcome the conflict
- "The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love"
- It's destined that they will die because of their love
- Fate
- A Shakespe-arean audience would have a firm belief in fate
- Fate
- A "passage" usually only has one way out
- The word "fearful" indicates that they will be in pain
- Both emotionally and physically
- The juxtaposition "death-mark'd love" makes it appear that love is tainted and comes at a cost
- By making it so explicit that they will die, Shakespeare makes the audience more aware of death every time it's on stage
- It's destined that they will die because of their love
- "The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love"
- Greif helps the families overcome the conflict
- But Shakespeare disregards these rules and remakes the sonnet
- The first 8 lines are a problem
- The 14 line structure was used in love poems
- Key themes
- Fate
- You know what's going to happen before the play has even started
- They're described as "star-crossed lovers"
- It suggests that it was written in the stars that they would end up together
- Fate
- It's the form of a love poem but filled with hate
- This symbolises how much conflict there is in the play
- He entwines the two, showing that you can't have one without the other
- The saying 'you can only hate someone as much as you once loved them'
- It's a sonnet
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