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Armed Robery in Barclays Bank succeeds in a theft of 2million pounds. The suspects escaped with no identification revealed yet. During the robery there were many kids and adults inside who were also robbed. One young boy claims to have seen a tattoo of a lion crossed with a sword.cNo identification of a man with such a tattoo has been found.

Luckily, nobody was injured or killed and the guardian were the first to publish this including all evidence, some solid information and other facts were false. When I went inside, I was with my parents and waiting for them to collect money. Then the most unexpected thing happens and five men walk in with assault rifles. Everybody gets down and does not dear to move. The only thing I could look at was the door. I tried to reach my phone but one of them saw and took it as it was an IPhone. So this gave him the idea to take everybody else’s possessions including the banks wealth. It took 5 minutes for the police to arrive after they left in a white van. I walks out and wondered was this real, as I never thought I would come across such a thing.

Yesterday, at NASA research facility their telescope caught a glimpse of an asteroid three times the size of Jupiter. This sight was said to have been seen in Andromeda galaxy. Mathematicians have made calculations showing the trajectory towards Earth. The Head of NASA sates that “We do not expect a hit until 124 years, when that day comes the whole of our solar system will be obliterated” It is rumoured that presidents are making action on trying to gather all the best scientists, engineers are designing a device capable of carrying one billion people. If this is true it remains top secret as nobody has claimed of designing such an air carrier. An image printed out from the telescope shows a Great Red Spot on the map on course to the Milky Way, then heading towards our solar system . Other space facilities have took immediate action to verify NASA’s discovery of the meteor being called Last meteor.

I shall not be doing a dramatic monolgue, but just a normal monologue as you gave the option to do this if preferred. So I have decided to do the Romeo and Juliet prologue. Which is a big chunk of writing, and chalenging enough to do. Once I start to learn it and I am confident enough to perform in front of the class ensuring no mistakes, i will make an appointment with you another time. It will be on time for the deadline.

Two 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.

Romeo and Juliet is an enlightening play which illuminates the best of metaphorical language. This often has one vivid meaning, but if you decode the metaphor you discover the concealed truth. These plays often are divine and tragic, accompined by love. But the play itself has everything to do with fate. From one aspect to another the audience is left wondering about what will God do to his characters next. The play simply relies on fate and what. At the Elizbethan times, religion was truly vital to everybody. Religion was the core of life, and everything revolved around that. That is the reason Shakespare wove fate through out his play. We could call these events in the play only as mere coinidences. At those times these were acts of God. This was really important in the play of Romeo and Juliet as fate changed the whole story of what could have happened, or perhaps a better ending. Shakespeare uses brilliant devices to express fate, and one way he does this is, that things happen to slow somebody of getting to the plot in time. In one case Friar Lawrence is stopped by grave stones to get to Romeo. The question is how does William Shakespeare explore the idea of fate in his play Romeo and Juliet?

To begin with, what is fate? Fate is like your destiny, what God has destined for you to occur next. It is a journey planned out for you by God. For egsample you could state that the fate of this young boy is to became a doctor. Or the fate of this man is to take a voyage across the seas. So in Romeo and Juliet they had there life ahead of them. They were only young. We know that they end up dying.”A pair of star cross’d lovers take their life.”So right at the beggining the audience knows what shall happen. Now the audience knows that they will die, so what ponders across there mind is why. The important part is the fact that they killed themselves. This at Shakespearean times was seen as a really awful thing to do. It would put you out of Gods realm, out of Gods reach. This was going against your fate. It was worse to kill your self and then kill another person at that era. But there deaths brought peace to there families, and stopped the everlasting hatred and vengeance. But for themselves they were believed to go to hell… These scenes had a deeper meaning to the mind, than just killing them selves. That is what makes Shakespearean plays so theartrical.

