Two people fall in love but are from enemy families and are forbidden to be together. Do they obey or follow their hearts? Romeo, a young man from the Montague family, is in love with a woman named Rosaline but she has sworn to be a nun for the rest of her life. Romeo and his friend Benvolio happen to stumble across a Capulet worker named Peter, who is trying to read a list of invitations to a masked party at the Capulet house. Romeo helped Peter read the list and decides to attend the party because Rosaline will be there. He plans to wear a mask so that he will nobody will recognize him as a Montague. When Romeo arrived at the Capulet’s party in his costume he sees Juliet. It was love at first sight. However, Juliet's cousin Tybalt recognizes Romeo and wants to kill him on the spot. Lord Capulet gets involved, insisting that Tybalt does not disturb the party because it will anger the Prince. Romeo quietly approaches Juliet, talks to her and then they kissed. After the party, Juliet told her Nurse about Romeo and Juliet asked her Nurse to go find Romeo. When Juliet's’ Nurse tells Romeo that Juliet is a Capulet, he gets upset. Meanwhile, Juliet is similarly upset when she finds out that Romeo is a Montague. Later that night, Romeo climbs the wall into Juliet's garden. Juliet is standing on her balcony and speaks her thoughts out loud not knowing that Romeo is there. She wishes Romeo could marry her. Romeo hears her and
Document D shows, “They are two-star crossed lovers who live apart from each other because of the war between the Montague and the Capulet family that results in death in order to be resolved.” This relates to when Juliet was upset with Father Capulet because he has made arrangements for her to marry Paris. Lord Capulet is unaware of Juliet liking an enemy from a different family. In addition, he also does not know that his daughter is in love with a banished lover who happened to kill Juliet's cousin. This action causes Juliet to fake her death with a sleeping drug. Due to being far away from his wife, Romeo hears about this news and commits suicide by drinking poison. A couple of moments later Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead. Afterwards, she commits suicide by stabbing herself with a sword. When these deaths are seen, it causes the Montagues and the Capulets to come together. Romeo and Juliet's death could have been avoided if the fathers had stopped the feud between the two
This play is about a boy named Romeo and girl named Juliet. Their family are mortal enemies so that means that they are always fighting with one another. At a Capulet party Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time not knowing who each other are, until later that night that they are enemies. They begin to fall in love with each other and get married after meeting for one night. Then the drama gets to their head and they kill themselves. In Romeo and Juliet Capulet’s and Montague’s, Friar Lawrence, and Balthasar are responsible for the tragic deaths of 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.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is set in 16th century Verona, Italy. A play that relays the story of two young lovers whose ill-fated deaths end an ancient family feud. The two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, come from families who disapprove of their love. Their situation complicates as the play progresses, with an arranged marriage and several deaths. Romeo and Juliet both fall to the consequences of their secret marriage. Even from the beginning, their decisions were rash; especially from Romeo. Shakespeare use of various tactics in developing Romeo’s character in the play. He shows that Romeo has an impulsive and emotional disposition. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is irrational.
In many literary works, there are methods that authors use to make a story better. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, dramatic irony is the driving method. Dramatic irony is something in which characters do not know something, but the reader or audience knows what the true reality is. According to some researchers, “A staple of Elizabethan and Shakespearean drama was dramatic irony” (Halio 25). Furthermore some researchers also belive that dramatic irony is very prominent in the play, “ One of the more prominent literary devices in the play is irony” (Sauer 673). Romeo and Juliet, and also their friends and families face a lot of instances of dramatic irony in the story. Dramatic irony creates suspense and adds to
The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is about the dilemma of choosing love over loyalty for your family. In the story Romeo and Juliet come from separate families who hate each other, but still find love in each other. They get married without telling their families and eventually the two families get into a fight which ends in Romeo getting banished from the city where Juliet lives. They have a plan for him to get back into to the city to prevent Juliet from being forced to marry another man, but it fails and ends with the suicide death of both Juliet and Romeo. Shakespeare's major theme in the text is that Love plays a major role in our lives and can heavily affect our decisions.
Do children really disobey and lie as it simply is what majority of children do, to help the better of them or even to make the situation worse than it already is? In the play by Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, they went through similar circumstances in their lives, as they try and hide their love from their parents and live happy relaxing lives since couldn't resist not being with each other, lying and disobeying them more and more. They also went through so much simply to be with each other, as teens do indeed do that as they fall so far in love with someone they would give anything up simply to be with that one person for the rest of their life. Some may say that there are differences in the teachings in Romeo and Juliet that are different now, for example our society is much more different and more advanced, and the way we speak is much different than how they did back four hundred years ago, along with other teachings from Romeo and Juliet that don't apply to present day teachings. The teachings of the play Romeo and Juliet still merit today for numerous reasons, like how students still lie to their parents, and disobey them for their true love to be successful and live with them, Romeo and Juliet also act similarly to teens now as majority act too quickly to really think about what they’re really doing, and love can be so strong it impacts everything that occurs in their life.
