Drama
By: Zain Siddiqui
Similarities
Rome and Juliet and the West Side story are
similar in many ways.
The are similar in mainly one thing, love.
Like in Rome & Juliet and the West Side
Story, they fell in love when they laid eyes
on each other at a Party for R & J and a
dance for West Side Story.
Shakespeare’s Plot Tragedy
Shakespeare’s Plot Tragedy is mostly based on
love. Like in Romeo and Juliet it was all based on
how much each person loved each other.
Also its based on what people will do for love at
times. Like Juliet faked death to be with Romeo
but they both ended up dieing in the end.
Tragedy is where a character has his down fall.
Marty
In the story Marty, Marty is a short 36 fat man
looking to find love. Its completely the opposite of
Romeo&Juliet and the West Side Story.
Eventually he finds love at the end of the story but
the one person who pressured him to get married
was his mother. His Mother became scared that
her son would leave her so she didn’t like the
person that Marty had loved.
The story Marty wasn't a play unlike Romeo and
Juliet and West Side Story, it was a television
series.
Stage Directions
In the story Marty they had used stage directions.
Such as fade in, fade out, and dissolve to interior.
Fade in means, a close up of a character.
Fade out means, to zoom out of a character.
Dissolve to interior mean means to end a scene
and go to the next quickly. Example:If someone
gets shot, and it shows someone running to a car,
it quickly goes to another scene.
What is Drama anyway?
Drama is a story written to perform in front
of an audience.
A drama can be broken down into acts as
well as scenes within the acts.
Foil Character
A foil character is someone who is strongly
in contrast with another character.
Like Benvolio and Tybalt from Romeo and
Juliet, Benvolio wanted to stop fights, and
Tybalt wanted to start fights.
Allusion
An allusion is a reference to a well known
character, place or situation.
In act 1, scene 4 there is an example of an
allusion referring to Cupid the God of Love.
It talks about him shooting an arrow at
Romeo to make him fall in love.
Blank Verse
Blank verse is an unrhymed poetry or
dramatic verse.
In Romeo and Juliet most of the characters
in the story speak in a blank verse because
of the way people used to talk back in
Shakespeare’s time.
Soliloquy
A soliloquy is a dramatic device in which a
character,alone on stage reveals his or her
private thoughts.
Like in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo expressed
how he was feeling about Juliet while he
was alone.
Monologue
The monologue is a long speech or written
expression of thoughts by a character.
At the end of the story, the play is summed
up by the Friar at the end of the story of
Romeo and Juliet.
The Prologue
The Prologue is the introductory section of
a play.
Like in Romeo and Juliet, at the beginning
of the story they told where the story took
place, and what may happen in the story. As
well the characters involved.
Chorus
The Chorus talks directly to the audience in
the play/story.
He reads the prologue, and introduces the
characters as they appear or walk in in the
story or scene.
Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which opposite ideas
are combined.
Like in Act 1 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet,
it contains 2 oxymoron's: “When then, O
brawling love, O loving hate.”
Aside
Aside means a character that makes a
comment to the audience that other
characters cannot hear
An aside is basically like a soliloquy, only
the audience can hear, like when Romeo is
expressing his feelings for Juliet but she
can’t hear him,or when Juliet was talking
about her mother in Act 3 scene 5.
Three Types of Irony
Verbal- Verbal irony is what is said and
what is meant. Which basically is sarcasm.
Dramatic: Dramatic irony is what the
character thinks, and what the audience
knows to be true.
Situational: Situational irony is a contrast to
what happens and what was expected to
happen in a play or story.