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Unveiling Shakespeare's Timeless Beauty: A Study of Human Nature and Universality

Dive into the life, career, and philosophy of William Shakespeare, exploring his works' adaptability across ages. Uncover the themes, terms, and dramatic elements of his renowned play, "Romeo and Juliet."

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Unveiling Shakespeare's Timeless Beauty: A Study of Human Nature and Universality

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  1. Romeo and Juliet Unit 10

  2. About William Shakespeare • Greatest • - types, human nature • + realistic • - Universality, nature • - Timelessness • - Beauty • - Adaptability • Age, time

  3. His Life • Author • Birthplace • Education • Hathaway • Playwright • 154 • Plays • King’s, Globe • Money • Christian

  4. His Career • + nationalism • + love • + threats • + mature • + complex • + dialogue

  5. His Philosophy • + What, content • + How, style • + functional • + explicit • + moral tone • - theme, purpose • > Themes • > Characterization

  6. Random Facts • Performed • Longest • all

  7. Terms • Drama, action, oldest • Directions, time, exits • Dialogue, speeches • Alone, thoughts • - “To Be or Not to Be” • Comment • Movement, probable • Action, does, says • - hero • - villain • Plot, five, introduction, climax

  8. Freytag’s Pyramid

  9. Terms • Tragedy, comedy • - serious, universal • - happy, themes • Truth • Meanings • Real • dressing

  10. General Information • Italy • Tragedy • Protagonists • Antagonists • Point

  11. Characters- The Montagues • Rome’s • Peace • Comic, traditional • Peacemaker, Chorus • Friend, tease

  12. Characters- the Capulets • Juliet’s • Cold • 14, defy • Messenger • Violent • Marry • mute

  13. Neutral Characters • Narrator • Symbol, restore • Confessor, marry, fate • never

  14. About Act I, Scenes 1-3 • Sonnet, foreshadowing • Fate, free will • Never • Sunday, haste, Montague, Capulets, Juliet • Punning • Servant, hotheaded • Foil, normative • Dignity, rusty, end • Comic, wife

  15. About Act I, Scenes 1-3 • Comic, seriously • lovesick, never • Never, courtly, misery • Flowery, never • Oxymorons • Metaphor • Slowly • Sympathetic, ironically • Coincidence • Foils, love • Parents, thirteen • love

  16. About Act I, Scenes 4-5 • Immature, dreamer, fatal, comedy • Punner, dreams, dreams, end • Forty, himself, revenge • first • Hate • Sonnet • Ababcbcbdedeff • Pilgrim, kiss • Religion, purity • Agressor, not, timid • Identify, paradox, hate

  17. Postcard • Directions: You are Romeo or Juliet. Write a postcard to someone about a scene in Act 2. • Example: Romeo was in my garden. I thought I was alone. I said I loved him aloud, and he appeared and spoke of love. Nurse almost caught us twice. He left at dawn to arrange a wedding.

  18. About Act II • Sonnet • Center, not, rapport, good • Foils, more • Light, moon, chastity • Metaphor • Only, famous, value • Name

  19. About Act II • Love • Pun • The more love one gives, the more one has. • God, abuse, haste • Human • Famous, forty • Foreshadowing, offstage • Not, fourteen

  20. About Act III, Scenes 1 • July, hotheaded • Peacemaker • Matured, blocks, situational, death • Own, avenge • Not • Pun • Tybalt, killed • Fortune, decisions • Haste, impetuosity

  21. About Act III, Scene 2 • Mythology, Phaethon, love • Internal, oxymorons • Suicide, kill, dead, too, haste

  22. About Act III, Scenes 3-5 • Suicide, condemned, not • Fate, blessings, good • Four • 1. secretly • 2. Paris • 3. potion • 4. before

  23. Act III, Scenes 3-5 • Ironic, mother, father • Night, day • Irony • Foreshadow • Personification, apostrophe, alliteration • Generation • evil

  24. About Act IV • Rapid • Scheming, fate, negative • Nothing, love • Suicide • Haste • Fears, mad • Foreshadows • First • Dramatic • Grief, twice, Nurse, synonymns • Humor, clown

  25. About Act V • Dramatic • Fate • Poison • Death • Never, Wednesday • Timing, ignorance, foils • Mature • No • haste

  26. Freytag’s Pyramid

  27. Themes • Love- • Fate vs. Free Will- late, accurate • Haste and immaturity- Friday • Light/Dark- • Suicide- • Poison-

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