Comparing Tale Of Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

The play ‘Romeo and Juliet' is about two families who have been fighting for years. When Romeo falls in love with Juliet and Juliet falls in love with Romeo, there are many consequences, including the deaths of a member of each family – Mercutio and Tybalt.

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. Two young persons, Romeo and Juliet are the main characters. Romeo and Juliet are attracted to each other by an accustomed feast of the Capulets, and they marry. However, there is a deep-rooted feud between Romeo and Juliet’s families, the house of Montague and the house of Capulet. Juliet also has a problem with a marriage to Paris which Capulet pushes her for.

The story of Romeo and Juliet starts with a hatred between two families that eventually turns into love. The families were the Capulets and the Montagues, two families that live in Verona. Juliet’s a young 13 year old girl from the Capulets family that is also the only child of Lady Capulet and Lord Capulet. Romeo is a 16 year old boy from the Montague family. The most important theme in the story is defying authority.

The play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is about a tragedy of two star crossed lovers who want nothing more than to be together forever. “…Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” (2.2.35-36) Romeo, a Montague, who is young and passionate, meets Juliet at a Capulet party. When they meet, it’s love at first sight. Juliet, a Capulet, is a beautiful young lady tired of being controlled by her father, Lord Capulet. The two families are in a never ending feud that comes between Romeo and Juliet’s love. In the course of four and a half days, Romeo and Juliet plan their marriage with the help of Priest Friar Laurence and Juliet’s Nurse. After the couple is married,

Romeo and Juliet are in love with each other and secretly marry. Romeo and Juliet cannot be found together because they are in opposing families. Tybalt is an arrogant person who loves fighting to show off and raise his ego. The feud between the families continues for hundreds of years, annoying the Prince of Verona. The Prince of Verona threatens the lives of Lord Capulet and Lord Montague if their families continue to fight.

     There are many similarities and differences between the sixties version of Romeo and Juliet and the modern version of Romeo and Juliet. It is very easy to spot these differences considering the time period each movie was set in. There are some things in the play that totally got cut from both movies. There are also some things that they added to the movies that weren’t in the play. Let us get on to the similarities and differences.

The two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, play a major role in keeping Romeo and Juliet apart, which leads the two to die for love. This is seen when Juliet finds out that Romeo is a Montague. Juliet knows that she cannot be with Romeo as their families are enemies, which causes the two to rush their wedding and swear to be together. This decision of marriage furthers their relationship and makes them love each other more, which causes them to die for love. In addition, the Capulets separate Romeo and Juliet when they force Juliet to marry Paris.

If the families didn’t hate each other so much, Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t have married behind their parent’s backs. Romeo could have asked Juliet’s parents for his permission to marry her, but the hatred created difficulty. At the beginning of the play, there was a brawl between the Capulets and Montagues. The Prince stopped them from continuing by threatening them. He declared that the violence between the families has been going on too long and proclaimed that anyone who disturbed the cities peace will be punished by death (Act 1 scene 1). The two families not getting along created many obstacles for Romeo and

Chorus states (or sings), “Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean”(pg. 771) Even from the start of the play, it was known that there was a hatred between the two. It is unhealthy for two groups of people hating each other like that. This creates children to not be able to make their own decisions and go behind their parents’ backs like they did. At the Capulet party, Romeo states, “Is she a Capulet? O dear account my life is my foe’s debt.” (pg, 790) Even at the very start when Romeo found out Juliet was a Capulet, he was upset. This hatred has made these kids’ life very difficult for them to do what they want. This feud between the two basically created the play. Without the feud, there would be no “Romeo and Juliet” it would just be another story about how two people fell in love a long time

They both made poor decisions, and most of the decisions they made were the ones Juliet disliked. They were immature and had conflicts with Romeo’s family. Instead of dealing with their problems like adults they decided not to and kept being enemies with the Montagues. They also blamed Romeo even though he did not do anything wrong to their family. Lord Capulet said, “She shall be married to this noble earl” (3.5.24), they made a decision which Juliet did not like since Juliet wanted to marry someone she liked. The parents were insensitive and did not ask their daughter how she felt about their

As William Shakespeare wrote the play he shows the theme by the two family feuds and their placement of the familial power between the fathers. When Juliet loves Romeo and her father tries to marry her to Paris (who was a suitor for Juliet); it is showing the power that Lord Capulet has. Especially later, when Lord Capulet lost his temper and slapped Juliet across the face for having “no appreciation”. Juliet did not want to marry Paris because she was already married to Romeo but kept in secret with Friar Lawrence. The Friar married them with some hope that the two family feuds would come to compromise and end.

In both stories, the main idea is to bring two rival families together with the love of Romeo and Juliet. They may have to bring the families together in different ways, but this is the main concept of both stories. In the original version, there is more of an idea that Romeo is chasing Juliet around because of his love for her. Although, he doesn’t share his genuine feelings for Juliet until later into the story. In contrast, the modern version has Juliet spying on Romeo, and then Juliet comes out of her hiding spot to tell Romeo how she felt about him right then and there.

Romeo and Juliet is the tragic love story that everyone knows. Romeo and Juliet is the heartbreaking love story between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet who lived in Italy in the middle ages. Capulets and Montagues are bitter enemies. Because Romeo comes from Montague and Juliet from Capulet, their parents will not allow them to associate with each other. We had the pleasure of reading the classic story in class and then proceeding to watch the movie. I noticed a couple of differences between the book and the movie while watching.

Romeo and Juliet has been told or shown many different ways. One would be the Romeo and Juliet 1968 version. The other two are called William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and the Romeo and Juliet 1996 version. I will show you how all of these tragedies are different and similar to each other, and that they are not all the same as some may think.

“Romeo and Juliet’ written by William Shakespeare, is a play about two star-crossed lovers whose love ended due to a tragic series of mischances and fateful errors despite the hatred between each others families. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are two young people who fall into a forbidden love. After going through many hardships, they realize that being together, is the most important thing. They both decide, in the end, that being together dead is better than being separated alive, therefore they die for each other. Shakespeare’s theme of hate is a senseless action that always causes more harm than good is shown by characterizing the family feud between Capulets and Montagues as responsible for Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths.