Identity In Romeo And Juliet

Montague's son Romeo in the book Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare in the 1500’s, supports the audience with many of his strengths and weaknesses. In this story, two well-known families of Verona, the Montagues, and Capulets are in a feud against each other; however, the son of the Montague family, Romeo, and the daughter of the Capulet family, Juliet fall in love at first sight at a Capulet party. Even though Romeo is a Montague, his personality and his calm behavior persuades Capulet to let him stay at the party. After he meets Juliet, Romeo asks the friar to marry them both; even though, the friar was concerned about Romeo because of his instantly changed and unthought decisions he lets them marry each other secretly. Romeo’s commendable behavior proves a strength and his uncontrollable emotions show his weakness.

When Juliet finds out that Tybalt has been killed and Romeo is in exile, for killing Tybalt, Juliet feels both passionate about Romeo and disappointed in both Romeo and herself, which reveal her inner struggle. In Act 3, Juliet’s Nurse comes back with this news that Tybalt is dead and that Romeo is such an awful person for killing him. Juliet fights back at the Nurse, and herself, for speaking bad about Romeo. She claims, ““Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, When I, thy three hours' wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband.” (3.2.99-101). This shows that Juliet is passionate about Romeo, because first of all, she says that she was wrong to say bad things about her husband.

In this essay, I will be examining Shakespeare’s treatment of relationships in Romeo and Juliet. As a poet and playwright, he wrote 154 sonnets, 2 long narrative poems and 38 plays, one of his most famous plays being Romeo and Juliet. There are many different types of relationships between characters, and these are essential to the play. The prologue tells us that the play is about two star-crossed lovers from two feuding families, the Montagues and Capulets. There is hatred between these two families, this explains this, ‘Thou villain Capulet’. This quote suggests because of the hate between their families, the lovers are doomed from the start.

William Shakespeare is the world’s pre-eminent dramatist whose plays range from tragedies to tragic comedies, etc. His general style of writing is often comparable to several of his contemporaries, like Romeo and Juliet is based on Arthur Brooke’s narrative poem, “The tragical history of Romeo and Juliet”. But Shakespeare’s works express a different range of human experience where his characters command the sympathy of audiences and also are complex as well as human in nature. Shakespeare makes the protagonist’s character development central to the plot.

People come and go in our lives. Whether by grief, by joy, by love, people bring revelation in our lives, a lesson for us to remember. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, tells of two young lovers who meet, fated in love, only to realize that by their family names they are enemies. Determined to be together, their bittersweet story goes on, as characters lose loved ones, meet, and come together, causing them to learn lessons, to change beliefs, for better or for worse. These things all go to show how the addition or removal of people in an individual's life teaches them lessons that they would otherwise not learn.

Friar is introduced shortly before Romeo enters St. Peter’s Church at dawn, and as soon as Friar and Romeo begin speaking it is revealed that Romeo trusts Friar a great deal. Romeo reveals that his “…heart’s dear love is set, on the fair daughter of rich Capulet. (2.3.61)” to Friar. This quote which is the first time a person outside of Romeo and Juliet hears of their love, is an iconic moment and is important to the play because it is crucial to the creation of the marriage plans. While the Capulet and Montague feud would deter many others and would cause fear, Romeo does not fear any retaliation because he trusts Friar as a person and as a priest to not reveal any information that could cause arduous consequences for Romeo and Juliet. The trust that is put in to Friar by Romeo is crucial to the entirety of the play, because it represents calamity and consistency that monitors the behavior and actions of the protagonists Romeo and Juliet. Friar is the fatherly and trusted character throughout the play and uses this power to try and wield it for positive influence on Romeo and

“Juliet, however, is resolute in her decision to die rather than enter into a false marriage: "If all else fail, myself have power to die"(Shakespeare). This quote shows how young relationships are more powerful than elders. Romeo and Juliet show how strong young relationships really are. They ended many feuds and problems in their life because they don’t have to worry about anything. When you are young, you don’t have bills to pay, a family to take care of, and most of the time no job. Romeo and Juliet has nothing to worry about because they are young and free. This means their life is easy and stress free, and elder relationships struggle sometimes because they go in debt, care about themselves more than the other person, and they get tired of eachother. Friar Lawrence

In the play entitled Romeo and Juliet, two people named Romeo and Juliet fall in love with one another. They are obsessed with one another that they feel as if they should be together all the time regardless of the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues. Being obsessed with one another is a type of romantic crush, not an identity crush which is explained in the article Adolescence and the Teenage Crush. Not only does Shakespeare use romantic crushes in the play, but he also uses identity crushes in the play to show what may happen if parents do not pay close attention to their teens’ relationships.

