Romeo And Juliet Act 2 Essay

Aristotle proposed what is believed to be the first definition of a true tragedy. Specifically, he states that a tragedy triggers great pity and fear caused by the main characters’ actions alone. Likewise, a true tragedy lacks coincidence and fate plays little in the overall play. William Shakespeare writes the play of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in which the audience knows the destiny of these two tragic heroes from the very beginning. Although this play is tragic knowing that the lives of two lovers are lost, it is not a tragedy as Romeo and Juliet are not solely responsible for their own deaths. Destiny is determined through the hands of greater forces than that of Romeo and Juliet, making this play merely tragic and not a true

William Shakespeare is one of the most famous play writers of all time. He has written a numerous amount of different famous plays. Some of his most famous plays are Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, The Tempest, Julius Caesar and a numerous amount of others but one of his most known plays is Romeo and Juliet. There is different versions of each play. There is the original version and then there is the modern version. Today we are going to talk about the similarities and differences of the original and modern version of Romeo and Juliet.

Act 3 Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet is set in the house of the Capulets. Juliet is anxiously awaiting night because Romeo is coming and will take her virginity. Juliet is nervous that her inexperience will be apparent to her new husband. Nurse enters the room with ladder for Romeo to climb the orchid wall later in the night. When Nurse arrives Juliet is able to sense that Nurse comes with bad news. Nurse is vague with her delivery of the news “he’s dead, he’s dead, he’s dead!”(pg 128) Juliet believes that Nurse is referring to Romeo, Juliet’s belief that Romeo is dead causes her great distress. Nurse later reveals that Tybalt is the dead man she is talking about “O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had!”(pg 128) Juliet briefly believes that

In a patriarchal society, women are expected to conform to social restrictions by demonstrating reverence and obedience to the males in their lives. Shakespeare's tragic play, Romeo and Juliet, explores the effects of patriarchal authority exerted over women and how the patriarchal structure left no escape from it, save death. Through Juliet, Lady Capulet, and the Nurse, Shakespeare establishes a common understanding of this type of society, but illuminates three different reactions to the social oppression by portraying the responses of a passionate lover, an idyllic housewife, and an attendant.

Free will has a greater influence on characters in Romeo and Juliet as indicated by the many instances in which Romeo and Juliet decided that they wished to end their own lives. One such instance was when Romeo speaks to Friar Lawrence after having killed Tybalt. He states,“...--O, tell me, friar, tell me,/ In what vile part of this anatomy/ Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack/ The hateful mansion.” (Shakespeare III.iii.114-117) As this quote helps to illustrate, the power of free will can be quite harmful if used with malintent. If Romeo had been left to his own devices he would have chosen to stab himself. His decision to “sack/ The hateful mansion.” (Shakespeare III.iii.116-117) would have been of his own choosing, but it

First of all, the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are a result of free-will because Romeo agreed to go to the Capulet’s party where he met Juliet. “I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown, But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.” (I.ii.107-108) In the beginning of the play after the Capulet’s servant invites Romeo and Benvolio by mistake, Romeo decided to attend the Capulet’s party to see Rosaline, even though he knew him being a Montague going to a Capulet’s party is a bad idea. It shows free-will that led to the death of Romeo and Juliet because if he had not chosen to attend the party he would not have met Juliet. “Is she a Capulet? O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt.” (I.v.131-132) After Romeo and Juliet finished their conversation while

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Act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet is set in a hall in Capulet’s house. The guests at the formal dinner just finished eating and the serving men are clearing the table. The serving men are preparing for the masked dance by clearing the stools, serving carts, and silverware. Capulet welcomes his guests to the dance and declares that the women must dance with the men and if the are shy, they will lie and say they can't. Capulet thrives for everything to be perfect and orders his servants to fix every flaw, “And quench the fire, the room is grow too hot,”(pg.56). Capulet and his cousin reminisce about the last time they went to a masquerade. They have a brief discussion about the last time they went to one.

Romeo and Juliet were teenagers when they fell in love, and their age may prove some motives behind the foolish decisions that were made. Since Romeo and Juliet’s brains were still developing as a teenager and forming some important parts critical to make smart decisions, it would essentially explain the poor quality of the teens behavior and why they struggled to make unsuitable resolutions for the both of them as a couple. They made such unsuitable decisions is because they are both too young and have yet to wait for the prefrontal cortex to develop in order to make the right decisions, not only for themselves, but the people surrounding them too. Unfortunately, the current development of the teenage brain can, however affect the decisions

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Romeo doesn't have free will. Romeo has not been able to choose who he marries, and Romeo has been told what to do for his whole life. He has never ever had free will. Free will is the whole reason why Romeo can't choose anything in his life. Juliet also doesn't have free will. Juliet has never been able to choose for herself either.

Free will is something everyone desires to have. Romeo and Juliet would do anything to be with each other including suicide. The result of Juliet faking her death was Romeo killing himself thinking he could not live without her. “ Here’s to my love! [Drinks]... Drugs are quick. Thus a kiss and die. [Falls]”.(Shakespeare 5.2.118-120) shows Romeo committing suicide out of love and free will to be with his love Juliet. He could not be separated from her.

On November 11, Theater Emory presented Romeo and Juliet and was directed by John Ammerman. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by Shakespeare where Romeo and Juliet falls in love that cannot work because they live in families that are hostile to each other. This play incorporated the dichotomy between love and hate and tragic consequences from uncontrolled emotions. These themes were presented through character’s expressivity of their emotions through dramatic sequences and the stage designs from light and movement.

The scene that was most different between the play and the movie of Romeo and Juliet was how the two crossed lovers first met each other. In the play Romeo and the Montague boys find out about the Capulet party through a poor peasant who could not read the invitations. While in the movie the Capulet party is announced through a newscast over T.V. I think the director changed this so the invite can go more along with the time period of the movie. This could change how the viewers see it by making the invite less secret. Over a newscast anyone who was paying attention to the T.V. could of heard the invite. Another main difference in this scene would be Romeo and Juliet first seeing each other in the bathroom across a fish tank rather than across the ballroom in the play. This could take away from the romantic side of the two first seeing each other. In the play it seems Romeo and Juliet have more privacy when they first speak to each other. In the movie the two are getting on and off an elevator just not to be seen. This could add more suspense to the scene and make the viewers see the movie from a lofty viewpoint.

The balcony scene in act two, scene two, also known as one of the most famous scenes in all of literature, Shakespeare shows us how Romeo is an “obsessive lover”, and expresses the love that both Romeo and Juliet feel towards each other. He shows us that Romeo is an obsessive lover since he was just mourning his love towards Rosaline, but he falls in love with Juliet with just one look at her. This passage has an important role in the play, because it is where the obstacles that they will both face begin, and will end in misery.