ENGL 2P80 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tybalt, Leonardo Dicaprio, Mercutio
3 Feb 2016
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Engl 2p80 romeo and juliet surveys of the play. Concluding lines couplet seemingly simple containing an ambiguity surrounding tragedy: is prince escalas"s statement a statement about real life or about poetry. People have generally considered this play as one of shakespeare"s immature tragedy"s. Romeo and juliet is a love tragedy and its protagonists are teenagers whose immaturity is at times painfully obvious. The plays setting and imagery explicitly connect the tragic action to a particular season summer when fruits and flowers are beginning to ripen and blossom and immature. Act 3 scene 1 is the mad blood stirring. Act 1 scene 2 let two summers wither . Act 2 scene 1 the balcony scene, juliet tells romeo lines 163-164 bud of love that she"s referring to barely has time to ripen before its destroyed. Juliet herself is connected to the summer because of the plays temporal setting.
