I stumble into English about 5 minutes late, clutching three binders and feeling the stares of the class on me. I awkwardly walk to the back corner, sit down, and put my stuff on my desk. I look up to see Mrs. Kobayashi walking to the front of the room. She's a cool teacher. She lets people call her Mrs. K, but her name's not that difficult to pronounce. She lets us listen to music and class, and sometimes she plays some of her own. She has good music taste. She likes Fall Out Boy and Green Day! And she wears awesome leather jackets on Friday, when the teachers are allowed to dress casual. "Hello, class. Today we're going to start reading the play Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare," she announces with a smile. "God, that play is so stupid." I speak up, knowing this is the only class where i could get away with this. "It starts off with a teenager PROPOSING to a FUCKING TWELVE YEAR OLD he met at a dance just because she was hot, and she SAID YES, and then they insisted on getting married even though they could get killed even for just dating, and then Juliet, for an indiscernible reason she told no one about, decided to play pretend and make everyone think she had KILLED HERSELF, and then Romeo, without even checking if she was, you know, actually dead, ACTUALLY killed himself. Romeo and Juliet were just so utterly …show more content…
It's about how people who are in love will find a way to be together no matter what! Forbidden love stories are beautiful!" Annoyed, he brushes strands of dark hair out of his blue eyes. His näive, stupid, beautiful, green-blue-yellow eyes that sparkle when he talks on and on about the boring, cliche, all-too-perfect love that only exists in movie screens and young adult novels, all starry skies and picnic baskets and she-looked-into-his-eyes-and-suddenly-he-was-falling kind of shit. All the things that don't belong to people like me. Or maybe it's just because he sits next to the
Romeo and Juliet starts with servants of the Capulets and Montagues starting a fight in the streets. A riot breaks out when more people from both families, and the townspeople get involved, trying to break up the fight. The prince enters the scene and delivers his message to the crowd. The language used in the prince's monologue, in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, is crucial to understanding and introducing the prince's authoritative character, the past and future interactions of the Capulets and Montagues, and the themes of the play. The prince’s monologue demonstrates that he is an authoritative figure.
Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 1 Questions 1.How does Shakespeare create a light and humorous tone in the opening moments of the scene? Shakespeare creates a light and humorous tone in the opening moments by starting it off with a discussion between two servants, Sampson and Gregory that includes sarcasm, insults and jokes that involve take about sexual acts like rape. First, Sampson states, “Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals.” (I, i, 1). Where he means that Gregory we will not be servants we will not deal with their trash.
Although it may not seem like it, Friar Lawrence’s monologue in Act III, scene iii is a crucial piece of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. This scene shows the relationship between Friar Lawrence and Romeo as the friar makes an effort to help and console a stubborn, weeping Romeo. This scene has a domino effect and sets many other events in the play in motion. In Act III, scene iii, it takes Romeo a firm scolding, a reminder of the consequences of reckless decisions, and a prompting to remember the things he has to be grateful for to finally calm him down and bring him to his senses.
The typical worries of the lower classes display the struggle of their lives, which is a
Since life is too complex to be classified into a single category, then why should a play imitating life be confined to a single genre? In the classic tale of two "star cross'd lovers", Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare dabbles with both the comic and tragic genres (Prologue, Line 6). The play starts in the traditional comic form but undergoes a transformation in Act III, Scene I. In this scene, the death of Mercutio, and consequential death of Tybalt, transform the play into a tragedy. With each death comes a change that alters the course of the rest of the play. Mercutio's death results in an inversion of the play's genre. Traditional comic elements are lifted only to be replaced by tragedy. The death of Tybalt constitutes another radical
In the beginning, the audience is introduced to the entirety of the plot in the prologue. It truly is magnificent, Shakespeare summarized his entire play in the beginning! But, enough complimenting the man. The basic tale is two families hate each other, there children fall in love, love is forbidden due to the parents, and then the children end up killing
Noble and treasured citizens of our fair city Verona, I stand here today in front of you all, in light of recent events, to mourn the loss of a cherished child of God. Today we look back upon the life and times of the ever revered Romeo Montague, who was loved so graciously by friends and family and who I loved like a son of my own. And while God has taken Romeo from us too young, we can still learn from the actions he taught us and ensure that his legacy shall stand the test of time and forever live on.
I have been looking for Jerome all day and this nigga pulls up in front of my mother’s how with my bitch of a daughter. Yea, I called her a bitch. I dare somebody to say something about the shit. I rung my mother’s bell and when didn’t nobody answer I walked around back. I went up the back stairs and pushed the back door open being that momma was in the kitchen. “Hey Sarah,” I looked at her and rolled my eyes “Hey Bernice,” she placed the fork down on the stove and wiped her hands on her apron. I knew it was about to be some shit. “Don’t bring yo’ narrow ass in my house and call me Bernice,” she said with her finger touching my nose. I laughed at her “You mad at me for calling you Bernice but you let TREMBLE! Call me Sarah tho” she placed her
I remember the hot summer sun beaming down on me, the sweat slowly trickling down the side of my face. I remember my father John, pushing me to my utmost limits. Never had I been so frustrated; never had I been so incongruous; never had I been so naive. My father always remarked, “Frost, you'll never get somewhere if you don't try hard enough; but if you try harder than everyone else, you can get anywhere.” This became my personal motto, and I've carried it with me ever since.
I attempted to hide my nerves. I’ve managed to get out of speaking in front of the class for the past year or so. I doubt some know what my voice sounds like. But I’m fine with that. Reluctantly, I read, confusing myself with the many names I have not been paying attention to since we started reading it. Luckily, the chapter is short, so rather quickly I look up to Mr. Walker again.
about act 1 scene 5. I am going to consider the dramatic events of the
In the scene of the Nurse, Lady Capulet and Juliet, it shows that the Nurse knows more about Juliet than Juliet’s own mother when Lady Capulet didn’t know her age. Even though Juliet and Lady Capulet are related by blood, the Nurse is more of a mother to Juliet than her. Another significant thing about this is that Lady Capulet looks at Juliet like an object just to get
Gregory, you cannot let them make fun of us like that, it is not on I want tolerate it nor will you and I know that for a fact.
Arsène lied to Romeo for the first time. He told the other that he was sick, that he didn't feel like going out to the night market with them, though as soon as the other had left, he had gone off as well. He was in the same night market, looking through the more adult oriented stores, buying a few things he thought the other might've appreciated which now brings us here to their little van in the middle of a parking lot.
Everyone knows the story: amidst the fighting of two families, a girl meets the guy of her dreams, within a day they are married and, later, they kill themselves. Some people believe that Romeo and Juliet promotes unacceptable behavior in teens; however, it is a very important part of the ninth grade language arts education because it has global influence and teaches lessons to people.