Commitment In Romeo And Juliet

Shakespeare seems to believe that extreme loyalty causes people to act rashly as shown by Mercutio fighting against Tybalt for Romeo, and Romeo and Juliet’s suicides.

When Juliet finds out that Tybalt has been killed and Romeo is in exile, for killing Tybalt, Juliet feels both passionate about Romeo and disappointed in both Romeo and herself, which reveal her inner struggle. In Act 3, Juliet’s Nurse comes back with this news that Tybalt is dead and that Romeo is such an awful person for killing him. Juliet fights back at the Nurse, and herself, for speaking bad about Romeo. She claims, ““Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, When I, thy three hours' wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband.” (3.2.99-101). This shows that Juliet is passionate about Romeo, because first of all, she says that she was wrong to say bad things about her husband.

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.

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Loyalty plays a big part in Romeo and Juliet. Ties of loyalty are woven throughout the play, binding certain characters together. The main theme is the feuding families of Romeo and Juliet that holds an “ancient grudge” against each other: the Montague’s and the Capulet’s. Romeo’s family and friends despise Juliet’s family, the Capulet’s, and as the play progresses you will find them defending each other in the face of an enemy. Romeo and Juliet have to defy their parent’s expressive wish not to see each other, and accept the consequences of their forbidden love. They question the fact that there’s no solid fact that the two family’s hate each other: merely time has blown the feuding out of proportion.

Relationship is described as an emotional or other connection between people. The book Of Mice and Men and “Romeo and Juliet” both have similar relationships. These relationships are built around different circumstances and situations. George and Lennie only have each other which creates a better relationship. Romeo and Juliet had large families to support and love them. They grew up surrounded by strong families. When they met violence between the families forced them to choose family or each other. How does one have a strong enough bond after two days to turn away from a family whose has been supporting them throughout their lives? A solid relationship is not created in two days, but built through good and bad life experiences. Even though Romeo and Juliet have a relationship of love and forgiveness, George and Lennie still have the stronger

When Romeo and Juliet comes up in school curriculum any observer can see students eagerly signing up for roles, puzzling over Juliet’s eagerness to marry a stranger, or rehearsing their own unique interpretation of the play. In these moments students are released from the usual monotonous class period and allowed to enjoy a timeless piece of literature. While some may claim that Shakespeare is outdated or difficult to read, the positivities of including it in ninth grade curriculum far outweigh any struggles of comprehension.

In order to be loyal to yourself, one may have to sacrifice relationships in the process. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Conveys the story of Young teens, Romeo and Juliet from rival families who fall in love with each other and suffer a hard decision whether to be loyal to their family or themselves. Shakespeare shows Romeo with his one-sided love for Rosaline, resulting in him heartbroken and depressed to being lovestruck about Juliet and Juliet being obedient and reserved to being flirtatious when meeting Romeo. The development of these characters and the love Romeo and Juliet have for each other refines the central idea that loyalty to yourself is more important than loyalty to family.

1. In this Scene, the nurse is shown to have a really close bond with Juliet. She seems to have a better relation than her mother. The nurse lost her daughter “Susan”(1.3 Line 20) as she was the same “age”(1.1 Line 21) as Juliet, which makes the nurse closer to Juliet and treats her as a daughter.

Often with death, there are those who place blame. Authors often write with tragedy, love, or death. William Shakespeare wrote a lot of poems and plays. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is about two families that are in a feud but there are also two people from the opposite families that are in love. The two families are the Capulets and the Montagues. In his play, Shakespeare uses the themes of nobility and loyalty to create a great romantic tragedy.

The emotion of love is an incredibly complex feeling, as displayed in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

Romeo and Juliet have a stronger relationship than George and Lennie because they express more Loyalty. Loyalty is needed in a strong relationship, and Romeo and Juliet's relationship is full of Loyalty. Romeo and Juliet had to go against some friends and family to be loyal to each other. Juliet was loyal to Romeo when she betrayed her father and refused to marry Paris. “O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,/ From off the battlements of any tower, Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk/” (Shakespeare 4.1.78-80). Juliet sticks up for her relationship with Romeo, and refuses to marry or be with anyone other than Romeo. Juliet tells Friar Laurence that she would rather jump from a tower or kill herself than have to marry Paris, and no longer

Juliet wants to see Romeo at the beginning of the scene. She says she wants him to come immediately. During this time Romeo is fighting Tybalt and he kills Tybalt. Juliet also mentions that she never wants to leave Romeo or for Romeo to leave her.

Baz Luhrmann has used a variety of techniques to explore deep meaning of loyalty, love and hatred. Luhrmann used loyalty in this scene, by use of camera shots and camera movements. He used a zooming out camera movement to capture the emotion of Romeo , when Mercuito was dying in his hands, additionally a close up of Mercuito face when he was saying, "How dishourable vile submission. " This shot is showing the audience how hurt Mercuito is when Tybalt is attacking Romeo. Lastly a mid shot of Mercutio going to take out Romeo's gun.

Romeo struggles between his dedication to love and his dedication to honor throughout Romeo and Juliet as well as staying true to his family's side in the feud. Although in the beginning Romeo seemed to only "falls in love" with girls because of their looks, but, after being with Juliet, Romeo showed readers that with her it was more than just her beauty that he was in love with. Along with Romeo made sure to stick with Juliet all the way through until he found out that Juliet died and not fighting Tybalt because they were related after Romeo got married to Juliet until after he had good reason to fight. Romeo disregards the families feud after he finds out that Juliet is a capulet and even goes as far as trying to mend the families feud by