Who Is Responsible For Romeo And Juliet's Death

Act 1, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet involves five drastically different characters, all with varying goals and personality traits: Tybalt, Lord Capulet, Romeo, Juliet, and the Nurse. Tybalt’s defining traits are his hot-headedness and hatred of peace. His temper and protectiveness lead to a desire to protect the Capulets from any Montague intrusion. His arrogance also plays a large role; by challenging someone to a fight, he can display his skills in combat. To outsiders, Lord Capulet may seem vastly different from Tybalt, seeming jovial, but within his family, he is similarly short-tempered. While he wants his guests to enjoy themselves in order to be a polite host, he also wants to avoid breaking the law against public fighting. Therefore, when Tybalt readies himself to fight Romeo, Capulet steps in and admonishes him in order to avoid tarnishing his reputation. Romeo, on the other hand, is quick to love and quick-- almost hasty- in acting. He longs for something (such as the party) to take his mind off Rosaline, but his belief in fate does not entirely allow him to do so, as he had previously believed horrible events would take place if he went to the party. This belief causes him to exit abruptly, despite having just met Juliet. Juliet herself is lonely and simultaneously standoffish and naive. She wishes to find someone she truly loves, and finds this in Romeo. Although her defensive nature makes her reject him at first, her naivety eventually leads her

It is said that love conquers all, for it is known to pass obstacles, restore hope, bring individuals together, and inspire lost and weakened souls. However, love can also cause some of life 's most controversial battles. These battles could stem from lack of patience, disagreement of moral values, and in some cases, an absence of attraction overall. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the issues that drive Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet 's to each of their dreadful misfortunes are inevitable. When it comes to many of Shakespeare 's plays, Aristotle 's theory is used to describe them as tragedies. Romeo and Juliet is known by many as a tragedy, meaning that the main protagonist(s), in this case, Romeo and Juliet, have a fatal flaw that leads them to their greatest downfalls. Romeo and Juliet have similar traits of vulnerability and impulse that steer them to risky decisions, but that doesn 't connect entirely to the external conflicts that affect their well being. The feud between Romeo 's and Juliet 's families, the Montagues and the Capulets, cause many of the major events that harm the characters as well. Since the two lovers come from Verona 's greatest rivals, wouldn 't their forbidden love result in despair either way while fate runs its course? Romeo and Juliet 's misfortune is controlled by fate, for the situation between the Montagues and the Capulets is out of their control and causes conflict despite the extent of the lover 's actions.

Two families at war, a love so forbidding it’s deadly, referring of course to the classic William Shakespeare play of “Romeo and Juliet”, set in Verona, Italy. The play examines two families, the Montauges and the Capulets caught in an ongoing battle of hate, however two of the children manage to find love. All is not fair in love and war, and this play examines some examples of how love and hate correlate to each other in this captivating tale of “Romeo and Juliet”.

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that follows the so-called love of two teenagers. The two fall in love at a masked ball and have a secret marriage. Throughout the play, their actions show how ridiculous love is, and how it is a danger to anyone who become twisted in its choking grasp. However, in the death of the youth and survival of the elders, an alternative explanation for the tragic events may be found. Although Shakespeare seems to be mocking love throughout the play, it is actually foolhardy lust that kills Romeo and Juliet.

The fourteen line I chose to annotate and perform is a monologue made by Romeo. This happens right after Romeo gets to Juliet’s grave, then meets Paris, fights Paris, and kills Paris.[a]Right before Paris dies, he says “Oh, I am slain! If thou be merciful, Open the tomb. Lay me with Juliet” (Shakespeare 5.3.72-73). Paris is brave and proud enough to tell Romeo, the person that kills him, to put him in the grave next to Juliet, who he was going to marry. Romeo’s true love for Juliet caused all of this in the first place. In the play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare persuades the audience to see what can arise when love is at its pinnacle, that the true power of love can change the life of a person in an instant.[b] Romeo has mixed feelings standing next to Juliet at her grave, and he expresses them in weird ways. Romeo becomes confused after he gets a better look at the person who he had killed, he then only finds that it was Paris. In that hurry, Romeo is again confused, he thought that Balthasar had told him Paris was going to marry Juliet, then he says “Said he not so? Or did I dream it so?” (Shakespeare 5.3.79). Romeo is not sure of what he remembers. This whole event has been a lot on Romeo, and it is caused a slight mental breakdown. I wonder if Shakespeare is showing what love and tragedy can cause to a person, or what happens when you decide to die next to the person you loved and married.

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story of two young lovers whose lives are cut short due to the rivalry of their families, the Capulets and the Montagues. The family feud has been present for decades but once Romeo and Juliet meet they are instantaneously in love. Love at first sight some would say. But could love at first sight really be the case? No it could not. There are many things that serve to prove Romeo and Juliet were not in love.

Through the ages, women have always had a powerful role, whether or not it was recognized by society. They cook, clean, give birth, and nurture which all are more than necessary jobs. However, also throughout the ages, women have been separated from society and seen as a lesser being and not being granted the same rights and equality as men. Specifically this can be seen in the Elizabethan age. Queen Elizabeth fought for women to be seen as equals to men through her reign. But in loving the theatre, she never allowed women to be on the stage; forcing men to play the role of men and women makes her ideals and society 's hypocritical.

