Sunday 14 December 2008

What items would be put in a time capsule for Romeo and Juliet?

Ifmade a
time capsule, it would preserve some of the most important objects that they interacted withbut
I dont think we as an audience and reader would choose the same objects that they
might.

I think a good object for the first act of the play might be a
masquerade maskat least symbolically, it represents the first time thatandmeet at the Capulets
party. They are wearing masks and dont recognize each other, which allows them to overcome their
familial strife to fall in love.

In the second act, an object to include
would be the small flower thattalks about in scene three. In the flower, Poison hath residence
and medicine power. This represents the marriage of Romeo and Juliet because their marriage has
the power to destroy them but also the possibility of healing the feuding families. Ultimately,
though Friar Lawrence thinks it is one or the other, their marriage does boththey die, but their
families reconcile in the

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