There is a point in the play when everything goes wrong for Romeo and he loses faith in God. He uses the metaphor “Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on. The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark” What Romeo is saying is that God is his pilot. He is directing his boat into, a voyage of viscous seas with rocks. Translating the metaphor, what he means is that God has chosen his path into a bad route of dashing seas and rocks, and that he has lost hope in his pilot, God. The ship is reffering to Romeo. Once he has lost fate he has lost hope. He then says “Here’s to my love!” Drinks the poison that the apothecary sold him. Then dies. Everything is going wrong with his love Juliet. They are in love so much that they lose fate over God and end up killing them selves.

Always people are being slowed down to get somewhere in time. When Friar John had to deliver the message to Romeo. He was stopped in village that was under quarantine. He did not send the message in time, meaning Romeo was unaware of the plan. The audience begins to think what if he went another route, or a few days earlier, it would have changed the whole outcome of the play. Another point in the play Friar Lawrence is slowed down by Gravestones to get to Romeo and Juliet. It is almost as if the dead did not want him to get in time, piercing the Earth with their bare bones to bring him to a halt. The conclusion of this is finding Romeo dead and Juliet in a pool of blood. The tool Shakespeare uses is the dead trying to stop him getting there in time by Gods command. That is the hidden meaning behind the line “Have my old feet stumbled at graves.” Theses obstacles situated by God are used to alter the path of Romeo and Juliet. Almost like an assault course.

The marriage of the two marrying was ideal to bring the families together, in peace and harmony. Instead it turned out to be disastrous. But when young Romeo and Juliet died the families were together. They shared each others empathy, thus were more peaceful and happy.”But I can give thee more, for I will raise her statue in pure gold.” Meaning that Montage even erects a solid gold statue of Juliet. This segment shows how the two families are brought together over both the deaths of the young couple. The speculation of this is, that God could have chosen this for the better. From the religion Christianity God does things for a better outcome. So the ending of this must have been what Shakespeare was intending to happen, or the audience to believe. Considering the Elizabethan times, this would have been the outcome. But people interpret the play differently, so there are more endings to this than the ending Shakespeare preffered.

The analysis on fate shows that there are many factors of fate that Shakespeare displayed in his intruiging play. He mostly uses fate in all his plays to sculpt them. Often he uses obstacles placed by God to change the path of somebody. When you hear of Romeo and Juliet, you always think what a lovely play. When you see it for yourself you discover the mysterious truth behind this dark and romantic play. Nobody ever thinks about encountering such a genre of fate in a romantic play. But when you venture into the depths of Shakespeare’s play, you discover what a mastermind he was with plays.

Shakespeare play: Scene 1: The New king
King Edward and his son Caliban, travel through the county, on horses. Young Francisco is there seeing them whist collecting food for his family.

King Edward: Son, I know how dear it its to thou.

Caliban: Father, I really want the throne, King Caliban

King E : It suits you my dear son. Time flies away.

Caliban: How can one wait to claim the divine throne?
I am so sorry father, it is for the best.
This dagger, shalt bring me power, die Father!
(Stabs him through the heart.)

King E: What betrayal, my own son! What a father
I must have been, I weep rivers of blood.
Dear son in my last breath I tell you- (Collapses of his horse)

Francisco: O’ lord, am I dreaming somebody pinch
me, awake me from this villainous act.
I must go home, my family must know.

Francisco: Mother, Father hath thou heard of the King?

Lorenzo: What is this of the king?

Julia: Naught I know of.

Francisco: Slain by his own son! O, what sinful day.

Lorenzo: How did this come, art thee sure.

Julia: Francisco, (approaches him) Don’t be poisoned by rumours.

Francisco: I only speak of the truth. King Edgar murder’d!
I saw this before me, whence I went to farm.
(Uncle Ross enters, and eats)

Ross: O’ dear Julia. This dish is fit for the Gods.

Julia: Thank you dear brother.

Francisco: Uncle Ross, hath thou heard of the Kings death?
Thus been slaughtered by his son! Blood staining
The hands of divine Prince Caliban
I say divine, devil free in our realm.

Lorenzo: Enough with fairy tales. We shalt attend the town hall.

