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How does Shakespeare create an impact on the audience in Romeo and Juliet? Is the play relevant to the 21st Century?
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How does Shakespeare create an impact on the audience in Romeo and Juliet? Is the play relevant to the 21st Century? Romeo and Juliet, the very title builds up a mental picture of a beautiful young girl on a balcony, with a young man reaching lovingly up towards her. The two names suggest a young couple, head over heels in love, who are destroyed by the implacable hatred of their families. Shakespeare's play is largely responsible for how these familiar images have become part of popular imagination worldwide, symbolising romantic love and doomed lovers and in this essay I am going to explain that Romeo and Juliet is far richer and more complex than such images suggest. I will describe how Shakespeare's language creates an impact on the audience by concentrating on one particular scene from the play. I will also write about why people still stage the play many times...
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