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With   the   five-star   rated   lunch  and   the   antique,  rust   invaded   cutlery.                                                                                                           prep.  adj.     adj.         n.         n.      conj.  adj.    adj.        n.       verb            n.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Dear Diary,                                                                                                                                                 I visited The London Nautical School today in Waterloo, London. The first impression was splendid and I look forward to visiting LNS again.

LNS, a paradise for fugitives. With the five-star rated lunch and the antique, rust invaded cutlery.  Lunch is impeccable, if you’re lucky, you can get a nail clipping ,sticking out of a chip, or some sweat in the soup added to the already unique taste.The toilet always smelling fresh, just like the latest Hugo Boss perfume. The paint is as smooth as can be, and there is no litter at all throughout the school. The one or two bins available are effectively empty, what do you expect when the so very few bins around the school are right next to each other in an unknown corner of the school.

You Know It’s Funny When It Rains It Pours. (They Got Money For War, But Can’t Feed The Poor.)  Say There Aint No Hope For The Youth And The Truth Is It Aint No Hope For The Future .               -Tupac Shakur

William Shakespeare is one of the worlds greatest writers. He wrote plays and poetry, for the people in London to watch and enjoy. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon.  He later went to London, to train to be an actor, but he soon became famous for writing plays. People around him, including his colleagues and family and freinds said he was the best writer of his time. Most people now say he was the best of all time. It was a great loss when he passed away at 52, especially, on his birthday.

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous plays in the world. This is iconic in English literature, and plays a massive part in the English heritage.The plays are as famous now as they where back in the day. Shakespeare, and his life gets explored and learnt about from all ages, all around the world, primary school, to college and university.  Most people of all ages love Shakespeare and his iconic works.

For the first two acts, the play is rather a (slapstick)comedy, like the classical comedy(back in the day). The play then starts to unfold as a tragedy, in Act 3 Scene 1 when Mercutio dies. The play ends up being a story of love and tragedy , and not much of a comedy anymore. Fate is explained as a predetermined path, set out by ‘God’,which is out of a persons control. The outcome could be negative, as well as positive.

The play is kicked off with the prologue, this explained the whole play, in only fourteen lines. The prologue just literally explains that there, are two families with an ‘ancient grudge’ against each other, meaning family members are always fighting. The prologue states that from these two families, “two star-crossed lovers” will end the fight between their families, but only by dying.

Romeo and Juliet are stated as”star-crossed lovers…” which literally means, against the stars. Stars were thought to control people’s destinies and fate. Meaning that it wasn’t fate, and it wasn’t planned by God that they would be together.

Fate is portrayed through the whole play, from start to the end. The first example of fate is shown in Act 1 Scene 2 , when Peter, an illiterate servant walks up to two rich looking men in the street,(which happen to be Romeo and Mercutio) to read out the guest list for the Capulet party. When Romeo reads the list aloud, Roselyn appears on the list, the only love of his life ( at that moment) Fate brought Peter to ask Romeo for help in which resulted in Romeo to see Roselyn’s name and going to the party. When he eventually gets there, he sees Juliet, completely forgetting about Roselyn and falling in love with Juliet, a member of his families enemy. If Peter had never come asked Romeo, he would have never met Juliet.  Even before the Capulet party, Romeo tells Mercutio that he had a dream that something will happen at the party that will be the end of him, which actually eventually happened when he met Juliet, which caused his death at the end. The Capulets and Montagues were very religious, therefore Romeo says “…But He that hath the steerage of my course. Direct my sail…”. Romeo is the boat, in his path of life, and He (God) is the pilot of the boat.

Shakespeare uses a large range of powerful language , one of which is the use of metaphors. A metaphor is simply something that you use to describe something as something else.

(Romeo) “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.” Romeo is wanting to kiss Juliet, saying that it would be a wonderful experience ir

(Romeo)”But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet t is the sun.” Romeo is describing Juliet as such a beautiful thing, like the sun.

Fate and Destiny were big themes in  ‘Romeo and Juliet. Fate is a path set by God  outside a persons control. This is firstly shown by the quote “star-cross’d  star lovers ” in the prologue m meaning that they were togeher, against the starsThe whole play, and story was built around the idea of fate. Romeo and Julietsdestiny was set on an unchangeable course.

(Mercutio , Act 5 Scene 3) “…A great power than we can contradict…” That “great power”, is of course, God.

Lambic pentameter is a line, one stressed word, and one unstressed e.g. “Two households both, alike in dignity…” The prologue is the very first example of ‘lambic pentameter’, where the whole paragraph rhymes and flows. Lambic Pentameter was used to entice people to listen, as some people were drunk, and didn’t actually listen. This encouraged people to keep on listening, and was also nice to hear.

