'Romeo and Juliet': using tentative language to write about writer's intentions
I can use tentative language to write about Shakespeare’s intentions in ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
'Romeo and Juliet': using tentative language to write about writer's intentions
I can use tentative language to write about Shakespeare’s intentions in ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
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Key learning points
- Arguably, Shakespeare shows Juliet as both exerting agency and assuming a passive role in ‘Romeo and Juliet’.
- A writer’s intentions can reveal their overall message - what are they saying about society or humanity.
- Using tentative language is important because we can never truly be sure of a writer’s intentions.
Keywords
Intentions - something that you want and plan to do; an aim
Agency - the capacity of an individual to act independently from others and to make their own free choices
Conform - to behave according to the usual standards of behaviour that are expected by a group or society
Contemporary discourse - the current discussions and conversations happening in a specific field or context
Tentative - not definite or certain
Common misconception
We can get a definitive idea of the writer's intentions from the text.
We can never truly know what the writer's intentions were but we can tentatively explore ideas.
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