Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene v lines 2702- 2723. O child! O child! my soul, and not my child! O love! O life! not life, but love in death!Ĭapulet. Despised, distressed, hated, martyr’d, kill’d! Most detestable death, by thee beguil’d, 2715 Paris. Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain! Lady Capulet. Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day! 2702īut one, poor one, one poor and loving child,Īnd cruel death hath catch’d it from my sight! There is a long series of laments by her parents and nurse where they are shocked and horrified at her sudden death: In Romeo and Juliet, there’s an excellent example of stichomythia in Act IV, Scene iv, right after Juliet’s parents and Nurse discovers her, apparently dead. These similar lines highlight the connection these two have (no spoilers), and also emphasize that, though the actors might be physically close onstage, their characters are meant to be far apart they wouldn’t be saying this to each other. Doescher uses this well as a staging device by having Vader and Luke speak similar lines as Luke plummets down the shaft after losing his lightsaber duel: The literary technique of stichomythia has characters who speak at more or less the same time, using slightly different forms of dialogue. Below is a link to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Learning Zone, where you can learn about the language of the Henry V chorus.
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