Juliet’s Additional Suffering in Romeo and Juliet At times, love can only be obtained through pain and grief. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the ending shows the extent of sacrificing and coping with agony to be joined in love. Although both lovers suffer during this tragedy, it is without a doubt that Juliet suffers more than Romeo. First, she cannot see Romeo as much as she pleases as she is often confined in her tower throughout the day. Juliet is also trapped into a marriage with Paris as her father claims he will disown her if she does not follow through. And perhaps the biggest piece of evidence showing Juliet’s further anguish is when Juliet wakes up from her deep slumber, she is the one who has to see her beloved truly dead. She gives herself a more painful death as well by stabbing herself. …show more content…
Because of their family feud, Romeo and Juliet are unable to meet each as often as they would like, but Juliet is more unfortunate because of her gender and the social norms of the period. The chorus reinforces this, stating, “Being held a foe, he may not have access // To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear. // And she as much in love, her means much less // To meet her new belovèd anywhere.” (II.Prologue.9-12). Because she is confined in a tower much of the day, she, not Romeo, is worse off when the prince banishes Romeo from Verona. At least Romeo can still sneak into the city to see Juliet. On the contrary, Juliet cannot even get out of the house except for religious
In the play, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare, the author tells of a deplorable tale between two lovers, separated by their families dispute. Due to the absence of support and the absinthal rivalry between their parents, Romeo and Juliet perish. Romeo and Juliet bear together by their parent’s similar lack of support and communication as well as personal egoism and overall narcissistic behavior which ultimately lead to taking their own life.
As the sky continues mourning, tears are running down her face. She caresses her beloved's face and stabs her heart with a dagger, for she would rather die than be alive without the love of her life. Every human being goes through heartbreak and the joyus wonders of ‘true love.’ Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, is the perfect embodiment of both unrequited and romantic love. Paris trying to get the affection of Juliet and Romeo being so in love with Juliet are types of love that are very different but in a way alike.
In the play, “Romeo and Juliet,” it discusses two people falling in love from feuding families. Most people believe love stories end happy, but three people are to blame for Juliet’s suicide. Her Nurse, Friar Laurence, and her love Romeo impacted her life the most. Juliet’s Nurse impacted Juliet’s life by betraying Juliet by telling her to marry Paris. After she gave Juliet the news she’d be wed they were both happy.
Deep in the mind of famous play writer William Shakespeare lies, the brilliant story of Romeo and Juliet, the story that not only captivates and thrills reader’s minds but offers insight to how a flawed relationship can end in a tragedy. Unfortunately, due to sin, all relationships including that of Romeo and Juliet’s have their ups and downs. Today the most commonly known flawed relationship is the relationship between a teenager and parent. Perhaps this is because of opposing ideas or lack of communication but never the less the true weakness will always fall back to sin. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet offers exceptional examples of relational hardships which include rebellion, communication, and parental love, issues all modern teen
The Shakespearean tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” represents the idea that love incurs a price through a range of dramatic techniques. In this play, it becomes very clear that intense and sudden passionate love brings hurt and pain to the lovers involved, as well as their family and friends.
In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows sympathy for Juliet by using language and various poetic and literary devices to portray her as a pitiable child, with unloving, manipulative parents, who finds her one true love only to lose it forever soon after.
Shakespeare manifests the final scene of Romeo and Juliet to illustrate how love triumphs over the terror of death and depicts how the Capulet and Montague parents’ mutual love for their children dismisses the ancient feud. The protagonists, Romeo and Juliet’s preference of being killed rather than “death be prorogued, wanting thy love” (Page 91; Act 2, Scene 2), indicates they would rather die than death be delayed without the fulfilment of each other’s love. Romeo commits suicide as he is unaware that Juliet’s death is fiction, which results in Juliet finding his corpse when she awakens and stabs herself as they both do not wish to live with the absence of each other’s love. Again, Shakespeare portrays that love conquers the most feared prospect of life:
From one experience in life true happiness of love cannot be examined. Only through experiencing all the opportunity that is possible, can help to distinguish what is really purposeful to individuals. Parallel to Romeo, Juliet also had a fixed mind of how she was not ready for a marriage. “no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength” Juliet does not want an arranged love she wishes the pure and destined love. Juliet only recognizes the purity and innocent side of love but it also has the pain and the hardship that often experienced as love is developed. With experiencing the pain of love, the different perspectives of love can be identified which leads to building a deeper understanding of love. “birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy” through meeting Romeo, Juliet recognizes the pain that she can experience from love and unfairness and sacrifices that love requires in order to maintain. Even though unfairness and challenges are faced, through those pain, true love and true happiness can be identified throughout life. Courage and patience will be required to be grown to teenagers to endure the pain for happiness.