FATE –                                                            Events :                                             – Tripping on graves                             – Chance meeting a servant with the guest list                                                 – Friar Johns Quarantine                                                                                        Prologue:                                                 – Pre determines Romeo and Juliets fate.

Language:                        – “He that hath steerage of my past.

THE PATH:                                              1. Scour through your own notes for other references to fate                  2. For EVERY point you’re going to make, find a full,  accurate quotation  3. Develop an out line of your essay- paragraph by paragraph

(Act 1 Scene 5)

Capulet welcomes his guests to the party and invites everyone to just have fun and enjoy. While Romeo is looking for Roseleyne (the only reason he secretly came to the party), he sees Juliet, and falls in love straight away. Tybalt  recognises Romeo and tells Capulet that he wants to fight him, Capulet tells him to calm down, he doesn’t want his party to get ruined.

This was a Capulet  party, so how did Romeo know? Fate. Capulet’s  servant couldn’t read ( as only wealthier people had education, and  poorer people were illiterate), so he went to two wealthy looking men(coincidentally Romeo and Mercutio) and asks them to read the list of names that were going to attend the party. At that time Romeo was insanely in love with Roseleyne, and her name was in the guest list. He saw this as his chance to meet Roseleyne, but when he gets to the party, he completely forgets about Roseleyne as soon as he sees Juliet.

This is a key aspect of Shakespeare’s play, because a large amount of the play consists of ‘fate’ and this is an exceptionally great example which portrays fate. If the servant asked someone else or he went to look a minute later, Romeo wouldn’t be there, and the whole play wouldn’t work. This is the first example of fate, and in my opinion the best example. Fate, I believe are lyk big pieces of a jigsaw, where the whole jigsaw picture can’t be seen without the big chunks, whereas without the smaller pieces, you could still be able to work out the final picture.                            (Easiest example I could think of, not very good, but it explains what I mean.)

Act 2 Scene 6

It is Romeo and Juliets seceret wedding, and Friar Laurence tries to convince Romeo to calm down. Marriage is for the long term, “These violent delights have violent ends,” he warns.
Unfortunately, Romeo’s excitement takes over, and he doesn’t listen to a word. Juliet then runs in, excited. Romeo and Juliet  can’t stop staring at each other and can barely keep their hands off another. Friar Laurence sees the immensely excited to-be couple and finally weds them, with nothing gone wrong, so far.

From lines 8-10, Friar Lawrence uses a simile to warn Romeo about being too passionate too soon.He says “Delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as

In the prologue, Shakespeare uses ‘Iambic Pentameter’. This makes the audience interested, as it is enjoyable to listen to, as it rhymes and has a nice flow. Some of the crowd were drunk and this would catch their attention from the very beginning of the play.

“In fair Verona where we lay our scene…”                        “…where civil hand make civil blood unclean…”                 “…From ancient grudge break to new mutiny…”

• Friar Lawrence’s doesn’t make it to Romeo because of quarantine.
• Romeo encounters Capulets servant with the guest list.
• Balthasaar seeing Juliets funeral
• Friar Lawrence tripping on graves
• In the language “He hath steerage…”
• Prologue ➡foretells what will happen

Fate is where pre-determined events lead to a final destination. Shakespeare creates tension through constant references to fate in Romeo and Juliet. An example of this is Shakespeares use of language in his metaphor “Let He that hath steerage course, direct my sail” which Romeo says before rhe Capulet Mascarade party in Act 1 Scene 4. Shakespeare describes Romeo as a ship, captained by God. This causes tension because at first Romeo let fate take control of his life but then after things start to go bad he tries to divert and make his own path, however things become even worse.

When Romeo arrives, to the Capulet’s tomb, Paris is already there, sadly tossing flowers and paying respect to Juliet. Paris sees Romeo and assumes he’s there to cause more trouble to the Capulet’s(he is holding a ‘wrenching iron’) even after their death.”Can vengeance be pursued even after death?”

Paris then tries to apprehend and arrest Romeo, who is, after all, the County.Romeo refuses but tells Paris that he doesn’t want to fight.  Paris ignores him and they fight,  Paris ends up being stabbed, and killed.He breaks into the tomb and sees Juliet’s ‘corpse’ realising his only real love of his life is actually dead.Then, after a final kiss, Romeo drinks the poison and dies beside his wife

Just at that moment, the Friar comes in and sees Romeo lying there dead.Juliet then  wakes up to find her husband dead at her side.The Friar tries to convince her to run away—the commotion has attracted attention, but Juliet refuses. She tries to drink the rest of the poison so she can die with him, but none is left. So, she resorts to stabbing herself ,with her dagger.