“Love always overcomes hate, but love’s effects and hate’s effects are no different in magnitude.” -Anonymous. No one ever doubts the power of love or the power of hate. For as long as time has existed people have loved and people have hated. Strong emotions persuade everyone to act on their inhibition. Everyone wants to be a hero in every situation whether it be trying to save someone or the simple act of finding a winning lottery ticket. These actions are what lead to love overcoming hate even if they are the simplest of acts. The mistake people make is them trying to hard to be the hero. This leads to one traveling great lengths to achieve their goals, but at what cost. Throughout Shakespeare’s most famous play, Romeo and Juliet, his main …show more content…
This quote exhibits two important qualities of love. One, it portrays the marvelous side of love that everyone strives to obtain. Two, it shows the lousy and often overlooked side of love. It does this by describing love as smoke. If the smoke clears, the lovers are entranced in each other’s love. If not, it leads to tears or in other words sadness. On a basic level, Shakespeare shows one that depending on how one treats love it will lead that person to either great happiness and prosperity, or despair and grief. Based on these conclusions, by putting this message so early in the book he foreshadows the later sadness throughout the book that Romeo and Juliet’s love will cause. In order for Romeo and Juliet’s love to conquer the hate, they have to watch for the unpleasant repercussions of their love that may strain their relationship. Moreover, another way Shakespeare demonstrates Romeo and Juliet’s heartwarming relationship is by showing some of the later consequences their relationship causes. Shakespeare shows some of these ramifications when Juliet’s closest family members find out that Juliet is dead, Lord Capulet states, “Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak” (Shakespeare, 201) This quote displays the sadness that Juliet has caused to her family. Her dad overwhelmed with sadness, can’t cry because as a father, Lord Capulet’s only will to live was for Juliet. The reason Juliet fakes her death is to be with Romeo. In her mind, her love for Romeo is more important than anything else. Juliet’s disregard for how her actions may affect others demonstrates ignorance on her part. Her stupidity leaves everyone in her family hurting and begging for mercy. Despite overcoming the hate for her relationship by finding an otherwise ingenious solution to the problem. It leads to other problems. Consequently, everyone’s lives are now worse, because Juliet
The story of Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare he was baptised on April 23, 1564 and he was dead on April 23, 1616 at the age of 52 years old, he has three children Susanna Hall, Hamnet Shakespeare, Judith Quiney and his wife is Anne Hathaway. Romeo and Juliet story is the one of the famous story in the world. The characters is Romeo the boyfriend of Juliet Montague his father Mrs. Montague his mother, Benvolio their kinsman, Balthasar romeo’s seving man, Juliet the girlfriend of Romeo, Capulet her father Mrs. Capulet her mother, Paris the Prince’s kinsman and the Juliet suitor, and others.
Shakespeare originally wrote his plays for the upper class who were educated at a higher level, this is why throughout his plays it is difficult to analyze the true meaning of his different pieces of literature and was message he is trying to bring across to the reader. One of the main reasons that the Shakespearean language is hard to understand is because of the more formal language that they use, which is not common in modern day society, so when we read words that are not common to us, most of the time the true meaning of the text is not understood, During my monologue, I did not use the formal Shakespearean language because I feel that my point came across more clearer in this way. However, I did
There is no doubt that Shakespeare’s works makes people groan and want to avoid Literature class. However, Romeo and Juliet being read in the 9th grade curriculum is helpful to students. There are various benefits, such as increased skill in understanding text based on context clues, to reading the play in class. After all the responsibility of having to read Romeo and Juliet is gone, the students are more knowledge on the man that inspired many love stories. They have knowledge of what english used to look like in the 1600s. There are still some people that will disagree.
The Classic play of “Romeo and Juliet” was written by William Shakespeare about two star-crossed lovers who met and fell in love. With the two’s families feuding, the lovers had a secret marriage but everything takes a turn for the worst when they both commit suicide because they feel life is not worth living without each other. At this time it was known as the renaissance time period which marks the beginning bridge between the middle ages and modern ages. The renaissance was a time when history was looked at as a time of greatness and that because of the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe had entered a time known as the “Dark Ages.” Shakespeare wrote many plays including “Romeo and Juliet” that had readers questioning his views of men and their
Is true love worth dying for? In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet would rather die than live without each other. Romeo and Juliet couldn’t be happy with their families fighting all the time. The families fighting resulted in there death and this is why. The family feud killed Romeo and Juliet because the families didn't get along, they got married in secret, and Juliet was being forced to marry Paris.
