Love And Popularity In Romeo And Juliet

When Romeo and Juliet are talking in the balcony scene, Romeo disowns his family’s name and says he will not go by that name anymore by saying “Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike.” This shows that how rash Romeo can get; with just a few seconds of thinking, he decides that he will switch names just to be with his enemy. This is important because he is disowning his family, who raised him and gave him everything he needed his entire life, just to be with a girl who he doesn’t know much about. “Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee, boy!” Romeo says directly before killing Paris outside the grave of Juliet. This is another impulsive decision by Romeo where instead of explaining his situation, hurts himself and Paris in the process. This is important because if he had explained the situation to Paris, someone else besides the Friar would know what happened and could explain to the policemen. Romeo’s thinking skills weren’t strong and affected his family and friends in the

Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. Love is naturally the play's dominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. In the course of the play, the young lovers are driven to defy their entire social world: families ("Deny thy father and refuse thy name," Juliet asks, "Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I'll no longer be a Capulet");

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, tells the tale of two young lovers whose lives end in great tragedy. What makes their story so tragic is that despite their love for one another, their families are mortal enemies. Conflict is a central ingredient in Romeo and Juliet's sad fate. Although their love for each other is strong, it cannot overcome the deluge of conflict that surrounds them. Ultimately they are defeated by the conflicts of person vs person, person vs self, and person vs society.

Moments before, Romeo thinks that he could never harm Tybalt, as he has married Juliet, Tybalt now his kin. Romeo states that he “love[s] [Tybalt] better than [Tybalt] canst devise” (3.1.70). But by the death of his dear friend, instead of his love for Tybalt, his heart now despises him. His anger is shown when “for Mercutio’s soul is but a little way above [their] heads,” as his hate is born towards Tybalt, whom he had just moments before loved, stating that “[his] name [he] tender as dearly” as his own (3.1.72-73,131-132). His hate turns murderous as he tells Tybalt that Mercutio is “staying for thine to keep him company” (3.1.133). As Romeo states that “thou or I, or both, must go with him” (3.1.134), the duel breaks out, leaving Tybalt slain, his kinsmen now his foe. The hate and revenge that Romeo felt caused love to turn to zeal for Tybalt's blood. His belief that he must not hurt his kinsmen but love him, the reminder that fights were not allowed by the prince, ended with the spilled blood of Mercutio. The death of his friend turned love to hate, the hate that killed

Romeo and Juliet, one of many Shakespeare tragedy plays, reveals that Shakespeare thinks love brings sorrow and grief. The play tells a story about “two star-crossed lovers” named Romeo and Juliet, who live in two different households that hate each other. Many problems arise with Romeo and Juliet loving each other, but being enemies in nature. The story is told by many characters, including Romeo and Juliet. Through this, Shakespeare uses dramatic irony, repetition of epithets, and pathos to show how love brings sorrow and grief.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragic love story. The story concerns the love between two young people, Romeo and Juliet. This is set against a feud between their two families: the Montagues and the Capulets. This feud develops the themes of conflict, deception and dignity in the play. The play includes a lot of themes, love, family, hate, deception and revenge.

William Shakespeare is widely known for all of his literary works; one of his most famous love tragedies being 'Romeo and Juliet'. A Shakespearean definition of tragedy exemplifies the sense that human beings are inevitably doomed through their own failures or errors, the ironic action of their virtues, or even through the nature of fate and destiny (Sayour, Susan, 2007). Romeo and Juliet is a tragic tale based on two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. Throughout the play, Shakespeare intentionally draws on text structures and language features in order to replicate the attitudes, values and beliefs of Elizabethan audiences and intertwine it into his

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice. This is the dominant theme in Shakespeare 's The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, a play is about two rival noble families from Verona, the Capulets and Montagues. Indeed, the two families have such an ongoing hatred for each other that they are constantly feuding violently without end. Having had enough, Prince Escalus, the Prince of Verona, one day decrees the penalty of death to be upon the person who disrupts the peace again. It is against this vicious backdrop that Shakespeare by contrast, accentuates love in Romeo and Juliet. Three different types of love are depicted: the infatuation of Romeo, the son and heir of Montague, with a woman named Rosaline; the arranged love between Juliet, the daughter of Capulet, and Paris, a kinsman of Prince Escalus, whom Juliet’s parents have chosen to be her suitor; and ultimately, the true love between Romeo and Juliet, whose families are each other’s worst and greatest enemies.

