What is the theme of Shakespeare in Love?
If there’s any serious theme to be found in Shakespeare in Love, it’s one similar to 1998’s Titanic: the idea that love can inspire, even when it’s lost, that it’s possible to go on and make the experience mean something in your life.
What is the plot of Shakespeare in Love?
Tale about a fictional relationship between William Shakespeare and a young woman who poses as a man in order to star in one of the writer’s plays. Suffering from writer’s block, Shakespeare is in need of a new muse. He soon finds inspiration in the form of a beautiful female aristocrat, but her daring determination to act in his play puts their already forbidden relationship on even more dangerous ground.
What does Mercutio’s death symbolize?
Mercutio, with his cheerful yet cutting personality, symbolizes the city of Verona, and his death symbolizes what unnecessary wars do to society as a whole. He is broken in this final scene. He tries to make light of his doom with the macabre joke, “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man” (III.
Why is Mercutio’s death important?
Mercutio’s death is so important to the plot because it shows where the play changes from comedy to tragedy as a main character, Mercutio dies. It is also important because from this point, the characters change and the mood is changed from being emotional to gloomy.
Who caused Mercutio’s death?
Tybalt
What is Juliet’s reaction to Tybalt’s death?
When Juliet hears of Tybalt’s death, she’s horrified. But she then realizes that, if faced with the choice between her cousin Tybalt and her husband Romeo, she would choose Romeo. She forgives her husband and grieves over his exile.
What word is worse to Juliet than Tybalt’s death?
That ‘banishéd’, that one word ‘banished’, Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt’s death was woe enough if it had ended there; That banishment is worse than the murder of ten thousand Tybalts.
What is Romeo’s punishment?
Romeo’s punishment for killing Tybalt is that he is banished (exiled) from Verona. In Act 1, the Prince said that anyone who disturbed the peace again would be sentenced to death.
What is Romeo’s punishment for killing Tybalt *?
banishment
Why does Romeo threaten to kill himself in Act 3?
Romeo tells the Friar that banishment is worse than death. When the Nurse arrives, Romeo threatens to kill himself for causing Juliet so much pain. The Friar and the Nurse convince Romeo to calm down and tell him he will be able to see Juliet that night.