Juliet Vs Aristotle

The suicide committed by both Juliet and Romeo demonstrates their blinding love and how they would rather love each other or not live at all. For example Romeo says,”Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe. That unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean abhorrèd monster keep. Thee here in dark to be his paramour? For fear of that, I still will stay with thee.” Romeo says that we would rather die with Juliet than live without her. This is a very powerful moment in the play, because it resembles that love is a poison that can kill. In reality, it is very unlikely to be able declare your love for someone only after three days. Truthfully, I believe that Romeo and Juliet didn’t love each other but fell in the love with the idea of each other, making both of them make ignorant decisions. Romeo and Juliet die because their young foolish love possessed them to do rash unintelligent things. In addition, this is another scene that demonstrates love's

Most readers are aware of the many famous deaths or acts of death within the Shakespearean plays. And when the main characters die in Shakespeare’s plays, indeed, the readers would categorize the play as a tragedy. The problem with any tragedy definition is that most tragic plays do not define the tragedy conditions explained or outlined by Aristotle. According to Telford (1961), a tragedy is a literary

To start off, Romeo should not have even gone to the Capulet party in the first place, even if it was to spy on Rosaline. As soon as he saw Juliet, he completely forgot about Rosaline. This proves he knows as much about love as Juliet does. After the party he could have just left, but no. He decides to go spy on Juliet like a creep, then climbs her balcony so they can talk and kiss more. The next day he goes to Friar Lawrence and tells him that he is over Rosaline and now he is in love with Juliet. Romeo asks if he will help them. “ In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; ” said by Friar Lawrence ( DBQ : Project , 2013). Romeo then goes and duals Tybalt, and he dies. Romeo is then banished. When this happened, Romeo had already got married to Juliet. Later on, when Romeo finds Juliet, he thinks that she is dead. He could have just waited another minute and she would have woken up, but he went and killed himself. He was so quick he did not even think. After he did this, Juliet woke up and say he was dead so she killed herself because of Romeo’s death.

Juliet thinks emotionally, is a stupid teenager who knows nothing, but the dumbest thing she does that leads to hers and Romeo's death, is marry Romeo even though she actively knows that her parents Capulet and Lady Capulet are arranging her marriage for another man as seen here in (Act 1, Scene 3) “ Well, think of marriage now’ younger than you, here in Verona, ladies of esteem, are made already mothers; by the count, I was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid. Thus then in brief: The valiant Paris seeks you for his love. What say you? Can you love the gentleman?

Juliet's parents over protect her which drives her to madness. Juliet’s life is strongly controlled by her parents. After Juliet and Romeo’s death, Friar Laurence explains to the crowd that, “Oh, in this love, you love your child so ill.” The importance of this passage is shown throughout the story. The Capulet family is forcing their beloved daughter to marry Paris, whom Juliet is not interested in. This push from her parents made Juliet anger. Juliet would rather marry the “villain” Romeo. These star-crossed lovers are in a relationship that cannot be broken. Juliet poisons herself so she will not have

William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, not only sparks themes of love, violence, individuality, and fate, but also of youth and immaturity. As one of the most famous tales of young love to every exist, Romeo and Juliet adds a certain effect of self destruction that comes along with the passionate feelings that escalate between the two young lovers. Throughout the play, the two teenagers discover the power of their love, only to be brought to a great demise due to foolishness and rash decisions. These poor choices are caused by the character's’ immaturity and inability to fully think out their actions.

The play “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare, is a story of love and death between two members of warring families. Romeo Montague loves Juliet Capulet and knowingly marries her despite the consequences. These two people fall in love, knowing their families have been fighting for a long time, and many situations occur that results in the death of Romeo and Juliet. As a result of his impulsive and hasty actions, Romeo's death was purely his fault.

Shakespeare’s plays have endured over 400 years of significant history and have played an important role in this world’s culture. His play Romeo and Juliet (1597) is especially prolific because of the substantial use of dramatic techniques used to disclose the complexities of human nature. Shakespeare has shown these complexities through the incorporation of the dramatic techniques soliloquy, dramatic Irony, foreshadowing and conflict. These techniques emphasise the complexities of human nature through the characters Romeo, Juliet and Tybalt and identifies aspects of their personalities which, otherwise, would not have been so obvious in the absence of the dramatic techniques.