‘Romeo and Juliet’: the most ill-fated tragedy of all time; a tale of the unadulterated strength of Romeo and Juliet’s love, pure and young, with power enough to conquer the hatred of generations even through the veil of death. But, were they really in love? Throughout, Romeo and Juliet’s three day ‘love’ affair, they experience a surfeit of emotions: anger, lust, fear, lust, confusion, lust, excitement, lust, sadness … more lust and a deep, overwhelming infatuation with each other, but never love. Romeo’s womanising nature and his capricious mind allow him to admire Juliet only for her aesthetic beauty to the point where he will do anything for lust for her. While Juliet’s child-like naivety beguiles
The rivalry between the two families has caused the love between the protagonists forbidden. When Juliet learns about her father’s willingness to put her into an arranged marriage, she screams out, “if all else fail, myself have power to die” (Act 3 Scene 5). This line can be translated into, “if all my plans fail, I still have the power to kill myself”. For a naïve girl who stands on the border of maturity and immaturity, this line expresses Juliet’s sorrow and grief. Likewise, it has also expresses how desperately Juliet wants to be with Romeo. The prince has concluded the final scene with, “for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo”. This line means that there is no other story as tragic as ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The blind love between this pair of lovers causes many deaths and violence in the play, including the double suicide of the couple. It is clear that his inevitable sorrow has overwhelmed many past and modern audience. There is no doubt that ‘Romeo and Juliet’ fulfils the description of great sorrow as an element of a Shakespearean
As the plot of Romeo and Juliet develops, it's clear that the tension between the families will only escalate further because the familes are unable to reconcile. The play is set in a patriarchal society where men want to preserve their family's honour through pride. They are ony capable of conforming to the attitudes of the time. This example is show in Act 3, Scene 1 on page 71 where Mercutio taunts Tybalt, "Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?" This is an exmaple of why Romeo's own haughty pride leads him to revenge in Mercutio's death. If Rome had fed the scene and Tybalt's abscence, many lives would have been saved. This is also shown similar in the confrontation between Juliet and her father, "You disobedient wretch! Get me a Thursday
Romeo traveled to Juliet’s home “with love’s light wings” (2.2.66) and continues to say that no walls can “hold love out” (2.2.68). He acts as if love was a map, and lead him to Juliet. Romeo is so filled with love and passion for Juliet, he believes that love gave him the ability to climb over those walls to her. This passion has clouded his mind and made him think this way. Soon after, he explains how he “would adventure for such merchandise” (2.2.84) like Juliet. He yet again mentions love’s ability to take him places, because of the passion he has for Juliet and her love. This love has made him believe in these mindless theories, as a result of passion seizing their common sense. Juliet is hesitant about this love, because she considers it “too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, [and] too like the lightning” (2.2.118-119). Even though she thinks this, they still get married later on in the play. This has implications of passion overthrowing all opinions because despite Juliet’s warning, Romeo was so blinded by passion that he ignored Juliet. Not only did he ignore Juliet’s warning, he convinced Juliet to ignore it as well. This scene on Juliet’s balcony shows how powerful passion can truly be, especially when love is
Juliet's struggles don’t end there the next conflict is internally, Juliet sees no way of not marrying Paris and sees no way to be with Romeo the one she loves. So she goes to Friar Lawrence for advice “Do thou but call my resolution wise and with this knife I’ll help it presently” (IV.1.53-54). The conflict is weather to be without Romeo or not, and instead of trying to resolve this by telling everyone she and Romeo are married she says she will end her life. Friar Laurence gives her a chance to be with Romeo, by faking her death she will go to live with Romeo in secret. Juliet decides to do this making her conflict go away by doging it and not resolving it at its core and stop all the lies they have created. Juliet’s decision leads her to wonder if she can trust anyone anymore. Her conflict is internally now she is doubting herself and others without much evidence. “What if it be a poison which the friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead” (IV.3.24-25). Juliet doesn’t overcome this conflict, she doesn't trust her closest family and friends and yet she goes through with this plan only
1. Find an example of the theme of “fate”. “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes. A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”. When translated it says: “Two unlucky children of these enemy families become lovers and commit suicide”.
Is pain important to love? People say pain is what ends love but pain is a needed feeling for love. Love is not love without pain; showed in “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare and “Pyramus and Thisbe.” “Romeo and Juliet” is a good example or reason why pain is needed for love. The line “Come, bitter conduct; come, unsavory guide!”(116) is what Romeo said after he say Juliet laying on a bed in the Capulet's tomb.