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Monday, March 11, 2019

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespe ars classic, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, is around two lovers that are forbidden to be together and their solution. The writing style of this Shakespearean walkaway reveals the era of the play by highlighting the social classes. Skillfully development his writing, Shakespeare develops his characters by implying the social classes of each character.Shakespeare uses words usage and style to apprize the individual social standings. In the Renaissance while, the separation of the social classes is prominent. The quartette main social groups are the nobles, merchants, the middle class, and laborers (Dowling, Renaissance Social pecking order). At the top, the nobles have extensive property, live in large shower homes outside of the city, and are throwers of large businesses (Dowling, Renaissance Social Hierarchy).Since the nobles own most of the land, they have a lot of power and be given to be military officers, advisors to royalty, and politicians (Dowling) . Nobles are trained to be warriors, to have social skills, to trip the light fantastic toe properly, and to carry themselves with a certain air about them (Dowling). Laborers, on the former(a) hand, do not live in such luxury. Their employers did not batten down them employment and their employment status and paycheck depended on their performance in their duties (Dowling).Despite the hardships in a laborers life, the life of a peasant was distant worse. All of society frowned apon the peasants. The separation of social standing during the Renaissance Era was obvious. Language usage between the different classes was quite different. Those who are high up in the social ladder have more learning opportunities and as a result are more educated.In Shakespeares writing, the language usage by each character helps to identify the social categorization of the character and develop the character. Romeo and Juliet often use an oxymoron or an antithesis when talking to and about each ot her (Bitesize). (1.1.4469). Characters like Romeo and Juliet tend to speak in an iambic pentameter blank verse. Common folk or people that are considered laborers tend to speak prose. (1.1.4469)

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