In hamlet in your opinion why is the play within a play the climax of the novel?
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I think it showed Hamlet's stroke of genius (not insanity)in exposing his mother and uncle.Sort of an ...."oops,did I do that?"
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You should read it yourself, or you're undoubtedly going to miss some important stuff. With that caveat - here you go!\n\nAct II. \n\nIgnoring the danger, Romeo scales the Capulet's wall to be near Juliet, the woman he cannot forget... Unnoticed in Juliet's orchard, Romeo learns of Juliet's love for him. After declaring their feelings for each other, the two decide to marry. Juliet will send Romeo a messenger in the morning to make plans for their wedding...\n\nThe very next day, we meet Romeo's friend, Friar Laurence. He wonders how Romeo can forget Rosaline so quickly but agrees to marry the two since he hopes this marriage it will end the long running Montague / Capulet feud...\n\nRomeo catches up with his friends Mercutio and Benvolio. Juliet's messenger, the Nurse, arrives and the wedding is set for later that day. The Nurse brings Romeo "cords" or ropes which will allow Romeo to climb into Juliet's bedchamber as her husband later that night... Act II ends with Romeo and Juliet's marriage. \n\nAct III. \n\nBenvolio and Mercutio (both Montagues) meet Tybalt (Capulet). Tybalt attempts to provoke Romeo into fighting. Mercutio fights Tybalt and is killed. Romeo then kills Tybalt. Escalus, the Prince of Verona banishes Romeo from Verona threatening death should he ever return. Juliet learns of Romeo killing Tybalt and despite being torn between her loyalty for her family and Romeo, mourns her husband Romeo's banishment.\n\nRomeo learns of the banishment order, realizing he will not be able to see Juliet again. Friar Laurence suggests Romeo go to Juliet's bed chamber to comfort his wife... Capulet, who does not know of Romeo and Juliet's marriage, decides that the marriage of Juliet to Paris must now proceed, bidding his wife to make Juliet aware of Paris' love for her. The day of the marriage has been decided; it will be Thursday.\n\nWe learn that Romeo has spent the night with his Juliet. Juliet who is now already secretly married to Romeo, learns that she is to marry Paris. She tries to fight her father's wishes, failing to dissuade him. Juliet decides to commit suicide if all else fails...
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Because it was written so long ago that the meanings are cryptic to us - they were not as cryptic at the time - and at that time hidden meanings and innuendo were used a great deal in theater.  Remember, Shakespeare's plays were written to be performed on stage at the time.\n\nThese sites should give you plenty of information for your report.
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Talk about dark!\n\nIt starts with a Hamlet's father's ghost claiming he was murdered and just gets darker from there.\n\nIts an exploration of madness and suicide.  Ophelia goes crazy and drowns herself.  Hamlet's "to be or not to be" is a direct contemplation of suicide.\n\nHamlet finds his old best friend's skull in the graveyard.\n\n"Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horation, a man of infintite jest and most powerful fancy" a skull\n\nMurder most foul!\n\nbetrayal, incest, murder\n\ngreat stuff! ! !
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I think it is the "ending score"
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Please don't take those responses of "sex before marriage" and illicit love as the breach of innocence in R & J.  The love of Romeo and Juliet is in itself representative of innocence.  The breach comes with the societal folly surrounding them.  It is through that imposition that they seek to consummate their love in a clandestine way, and that may indicate a breach of innocence, but the essence of their romance keeps its integrity.  The death of the two lovers is evidence that the innocnce is not broken; for both Romeo and Juliet would rather take on death than destroy what they have together.
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The best examples are probably in the "too too solid flesh" soliloquy.  There the distinction between earthly things and heavenly things, and the distinction between King Hamlet and Claudius.  Also, when Prince Hamlet is addressing Yorick's skull, he draws comparisons between living and dying
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Juliet's long soliloquy before she drinks the potion focuses on her fears.  She at first calls the nurse, then changes her mind, realizing that she must act alone.  At first she fears that the potion won't work at all and lays a dagger beside her in case it doesn't.  She then fears that Friar Laurence may have lied, and really plans to kill her in order to avoid being punished for performing their marriage. \n\nAfter deciding that the Friar is honest and trustworthy, Juliet fears that she will wake up before Romeo arrives.  This prospect frightens her the most.  She fears strangling to death for lack of air, and then thinks about being in the vault with the bones of her ancestors, including Tybalt's recently dead body.  In horrible images, she imagines herself playing with the bones of her dead relatives and even smashing her own brains out with one of the bones.  As she imagines Tybalt's ghost seeking out Romeo, his murderer, she drinks the potion as a toast to Romeo.\n\nEven though Juliet's worst fear is that she will wake up too soon, it is ironic that this is the one thing that could have saved both their lives.\n\nJuliet is tragically alone in this scene, expressing her deepest fears in total isolation.  She shows her bravery as proof of her intense love for Romeo. In fact, it is her love for him which allows her to overcome her worst fears.
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*conflict- many instances of conflicts in this play. Montagues vs. capulets, mercutio vs. tybalt, romeo vs. paris and many more!!!!!\n     *climax- the point of the story where everything is exciting, everything is glorious, great, or magnificent! everything goes downhill from there. i think theclimax is either in the balcony scene or the party.\n     *falling action- secret wedding and after.\n     *resolution- either romeo and juliet's death, romeo's banishment, when romeo buys the poison (?), or when Juliet makes plans with friar lawerence (?)\n     *i know this isn't muc, but it's a starting point!!!!! my class just finished the romeo and juliet unit, so this stuff is fresh in my mind. i'm REALLY sry that i can't figure out the resolution, but if you've read the play thru, you should be able to choose one of these answers!!!!! good luck with your project and grades!!!!!