She was very young and didn’t understand the true meaning of love, she was also very dramatic. This is to be thought because When Juliet was asked to marry Paris she told her father that she was too young to get married, but as soon as she meets Romeo she “fell in love with him” in all honesty that was her not knowing what love truly was because you can't just meet someone and fall in love with them without even truly knowing who they are. Another way that her youth and immaturity played a role in both their deaths was how, as soon as she heard that Romeo has been banished she tried to kill herself because she didn't want to live without him. That clearly was her immaturity speaking. However this next quote from the story is very convincing.” Whash they his wounds with tears. Mine shall be spent, when theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment. Take up these cords. Poor ropes, you are beguiled both you and I, Romeo is exile. He made you for a highway to my bed. But I, die maiden widowed. Come cords come nurse. I'll to my wedding bed and death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead” (3.2.130-137). In this quote, Juliet wants to die over a guy that she just meet and got married to. If that isn't convincing enough then who know what would be. However, Romeo and Juliet are not the only people that you can blame for this true

Romeo and Juliet Argument Essay Tim O’Reilly has said, “I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.” This is a very ideal statement, but this mindset does not help people to realize that all decisions have consequences. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo has caused the most tragedy because he was infatuated with Juliet, he never took the time to think about how his decisions can impact others, and every death was caused by Romeo’s poorly planned actions. Shakespeare has portrayed the reality of how lust and infatuation take away the ability to think rationally, thus causing calamity. Romeo’s infatuation with Juliet was not only unhealthy, but it led the

Romeo frequently displays how vulnerable he is to any form of issue before he even attends the Capulet party and meets Juliet. As for Romeo’s lovesickness, Dr. Stanton Peele notices that “Shakespeare begins the play with a long development of Romeo's withdrawal from his previous affair with Rosaline-he is so disconsolate he is already threatening suicide- well before he meets Juliet!” (Peele 2009). Considering that his only issue with Rosaline is that she does not love him - suicide is a major overreaction to this . Unrequited love, while painful to those who experience it, is in no way a reason for suicide. Even so, it requires Benvolio’s persuasion to keep Romeo from killing himself over something as insignificant as an unrequited crush. When he does meet Juliet later at the play, he goes from one extreme to the next, which Dr. Stanton Peele explains by saying “Note that Romeo goes instantaneously from pathological lovesickness to total infatuation” (Peele 2008). From one glimpse, his love consumes all of his thoughts and actions. He then proceeds to drag her down with him into his insanity-disguised as true love. Chaos unfolds as what they think is love at first sight spirals into an endless cacophony of fighting and death. Later through the play, the two lovers continue speaking of suicide-all in the name of

They omit the fact that “teen[s] think with a semi-matured mind” (par. 6), and expect their constant obedience. This causes problems in the bond between parent and child, for it appears to the child that their parent is simply old fashioned and uncaring. It inclines teenagers to impulsive decision making, which can lead to regretful choices. When Romeo finally came to terms with his love for Juliet, he asks for his “love’s faithful vow” (II.ii. 134) the very same day. This proposal was a hopeful attempt at solving the issue of their unaccepted love for each other. However, acting so quickly caused hardship between the couple and their feuding families. The teenage years are explorative and a “time of great change” (para. 7), but with increased pressure, teenagers cannot fathom proper growth and become overwhelmed with stress. Juliet notions a “long to die” (IV.i 67) rather than fighting against her parents in the argument of her marriage. This is another act of desperation, and could have easily been avoided through proper communication and positive feedback. Lord Capulet’s rampage of insults damaged Juliet’s already frail relationship between them, and resulted in her becoming suicidal. Our guardians must first find out what we portray as a healthy pathway, before they fill our minds with their own

Aristotle is known widely for developing his ideas on tragedy. He recorded these ideas in his Poetics in which he comments on the plot, purpose, and effect that a true tragedy must have. The structure of these tragedies has been an example for many writers including Shakespeare himself. Many of Shakespeare’s plays follow Aristotelian ideas of tragedy, for instance Macbeth does a decent job in shadowing Aristotle’s model.

Hamartia is “A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine” (Oxforddictionaries.com). Hamlet’s fatal flaw is his unsteady manner to the problems he faces. He has an insignificant capacity of being decisive about situations he has fallen into, in other words, he misses the chances that he should have been taken in order to follow the storyline. For example, in act 3, scene 2 Hamlet holds himself back and wants to have a proof of that Claudius murdered his father even though he received a clear message from the ghost of his king father which he has three other witnesses’ approval of ghost’s existence. Another fact that determines Hamlet’s fatal flaw is shown in the scene where Hamlet has full access to end Claudius’s life by

Shakespeare along with Aeschylus and T. S. Eliot use character from each of their respectable work including Hamlet, Agamemnon and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock to demonstrate one must responsibly be able to decide and take action in desperate times in order to prevent tragedy or greater loss. Through the text of these three prominent literacy works from the ancient history to the 1900’s, one element that is evident in all three literature works is hamartia, which is directly related to the protagonist making a tragic error that eventually leads to the final cataclysm. To get a deeper insight of how hamartia plays a big role in these works, the audience has to get a better understanding of the main character/protagonist of each play and get familiar with their personality traits along with how they act in desperate times in order to prevent tragedy, or be the cause of it. Prince Hamlet in “Hamlet”, Agamemnon from Aescylus’ work along with Prufrock from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock are seen as victims of their personality flaws through the text presented as eventually the outcome is seen as a tragic end for these characters due to their fatal errors.