I. Romeo and Juliet is a timeless story because of their tragic forbidden love. A. In the story Romeo and Juliet fall in love and do not question their love for each other even after they find out the undying feud of their families. B. Even though it is a well known classic it remains a timeless story throughout every era because of it’s theme and poetry. C. Throughout the years many writers have tried to write about this type of theme and no one has accomplished it as well as shakespeare. D. From the beginning to end of the play the two lovers overcome every obstacle thrown towards their happiness together but yet their happy ending is ended by a forced wedding and misinterpreted viewings. II. Romeo and Juliet is an old italian story …show more content…
Shakespeare transformed the original play by Arthur Brooke into a beautiful, yet to be famous, play. C. Romeo and Juliet is a world known love tale of the feuding families kin’s forbidden love. III. The story is about two households that have an ancient grudge against each other. A. The two households were in a violent and bloody conflict and of the two was two “star-crossed” lovers within them. B. The two young lovers will eventually mend the brutal, seemingly never ending feud between their families. C. Romeo and Juliet’s forbidden drives them to take extreme measures for them to stay together forever and happily. IV. Romeo and Juliet were hopeless lovers forbidden by their families strife. A. Romeo and Juliet were considered as “star-crossed’ lovers because of their tragic fate together. B. Star-crossed lovers means a love or in this case young lovers set to fail from the start due by fate. C. The star-crossed lovers felt their fate by their families feud was unfair to their love for each other. V. Shakespeare wrote in his prologue that Romeo and Juliet were star-crossed, but in his play it’s their choices that lead to their calamity. A. I think fate is a major role, impact, and mindset on what happens to us later in life but not
Poor Romeo and Juliet, so young and full of affection and imagination with a great future ahead of them. They were amazing lovers, separated merely by two names that meant more than they were worth. Juliet said during one of their few elegant times together, “Romeo, doff thy name;\ And for that name, which is no part of thee,/ Take all myself” (Shakespeare 2.2.47-50). Romeo and Juliet were the first to realize that our names mean nothing. We were all too occupied with our family legacy to see real people on the other side. Instead we fought with each other without reason, but there was still a price to pay. No matter how peaceful and thoughtful Romeo tried to be, he was still a Montague and Juliet was a Capulet. We see this struggle
In the opening Prologue of the Chorus refers to the title characters as “star-crossed lovers,” an allusion to the belief that stars and planets have the power to control events on Earth. This line leads many readers to believe that Romeo and Juliet are inescapably destined to fall in love and equally destined to have that love destroyed. However, though Shakespeare’s play raises the possibility that some impersonal, supernatural force shapes Romeo and Juliet’s lives, by the end of the play it becomes clear that the characters bear more of the responsibility than Fortune does.
If you have ever fallen in love then you must know what Romeo and Juliet felt, right? Well according to the definition of true love your do not relate to Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet come from similar families that are mortal enemies, but despite that, they fall in love for each other. Romeo went from loving Rosaline to Juliet very quickly and Juliet was already going to marry Paris. True affection involves: your sense of self has grown through knowing this person, You’re addicted to the person, you celebrate this person’s triumphs, you really miss this person when you are apart. Romeo and Juliet may have thought they were in love, but falling in love with someone cannot happen in an instant.
The play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is about a tragedy of two star crossed lovers who want nothing more than to be together forever. “…Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” (2.2.35-36) Romeo, a Montague, who is young and passionate, meets Juliet at a Capulet party. When they meet, it’s love at first sight. Juliet, a Capulet, is a beautiful young lady tired of being controlled by her father, Lord Capulet. The two families are in a never ending feud that comes between Romeo and Juliet’s love. In the course of four and a half days, Romeo and Juliet plan their marriage with the help of Priest Friar Laurence and Juliet’s Nurse. After the couple is married,
A classic love story Romeo and Juliet, tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers who do not live happily ever after. However, true love must first be understood in order to fully grasp the complexity, mystery, and passion involved in the play... "If he be marrièd, / my grave is like to be my wedding bed," Juliet says before she learns Romeo 's identity (Shakespeare I.v.148-149). This tragedy, written by William Shakespeare, takes place in the Renaissance era, the setting is Verona and Mantua, which are northern cities in Italy. Romeo and Juliet is a tragic dramatic play written in English in London, mid-1590’s. Throughout the play, monologues and soliloquies develop Juliet Capulet’s tone as indecisive, passionate, and violent which strengthens her immense love for Romeo so she can defy her family and accomplish the impossible to be with her lover. (III.ii.144).