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Try sparknotes.com you may be able to find an analysis of the play.\n\nPesonally, I sometimes need the extra help because I don't know what Shakespheare is talking about.
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For me its a toss up between the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet and the death scene in the same play.  Both show love's hold on the star-crossed lovers. For some reason Romeo's last line "And thus with a kiss I die" just stays with me. It may be easier to feign a tomb than make a balcony.
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"Silk purse from a sow's ear"\n"the step-child"\n"the last shall be first"\n"from humble beginnings"\n"dark horse"\n"long shot"\n"one in a million"\n"little engine that could"\n"Horatio Alger"\n"comeback kid"\n"needle in the haystack"\n\nI hope one of these is useful!  Thank you for reviewing a play in an unlikely location--I know the actors and everyone involved will appreciate your feedback!
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Nicely written. Particularlyl the beginning. Work on the finale. It is missing its purpose at the end. But the rest is pointing to something meaningful. \n\nSuggest that you are missing your ending...you are writing about something personal to you.
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I hope it wasn't due four days ago. I find it ironic that with all the concern about teen-suicide, that Romeo and Juliet is usually required reading at this age. I think the Leonardo DiCaprio version that came out is a good version for understanding the universal values that Shakespeare's generation shares with today.\n\nAnger, though played with gently, still leads to death.\n\nFew know what passions beat within the heart of another.\n\nFirst love, is beautiful and pure, and blind to the misery the future holds.\n\nAs for what I learned...while love may be true, deception never serves it well.
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The Forcefulness of Love \n\nRomeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. Love is naturally the play’s dominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. In the course of the play, the young lovers are driven to defy their entire social world: families (“Deny thy father and refuse thy name,” Juliet asks, “Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet”); friends (Romeo abandons Mercutio and Benvolio after the feast in order to go to Juliet’s garden); and ruler (Romeo returns to Verona for Juliet’s sake after being exiled by the Prince on pain of death in II.i.76–78). Love is the overriding theme of the play, but a reader should always remember that Shakespeare is uninterested in portraying a prettied-up, dainty version of the emotion, the kind that bad poets write about, and whose bad poetry Romeo reads while pining for Rosaline. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves.\nThe powerful nature of love can be seen in the way it is described, or, more accurately, the way descriptions of it so consistently fail to capture its entirety. At times love is described in the terms of religion, as in the fourteen lines when Romeo and Juliet first meet. At others it is described as a sort of magic: “Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks” (II.Prologue.6). Juliet, perhaps, most perfectly describes her love for Romeo by refusing to describe it: “But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up some of half my wealth” (III.i.33–34). Love, in other words, resists any single metaphor because it is too powerful to be so easily contained or understood.\nRomeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society, religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and passion of being in love, combining images of love, violence, death, religion, and family in an impressionistic rush leading to the play’s tragic conclusion.\n\n\n\n\nLove as a Cause of Violence\n \nThe themes of death and violence permeate Romeo and Juliet, and they are always connected to passion, whether that passion is love or hate. The connection between hate, violence, and death seems obvious. But the connection between love and violence requires further investigation.\nLove, in Romeo and Juliet, is a grand passion, and as such it is blinding; it can overwhelm a person as powerfully and completely as hate can. The passionate love between Romeo and Juliet is linked from the moment of its inception with death: Tybalt notices that Romeo has crashed the feast and determines to kill him just as Romeo catches sight of Juliet and falls instantly in love with her. From that point on, love seems to push the lovers closer to love and violence, not farther from it. Romeo and Juliet are plagued with thoughts of suicide, and a willingness to experience it: in Act III, scene iii, Romeo brandishes a knife in Friar Lawrence’s cell and threatens to kill himself after he has been banished from Verona and his love. Juliet also pulls a knife in order to take her own life in Friar Lawrence’s presence just three scenes later. After Capulet decides that Juliet will marry Paris, Juliet says, “If all else fail, myself have power to die” (III.v.242). Finally, each imagines that the other looks dead the morning after their first, and only, sexual experience (“Methinks I see thee,” Juliet says, “. . . as one dead in the bottom of a tomb” (III.v.242; III.v.55–56). This theme continues until its inevitable conclusion: double suicide. This tragic choice is the highest, most potent expression of
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William Shakespeare authored Romeo and Juliet and it was one of his most famous plays alongwith Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer's Night Dream etc. It was extensively potrayed during his time.
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare\n\nI have found 10+ summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Hamlet+\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=167\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/hamlet001.html\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/\n\nhttp://www.jiffynotes.com/Hamlet/HistoricalContext.html\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/hamlet001.html\n\nCharacters  \n.  \nProtagonist: Hamlet  \n\nAntagonist: Claudius  \n\nFoils of Hamlet: Laertes, Fortinbras, Polonius  \n\nHamlet: Son of a murdered Danish king (who was also named Hamlet) and nephew of the present king, Claudius. Hamlet suffers great mental anguish over the death of his father, the marriage of his mother to the suspected murderer (Claudius), and the clash between his moral sense and his desire for revenge against his father’s murderer. \n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xHamlet.html#Hamlet\n\nEnjoying "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.pathguy.com/hamlet.htm\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.