Cruelty In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Violent Scenes in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet "Romeo and Juliet" is a tragic play, which is about a feud between two families of Verona, causing the deaths of two young lovers. This is apparent in the haunting opening passage of the play - "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" Although it is a play about love there are many scenes that contain violence and conflict. The play opens with a feud between the Capulets and Montagues and ends with the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare wrote “Two households, both alike in dignity, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,”(Prologue.1-6). One of the main themes in Romeo and Juliet, as described by the quote, is love as a cause of violence and distrust because family members of Romeo and Juliet are betrayed and lied to and the star crossed lovers eventually kill themselves out of love. Romeo and Juliet go behind their parents back as the meet on the balcony and get married. Juliet lies to the nurse and her parents about why she is going to Friar Lawrence. She ends up telling her parents she wants to get married to Paris even though she is thinking the opposite. All of these lies are told because Romeo and Juliet

Hatred can cause tension and competition between people. In Romeo and Juliet, The characters show their hate in many different ways. Act one and two of the play show how much hatred there is between the Capulets and Montagues. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare portrays hatred as a competitive force.

‘I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, or manage it to part

Throughout Romeo and Juliet we get an indication of what role fate plays. As a matter of fact, in the prologue we are told of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The Chorus says, “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”(Prologue, 5-6). In other words, the chorus is saying that two disadvantageous children of the enemy bloodline become lovers and take their own lives. As Friar Laurence said, both families have good and evil within them. Duality is even more understandable when love is thrown into the mix. The hatred that Romeo and Juliet are, supposedly, required to feel towards each other’s family is in contradiction to their rather all-consuming obsessive relationship. As Juliet grieves after learning Romeo’s name she so abruptly comments, “My only love sprung from my only hate!/Too early seen unknown, and known too late! / Prodigious birth of love it is to me,/That I must love a loathed enemy”(I, v, 138-141). In the hope that Romeo and Juliet can be together, she is willing to do anything to be with him. Immediately following, Juliet added, “Tis but thy name is my enemy./Thou art thyself, though not a Montague./O, be some other name!(II, ii, 38,39,42). She continues by saying, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name/ would smell as sweet./So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,/Retain that dear perfection which he owes/Without that title”(II, ii, 43-47). That is to say that Romeo’s

The futile feud that transformed into something completely tragic and something absolutely gut-wrenching. Little did they know that the irrational behaviour of Capulets and Montagues would escalate into something huge; them losing their children.

William Shakespeare once said, “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Romeo and Juliet were madly in love with each other. They could only tell a handful of people about their feelings for each other because their parents hated each other. Romeo and Juliet decided to get married, and everything went downhill from there. In the end, Romeo and Juliet committed suicide. Even though Romeo and Juliet took their own lives, their fathers and Friar Lawrence are ultimately responsible for their deaths.

In William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” he depicts extremely self-destructive tendencies as acts of love. Shakespeare seems to consider self-destructive behaviour as a necessary part of young love while in reality the two should be separated. Romeo and Juliet show blatant disregard for their wellbeing.

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, two teens from feuding families fall in love and get married, but can’t be together because Romeo got banished from their city after killing Juliet's cousin, while Juliet’s parents arrange for Juliet to get married to another man. With the help of Friar Lawrence, Juliet fakes her own death, leading Romeo to suicide because of his lack of knowledge of this plan, followed by Juliet’s suicide after seeing the late Romeo. It seems as though fate keeps two star-crossed lovers apart time and time after, but in reality, certain people the two star-crossed lovers’ lives were the ones to push Romeo and Juliet off the cliff and into tragedy. Lord Capulet is Juliet’s father and the enemy

In the play The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare, the author illustrates the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers whose love is forbidden due to the everlasting family feud between the Capulets and the Montagues, however, they are secretly wed by Friar Laurence. Romeo is then banished from the city, leaving Juliet, a soon to be wife of Paris, so in order for her not to get married again, the friar gives Juliet a poison that would put her into a death like coma. Unfortunately, Romeo was not given this information, so when he found her “dead” in the chamber, he committed suicide, leaving Juliet to wake up, only to find her lover dead, thus leading her to also commit suicide, which finally ends the Capulet and Montague

Everything you do has an outcome. Imagine the outcome of you killing someone. In the play Romeo and Juliet the death of someone switches the direction of the play completely. In Romeo and Juliet some deaths lead to consequences and some deaths lead to tears and horror. This is especially important because during that time the Montagues and Capulets were disagreeing with each other.

Romeo and Juliet fell in love with each other at a party even though they knew that they shouldn't love someone from the other family. “ What’s in a home? That which we call a rose. By any other world would smell as sweet,” (936). Juliet was saying that is his name just a name, or will he still be hated if Romeo had another name. She wants his name to be different because if it was they could be together without their families hating each other. Romeo showed how upset he was when he was banished from the town for killing juliet's cousin and he said he would rather be dead than not live in town. “ There is no world without Verona walls, but purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence banished is banished from the world, And the word exile is death. Without his town and his people Romeo didn't want to live anymore, and he ended up killing himself when he found out Juliet was dead. Juliet faking her death ended up killing both of them in the end, and that was there fault for drinking the poison. Overall Juliet faked her death to be with Romeo and that leads back to the parents feud separating

“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.

“My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy.” (1, 5 135) This quote is from Juliet in the famous Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare.

"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight / For I ne'er saw true