(Everybody leaves the house)

Doomsayer: Prince Caliban brings red skies, rivers of
blood, we all descend into this bed of death.

Francisco: This man gives warning, something doth approach.

Julia: Silence thy everlasting lips of darkness. (Sits down along with everybody else)

(Prince Caliban enters the stage)

Caliban: I speak here before you. My father
Was a great man. Killed before my eyes.

Lorenzo: Francisco, rumours deceive you, the mind
thinks the eyes doth not ponder. Mind is a
Illusion, an endless dream that dose not awake.

Francisco : My, father, mother nobody takes in the
words I speak of. That sight is engraved in
my mind, naught will erase it. Eternal stain.

Caliban: I warn thee Abhor me and thou shall find
thee amongst Satans dungeons or take the
path of the wise, peace a fair and strong land.
The choice lies with thou, but known of consequence.

Francisco: Lies upon me father? What’s this I hear?

Lorenzo: Dear child, the king must be tough to discipline.

Julia: Thus speaking of an assassination.
Caliban not responsible for Edward.

Doomsayer: I abhor thou! Treacherous, woeful lord!
(The crowd, startled gaze at him in silence)

Caliban: Thou! In the midst of oceans, reveal thou self.
Thou! In villainous robes, do not tempt me.
Fly hence, be gone, don’t urge me to fury.
Executioner, fetch thy dagger.

Doomsayer: I reveal my self, swift like a shadow
The shadow thou has cast over our country!
(Spits I’n his face)

Julia: Lorenzo, we must leave hence! Away from-

Caliban: This dagger before me, shalt be thy last.
(Stabs him)

Doomsayers: O, I fall into the hands of death.
What heavenly clouds I see. Am I dead?
I fade away from the world I once loved
Be rid of, Caliban! Burn to ashes. Farewell. (Falls and dies)
(Everybody cries and runs away)

Caliban: Doth not flee, God has decided his fate
(sits on the throne)
This dagger has tasted royal blood
peasant blood, how much more must it feed on
I warned everybody clearer than the
beautiful morning sky.

Lorenzo: We must flee these lands. Away from the king.

Julia: O’Fransisco we now see this creature.
Calibn has crawled out of the darkness
revealing beast under the innocent
king we all bowed to and loved

Fransisco: Flee? This mum must be rid of! I fear not

Julia: How canst thou imagine of such thing
Let Caliban wilt like a wild flower
the lonely flower amongst a desert.

Lorenzo:Son, seek peace, not death. Caliban draws death
the nearer thou gets the clearer thou sees
thy gravestone impaled into the Earth

Fransisco: I beseech you father, allow me to
bring this man down. Even if i have to
bring him beneath the Earth with me.

Julia: Beseech not, we shalt be leaving hence

Fransisco: I shall be the pillar of these lands
strong enough to withstand a mountain
(Runs out of the house)

Lorenzo: Get back into this house!

Julia: fetch him Lorenzo.(Runs out after him)

Your task is to identify the metaphor present in the following excerpt and then write a paragraph that explains the metaphor and its effect on the meaning of the passage it is embedded in.

ROMEO:

From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here’s to my love!

Feel free to re-watch the presentation explaining how to identify and explain metaphor:

For the Rome and Juliet project the three things i have decided to work on are : The analytic essay, the dramatic monologue and finally the Creation of a play in the style of a Shakespeare play, using the language devices. I have already started on the planning on the play.

Sunday afternoon,

Romeo thinks that Rosaline is the most beautiful women he has ever seen

and says that he will never spot a women more beautiful than her. So Benvolio will take

Romeo to a party and show him more beautiful women. At the Capulet telling the nurse is

telling Juliet that she got married at such a young age and she should too. Juliet disagrees,

thinking she is too young. Her mother leaves the decision to young Juliet. Love is a dream.

Is the metaphors mercutio uses to explain love. Followed by when love pricks you prick love

back.  Meaning when something goes wrong in love, fight it back.

At the part Romeo ponders around and spots Juliet.