In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare explores the tragic story of two star-crossed lovers. Set in the Northern Italian cities of Verona and Mantua, tells the story of Romeo and Juliet and their love for each other, even though their families are enemies. For generations the Capulets and Montagues have been at each others necks over everything, but this does not stop the two star-crossed lovers. Meeting one another at a masquerade ball and falling in love overnight. These two lovers do countless things behind their parents back and keep numerous amounts of secrets from their loved ones. Making multiple decisions without thinking of the consequences leads them to their tragic ending. So,
lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who take their precious lives but there are also two family’s who have a
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that involves young lovers, their “untimely death,” and a feud between their two families. The Capulets and the Montagues war against each other. The feud continues to escalate and provides the background for the story of these “two star-crossed lovers.” This literary masterpiece is still relevant today since it involves parental ambition, family fighting, and young love.
Star-crossed lovers are partners whose love lives are destined to fail due to fate. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, it is said that two star-crossed lovers are initially unable to be together since their families have an ancient, long-term feud. With this prolonged hatred towards each other, anyone from the Montague and Capulet families cannot be together. However, Romeo and Juliet attempt to bypass this because of their strong and intense love for each other. By the end of the play, Romeo and Juliet have committed suicide. Romeo and Juliet’s passing did not happen coincidentally. Although there may be many people to blame for this, the blame of the fall of Romeo and Juliet is most likely Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence
Romeo and Juliet were so desperately in love with each other, but their families absolutely hated each other. Juliet
A story where two families have a feud but only two young lovers can fix , but it even takes life’s to fix. In the story Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a very event full story. Firstly I’d like to start off with both Romeo and Juliet fell in love at a young age but that's what it was like back then. Their families had a huge feud going on between them for years. Which mean they couldn't marry but they did anyway. They didn't tell anyone except the Friar and later on the Nurse found out.
A beautiful loves story with lovers fighting to be together, but their parents ruined it for them, this is the story of Romeo and Juliet. The people to blame for the tragedy of these lovers are their parents’. If it wouldn’t have been for the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues their love wouldn’t have been a secret.
The idea of star-crossed lovers is that the positions of the stars dictated that their destinies were intertwined. In the case of Romeo and Juliet, the most apparent evidence of their doomed love is that they belong to feuding houses. “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life,” (Rom.Prologue.5-6). This already gives the audience the awareness that the stars had aligned in an ill-favored way with our protagonists. Shakespeare uses the positions of the stars to dictate that they are to meet, fall in love and die together. Despite them being born into feuding families, Romeo cannot suppress his love for Juliet because he
Time and again, history has created a star-crossed couple that overcomes all obstacles through the strength of love. Whether it is from Pyramus and Thisbe, Romeo and Juliet, or Jack and Rose, the only possibility to separate the couple is the death of one or both individuals. Love is defined in these relationships as fighting against all odds, class, society, and even family, in order to be with their loved one. While these stories may be fictional, history has presented a real case of star-crossed “lovers”, Peter Abelard and Heloise. This couple went to little length to fight society in trying to establish a relationship with one another. Although considered a love story to some, a relationship founded on lust, inability
Juliet and Romeo both go on to meet each other and they do their thing. Evidence to support this is,”My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!”. This evidence shows that Juliet showed interest in Romeo, the only problem was is that they are from the confronting house in Verona. Also, it shows one way they are star-crossed. The prologue to Act 1 even talks about their star-crossed and their predetermined destiny. Evidence to support this is,”A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows” (1,Prologue,6-7). This evidence shows that they are star-crossed lovers and that they had a predetermined