Romeo and Juliet is arguably the most famous, and tragic, love story in history. Throughout the play Shakespeare orchestrates a variety of themes. Love is a prominent of these, however, Shakespeare also includes the fascinations of fate, the icy touch of hate, and the curious collision of opposites. These differing ideologies and motifs are what, when combined, create such a brilliant masterpiece. Shakespeare portrays the power of love through characters of Romeo and Juliet, he uncovers the
associated with using signals “to the audience that they’re entering a contract with the storyteller”, in “Strictly Ballroom” (1998), Luhrmann achieves this in the opening sequence by placing the audience in an interview with the main characters. In “Romeo and Juliet” (1998) the opening sequence put the audience in a dark room watching the prologue on a news network on a television, and finally in “The Great Gatsby” (2013)
saying that he would rather die than live his life without his true love. Everyone knows that in the end, the star-crossed lovers kill themselves in the end in order to spend eternity together. 8. Hyperbole- a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. (“Hyperbole - Examples and Definition of Hyperbole.” Literary Devices, 15 Aug. 2017, literarydevices.net/hyperbole/.) Example- “Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather
"Sonnet 130" Imagine Romeo telling Juliet that her breath smells horrible and she had stringy hair. It certainly does not seem very romantic or at all polite but this is exactly what William Shakespeare does in Sonnet 130, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.” While Shakespeare’s satirical intent is present, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” is a sonnet that emphasizes the importance of finding beauty in the imperfect, or more literally, finding beauty in the human form. Shakespeare