1 / 17

Tragic Love: An Introduction to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Dive into the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet, set in Verona, Italy during the late 1500s. Explore the feuding Capulets and Montagues, and the consequences of their love. Discover the elements of tragedy in Shakespeare's plays and its impact on teenagers today. Homework involves studying literary terms.

meed
Télécharger la présentation

Tragic Love: An Introduction to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Tragic Love An Introduction to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

  2. Verona, Italy Late 1500s Romeo and JulietSetting

  3. Characters:The Capulets • Juliet Capulet – a lovely girl of almost fourteen • Lord and Lady Capulet – her noble parents who are in a bitter feud with the Montagues • Count Paris – The man Juliet’s parents want her to marry • Tybalt – her hot-tempered cousin • Nurse – the woman who has cared for Juliet since she was born

  4. Characters: The Montagues • Romeo Montague – the romantic son of the Montagues who falls in love with Juliet at first sight • Lord and Lady Montague – Romeo’s noble parents who feud with the Capulets • Benvolio Montague – Romeo’s cousin, a peacemaker • Mercutio – friend of Romeo, humorous, a card • Friar Laurence – An influential Franciscan priest

  5. Shakespeare Wrote Plays That Were Comedies and Tragedies Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy.

  6. Examples of tragedy:

  7. Thinking about Tragedy What tragedies have taken place in human history? What television shows, movies, or books show tragedy? How does tragedy affect people’s lives?

  8. Tragic Love • Romeo and Juliet is considered a tragic love story. • What is tragic love? • How does tragic love affect teenagers today?

  9. What is a Tragedy? • A narrative about serious and important actions that end unhappily. Usually a tragedy ends with the deaths of the main characters. In some, the disaster this totally innocent characters; in others the main characters are in some ways responsible for their downfall.

  10. Shakespeare’s Tragic Plays Usually Follow This Five-Part Pattern

  11. Shakespeare’s Tragic Plays Usually Follow This Five-Part Pattern(Gosh, doesn’t this look like something you’d need to know for a test?!?!)

  12. Romeo and Juliet: Summary • A family feud • Falling in love • A secret marriage

  13. Romeo and Juliet: Summary • A fight • A banishment • A match-making father

  14. A desperate plan Some deadly gossip The death of Romeo and Juliet A lesson learned Romeo and Juliet: Summary

  15. Romeo and Juliet Today • Why do we read Romeo and Juliet today? • How does the story connect to the lives of teenagers today? Think locally, think globally.

  16. Literary Terms We’ll Study(in addition to reviewing those we’ve already learned) Dramatic Irony Soliloquy Foil Iambic pentameter Allusion Tragedy Foreshadowing Blank verse Aside Couplet Comic relief Stanzas Puns Prologue Implied Metaphors Meter Sonnet Climax Rhyme and rhyme scheme Drama

  17. Homework Your homework tonight is to use the Handbook of Literary Terms beginning on page 967 in the back of your textbook to write the definitions for all 20 of the literary terms on the previous slide. I have a handout. Aren’t I nice? It is due ____________. All of these terms will appear in some form on your final test.

More Related