what is the different between a story and a play
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Like most forms of literature, plays and short stories share elements of setting, conflict and plot. The setting in a short story is sometimes explicitly stated, but often revealed one tidbit at a time, such as a character's mentioning the year, or the weather in their location. In a play, the setting is stated in the stage directions for readers, but is revealed to play viewers through backdrops and costumes as well as spoken lines. Conflict is what drives any work of literature, and both plays and short stories have at least one conflict. Although literary works often play games with plot, having a beginning, a middle and an end is generally common to a short story, with a climax of action then a denouement, or falling action, at the end.
Dramatization
Both plays and short stories use dramatization to reveal character and plot. Good short stories, then, have dialogue and action that is similar to a play. For example, instead of explaining action, a story shows it. Rather than saying, "Peter told Annie that his ex-wife and their children would be coming for dinner without giving her any explanations," a short story would dramatize by saying, "Janet and the kids are coming for dinner tomorrow," Peter announced. "What?" countered Annie, but Peter did not respond as he walked out the front door." In both short stories and plays, the audience should be shown and not told.
Character Development
Both short stories and plays use minimal background, description and explanations, leaving character development to the dialogue in the story. Readers or viewers pick up information about the characters in bits and pieces, through lines they speak, clothing they wear and how they interact with other characters. By contrast, novels often have long passages describing the thoughts, feelings and backgrounds of characters, allowing the reader to quickly have a view of who they are and what their motivations are.
Discovery and Interpretation
In both short stories and plays, a great deal of the explanation, background and motivation is left to the viewer or reader to discover and decide for himself. Because not everything is explicitly stated, each viewer or reader interprets action for himself and may have a different experience than another person viewing the same play or reading the same story.
Analysis of the "Romeo & Juliet" Prologue Sonnet
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Narrative Techniques in "Romeo & Juliet"
Michael Mason
Updated July 21, 2017
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William Shakespeare employed numerous narrative techniques in "Romeo and Juliet." From foreshadowing to monologues to dramatic irony, the entire narrative is compact and effective. While some of the techniques are obvious, such as the heavy use of foreshadowing, some are slightly harder to spot, such as his use of framed narration.
Direct Narration
"Romeo and Juliet" begins with direct narration. It seems that the narrator, in this case the Chorus, is speaking directly to us, the audience. Without modern special effects or movie soundstages, Shakespeare relied, in part, on the Chorus to paint the setting in words for the audience. While the Chorus opens several acts in the play, there is otherwise little use of direct narration. Instead, Shakespeare made use of highly descriptive dialogue. It is through their dialogue that the characters reveal the majority of the narrative.
Indirect Narration
With indirect narration, the audience doesn't know whom the narrator is or to whom he is speaking. "Romeo and Juliet" contains little stage direction, and the narrative voice switches constantly between the characters. In most cases, the characters are speaking to one another, but at times characters break into monologues, providing the audience insight into the character's thoughts. The dialogue is not directed toward another character, nor is it directed at the audience. For example, in the classic balcony scene, Romeo gives the audience an excellent description of his view of Juliet in his, "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" monologue.
Framed Narration
Framed narration is cleverly concealed in the play. In framed narration, the story begins and ends in a first person voice, but everything in the middle is third person, or in the case of a play being portrayed by characters other than the narrator. The narrator is essentially telling us somebody else's story. In "Romeo and Juliet," the entire storyline is framed by the Chorus and the Prince. The Chorus leads us into the story, while the Prince, essentially acting as a final narrator, finishes the framing by reflecting the opening lines given by the Chorus.
Foreshadowing
Act II, Scene 3, is only one example of foreshadowing.
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Both plays and short stories use dramatization to reveal character and plot. Good short stories, then, have dialogue and action that is similar to a play. For example, instead of explaining action, a story shows it.