Setting, Character, and Setting, Character, and ThemeTheme

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What Is Setting?What Is Setting?

• Setting is WHERE and WHEN the Setting is WHERE and WHEN the drama takes place.drama takes place.

• What is our setting?What is our setting?– 20102010– Roswell, Georgia, USARoswell, Georgia, USA

Setting in Setting in Romeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet

• Setting = TIME and Setting = TIME and PLACEPLACE

• 1414thth or 15 or 15thth Century Century (1300s or 1400s)(1300s or 1400s)

• Verona and Verona and Mantua, ItalyMantua, Italy

What Is a Character?What Is a Character?

• Characters are the people in a story or play.Characters are the people in a story or play.• Another word for the main character is the Another word for the main character is the

protagonist.protagonist.• Who do you think are the protagonists in Who do you think are the protagonists in Romeo Romeo

and Juliet?and Juliet?• Characters can be Characters can be staticstatic or or dynamicdynamic

– StaticStatic characters characters stay the samestay the same– DynamicDynamic characters characters changechange

• The protagonist of a tragedy is the The protagonist of a tragedy is the tragic herotragic hero– Generally good peopleGenerally good people– Tragic flawTragic flaw leads to downfall leads to downfall

Characters in Romeo and Characters in Romeo and JulietJuliet MontaguesMontagues CapuletsCapulets

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BenvolioBenvolio Feuding*Feuding* Nurse Nurse Lord and LadyLord and Lady Lord and Lord and

MontagueMontague Lady Capulet Lady Capulet

What is Theme?What is Theme?

• Theme is the “big idea” in a piece of Theme is the “big idea” in a piece of literatureliterature

• What the author is really trying to What the author is really trying to say about say about peoplepeople and and lifelife

• Themes in Themes in Romeo and Juliet:Romeo and Juliet:– The power of loveThe power of love– Obedience to parentsObedience to parents– The danger of violenceThe danger of violence

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