When discussing classic love stories, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is often included in the conversation. The tragic story of the “star-crossed lovers” (Shakespeare 6) is taught in high schools and studied in colleges. Its poetry has graced many stages and silver screens. Romeo and Juliet is also often reimagined for a modern audience. One such interpretation is West Side Story. Written by Stephen Sondheim, it made its Hollywood debut in 1961 under directors Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. Instead of feuding families in Verona, West Side Story touts rival gangs in New York City. Although the plots of West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet themselves seem interchangeable, key differences exist that make West Side Story a

While in the play we know Romeo has been hiding while he laments the rejection of Rosaline, in Luhrmann’s film we actually see how isolated he is. A widescreen shot of Romeo at the old theater on the beach shows how alone he is physically, so deeply heartbroken by the rejection of his affections. Even when he is not physically separated from others, he is mentally and emotionally aloof. His friends cannot understand his heartbreak. The night of the party, they rowdily banter with each other while he sits alone quietly. They must coax him and eventually offer him drugs to get him to the party with them. At the party, he is in his own world even before he meets Juliet. He steals away to the quiet of the washroom fish tank while his friends engage in lively song and dance. Throughout the whole film, Luhrmann creates the notion that Romeo is a very lonely character.

Advanced popular society mediums, for example, melodies, books, and movies abound with references to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as a notable representation of genuine hetero love. This theory intends to dig all the more profoundly into the issues of affection and sexuality in the play and investigate its inconspicuous underlying topics of homoeroticism and hazardous heterosexuality through a dissection of the film adjustments of Romeo and Juliet from the recent twentieth-century: Franco Zeffirelli‟s 1968 Romeo and Juliet and Baz Luhrmann‟s 1996 William Shakespeare 's Romeo + Juliet. Love and sexuality in these movies will be investigated by first breaking down the natural issue postured by the vicinity of Rosaline, who calls into inquiry the authenticity of the thought of intimate romance as to Romeo‟s affections for Juliet. The following circumstance that confounds affection and sexuality is Juliet’s great youth; Shakespeare essentially and deliberately brings down her age from the source writings to only a tiny bit short of fourteen years. In the wake of securing the issues that Rosaline’s character and Juliet’s youth stance to a perusing of Romeo and Juliet as a story of genuine hetero love, the center movements to the homoeroticism prove in the relationship between Luhrmann‟s Mercutio and Romeo. I contend that Luhrmann changes the play’s unobtrusive confirmation of homoeroticism into an outright and vital sort of affection in the middle of Mercutio and Romeo

Shakespeare love writing about women as a heroine with great features, strength of spirit, sense of independence, and a great way to speak, and about men that let him go for the heart, braves, romantic, strong and hard working. Shakespeare try to enhance in all his plays these features of the men a women on a scene of be in love with some kinds of complication “Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps” Much Ado About Nothing – Act 3, Scene 2. In Romeo and Juliet, he show a love at first sight with a decided Juliet and a passionate Romeo. In A Midsummer Night 's Dream, he show a confused love, and also chaos between the lovers. In Twelfth Night, he reveals the deception game that love can play, and how sometimes, people can mistake the affection they feel towards someone with love. But in the big play where Shakespeare did a battle of sexes, was in Much Ado about Nothing. This play is full of discussion between men and women, the plot of this piece is about Benedick and Beatrice that they are tricked into confessing their love for each other, after a lot of insult and conflict between them. And the other side, Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero at the altar on the erroneous belief that she has been unfaithful. At the end, Benedick and Beatrice join forces to set things right, and the others join in a dance celebrating the marriages of the two couples. Although this great play finished with a happy ending, we must emphasize the battle in which is

“Be not afraid of greatness, some are born great, some achieve greatness…”(Shakespeare) William Shakespeare achieved greatness in his amazing plays. In the play Romeo and Juliet, there are unique characteristics shown from each character throughout the play. (Thesis) Some of these people were Romeo, Juliet, and Lord Capulet. (Preview)

William Shakespeare’s masterpiece Romeo and Juliet tells the story of a pair of star-crossed lovers willing to defy all odds to be together. However, throughout the story, we repeatedly see how fate intervenes and wreaks havoc on their lives in destructive and devastating ways. Act 5 Scene 3, the scene of the actual disaster, reinforces this idea in the most dramatic and terrible way possible - the tragic and untimely death of the main characters themselves. In addition, all the other characters such as Friar Lawrence, the heads of the Capulet and Montague households and the Prince experience grief and regret as not seen throughout the rest of the play.

The task of editing Romeo and Juliet has become even more daunting of late. Not only is there the vast critical and performance history of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays to present intelligibly to modern readers. But new regard for the first quarto 1 (1597), has also complicated the relationship with the longer quarto 2 (1599), on which all modern editions are based

To assess Baz Luhrmann 's use of setting in his film, Romeo + Juliet, we can begin by contrasting the film with the play as it was originally performed in the 16th-century theatre. The key difference between the manner in which the film and the play deal with location is that the film is primarily an image-intensive medium that can visually show the audience the locale. Shakespearean drama, on the other hand, was written to be heard as an auditory experience.