Dreams and Reality

Also they are both responsible for their own deaths because they didn't tell each other's parents about their marriage. If they had told them, then Juliet wouldn't have had to pretend to be dead. So neither one of them would have had to kill themselves.

In Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet two lovers are not meant to be together resulting in the tragic death of both Romeo and Juliet. The two lovers meet at a ball and fall in love at once, but they do not know until the end of the night that they are each from different feuding houses. They decide to marry in secret the next day. However, on that same day Romeo gets banished from Verona for killing Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, and Juliet is being forced to marry County Paris in the next three days. Friar Lawrence, give Juliet a sleeping potion that will make her appear dead for three day. But when Romeo arrives to see her dead, he kills himself leaving Juliet to wake up and seeing him

Romeo and Juliet’s hope is realized, with the two families coming together, though the price was high. After Romeo hears news of Juliet’s death, Romeo goes to her tomb late at night and kills himself with a poison obtained from the apothecary. Romeo says before entering the tomb, “Give me the light” referring to the torch his companion was holding

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – popularly considered by many to be the quintessential love story of all time – is a play that we are all familiar with in one way or another. Whether it be through the plethora of portrayals, adaptations and performances that exist or through your own reading of the play, chances are you have been acquainted with this tale of “tragic love” at some point in your life. Through this universal familiarity an odd occurrence can be noted, one of almost canonical reverence for the themes commonly believed to be central to the plot. The most widely believed theme of Romeo and Juliet is that of the ideal love unable to exist under the harsh social and political strains of this world. Out of this idea emerge two

their lives that caused their relationship to be disastrous. Without these influences in their lives,

Two days later one of her trusted friends who gave her the poison, came and woke her up. They way that Juliet showed that she showed “Dark and troubled times bring out a person’s true nature”, by she showed sacrifice she took the poison so she would have to marry Paris, she was deeply in love with Romeo and took extreme measures to make sure she could marry or be with her one and only love. Her actions really showed even through the dark and troubled times, of her parents forcing her to marry Paris, whom she did not want

Romeo and Juliet deceive others due to the poor guidance they receive about their situation. They resort to deceit as a resolution for their desperate situations. Friar Laurence performs their secret marriage as he believes that this alliance could ‘…Turn [their] household’s rancour to pure love’. Juliet is later forced to marry Paris and asks the Nurse for assistance. The Nurse replies that Juliet is ‘…better in this second match’. The Nurse helped Juliet to marry Romeo but as the situation becomes tricky, she betrays Juliet and encourages her to marry Paris; she provides poor guidance in doing so. This poor advice convinces Juliet to consider a plan involving a ‘desperate… execution’. This desperate execution is provided to Juliet by Friar Laurence who provides Juliet with a potion that puts her in a sleep like death. The Friar

Well, now you know Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t of been happy together if they have lived. Romeo was so quick to act in every situation, so he couldn’t really control his emotions. Both of them barely knew each other , and they only knew each

Romeo and Juliet explores the tragic outcome of ‘true love’. In Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters (Romeo and Juliet) die because of their love for each other. What happens in Romeo and Juliet is that Juliet is meant to marry Paris but she doesn’t want to so she drinks a poison that is meant to show all of the signs of death for a certain amount of time and then she would

In Act IV of Romeo and Juliet, things start looking up for Juliet as Friar Lawrence gives her a potion to fake her death so she will able to escape with Romeo. Hurrying to the Friar’s cell to seek help, Friar Laurence tells Juliet to plead for forgiveness and she would drink a poison that will fake her death for 42 hours. Leaving Friar’s cell Juliet hurries home to plead for forgiveness and that she will agree to Paris’ marriage. After being forgiven Juliet is starting to have doubts about the potion, but drinks it anyways. Going on at the same time, the Capulet family is preparing for the wedding in the morning. In the morning, the Nurse discovers Juliet’s “dead” body and everyone is confused and saddened at the sight of their child

The humankind throughout history has tried to learn and figure out the meaning of dreaming. The interpretations and true meanings of dreams has expanded and has varied over centuries and cultures. Many of the earlier studies were based on culture’s and the interpretation of dreams, but also used as a form of prophecy, inspiration, and guidance. Many people still believe this such, people today beliefs and theories have opened up to a more vast interpretation, they are made up of; dreams are rare brain activity, dreams allow people to reflect on themselves, or that dreams are too massive to be correctly interpret. Although, not a single theory has been proven to this day, science as of why dreams occur is still a mystery.

The play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, was a confusing romance story about two star-crossed lovers who kill themselves; because, they can not be together. The reason why these two star-crossed lovers is dead is because Friar John was not able to deliver the message in time, and could also be Bethlazars fault because he had rushed to tell Romeo that Juliet is dead. Friar John was to get the letter from Friar Lawrence to Romeo in Mantua. In the letter it had said that he had given Juliet a potion so she would seem like she was dead but actually was not dead. She would awake in 42 hours within drinking the potion, and keep her in his corridor until Romeo had came to get her. It would be Friar John’s fault that these two star-crossed lovers had died.

Romeo had killed himself first which led to Juliet killing herself but before Romeo killed himself he kissed

She allowed him to kiss her even though she was supposed to be focusing on Paris at the moment. When she found out that he was a Montague, she felt obligated to see him. Despite this, she pushed through the feeling and continued to see him. After they were married, Romeo was banished the same day. It wasn’t long before Juliet was confronted by her parents about not wanting to marry Paris. Since the nurse was no help, she decided to go to Friar Lawrence.He told her to take his special potion to make her seem dead and that she would wake up in 42 hours. Additionally, he would inform Romeo and confirmed the plan would work. She took the potion, but the news didn’t get to Romeo before Balthazar misinformed him of Juliet’s death. When Romeo killed himself, she woke up a few seconds after and found him dead. She stabbed herself with a dagger so she wouldn’t have to live without him. Juliet states, “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die”(5.3. 182-184). No matter what happened, Juliet is still responsible for her own actions. Even though the events pushed her into the emotional state she was in, it was her choice and she decided to take that

Literary geniuses claim that Romeo and Juliet were doomed from the start: even the prologue declares Romeo and Juliet as “star crossed lovers,” their fates written in the stars, in the hands of a greater power who paints the galaxies (Shakespeare 787). If you take the story’s introduction literally, you will find this statement as true. However, when you analyze this tale closer and examine the events that occurred, you will find that personal choice is what shapes destiny, and is what brought Romeo and Juliet to their tragic