Narrative Essay: The Tragedy Of Romeo And Juliet

Reckless actions lead to untimely deaths. In Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”, both protagonists fight for their hopeless love. Bloodshed and chaos appear inevitable in fair Verona; Romeo and Juliet come from enemy households, the Montegues and the Capulets, who have sworn to defeat one another. The young and handsome Romeo weeps over his unrequited love for Rosaline, until he lays his eyes on Juliet. Strong and independent, Juliet seeks to escape her family’s will to marry her off to Paris, a kinsman of the Prince. Fate ties these adolescents’ lives together binding them to witness the ill-fortunes of Romeo and Juliet’s love. Romeo and Juliet prove themselves woefully impulsive through their words and actions, which ultimately

As Juliet awaits for Romeo to arrive, the Nurse rushes into her room and tells her the awful news about her cousin’s death. “This is that banished haughty Montague. That murder'd my love’s cousin-- with which grief...Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee. Obey, and go with me; for thou must die (5.3.49-57)”. With these harsh works, Juliet expresses her sadness for the death of Tybalt, but in reality she is heartbroken by Romeo’s banishment from the town of Verona.

    The play Romeo and Juliet  is a romantic tragedy written by William Shakespeare about two star-crossed lovers from feuding families who die at the end of the story. Romeo and Juliet meet at Capulet party and instantly fall in love. With the help of the local friar, Friar Lawrence, and Juliet’s nurse, they get married after knowing each other only a day, without their parents’ consent. Shortly after the marriage, Romeo is banished for fighting and killing Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, forcing him to leave their city of Verona. At the same time, Juliet's father, Lord Capulet, tells her she has to marry Paris, a cousin to the Prince, or else he will kick her out of their home. Friar Lawrence comes up with a plan in which Juliet will take a sleeping potion which makes her look dead for 42 hours and then Romeo will come to Verona to get her and take her away with him to a city a day's ride away. Romeo does not receive the message that Juliet really isn't dead and believes her death to be true. He gets poison from a poor apothecary and dies beside Juliet in the Capulet tomb. Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead beside her, along with Friar Lawrence who came to try and stop Romeo. Juliet refuses to leave and kills herself to be with him. After their deaths, the Prince declares that, “Some shall be pardoned, and some punished” (Shakespeare ???).  The characters in the play that should be pardoned are Friar Lawrence, Lord Montague, and the Nurse.

Juliet’s father forces Juliet to marry Paris, and if she does not he threatens to leave her to ‘hang, beg, starve, die in the streets’. This arranged marriage with one she does not love compels Juliet to find an urgent resolution, and this resolution contributes to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The families’ feud contributes to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, as they know that their relationship must remain unknown. The feud leads to delusion and deceit, and their eventual death. Ultimately, the feud between the families makes their deception necessary and inevitable; but this deception leads to their untimely deaths.

Some may think that Romeo and Juliet died because their family’s rivalry doomed their relationship from the start. Although true, this is not the main cause of their death. Romeo and Juliet were more apt to die as tragic heroes because of the type of lovers they were. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a play that takes place in Verona. The star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, take their own lives because many obstacles do not allow them to be together. Romeo and Juliet died as tragic heroes because they were manic and erotic lovers.

Romeo and Juliet explores the tragic outcome of ‘true love’. In Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters (Romeo and Juliet) die because of their love for each other. What happens in Romeo and Juliet is that Juliet is meant to marry Paris but she doesn’t want to so she drinks a poison that is meant to show all of the signs of death for a certain amount of time and then she would

In the story Romeo and Juliet, there was a lot of death for example Tybalt, Paris, Lady Montague, Romeo and Juliet all died. In this story it starts off by you finding out that the families do not like each other, you could say they even hate each other, as the story goes along eventually Romeo and Juliet and on act 1 scene 5 meet for the first time. After that in the final act Romeo who thinks Juliet is dead so on page 272 line 120 he kills Paris and himself,

While leading up to the climax, the story gets increasingly ironic and tragic. Juliet is seen as dead, although Shakespeare has shown us earlier that she will reawake in two days, this particular piece of dramatic irony leads to the rest. Romeo, unaware of this plan due to a bit of cosmic irony, rides back to Verona, after hearing news of Juliet?s ?death.? When he gets there, confronted by Paris who believes he is trying to do some evil from hate, not there for love, he is forced to kill Paris who we realize has true unrequited love for Juliet. And in the end Romeo believing that Juliet is truly dead gives a ?kiss of death? and drinks the poison, believing he will finally be able to meet with Juliet in peace. In these last two acts a combination of dramatic and cosmic irony lead to the loss of Juliet?s, Romeo?s, and Paris?s life. The Irony also portrays the obliviousness and rashness of Romeo, he gets there and finds that Juliet looks and feels alive and warm after being ?dead? for nearly two days, yet

Juliet wakes up finding Romeo dead, then she starts talking about how bad Romeo’s death was. She was spiraling in the emotional roller coaster going down to suicide. While this is happening, the Friar walks in and hears the authorities coming. He says “Come, I'll dispose of thee Among a sisterhood of holy nuns: Stay not to question, for the watch is coming; Come, go, good Juliet,”. Juliet would not go, because she was wanting now to die with her love. Since she was not coming, Friar Lawrence says “I dare no longer stay.” Really quick after the Friar leaves, she commits suicide. Friar Lawrence left the scene, because he did not want to get in trouble with killing Romeo. He wanted to run from the crime, and hide the witness in crime, Juliet, by bringing her to the nuns. SInce Juliet was not coming in time, he runs with the intention of getting away with his crime of killing Romeo. As the Friar runs away, his crime only becomes bigger when Juliet kills herself. The Friar is guilty now with not two, but now three

