Author: Ryan

Statement (Shakespeare using metaphor and why)

Example (of a metaphor)

Explain how this example is a metaphor.

 ” He that have steerage of my course, direct my sail ”

Shakspeare uses metaphors because they give the audience a strong picture of what is happening. He uses metaphors to show how Romeo’s life is guided by fate.

Shakespeare used a boat as a metaphor to show the audience that Romeo is being guided on his track of love. he uses the words, steerage, and sails which are both on a boat. He meant that Romeo is the boat and God is the captain of Romeo’s fate. using a capital ‘H’ for he usually means He is God.

This sentence is a metaphor because Shakespeare is using a boat as an example. it is not a real boat, but the picture in his thoughts.

Romeo had a dream if he goes to the Capulet party there will be a sequence of events leading to his death. Mercutio doesn’t tell the future but Romeo decides to follow the Perth path for him by God.

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love.”

Summary

The night of the Capulet house party Lady Capulet and the Nurse discuss how old Juliet is so she can marry Paris but Juliet doesn’t want it.

“ill look to you, if looking liking more”

Capulet and Paris talk about his daughter and how he wants to marry her. Capulet thinks she is too young to get married but Paris says he girls younger than her that are mothers. Capulet gives an invite list to his servant that is literate so he goes and finds a person that can read. By coencidence he finds Romeo and asked him if he can read he says a few jokes but “stay fellow, I can read and on the list, he finds his lover’s name.

The servants from Montague and Capulet fort in the street. Prince Escalus broke the fight up, threatens to who that is is a fight will be put to death. Montague and his wife talk about Romeo whit Benvolio who then speaks to Romeo to discovers that the girl he loves haves sworn to be in a intimit rilashonship

wo households, both alike in dignity, 
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, 
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. 
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes 
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; 
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows 
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife. 
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love, 
And the continuance of their parents’ rage, 
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove, 
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage; 
The which if you with patient ears attend, 
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

It’s about two families, both similar in status, who have been seriously arguing for years. the story is set in Verona. now that Romeo and Juliet are secretly in love, the families continue to argue. civilians are killing each other. when they were born, they were destined to die. The destined lovers kill themselves, and so the parents realise their arguing must end.