The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is about the dilemma of choosing love over loyalty for your family. In the story Romeo and Juliet come from separate families who hate each other, but still find love in each other. They get married without telling their families and eventually the two families get into a fight which ends in Romeo getting banished from the city where Juliet lives. They have a plan for him to get back into to the city to prevent Juliet from being forced to marry another man, but it fails and ends with the suicide death of both Juliet and Romeo. Shakespeare's major theme in the text is that Love plays a major role in our lives and can heavily affect our decisions.
Shakespeare proves this theme when Romeo uses the metaphor in the quote “It is the East, and Juliet is the sun”(2.2.3). When Romeo uses this metaphor, he shows his affection for Juliet and the role she plays in his life. He describes her as the sun, which is essential to life of all living things and by saying that she
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This example of Romeo and Juliet and how much they sacrificed to be together is his way of showing it. They sacrificed Family, Loyalty, and their own lives for love and that takes a pretty big influence to do that. Shakespeare makes a valid point when describing love in this play, although it is dramatized. Most people today wouldn’t kill themselves after the person that they’ve been married to for a few days died, but Romeo and Juliet's role in this play is to clearly show the influence of love and not just act like the average person. Today the influence of love would be shown through moving so that you can stay with your partner or doing something that you would never do just for the same love that Romeo and Juliet have. Love is the only thing that stands above all logic, calculation, and obvious thought and that is what Shakespeare is showing in this
Love, in 'Romeo and Juliet' has its own importance in the theme of inner struggle between the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is torn between staying loyal to her family and therefore obeying her parents to marry Paris or staying married to an enemy, Romeo, “My husband lives, that Tybalt has slain; / And Tybalt's dad, that would have slain my husband: / All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?” (3:2). On the other hand, Romeo has his struggles too. He juggles between the idea of banishment from Verona and not being able to see his beloved Juliet again and that of death, “Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say 'death'.” (3:3). The secret marriage between Romeo and Juliet is also one of the outcomes due to love. It is because of love that Juliet risked her parents' disapproval to not marry Paris and Romeo risked the danger of being killed by Capulet's kinsmen to go to see her. Yet again, this shows the inner struggle of Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a tragic love story about two young lovers who are forced to be estranged as a result of their feuding families. The play is about their struggle to contravene fate and create a future together. As such, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood would try and emulate Shakespeare’s masterpiece. This had been done before in many films. Prominent among them were, Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 “Romeo and Juliet” and Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 “William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.” Both films stay true to the themes of Shakespeare’s original play. However, the modernised Luhrmann film not only maintains the essence of Shakespeare’s writings, Luhrmann makes it relevant to a teenage audience. This is
Romeo was saying that love can be dangerous but that he would do anything to call Juliet his. This shows how the two shouldn’t have been married because it can end poorly. Their love was new and strong and they got so caught up in their first real love that it became all they thought of. Both of the characters knew about the dangers of keeping something a secret, yet they did it anyway. This lead to conflict because nobody knew. The marriage was done in secret for a reason, and that secret would lead to lives of three people.
“Falling in love is like jumping off a building, your brain tells you it is not a good idea, but your heart tells you, you can fly.” This quote explains that even though Romeo and Juliet both knew that being together was going to be hard, their love for each other was strong enough to try. In the love story of Romeo and Juliet, two people fell in love, but just as quickly as their romance started, it ended with death. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was written by the famous William Shakespeare. It is a love story which tells that hatred between two families can lead to doom, destruction, and death. Juliet and Romeo fell in love at first sight, but the hatred between
In the works of literature Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare and The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, there are two young female characters; Juliet capulet and Hazel Grace. These characters differ in their behaviour and are both affected by the power of love. Juliet, a character in Romeo & Juliet is a youthful, inexperienced girl who hadn't thought a lot about love or her future with a man until her mother introduces the idea of marrying Paris. Juliet is content until she soon after encounters Romeo. After this, the dependant Juliet becomes extremely independent.
“The course of true love never did run smooth,” William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe are two stories about a pair of star-crossed lovers that take their life. Both stories express the journeys that each pair of lovers took to get to each other. In spite of the different plots, there are many similarities between the two stories. These are some of the similarities between the stories, the change of the feud and berries,the lioness and Lord Capulet, and quotes from each story.
