Prologue

One of the most well known classic love stories in history, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare and the modern film remake made by Baz Luhrmann tells the story of two young lovers who, because of the everlasting rivalry between their two families can’t express their love sufficiently for it to be known. The story consists among the constant struggles Romeo and Juliet have with family friends and eachother. The play upholds the feeling of love only through barriers and that…

meanings and one way he does it is by using opposites. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare use opposites to emphasize conflict, to emphasize feelings of characters and to show the differences between characters. When the play begins there is a prologue that sets the scene of what is to come.…

Fate and Free Will in Romeo and Juliet By Dougal Perrers William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a classic tragedy about two young lovers born into feuding families. The conflict of fate and free will is a recurring theme throughout the text, and Shakespeare frequently uses literary techniques to shape the direction of the story. Romeo and Juliet are ultimately responsible for their own end, but their deaths were undeniably influenced by the philosophies of their time. Shakespeare relies…

of his most developed ones, with her Prologue twice as long as her Tale. He also goes so far as to describe two sets of clothing for her in his General Prologue. She holds her own among the bickering pilgrims, and evidence in the manuscripts suggests that although she was first assigned a different, plainer tale—perhaps the one told by the Shipman—she received her present tale as her significance increased. She calls herself both Alyson and Alys in the prologue, but to confuse matters these are…

Bath’s Tale acts as a strong commentary on the role of women in society. Because of Christianity’s influence on society, anyone who fell outside the Renaissance man category tended to fall by the wayside. Chaucer’s depiction of Medieval women in the prologue alone speaks volumes about how women were treated in Medieval society. Out of all thirty pilgrims in the travel party, only two women are given a voice throughout the whole journey, and the way that he describes them shows that…

end in a tragic death. One may dig deeper to find out who is really to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. One may put the majority of the blame on the shoulders of fate itself. Fate was certainly destined to keep Romeo and Juliet apart. The prologue reads “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life…” (DBQ Romeo and Juliet Doc. A). Fate had it that they would meet and fall in love, but that they would both take their life. In Act 1, Scene 3, Lady Capulet tells Juliet she must marry…

world believe that a higher power controls one’s life. This idea is often shown through art, specifically plays. In William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows that the characters tragic ending is predetermined by fate. In the prologue of the play the audience is told “a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” and goes on to describe their love as “Death marked.” This foreshadows the later tragic events to come and that their love was both destoned to occur and end in…

Like father like son, or at least that is how the saying goes, but for the father and son duo described in the “Prologue” of Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, this saying could not be any further from the truth. With one having very high moral values and the other caring more about the ladies than life, it should be easy to see just how opposite father and son really can be. In fact, the Knight and his son, the Squire, are not only exact opposites in their actions, but they are even more…

characters and the events of the play. In Sophocles’ Antigone, the audience would've known these details. Anouilh seems to be narrating the story and giving some important background information to the audience to help them know more of the play. This prologue which shows the distancing of the audience from the play due to plot summary, etc is effective because it aids the…

The narrator starts with a member of the “noble” class: the knight. The knight is described to have “ loved chivalry. Truth, honour, freedom and all courtesy” (“The Canterbury Tales: Prologue”). He fought in many battles and displayed nothing short of bravery and courage at all times. He “ was a truly perfect, gentle knight”. The irony lies in the knight’s son: a squire, who played his flute and would sing and dance. He participated in…