Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Austen’s Pride and prejudice are two completely different texts as one dialogue to represent feelings of love, whereas the other novel which uses description of the characters feelings to portray strong love. Shakespeare’s wrote the famous love story in English literature in the 17th century whereas Austen lived in the 19th century which I believe contributes to their views on love and the time they lived in affects their characters and techniques of writing.
Romeo and Juliet explore love and tragedy when the two protagonists fall in love except they come from families which have extreme dispute and hatred between each other. However they are so much in love they go against and disregard their family’s rivalry and marry despite the fact that the story ends in catastrophe as their love is so strong that are prepared to die for each other and so they do. Whilst in pride and prejudice we explore two protagonists Elizabeth Bennet who is seen as an intelligent young women with a lively wit which enables her to pervade her class and spiteful society she lives ain on the other hand we have a wealthy, proud gentlemen who earns £10,000 a year so they have different status society however they come to realise their similarities in their characteristics and overcome the social barriers which consequences to them falling in love and marrying.
Shakespeare starts of by introducing the ideas of strong love from the phrase ‘Star crossed lovers`
The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is about the dilemma of choosing love over loyalty for your family. In the story Romeo and Juliet come from separate families who hate each other, but still find love in each other. They get married without telling their families and eventually the two families get into a fight which ends in Romeo getting banished from the city where Juliet lives. They have a plan for him to get back into to the city to prevent Juliet from being forced to marry another man, but it fails and ends with the suicide death of both Juliet and Romeo. Shakespeare's major theme in the text is that Love plays a major role in our lives and can heavily affect our decisions.
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is one of the most well known and influential pieces in English literature; more importantly, most people recognize it as a story of true love, or star-crossed lovers. This play tells the story of Romeo and Juliet, who are from two feuding families. They fall in love with each other, despite being from rivaling families, and face numerous obstacles because of the feud. After a series of tragic events and miscommunication, Romeo and Juliet end up taking their lives for their “true love”. However, Romeo and Juliet’s decisions do not seem to be out of true love as they claim, but rather infatuation. In The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare teaches readers that infatuation can
During the 19th century, men were the ones who typically proposed to women. However, men did not solely ask for their hand in marriage, they also had to formulate something to say. In the books Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, there are two men who decide to propose to someone they take liking in. Those men are William Collins who proposes to Elizabeth Bennett (Pride and Prejudice) and Bradley Headstone who proposes to Lizzie Hexam. Although both of the men’s proposal resulted in rejection, one of the proposals had better diction than the other. The ideas such as “bringing up [their significant other’s] reputation” or “having true love for [their significant lover]” may indicate to the women they are truly sincere. Due to the time period’s typical romances, there were a limited amount of things a woman and man can do with each other in public. Specifically, the men and women were not allowed to kiss, go on dates alone, or hold hands. When the woman agrees to a marriage proposal, her and her fiance were allowed to have a
Throughout history, classic literature has appealed to modern audiences due to the relevance of themes in the piece. Playwright William Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet (1599) is a classic piece that explores the themes; love and impetuousness of youth. These themes are portrayed through the star-crossed lovers’ story and still reflect the universal themes that people experience today.
Shakespeare uses the term “star crossed” to describe Romeo and Juliet's love for each other
After reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it is evident that many types of love are incorporated throughout the play. Shakespeare makes it clear that the type of love for a friend is different from the type of love shown for a significant other or a relative. The actions and attitudes of a person towards another can be based on the type of relationship between the two. The author uses friendship, familial love, and romantic love to express the feelings of the characters, and provide an understanding of the true meaning of what love is.
This book starts with Dane Kennedy waking up to a phone call from the hospital, telling him he is still listed as his ex-boyfriend's Power of Attorney and he should come to the hospital. Dane finds out his ex is deathly ill and goes through days in the ICU. Dane contacts ex's family and they hang up on him. He ends up having to pull life support. Dane is emotionally devastated. But he is the best man in his brothers wedding and flies to Granite County. There he meets brothers Vyce and Fyuri Romeo, who are in town because their brother is standing up in the same wedding. Vyce immediately wants to keep Dane, and Fyuri wants a to scratch an itch. They fight.
Compare and contrast Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare. portray Romance During the Elizabethan era women were submissive to men and they were raised not to consider otherwise. Two of the most admirable and exquisite pieces of romantic literacy ever written in the Elizabethan era are Romeo and Juliet and pride and Prejudice. They are both based on a journey through the struggling love of two opposing forces due to a distinctness in social class, about surmounting obstacles and achieving romantic happiness.
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare depicts a troubled couple and their never ending battle with love. Love, although not directly characterized within the play, is instrumental in orchestrating many of the relationships that moved the plotline of the story. Romeo credits love to parts of Juliet and his relationship, by proclaiming that “he [love] lent me counsel and I lent him eyes./ I should adventure for such merchandise” (II. ii. 86, 89). Shakespeare uses personification and motifs to portray the idea of love as a forceful figure, which reinforces the theme that love can cause one to make brash decisions.
A prominent playwright known for his romantic productions is William Shakespeare. It is evident that the topic of love is brought up many times in Romeo and Juliet. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, love is presented as an aggressive force that overpowers all other values and desires. This can be compared to the idea that love is very powerful in Diane Ackerman’s “Love’s Vocabulary”, and contrasted to the idea that love is gentle in I Corinthians 13:4-8. Shakespeare’s idea of love is similar to
Love is everywhere. It burns in the hearts of adolescents, softens the souls of sadistic men, and murmurs between old, happy couples. However, when asked, every individual has their own idea of what love is. The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare explores the many different perspectives of love through a multitude of characters, each unique in their own way. The comedic tragedy tells the story of two young lovers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, who come from feuding families in the city of Verona. After a secret marriage between the two, misfortunes start raining down. In the end, due to a series of unfortunate events, the star-crossed lovers take their own lives in an effort to be together in death. A person’s view of love varies with one’s experience, personality, and gender, and causes one to treat love in unique ways.
In Romeo and Juliet, the death scene is truly an emotional scene compared to all parts of the movie. The book and the movie have different aspects of why this scene is the same, but also has some parts to be different.
After both reading the text and viewing the 1996 film the medium that best delivers Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, especially the balcony scene, is the text. To begin, the play has a much tenser, suspenseful mood compared to the movie. "'To lure this tassel gentle back again! Bondage in hoarse and may not speak aloud, Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies'" (II.ii.160-163). In the previous quote Juliet it speaking to Romeo and telling him that her parents are nearby and that they must whisper. This allows for a much more suspenseful mood, because the reader knows that at any moment the star-crossed lovers could be caught by Lord and Lady Capulet. Additionally, the text portrays Shakespeare's story better because Juliet is standing
“A glooming peace this morning with it brings; the sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo,” (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet). This book, Romeo and Juliet, was written by William Shakespeare, in London, during the mid-1590s. It is a tragic drama play that has multiple tones throughout the story such as passion, romance, violence, and darkness. The forcefulness of love, love as a cause of violence, an individual versus society, and the inevitability of fate are all themes of this tale. The time period is set for the Renaissance in Verona and Montane, Italy. Our main characters, Romeo and Juliet, are born from two families that are caught up in a feud. They both show loyalty and passion for each other throughout the play, proving that they truly love each other more than anything; even more than their own lives.
Compare and contrast how Shakespeare and Austen present the power of love in Othello and Pride and Prejudice.