The way men convey their love for the first time is very similar, if not exactly the same in both literature and songs. “Michelle,” is a song performed by Sir Paul McCartney, at the White House for Barack and Michelle Obama. In the song, a man is trying to woo a woman, whom of which we assume is French; it is also. Lines 44-53 of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is an excerpt from a play by William Shakespeare. In the excerpt, Romeo sees a young lady, who he does not know yet that it is Juliet, and shows instant interest upon putting his eyes on her. Considering both sources and what they say about men when they express their emotions, we can presume that when a male first has a passionate attraction to someone, that man is influenced by those emotions
Romeo & Juliet is one of the most well known and loved story's and debatably one of the greatest story William Shakespeare has ever created, was based around 2 young star-crossed lovers attempting to escape their normal life's, but what they didn’t realize was that they were both blinded and truly believed that they were genuinely in love with each other and that all lead up to the couples tragic death which was one of the most memorable and significant part to the story, but the death of Romeo and Juliet were truly misunderstood, the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet were not caused by their immature behavior, but by the irresponsible behavior of the adults in their lives. Shakespeare indicates this through showing the lack of love and attention
4 Assignment 2 Drama Assignment Do our Differences Define Us? 1.Do our differences define us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. (20points)We are defined both by our differences and by our similarities. These elements are co-dependent on each other, and serve to make a rounded identity of ourselves.2.
Imagine falling in love with someone that you just met and ended giving up your life for them. Well, that’s exactly what happened in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet fell in love, but their families are in a feud so they couldn’t be together so they did everything in secret even their marriage. Since no one knew of them being married, someone else proposed marriage to Juliet, and she didn’t want to since she was with Romeo. They tried to overcome their problems, but in the end they both ended up dying. One of Shakespeare’s major themes in this play is loyalty. Showing that loyalty is undying and being faithful with those you love.
Shakespeare represents the idea of how holiness and passionate Romeo’s love for Juliet are, through the metaphor in the quote “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.” The metaphor conveys the idea of Romeo’s lips acting as pilgrims, ready to kiss Juliet tenderly. Comparing his lips to pilgrims that will worship Juliet’s lips like pilgrims who’s worship a holy place. Despite only knowing Juliet for a short period of time- still, Romeo shows his passionate love and desire to kiss Juliet. Luhrmann’s modern version which portrays the ideas through Juliet’s angel costume and the panning film technique.
Literature pieces by William Shakespeare have been known to connect works completed throughout the centuries and across many cultures. Shakespeare’s piece The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is no different. Ovid’s “Pyramus and Thisbe” exhibits many features that are apparent in Shakespeare’s tragedy which can only be explained by Shakespeare gaining inspiration for his play from the ancient Roman myth. William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Ovid's "Pyramus and Thisbe" share similar characters, plot, and conflict while retaining their own individuality.
Have you ever watched Romeo and Juliet? Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy story written by the famous English poet and playwright in 1597, William Shakespeare. The tragedy is about two young star-crossed lovers named Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, who defy their families’ long-standing feud and risk everything to be together. However, this feud endlessly results in the death of the star-crossed lovers as well as deaths of other members of the families, which then ultimately reconciles the feuding families. Romeo and Juliet became a worldwide phenomenon as one of the greatest love stories and one of the most adapted plays of all time.
"I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up”. This quote from Titanic shows the similarities to “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, by William Shakespeare. Through the use of fatal flaws and social differences, both stories’ tragic endings help express the theme that people can still fall in love despite society’s opposition.
Love is something everyone goes through and after 500 years Shakespeare is still showing what Love can do in people's lives. Shakespeare is trying to teach the readers that the theme in Romeo and Juliet is that Love can create good times and bad consequences. For example when Romeo and Juliet get married,that’s a good thing because it is what they both wanted because they loved each other. The consequence of this was their lives because they were not supposed to be together because Romeo was a Montague and Juliet was not, because of their differences this caused the conflicts in the book and it caused the ending as well. If they were not different then none of this would've happened but because they were all these conflicts happened and it