The death of his newly wed wife makes Romeo commit a rash decision. Which begins when Balthasar rushes to him saying, “Her body sleeps in Capels' monument, / And her immortal part with angels lives. / I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault” (Shakespeare 5.1.18-20). The loss his best friend and the news of his wife’s death resorts Romeo to ending his life. He does not take a few minutes to grief. Instead, the impact that the news has on him takes control and ruins his thought of the kind of life he expects to have with Juliet. Romeo’s hastiness appears once again when he decides to end his life to be with his only love. When he believes that Juliet is dead, Romeo says, “Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! /...Here’s to my love!” (Shakespeare 5.3.116-119). This proves that Romeo acts without thinking. He does not think to counsel with the Friar and try to understand what is going on. He immediately jumps to conclusion by poisoning himself to be with Juliet. As a result of Romeo’s imprudent decision, Juliet makes a reckless decision of her own. When she finds the dagger, she says: “O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath; (Stabs herself )/ there rust, and let me die (Shakespeare 5.3.161-167/169-170). Juliet is stunned when she finds Romeo lying dead beside her. She immediately stabs herself without thinking, not wanting frighten everyone if she is found alive. This is another time that

Throughout the story, the couple would act before thinking which caused them to hurt innocent people in their life such as each other’s families. Towards the end of the story when Romeo was banished from Verona, he heard from Balthasar that Juliet had died. Instead of confirming her death, he buys a poison from an apothecary to commit suicide. In the tomb he notices how Juliet still looks alive, but decides to drink the poison anyway, which killed him immediately. When Juliet wakes up and sees him dead, she says, “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O, happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die.” (Shakespeare, 5.3.175). She then impulsively kills

Romeo now banished for killing Tybalt, and Juliet being forced to marry Paris causes her to take action and ask help from the friar. Juliet seeking help from the friar shows how desperate her situation has become, yet she has no announce that Romeo is her husband. Even though Juliet is very desperate, she continues to keep her marriage a secret which forces her to make compromises to be with Romeo. Juliet fakes her death to get out of her marriage with Paris and be with Romeo without her parents knowing. She does not depend on Romeo’s inability to wait out his banishment and so fakes her death to be with Romeo. Romeo hears that Juliet is dead and goes to see her, Juliet does not realize that Romeo cannot read signs that her death is fake and so Romeo says “Beauty’s ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, and death’s pale flag is not advancèd there” (Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, scene 3 line 103-105). Romeo does not realize that Juliet is still alive and kills himself because he does not want to live without

*In Juliet 's room cleaning up the room. Stops and picks up and a photo of Juliet* Oh Juliet, so beautiful and fair. God has taken both my own daughter Susan and now you. My heart is filled with this deep sense of numbness and despair. Why did ye fall in love with a Montague? Why must the Montagues and Capulets have such rivalry? If there was not much dispute between the two maybe you’d still be here today. It is not your fault you fell in love with Romeo. Oh, Romeo! His poor family! I pray for Lady Montague as today she too ended her life because the death of her son became unbearable. Oh, woeful day! Oh, sorrowful day! Lord Montague now deals with the death of his Wife and Son. It was only four moons ago whereby Juliet met Romeo - and so much death has happened since then, Though we were all so unaware that of the six people who have died, Romeo and Juliet would also be included. I never thought that when Juliet told me that thy grave is like to be thy wedding-bed it would be true. I guess I was just so happy and caught up in the idea of Juliet and Romeo getting married, as I would never get to marry my own child.

Ah… (sigh) what an interesting day(smirk). It was quite an interesting afternoon for Benvolio and I was discussing about our friend Romeo’s whereabouts, love life, and that Cat Prince… what was his name again?... ah yes Tybalt. As you see that Romeo has been stabbed by cupid’s arrow again, that fool being stabbed once wasn’t good enough for him and vowed to guard himself from the stupid angel pranks yet Romeo had get punctured by that arrow again. I have no idea why would a girl even love Romeo for he’s skinny, weak, much of a coward. Compared to that girl he fell in love with, Laura a kitchen girl, Cleopatra the gypsy, Helen from Troy, and dear Thysbe, are far better than Romeo’s lover. I still don’t understand Romeo… Furthermore, he is now

Young Juliet is a flower in a world of thorns. A beauty who does not notice the admiration ‘round thy lady. Yet, she has’t not considered marriage till this day, at which hour Mistress Capulet had brought up marriage. The lady did asked that Juliet may ponder loving Paris as her spouse. Paris, a suitable groom who will bring her riches and be a worthy husband. A fine match indeed for a flower so quite quant. From the babe the lady once was, cradled in my arms - to the mistress that she may be presently today. Oh fate, where would my gentle Susanne be, had she still had breath? Thou art not grieved by that ladies absence? It grieves me so, like a heart split in two. Yet given from another's womb, Juliet. A miracle. And now time hath come for her to be wed. Oh, she agreed to go to the Capulet party to see Paris, and she did. Juliet, however, seemed to have her mind somewhere else. As if in a far away land. At the party she did ask about other gentlemen. She seemed interested in one in particular. No use, because it was Romeo, a Montague, and our foe. She seemed distraught when I told her this. I can not speak why, for there are plenty of other gentlemen. However, ‘t is getting late, and tomorrow will bring new.