In this essay I will be looking at how Shakespeare presents love in Act 2 Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet from lines 18 through to 127. After reading the majority of act 2 scene 2 we are now able to understand and interpret Shakespeare’s language and language devices further. Act 2 Scene two is set in the shadow beneath Juliet’s bedroom window, with Romeo hiding in the darkness. Romeo listens on as Juliet speaks of her love for Romeo to what she thought was the darkness however as we as the audience know Romeo is able to hear everything she is saying. Once Romeo has revealed he is below Juliet in the garden the two begin to exchange expressions of devotion for one another, this is what we will be unravelling in this essay to understand and

Many themes are explored however the theme of love and death is far the most prominent throughout William Shakespeare’s best known play, Romeo and Juliet. The theme is explored through the language techniques Shakespeare used, for instance the oxymoron’s and motifs, and the characterisation, being the characters Paris and Capulet.

Love appears as a burden at first in Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet depicts two protagonists: Romeo and Juliet, respectively. Romeo is apart of the Montague family, an ancient household, and sworn rival to the enemy household of the Capulets. Perhaps the greatest conflict in the novel is that Juliet belongs to the Capulet family, but is deeply in love with Romeo from the opposing side, and vice versa. A common theme of Act 1 of the play is of love. Near the beginning of the book, Romeo is introduced as severely depressed due to him loving a girl named Rosaline, and her not loving him back. He goes on to scorn love and all the pain it brings to him to his cousin, Benvolio. Benvolio himself even recognizes the irony of the situation: “Alas that love, so gentle in his view, should be so rough and

The play, Romeo and Juliet, can be considered to be part of the romance genre because of the plot line of two teenagers falling in love, and the choices they make because of their desire to be with one another. The balcony scene, one of the most famous examples of the raw emotions between two lovers, shows the romantic perspective of Romeo and Juliet. When Romeo sneaks into the Capulet’s house to meet Juliet, she warns him that coming to see her puts him at great risk. Moreover, if her kinsmen find Romeo, they may even murder him. However, Romeo is so in love with Juliet that he declares to her, “And, but thou love me, let them find me here. My life were better ended by their hate than death proroguèd, wanting of thy love.” (Act II

The play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ written by William Shakespeare is a story about love and hate that teaches us about the consequences of extreme passion. Throughout the play Shakespeare has explored the themes of love, hate and loss. With these themes Shakespeare shows us how love, hate and loss can be so tragic. Love plays a major role in William Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ as it demonstrates to readers just how far someone will go just to be together with the one they love.

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, is a work of art that has been glorified and adored by millions of people over the years it has been published. The Literary devices that Shakespeare includes in the play makes this love story interesting. Metaphors make some of the actions that take place in the story comparable, and let the reader relate to the feelings and thoughts of the characters. Foreshadowing and dramatic irony give a peek into the future to see what is going to happen next. Shakespeare adds these literary devices to profoundly add significance to his writing.

However, their “love” leads them into new problems.Which resulted them into making rash decisions. They could’ve easily avoided these conflicts, by talking to their parents about their marriage, but that is not what they decided to do. Romeo and Juliet’s decisions are never well thought out at all, since all their decisions lead to suicide threats. In addition, both of them are very self-centered becuase, it never occured to them that if they died it could effect other peoples lives terribly. William Shakespeare is showing us, how their decisions will affect themselves in the future. He demonstrates that love should be taken slowly and peacefully. But in Romeo and Juliet’s case love is very fast and unpleasant. William Shakespeare states that, “ As if that name, shot from the deadly level of a gun, Did murder her, as that names cursed hand Murder'd her kinsman. 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” (A.3 s.3 l.102-108). Romeo is very upset in himself because he believes that Juliet is heartbroken, that he had just killed her cousin, Tybalt. Therefore, he threatened Friar Lawrence, suicide by drawing his dagger. This indicates how Shakespeare describes young love as misleading, because Romeo is very impulsive. He is not thinking this through with Friar Lawrence at all. Instead, he