Romeo and Juliet is a play that shows how intense relationships between two young people can be, this is shown in the love that Romeo and Juliet have for each other. Then how Reckless Romeo and Juliet are stating they would kill each other if anything were to happen to the other. Finally the grief they have when they learn that the other is dead causes them to kill themselves shows the final intensity of their love. Shakespeare is trying to caution quick love or love that is created in an instant and has no thought or reason behind it. Romeo’s love for Juliet is caused in an instant but there substantial build up to what they feel for each other. Romeo previously loved Juliet’s cousin Rosaline. I believe the love he feels for her is true and as strong as what he feels for Juliet even if he would not admit it. If Rosaline had felt the same as Juliet did than this entire fiasco would’ve been avoided. Romeo once said when describing his love for Rosaline “Love is a smile made with the fume of sighs, Being Purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears.” this is quite similar to how he has described his love for Juliet, “It is the was and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon”. I believe this proves that Romeo is just falling in love with the first women he meets in a bathroom. …show more content…
She may accept this at first but as the night progresses she realises this is not what she truly
Romeo and Juliet, one of many Shakespeare tragedy plays, reveals that Shakespeare thinks love brings sorrow and grief. The play tells a story about “two star-crossed lovers” named Romeo and Juliet, who live in two different households that hate each other. Many problems arise with Romeo and Juliet loving each other, but being enemies in nature. The story is told by many characters, including Romeo and Juliet. Through this, Shakespeare uses dramatic irony, repetition of epithets, and pathos to show how love brings sorrow and grief.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about lovers who end up killing themselves because they think that they cannot be together. Many people contributed to bringing about the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Some should be pardoned and some punished, but I think that the tragic deaths were caused mainly by fate.
Romeo and Juliet is a play about two star-crossed teenage lovers. They are from opposing families; Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. They meet at a party at the home of the Capulet’s and fall in love at first sight. That night Romeo comes to Juliet’s balcony and he watches her for awhile. Finally, he calls out to her, and they talk, him on the ground her in her balcony. After talking they decide to get married. Romeo rushes off to make the arrangement for their wedding. Only days after the wedding Romeo is banished from Verona for the murder of Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, and only days after that Romeo and Juliet take their own lives. Romeo did first believing Juliet had died, however, she was only in a death-like sleep. She woke up and saw her beloved Romeo dead and stabbed herself with his dagger. Although they chose to take their own lives I believe Romeo’s friend Mercutio is most to blame for the two lovers deaths.
Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, tells the story of two young characters who marry in secret. Romeo and Juliet fall in love, despite being from two feuding families, and have the aid of only a few other characters. By the end of the tragedy, multiple characters die, including Romeo and Juliet. In the end, Prince Escalus declares that while they have all suffered, some will be punished but others will not. Many contributed to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, but only a few will be held accountable.
Romeo and Juliet is, as is commonly known, filled with tragedy. There is no question about the moments of bitter misfortune but what is worthy of question is what causes the somber events and it may be who most would least expect. Romeo and Juliet is a poem by William Shakespeare written in the late 16th century. Upon a rebellious request by Romeo’s cousin and great friend Benvolio. Romeo meets up with Juliet and over the course of five dramatic days the end up dead, poisoned and stabbed as both families mourn on their mistakes. Romeo and Juliet is about love, but is also about how dangerous love is. Shakespeare hints at an idea of love’s constraining effects of the mind and how this can be to the danger of many.
Romeo and Juliet is a play about two young lovers who strives to be together, they are trying to change their fate using their own decisions. The decisions Romeo and Juliet make are based off of their own free will, which causes their ultimate demise. Through the decisions they make, causing a chain of events, the emotions which influence and fuel those decisions, and the consequences of each decision which causes the next choices that will need to be made.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a tragic tale of death and destruction for which many people are to blame. What could have been a great love was destroyed by hate, blindness, and greed. Romeo is to blame for the destruction of his own life and Juliet's because of his haste, and because of his lack of following the rules. Romeo as a character is not a patient person. He changes his mind quickly, and jumps from person to person.
