In Greek Mythology, the Fates were three sisters who had the power to control one 's destiny. Their names were Clotho, who spins the thread of life; Lachesis, who determines how long you will live; and Atropos, who cuts the thread of life with her scissors and decides how you will die. The Fates would visit the house three days after a baby was born, stand over the crib, and determine the child’s fate and life. In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, it seems that the sisters did indeed visit the characters, as the play tells the audience from the start that a grim end awaits them.
In the Prologue the audience is introduced to “A pair of star-cross’d lovers” who “take their life”, “Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows doth with their …show more content…
It is an eerie place and Paris’ page says “I am almost afraid to stand alone here in the churchyard” (Act 5, Scene 3). He feels apprehensive and worried that Romeo has gone there with the intention of doing himself harm.
Shakespeare uses a variety of poetic forms throughout the play. Much of Romeo and Juliet is written in iambic pentameter with ten syllables of alternating stress in each line. He also uses blank verse, which unlike iambic pentameter has no rhyming. Shakespeare matches the language form to the character who uses it. For Friar Laurence he uses language that sounds like a sermon, and he makes the nurse exhibit a more common sounding speech using blank verse. When Romeo and Juliet meet on the balcony, Romeo uses a romantic sonnet form to express his love.
Personification is one of many literary devices used by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. Personification is what gives an inanimate object human-like emotions. It helps the reader to imagine the scene and better understand the characters. In the famous balcony scene Romeo likens Juliet to the sun, and has the moon expressing emotion.
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
‘Tis the east, and Juliet is the
In the Prologue the audience is introduced to “A pair of star-cross’d lovers” who “take their life”, “Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows doth with their …show more content…
It is an eerie place and Paris’ page says “I am almost afraid to stand alone here in the churchyard” (Act 5, Scene 3). He feels apprehensive and worried that Romeo has gone there with the intention of doing himself harm.
Shakespeare uses a variety of poetic forms throughout the play. Much of Romeo and Juliet is written in iambic pentameter with ten syllables of alternating stress in each line. He also uses blank verse, which unlike iambic pentameter has no rhyming. Shakespeare matches the language form to the character who uses it. For Friar Laurence he uses language that sounds like a sermon, and he makes the nurse exhibit a more common sounding speech using blank verse. When Romeo and Juliet meet on the balcony, Romeo uses a romantic sonnet form to express his love.
Personification is one of many literary devices used by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. Personification is what gives an inanimate object human-like emotions. It helps the reader to imagine the scene and better understand the characters. In the famous balcony scene Romeo likens Juliet to the sun, and has the moon expressing emotion.
“But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
‘Tis the east, and Juliet is the