Archetypal Themes In Romeo And Juliet

Directions: Use your Romeo and Juliet theme tracker as well as the passages you read from the text to write a essay where you explain how a theme develops throughout the play. The story includes many themes, so choose the one theme that you best understand and can support with three strong quotes from the text. Be sure to include where the theme emerges (first appears) and how it is refined or shaped (developed) by details as the play progresses.

Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who was the founder analytical psychology, once stated: “The contents of the collective unconscious are archetypes, primordial images that reflect basic patterns that are common to us all, and which have existed universally since the dawn of time” (Carl Gustav Jung). Originally published in 1597, William Shakespeare devised a renowned play about two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Most can argue that a prominent factor behind the choice of language throughout this play was influenced by archetypes and the psychological aspect behind them, depicting patterns that reside within a “collective unconscious,” universally apparent and populated by instinct. Throughout the romantic, yet devastating, story of Romeo and Juliet,

Archetypes are an essential part of literature, and Shakespeare is known for incorporating them into his many plays. An archetype is a typical character displayed that reflects universal human nature. Two of the most important archetypes in Romeo and Juliet are Lord and Lady Capulet. These two immensely important characters are both a controlling parent. In the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone there are two extremely evident controlling parents as well. All of the parents lead to extremely important events. While both sets of parents may be set in completely different time periods, both sets change the outcome of the main character’s lives.

My grave is like to be my wedding bed. ”Here she is foreshadowing her own death because in the book, Juliet takes me potion that puts her to sleep and causes Romeo and hers death the night before her wedding to Paris. Shakespeare uses Juliet's play on words to foreshadow that her wedding bed would most likely be her grave which is exactly what ends up happening. Julia is shown to be very upset over tybalt's death but we later find out that she's really upset over Romeo's banishment, seeing her upset Paris decides to marry her in hopes that she will forget. But that leads to a chain of events the cause of Juliet to commit suicide taking Paris along with her.

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the “star-crossed lovers” are forbidden to love one another because of their family’s ongoing feud. Separated by conflict, they are forced to rebel against their families in order to be united. “ So

Pyramus and Thisbe and Romeo and Juliet are two tragic romance stories that are comparable in many ways. The similar concepts and elements reflected in the two works portray themes of love and tragedy, while also expressing the same types of characters and events. The works of the two writers, Ovid and Shakespeare, were written in completely different time periods, but are remarkably comparable in the senses of character purpose, elements, theme, and events.

Ovid’s Pyramus & Thisbe, and William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet are both stories about ill-fated love. With each story we can see that there is a tragic couple, the female, Thisbe represents Juliet, while the male, Pyramus represents Romeo, vise versa for each. In Pyramus & Thisbe, the two lovers communicate through the small chink in the wall. In Romeo & Juliet, the two lovers communicate through the Nurse by sending messages back and forth. In Romeo & Juliet, the meeting place is Friar Lawrence’s Cell, this represents the Tomb of Ninus in Pyramus & Thisbe, which is where they met up. Lastly, the deceiver in both stories is the main reason the tragedies happened.

In the stories “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare, and ”Pyramus and Thisbe” written by Edith Hamilton, have many similarities and differences. Some main similarities and differences between the stories are the characters, the obstacles they face, the setting, and the story events. In the stories “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” takes place in Verona Italy and in “Pyramus and Thisbe” takes place in Babylon Iraq, in both stories there is a tomb where many important parts of the story take place. The characters in both stories love each other, but both of the families share hate with each others and in the story “Pyramus and Thisbe”, the two lovers didn’t marry like Romeo and Juliet did. The characters both have many obstacles that get in their way through out the stories.

There are many comparisons between the narrative poem “Pyramus and Thisbe” and Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet such as plot, conflict, and characters. The plot of “Pyramus and Thisbe” and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is one thing that can be compared and can be evident in today’s world. The main plot in both stories is the forbidden love between two young individuals because of their families (Woodward). In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet’s families have been feuding for decades.

This passage shows how Juliet would do anything to be with Romeo. This is important because if Romeo gave his love to Juliet, she would give up her family name to be with him. In addition, passion for love is evident in both “Romeo and Juliet” and “Pyramus and Thisbe”. In “Pyramus and Thisbe” the text states, “Although those kisses could not reach their goal. But on the morning after, when first light had banished night’s bright star-fires from the sky and sun had left the brine-soaked meadows dry, again they look their places at the cleft” (Ovid 38-42).

To begin with,"Pyramus and Thisbe" and Romeo and Juliet both had a arduous time being in love because their parents didn't approve or like the fact that their children wanted to marry a certain person. In Romeo and Juliet, both sides of the family didn't want their child to marry outside the family. In the story of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo snuck out to talk to Juliet on her balcony. "They longed to marry, but their parents forbade"(947). The author expressing the parents didn’t accept of the person they want to marry. The parents in "Pyramus and Thisbe" wouldn't let them talk to each other or get married. The author says, "The star-crossed lovers whisper sweet nothings through a crack

In both dramatic love “stories” Romeo And Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe both have similarities and differences between their characters, conflict and plot. Shakespeare had been influenced to write one of the greatest plays, and so he was influenced by Ovid to write Romeo and Juliet by reading the poem Pyramus and Thisbe so he put in many similarities and differences between the two stories. Although both stories end alike in the beginning the two main characters in each story meet differently, one being that Romeo and Juliet met at a party and Pyramus and Thisbe owed their first encounters by growing up side by side. After both of the main love interests meet they start talking but they are talking in distinctive ways, for instance in Romeo

Romeo and Juliet did not follow these ‘rules’ and found true love in each other at first sight. The only problem is that their families are known enemies and resent each other. This family feud pushes Romeo and Juliet to go to drastic measures in the name of love. Elizabethans often arranged loveless marriages in an attempt to acquire wealth

Last but not least, in both texts of Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe, they are very similar as they both end with terrible, terrible tragedies. Both these readings are known for being tragedies, which make them both so memorable. In Romeo and Juliet, Act V Scene III lines 307-310 the Prince says these concluding words, “Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; some shall be pardoned, and some punished; for never was there a story of more woe, than this od Juliet and her Romeo.” That itself sums up that it is one of the greatest tragedies known to man. The same ending through misunderstandings leads to Pyramus and

Romeo and Juliet and “Pyramus and Thisbe” were both very tragic works of classic literature. These stories are similar in their archetypical elements. For example, in both of these stories there is a forbidden love, a way for the lovers to communicate, an event that misleads the lovers, and both stories result in death. Both of these stories contain a forbidden love in which the two protagonists can not communicate with each other. In “Pyramus and Thisbe” it states, “They longed to marry, but their parents forbade” (947).