“Two households both alike in dignity from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean from forth the fatal loins of these 2 foes a pair of star crossed lovers take their life. Romeo and Juliet met and instantly fell in love but the families feud made it unacceptable so they end up killing themselves. Love is an intense feeling of deep affection. Romeo and Juliet fit that definition because romeo and Juliet are in love
William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon and was baptized in the Holy Trinity Church on April 26, 1564. His name can be spelt in many different ways. He got married at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway and had three children, but their third child was the only one that survived infancy. He pursued in his acting career. His first two poems were “Venus and Adonis”, made in 1593, and “The Rape of Lucrece”, made in 1594. He joined Lord Chamberlain’s company of actors in 1594. He then joined a group of Chamberlain's Men that would build and operate “The Globe” (the most famous playhouse of its time.) He wrote 30 more plays in history, comedy, tragedy, and romance. Shakespeare also wrote 152 sonnets (which are 14
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A Detailed Insight of Shakespeare’s Famous Romantic Tragedy Romeo and Juliet...a topic that has been discussed and interpreted countless time, with all different outlooks and viewpoints, yet I doubt that you’ve heard this one. Have you ever noticed that Romeo and Juliet seems to have a subtle aurora of warn-ing? As if these characters should know better? Well a lot of people just throw that at-mosphere out the window, because it might not make sense to them. We 're going to elaborate on the idea instead of ignoring it. I believe that Romeo and Juliet is an undis-covered prophetic vision of the future given by God. If you look at this present genera-tion and generations before that you can see the resemblance of how actions made on a limb
I think that the tomb is a mislabeling of someone else's grave for profit and the story is fiction. The story Romeo and Juliet is based off of an ancient myth called Pyramus and Thisbe. The story is fiction because in the final act of the drama there was a potion that gave the illusion of death for 24 hours, and there is no such thing in real life that could do that. Romeo and Juliet are both fictional characters.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, a romantic tragedy that is the basis of so many current plots found today in movies, plays, fairy tales and, of course, operas, depicts love as a beautiful concept that time, place, and complex circumstances beyond anyone person’s control can have needlessly tragic results on parties who are victims by dint of birth. Open communications without open minds among all parties results in needlessly, but seemingly inevitably sorrowful scenarios. Love can also be very harmful, sadly, even deadly. The Titanic, Westside Story, Little Mermaid, and Carmen are examples of popular plots stemming from Shakespeare's notable prejudicial family feuds.
In the famous story of Romeo and Juliet, not only was William Shakespeare trying to show his audience that parents shouldn’t try and control their children's hearts, but he was also trying to teach a deeper lesson. This lesson was that good intentions can turn bad and that bad intention can have good to them. Moreover, the lesson was trying to show that even villains can be good and heroes can be bad. Overall, Shakespeare's true lesson in Romeo and Juliet is that good things can turn bad if misapplied.
In the play Romeo and Juliet, written by famous playwright William Shakespeare, a key idea that relates to society today is the idea of how love can blind people into doing violent things to themselves or others. This idea is explored at three different times in the play, when Romeo kills Tybalt, when Romeo kills himself and when Juliet kills herself. This play is the story of two teenagers who fall in love at first sight but cannot be together because their families are bitter enemies. When the teenagers kill themselves for each other the families make up and stop their fighting. The authors purpose was to show that hating doesn’t get people anywhere and can get them into more trouble, and that sometimes naive people will do insane things
While scrolling through the interweb out of pure, harmless boredom, I immediately found myself in the google search bar typing many useless topics. I had begun to grow more and more disinterested in doing nothing until my hands had begun to type what my mind had suddenly started to wonder. I began to type “ who are the top 100 greatest writers of all time?” and soon enough, I was brought to millions of links that could easily answer my question. So I clicked one. According to the link that I had chosen(Jones, Jr. Bill,) the 5th greatest writer of all time was William Shakespeare. When seeing the name Shakespeare, I had instantly started to think of how we had recently finished one of the most engrossing plays ever written in English class, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, William.) Written in 1597, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, William) is a most fascinating play involving themes of all sorts, such as family dynamics, good vs evil, fate vs free will, and many more. Yet with each theme provided, the most distinctive one included the adolescent experience. Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, William), Shakespeare had suggested that youth can often be identified through the impetuous and emotionally immature behavior they tend to display, this behavior commonly leads to an unwanted outcome.
The law of retaliation, or better known as "an eye for an eye", is the most ancient law in the world, as it was already used by the first kings that ever existed. In the famous legal code that was written by Hammurabi, the sixth king of Babylon, the exact reciprocity is very clearly used. For example, if a person caused the death of another person, the killer would be put to death. In that case, the rule was that the punishment must be exactly equal to the crime that was committed. This controversial law was used under the British Common Law for a very long time, but getting revenge on someone by doing the same thing that that person did to you, will create an endless cycle that does not contribute