Monday, May 20, 2019
How Does Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Link to Different Poems?
In alone the different texts that were studied, the themes of Love & conflict are ap foster. In Shakespeares Play Romeo and Juliet, we get the impression that possibly the nurse has to a greater extent affection for Juliet compared to her actual farms. It was the nurse that raised and breastfed her. Her parents seem to be quite impertinent and distanced and are more interested in controlling her. However, we see their genuine affection for her when they are sorrowful after they discover Juliets death. In Catrin, like the Capulets, we can see the mother, Gillian Clarke attempting to control her daughter.But this is not a significant face-off just a petty dispute in which the mother recognises that conflict pass on of every time be a part of mother/daughter relationships. This can be seen in What has Happened to truelove, where the confrontation between mother and daughter has escalated to the point where the daughter felt she must leave. Similarly, in the poem, A raffish sh adow, Alice is angry as her mothers love is controlling and smothering. The texts suggest that relationships are not always healthy between parents and daughters.The structure of Romeo and Juliet takes the form of a traditional narrative with the developing problem of Juliets arranged wedding party reaching a climax with her death then a resolution of the feuding families reconciling. In Catrin, the classical structure is abandoned and replaced with a more complex narrative beginning with a flashback. It is the lonesome(prenominal) at the end where we understand their conflict. In A Frosty Night and What has happened to Lulu? We see a more traditional structure with the story unfolding in a chronological way.However, what is interesting slightly the twentieth century texts is that none of them are resolved at the end unlike Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeares diarrhea is quite alike A Frosty Night as the conflict is revealed through dialogue plot of ground in Catrin and What Has Hap pened to Lulu the narrative is conveyed through the first person. The social and historical contexts of the texts are marked differently. Romeo and Juliet was pen in the late 16th century while the other poems were written in the modern daytime and, therefore, reflects the attitudes and values of their times.In Romeo and Juliet, unlike today, children werent expected to question the authority of their parents. Moreover, it was the tradition for parents to arrange their childrens marriage and sometimes leads to serious conflict. This is evident in Shakespeares play and ultimately leads to the death of both children. In all the poems, the conflict in a parent-child relationship isnt as serious as in Romeo and Juliet. While Alice and Lulu felt restricted and constrained by their mothers they could at least have acted more assertive with their parents and even leave home as Lulus disappearance was.In Catrin, the conflict is of a trivial nature which would make occurrence in most famil ies. Despite their apparent differences, what is remarkable is that parent/child conflict has persisted through time and therefore it is possible to understand the confrontation between Juliet and her parents even though it was written over four hundred years ago. In all the texts, powerful emotive language is illustrated. In Romeo and Juliet, we see Old Capulet verbally attacks Juliet in an aggressive and intemperate manner, Hang thee, Young BaggageDisobedient Wretch he screams. While in Catrin, Clarke uses the powerful parable tight red rope of love which we both fought over. In A Frosty Night, Robert Graves ends the poem and the mother/daughter conversation with Alice sh placeing, Mother let me go. Also, in What Has Happened to Lulu the younger sibling reveals I heard someone cry, in anger or in twinge. Perhaps it is not surprising that emotive language is employed after all the poems are borne out of love.
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