The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Sometimes the way humans act can be beyond their control and can lead to a rash decision. In William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare illustrates that human error can lead to a unsuccessful outcome. In Verona, Italy, two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet fall deeply in love and decide to marry in secrecy. However, their decision to marry is not intelligent. Both Romeo and Juliet come from opposing households, who are enemies, the Capulets and the Montagues. Throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet believe they are meant to be with each other. In the end, Romeo and Juliet’s actions will lead them to a tragic misfortune.
In the play, multiple humans errors are made. One example is Romeo and Juliet deciding to get married. After Romeo and Juliet meet, Romeo is brought by the love of Juliet to the Capulet's house to ask to take her hand in marriage, "The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine"
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In the prologue, Shakespeare shows that the two protagonists will end up dead. In the first act, a illiterate servant stumbles across Romeo and Benvolio asking if they can read. They notice that Rosaline is on the guest list, so Benvolio convinces Romeo to go to the party because it will help him get over Rosaline. Author and publisher Erin Reynolds states that "there are simply too many coincidences and near misses for it to be convincingly argued that they were all the work of chance alone." Fate is what caused Romeo attended the party because if the servant had never run into Romeo and Benvolio, then Romeo would have never met Juliet.
In the entire play, human error is to blame for the tragedy. Shakespeare shows multiple examples to tell that human choices are in control. As the play opens up, fate plays a major role to Romeo and Juliet meeting. Yet, in the end, their choices are what end the lives between
Fate causes Romeo to be at the right place at the right time. If he does not walk near the Capulet’s house or if the servant is able to read, Romeo does not attend the party, thus he does not meet Juliet. After Romeo attends the party, fate strikes again as he stumbles into the Capulet’s orchard while trying to escape his friends. Juliet, after meeting Romeo mere hours before, emerges onto her balcony and, unaware that Romeo can hear her, proclaims her love for Romeo:
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet ends in tragedy, because of some of Romeo and Juliet’s faults. Romeo and Juliet obviously rush into things. They do not listen to the advice of Friar Lawrence and end up paying the ultimate price. They also ignore the obvious factors that prohibit Romeo and Juliet from ever being happy together. Romeo and Juliet are also very immature and are groomed for social disaster. Romeo and Juliet are also not in love, but in lust. The combination of impatience, immaturity, and ignoring other’s advice leads to the tragedy of these two “star-crossed lovers.”
Impulsiveness is defined as acting on instinct and not thinking something through. William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet is a play in which at a party, Romeo and Juliet fell in love, which was forbidden because both the Capulets and the Montagues have been fighting for many years. In order to elope, Juliet must pretend to be dead so she could be buried, and Romeo would come at night, and they would run away together; however, Romeo never receives the note with this information Juliet sent. Romeo finds Juliet dead, and drinks poison to kill himself. Juliet then proceeds to wake up to find Romeo dead and then she kills herself. Romeo’s tragic flaw is his impulsiveness which leads to his untimely death.
The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare has long been a topic of controversy regarding who is to blame for the death of the two protagonists. The two lovers themselves, Romeo and Juliet, each have their individual flaws which contribute to the drastic outcome of the story. Romeo is to blame because of his impulsive and arrogant personality. Juliet is to blame because of her excessive belief in fate, and willingness to succumb to her fate. The combination of the two brings misfortune and instigates their demise. The two lovers are to blame for their own deaths, as their individual flaws, when brought together, creates a chain of events that destroys their relationship.
“So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.” is what Sarah Jessica Parker once said. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, is about two people, Romeo and Juliet, who fall madly in love with each other, even though they are from feuding families. They constantly run into problems with their relationship and have to make very important decisions on how to fix them. Throughout the play, many of the characters make impulsive actions, in which their choices help shape the story, have an abundance of family pride and even have a lack of communication at times. Some events the characters can’t control, which causes many problems and they tend to be victims, which can result in death.