Even though Friar Laurence was aware of Romeo’s prior love for Rosaline, he quickly accepts Romeo’s newfound love for Juliet. Instead of continuing to urge Romeo to slow down, he soon forgets his initial opinion and gut feeling and encourages Romeo's unrealistic ideals even more. He also gives Romeo a false sense of hope that by being with Juliet they can end their family’s feud. Friar Laurence later tells Juliet, “Come, come with me, and we will make short work...till holy church incorporate two in one” (2.6.177). Friar Laurence personifies the church, or marriage, stating that it will make them one, continuing to mislead them into believing that their relationship can overcome their family’s dispute. After Romeo is banished for murdering Tybalt, Friar Laurence tells him, “Go; get thee to thy love as was decreed… but look thou stay not till the watch be set, for then thou canst not pass to Mantua, were thou shalt live, till we can find a time to blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, beg pardon of the Prince, and call them back with twenty hundred thousand times more joy than thou went’st forth in

Juliet is not unlike the typical young women constantly struggling to find happiness and acceptance from those who are closest to her. Young Juliet must confront the harsh reality that exists between her and those who profess to be her friends and family, which is they failed to support her, love her, and lift her up with she needed it most. In the timeless book, “Romeo & Juliet” William Shakespeare writes a moving story about the betrayal, disappointment, love, and eventual death of Romeo and Juliet. No reader can truly appreciate and understand the level of Juliet’s struggles without first understanding the roles the Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence and Romeo, their betrayal and their role in her faithful decision.

William Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet,” takes place in Verona- a city in Italy which is governed by a prince. There is also a Friar named Laurence, who is a religious figure that citizens go to for advice and to be married. In the City lives the Capulets and the Montagues who have been disputing for generations. Both families have children and one child from each family are the protagonists- Romeo is a member of the Montagues and Juliet is a member of the Capulets. Romeo and Juliet will end up falling for each other. However, they end up dying young because Friar Laurence married them in private, he gave Juliet a potion which knocked her out which lead to her and Romeo’s suicides, and he trusted Friar John to deliver the letter and

When Romeo and Juliet have problems they cannot discuss with their own father they would go to Friar Laurence to speak with him as if he is their own father. Romeo would ask Friar to marry him and Juliet, but Friar did not like the idea of Romeo being with Juliet because before all of this Romeo would talk only about

Friar Laurence is a priest in the city of Verona and a father figure to Romeo and Juliet in the play. Friar Laurence's rebellious actions show his many characterizations. Friar Laurence states, “These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume”(2.6-9-15). In this scene he is marrying Romeo and Juliet. While Friar Laurence knows what he is doing wrong, he continues; highlighting the contrast between his actions and the actions of moral priest. Friar declared, “Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay”(5.3-159). After the tragic death of Romeo, Juliet wakes to see him dead.

Friar Laurence had the greatest influence on Romeo and Juliet. The day after they met, the Friar married the couple, without parental consent. In this time period, parental consent was expected; the groom must ask the bride’s father’s permission. The Friar hopes to end the feud between the Capulets and Montagues by ignoring this rule and marrying the couple anyway. His plan of marriage fails at ending the feud and forces the Friar to devise more sneaky plans to hide his mistake. The issue is further complicated when Juliet is to be married to Paris promptly. The Friar’s very complex plan ensured that Juliet could not be married to Paris and that she could be together with Romeo. Juliet is the take a sleeping potion that makes her appear dead for fourty-two house/ The most important part of the plan is that Romeo, who is in Mantua, be informed to go to the tomb as Juliet wakes up. Friar Laurence doesn’t contact Romeo himself, so therefore the plan didn’t work. The Friar always intended to end the feud, but everything he did created a larger problem. The Friar’s good intentions lead to tragic results. Fate plays a major role because no matter how hard the Friar tried to make things better, they were destined to end poorly. At the end of the play the Friar realizes that the tragedy appears to be his fault, “I am the greatest, able to do the least, / Yet most suspected, as the time and place” (Rom. 5.3.223-224).

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the central and most important line which contributes to understanding the play is “Deny thy father and refuse thy name” (Shakespeare II, ii, 34), because of how it shows the clear conflict of the two families, the impact this has on the levels of loyalty between Romeo and Juliet, and finally the greater outcome which this has on both families in the end regarding the ‘turning of backs’. Primarily, this quote demonstrates the clear conflict between the families, and also how this is the main reason that Romeo and Juliet may not be together. This line demonstrates that Romeo and Juliet’s love already comes from a rough place in life, and that it can only proceed to grow when both Romeo and