Romeo and Juliet is a drama about a boy and a girl different families who fall in love with each other. Shakespeare uses the power of his love to show how strong their love is for each other. In scene 5, act 3 Juliet wakes up to find her beloved Romeo dead next to her. She takes his dagger and turns it on herself. She loved him so much that when she saw his dead body laying their she killed herself so that she could still be with him. When Romeo sees Juliet for the first time he knows that she is the woman for him. After the party he is behind a bush under her window and she comes out on
Loss and grief are strong ideas found in the third act of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. As the play is a tragedy, it is expected to have many heart-wrenching moments for the characters; however, Juliet suffered many substantial losses most notably during the events of the third act. When Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, challenges Romeo, whom she was secretly wed to, her husband refuses honourably. Tybalt was not satisfied by this and instead fights with Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend. After mortally wounding Mercutio, Romeo sees no other choice but to achieve vengeance, resulting in the unfortunate death of the Capulet boy. Due to this, he was banished from Verona, leaving Juliet without two members of her family whom she had deeply loved. Additionally,
Everyone loves a good drama story, there is just something about tragedy that gets the audience intrigued and want more. Romeo & Juliet is a drama by William shakespeare. It is about two star-crossed lovers who are killed in the end due to grief and depression. Romeo & Juliet is a tragedy because one of the main characters, Romeo, expresses tragic flaws, moral wekanesses, and is unable to cope with unfavorbale circumtances.
In the previous scene, Juliet reacts to Romeo’s banishment with vigorous emotion. However at the same time, she thinks of her beloved cousin Tybalt, and his death, having mixed emotions for both her husband, and cousin. In this quote, Romeo cries and sobs about his banishment. The use of onomatopoeias such as “howling” that the author uses conveys the amount of grief and sadness Romeo is going through. Another example of literacy device would be the alliteration in “white wonder.” The white wonder that he refers to is Juliet’s hand, it symbolizes innocence and peace, these quotes all show the amount of grief that Romeo has. In fact, the whole stanza is a metaphor of where Romeo compares his banishment, to being dead. Quotes such as “where
Actions always have consequences, even if it is believed to be caused by fate. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare, that teaches on the topic of love and loss. In the play, Romeo and Juliet are two young teenagers who fall in love even though their families have hated each other for years. As a result, they kill themselves to be together forever because they feel that is their own option. For these reasons, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet has only been seen as just a tragic love story. However, this play goes much deeper than that. It focuses on themes such as choices and fate. The play also teaches on the topic of the consequences of rushing into love. Overall, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is really about the power of fate and thinking before rushing into things.
Romeo and Juliet is a play created to show Shakespeare's idea of the highest form of love. This play is meant to show what real love is and drastic measures one would take to maintain said love. Shakespeare seems to believe that love is meant to be the ultimate emotion. Love is the emotion which one would risk their well being to possess. Shakespeare captures that feeling in the final scene of the play when Romeo and Juliet both end their own lives because they believe that they will never feel love that is that powerful again. The “suicide impulse” the play shows does not relate to the play's theme of the highest form of love. But it does show a different theme; young love. Not saying young as their age, but young in the sense that these two
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a play written about love. Romeo is a young man living in the House of Montague. Juliet is a 13 year old female, which lives in the House of Capulet. Between these two households, three brawls have occurred. These two young lovers then meet at the house of Capulet’s party, that Romeo and his men snuck into. Instantly, Romeo and Juliet fall in love. Romeo and Juliet’s love may have happened quickly, however the love Romeo and Juliet share is very genuine because it brings the two happiness and is very unconditional.
The play is so well known since it shows the deepest example of passion. The proclamation of love for the first time between Juliet and Romeo adds a great deal of passion to the play, as it helps develop their journey of love. In the balcony scene, Juliet expresses to Romeo, “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,/My love as deep. The more I give to thee,/ The more I have, for both are infinite” (Shakespeare 2. 2. 133-135). Juliet reveals to Romeo that the more love she gives him, the more love she has, and that her love for him is limitless. Additionally, the passion that Romeo and Juliet share is violent and disobedient. As Friar Laurence tells Romeo, “These violent delights have violent ends/And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,/Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey/Is loathsome in his own deliciousness/And in the taste confounds the appetite./Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so./Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow” (2.6. 9-15). The Friar tries to notify Romeo that his and Juliet's intense passion may end violently, as they go behind their parents backs to get married. As a result, this passion lead to the lovers death. Little did Romeo and Juliet know that something so bad could come out of their intense passion. Romeo says,