The characters themselves believe that there lives are controlled by fate and luck it was Romeo blames his misfortune down to the stars he was portrayed as a believer in fate rather than free will he had a feeling from the very beginning of the play that he and Juliet would never really end up together and that fate would get I the
Shakespeare’s concept of tragedy is one of which inescapable fate merges with character flaws and harrowing sorrow, which ultimately leads the protagonists’ to their untimely death. The well-known tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, is one of many that fulfils this definition. There is fate as well as character flaws and great sorrow in Romeo and Juliet. It displays these traits through its themes, personality flaws and foreshadowing.
In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers from feuding families fall in a foolish love. Many problems arise and the “star-crossed lovers” take their own lives in place for their love for one another. The two people most responsible for this tragedy are Friar Lawrence and Capulet. Fate plays a large role in the death of Romeo and Juliet seeing as if situations played out differently the play would have a different outcome.
Some believe that fate controls your life and what happens in it, others think that your decisions affect the outcome of your life. In the Shakespearian play “Romeo and Juliet”, two star crossed lovers from feuding families fall in love. Due to the actions they both take to pursue their love, they both end up dead along with other people. The deaths of Romeo and Juliet were not caused by fate but their own poor decisions.
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” (Prologue.5-6). In Romeo and Juliet, a play by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, children from families of similar social standing, fall in love with each other despite an ancient feud between their households. Due to unfortunate circumstances, the love between Romeo and Juliet ends in a tragedy. Youthful inexperience, fate, and adult interference were all factors in the two lovers’ untimely demise. Youthful inexperience was one of the most influential factors in the ends of Romeo and Juliet’s lives.
In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo, a member of the Montague family, and Juliet, a member of the Capulet family, fall madly in love and sacrifice their lives for each other. In the city of Verona, the Capulets and the Montagues have a long going feud between their families. Their parents forbid them from falling in love which caused them to do it in secrecy. Romeo and Juliet both chose their fate by the choices they made. The fatal tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was caused by their poor decisions.
There are many misfortunes that occur in Shakespeare’s piece, Romeo and Juliet. In this play, there are two families - the Montagues and Capulets. These two families have an ongoing feud, but trouble begins to surface when two teenagers under these households fall in love. These two characters (Romeo and Juliet) continue with their love in secrecy. Romeo is soon banished and Juliet finds herself in an arranged marriage.
Shakespeare wrote an incredible tragedy about the story of two young lovers. The story involves many characters that influence the outcome of the events. At the ending of the story, we may ask ourselves, “Who caused this all to happen?” When answering this question, there are many different characters who can be blamed. Friar Lawrence, Friar John, Romeo, Lord Capulet, the feud, Mercutio, Tybalt, and even the nurse could all be proved at fault in some way. The person most at fault, however, is Juliet. She made key mistakes that would affect the outcome of the story.
William Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet is filled with serious decisions. The two title “star-crossed lovers,” Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, not only decide to get married mere days after their first meeting, but also choose to carry out a ridiculous plan to avoid an unwanted marriage and eventually kill themselves (prologue). Although such subject matter is not often found in young adult novels, the impulsivity of this behavior is a mark of Romeo and Juliet’s teenage inexperience. Their immaturity ultimately results in drastic consequences— namely, their own deaths; however, their naiveté was not a hazard for the entirety of the play. The way it affects their decisions and relationships with others changes over time, different at the start of the book before they meet than at the end, when they both finally make the monumental decision to commit suicide. Before they first encounter each other, Romeo and Juliet’s immaturity is harmless, but after their first meeting and as their relationship develops, it begins to prove dangerous.
Romeo and Juliet’s immaturity when it comes to their relationship and their hasty decision making lead to their tragic deaths. The young couple was naive and foolish in thinking that they could marry one another without their parent’s knowledge or consent. This ignorance lead to their tragic downfall with its inevitable complications. For example, Capulet assumed that Juliet would marry Paris, but he was unaware that she was already married. This arrangement between Capulet and Paris lead to Juliet faking her death, which was a direct cause of the couple’s downfall. Another way Romeo and Juliet’s immaturity impacts the play is through their hasty decision making. Romeo and Juliet’s judgment is often clouded by their attraction for one another, which puts their true feelings for each other in question. Perhaps