Explore the ways that ideas about relationships are developed in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” and the “The Sonnets”.
There are many ways in which Shakespeare presents associations in “The Sonnets” and the scenes from “Romeo and Juliet”. A sonnet consists of 14 lines and is usually wrote in the form of an iambic pentameter. Furthermore, it has 3 quatrains and 1 couplet in the end which is very pithy and full of meaning. However, sometimes it has volta which is change in the theme or ideas. It has a rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. As you are reading a sonnet, it sounds as if you are speaking normally, which emphasises the casual voice of the speaker and this may show the normality of the subject the writer writes about. The play and sonnets are usually about different ways in which people love each other.
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He interprets marriage, which is a religious ceremony as a condition of true love: “O no! it is an ever-fixed mark” Marriage has a sense of permanency in reality just as the writer says so. However, he uses the idea of “doom” which contradicts with the main theme of love being everlasting because according to the Christian bible (as Christianity was the major religion in the Shakespearean times) doom is the end of everything in the world. Shakespeare disagrees nevertheless and believes that love has the strength to withstand the destruction relating to doom: “ Love alters not with his briefs hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.” The writer claims that love is unchangeable even when Time passes and it lasts to the very end. Additionally, Time is also personified as a person as time is referred to as a he in sonnet 116. However, the quote contradicts with Romeo’s interpretation of love because Romeo loves Rosaline at first, but as soon as he catches a glimpse of Juliet, he forgets his sadness about the unrequited relationship with
There are many ways in which Shakespeare presents associations in “The Sonnets” and the scenes from “Romeo and Juliet”. A sonnet consists of 14 lines and is usually wrote in the form of an iambic pentameter. Furthermore, it has 3 quatrains and 1 couplet in the end which is very pithy and full of meaning. However, sometimes it has volta which is change in the theme or ideas. It has a rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. As you are reading a sonnet, it sounds as if you are speaking normally, which emphasises the casual voice of the speaker and this may show the normality of the subject the writer writes about. The play and sonnets are usually about different ways in which people love each other.
Shakespeare …show more content…
He interprets marriage, which is a religious ceremony as a condition of true love: “O no! it is an ever-fixed mark” Marriage has a sense of permanency in reality just as the writer says so. However, he uses the idea of “doom” which contradicts with the main theme of love being everlasting because according to the Christian bible (as Christianity was the major religion in the Shakespearean times) doom is the end of everything in the world. Shakespeare disagrees nevertheless and believes that love has the strength to withstand the destruction relating to doom: “ Love alters not with his briefs hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.” The writer claims that love is unchangeable even when Time passes and it lasts to the very end. Additionally, Time is also personified as a person as time is referred to as a he in sonnet 116. However, the quote contradicts with Romeo’s interpretation of love because Romeo loves Rosaline at first, but as soon as he catches a glimpse of Juliet, he forgets his sadness about the unrequited relationship with