Changing Attitudes Towards Romeo

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This paper chronologically analyses the audience's varying attitudes towards Romeo in the play by looking at the character's creation, life and death. By looking at the techniques employed by Shakespeare to invoke emotion in the audience, the audience's attitudes are explained and understood.

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"Romeo's character is constructed extremely well by Shakespeare. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is characterised as being a poncy, love-stricken youth. His character is introduced "by proxy" - we hear of him before we meet him. An example of this is when the audience hears Montague talk about his "ill" son, and how his parents worry for him: "Many a morning hath he there be seen With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs" When the audience hears this, we feel a little sorry for Romeo - he seems to be depressed. However, when we actually meet Romeo ourselves, we realise that this is only as a result of Romeo's immature behaviour - he acts in a childish manner with respect to his "" for Rosaline. "

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