The narrative voices in songs and literature through male characters express enthusiastic responses to female characters. “Michelle” lyrical song created by Sir Paul McCartney that was performed at the White House for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Sir Paul McCartney’s song “Michelle” is a song coming from the standpoint of man who feels immense admiration towards a woman. The viewer assumes that due to the male character speaking in French in sections of the song, they infer that Michelle only speaks French. The next piece is literature, the lines 44-53 of Romeo and Juliet are an excerpt of a play by William Shakespeare.
Life and joy left the bodies of two teenagers in love as they died on the cold stone floor of a tomb, looking at their loved one’s lifeless body. The blossoming love of two young and sanguine lovers turned dark and perilous as their undying love for each other lead to their untimely deaths. Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare is a story of two adolescents whose only ambition, to be together, was deterred by copious amounts of obstacles and setbacks. Their inextinguishable love was tested by opposing parents, feuding families, marriage proposals and morbid murders. While the adolescent brain and the brain in love are partially responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, Fate is mostly to blame.
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
Have you ever heard of a story about two lovers who commit suicide because of a secret that was kept to keep them together? In the book Romeo and Juliet , by William Shakespeare, is about two lovers who come from two families who are enemies. The two fell in love and their parents refuse to let them marry each other. At the end both the lovers die. This connects to my topic because of one secret that was kept to save them killed six people. Even though some may believe otherwise, there are times when secrets must be told so it doesn't lead to more problems.
Romeo and Juliet , written by Shakespeare, is a novel about two teenagers, Romeo and Juliet, who came from feuding families and fell in love against their parents’ wishes. The adolescents belong to the Capulets and the Montagues which are the two rival families in Verona. In the novel during Act 3 scene 1, Mercutio, who is Romeo’s friend, got in a brawl with Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin. The result of the fight left Mercutio dead and Tybalt considered a murderer. Mercutio’s last words before his death were “A plague a’ both your houses!” (3.1.88.) Both families, the Capulets and the Montagues were at fault for the death of Mercutio. {{The last sentence of the introduction should address the prompt directly, this is your thesis statement.
Romeo Montague, heir of Lord Montague and Lady Montague, lives in the middle of a huge family feud, between his family and the Capulets. However he has no interest in violence, only in love. He goes to extremes to prove the legitimacy of his feeling. Through his traits of impulsiveness and immaturity, in addition to his passion and drive, all of his decisions were corrupt and unfulfilled, which eventually led to his death. He is also an extremely popular person; one who is always surrounded by his friends. He and his friends are close; they tell each other everything. The morning after Romeo ‘falls’ in love with Rosaline, he rushed to share this news with his friends. Romeo declares, “I love somebody. She doesn't love me.” (Shakespeare 21) Since he shares this personal feeling with Benvolio, his close friend, it shows the depth and closeness of their friendship. Romeo is set in his ways. In one of the opening scenes, he states, “I'll go with you. Not because I think you'll show me anything better, but so I can see the woman I love.”(Shakespeare 37) Romeo agrees to go to the masquerade with his friends, but on his own terms. He does not have any open mind, and is extremely curious and impulsive. At the Capulet’s ball, Romeo asks the servingman, “Who is the girl on the arm of the lucky knight over there?” (Shakespeare 61). Romeo is curious to find out who Juliet is and does not get a clear answer from the servingman. He does not stop to think about who she is, he just goes after her. Furthermore, once the nurse does tell Romeo who Juliet is, he does not stop portraying his feeling towards her. He also decided to go to his feuding family’s ball. Romeo also
Meanwhile, Romeo, a young man from the Montague house, laments his unrequited love for a woman named Rosaline, who has vowed to remain chaste for the rest of her life. Romeo and his friend Benvolio happen to stumble across a Capulet servant, Peter, who is trying to read a list of invitees to a masked party at the Capulet house that evening. Romeo helps Peter read the list and decides to attend the party because Rosaline will be there. He plans to wear a mask so that he will nobody will recognize him as a Montague.
Meanwhile, Romeo’s friend Benvolio cheer him up of his melancholy. Romeo reaveals that he is in love with a girl named Rosaline, but she choose to live a life of chastity. Meanwhile Benvolio his friend, tell him that there is a masked party inside a Capulet house and invites Romeo to join him to thrust in to that Capulet party. On a hesitation, Romeo barely agree. Romeo and his friend Benvolio stumble across a Capulet’s servant who is trying to read a list of invitees in the party Romeo disguise himself and go to the party, because Rosaline was also there. He wears a mask to disguise that nobody cannot recognize him. They wore a mask to hide his identity as a Montague. But then, not as expected he saw a young astonishing beautiful lady named Juliet and fell in love to her. This scene shows how Romeo falls easily in the beauty of Juliet, he can be easily distracted by a woman’s beauty. Lord Capulet introduce his daughter juliet to everyone at the party. Things take a turn when Romeo meets Juliet at the party and they fell in love with each other quickly. Romeo quietly approaches Juliet and confess his love to her and they exchange lovely words with each other.