In the fall of 2017 I met a man named Mr. Anton Bucher. We were standing in the middle of my high school auditorium, center stage, and he was telling me about how he has been waiting to direct here for 10 years. How he had a goal and worked to make it happen. Next to me, telling me his story, is this big, bold man with a booming voice that could travel through 10-inch steel. After we had finished swapping a few theatre stories, we sit down to discuss the upcoming production season. He tells me for the fall production we will be doing Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. He stands up and starts to describe his vision for the production. He describes it as “Steampunk meets post-apocalypse western. With Asian influence!”. Just as I finish …show more content…
My parents became best friends with him and his wife that night and Mr. Bucher gave me a technicians knife and we became good friends.
As Romeo and Juliet fades away, we begin to work on our next show, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. We will be performing this show as a one act play for our state competition. When we start this journey, Mr. Bucher had recently devolved mouth sores and he was exhausted because they were keeping him awake, yet, he still was there early and stayed late. About five weeks in, we all show up to a Saturday rehearsal and Mr. Bucher did not look okay, he was pale and looked sickly. After lunch, he disappeared for a while and when he came back he looked like he was about to pass out. He came to me, Almost in tears, and asked me to take over rehearsal because he had to go to the emergency room.
He asked me not to tell anyone that he was going to the emergency room, so we continued rehearsals as usual. That night, I got a call from him. He explained that they were really concerned and that he was not going to be there for our public performance that upcoming Friday. Monday night after rehearsal I received another call from Mr. Bucher. As soon as I answered the phone, I could tell that he was upset. He explained how he had Leukemia and that he would be out for a while. He started to weep and apologize that he wouldn’t be able to finish directing the show and keep apologizing profusely
In the scene of the Nurse, Lady Capulet and Juliet, it shows that the Nurse knows more about Juliet than Juliet’s own mother when Lady Capulet didn’t know her age. Even though Juliet and Lady Capulet are related by blood, the Nurse is more of a mother to Juliet than her. Another significant thing about this is that Lady Capulet looks at Juliet like an object just to get
Does love really conquer all or is it destiny who determines the lover’s fate? Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, Play, is a story about two “star-crossed lovers” (Shakespeare Prologue.6) whose love is fatal because of their opposing families and misfortunate events lead the couple to their death. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses the motif of destiny to suggest that destiny is inevitable because everyone has their own fate for a reason which cannot be altered no matter the great lengths taken.
When Juliet finds out that Tybalt has been killed and Romeo is in exile, for killing Tybalt, Juliet feels both passionate about Romeo and disappointed in both Romeo and herself, which reveal her inner struggle. In Act 3, Juliet’s Nurse comes back with this news that Tybalt is dead and that Romeo is such an awful person for killing him. Juliet fights back at the Nurse, and herself, for speaking bad about Romeo. She claims, ““Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, When I, thy three hours' wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband.” (3.2.99-101). This shows that Juliet is passionate about Romeo, because first of all, she says that she was wrong to say bad things about her husband.
In “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” there are people to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s untimely deaths. Anyone would have chosen these three characters to blame: They are Lady Capulet, Friar Lawrence, and both Romeo and Juliet. Lady Capulet is Juliet’s mother that did not stay with her from birth. Friar Lawrence is a priest, botanist, and has a fatherly look to Romeo. Romeo and Juliet are star-crossed lovers that make a huge mess during the play.
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely known for being the greatest writer in the english language (William Shakespeare par. 1). William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet tells the story between two star crossed lovers, who fall in love despite their families hating each other. The Capulet’s are to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because of the feud between the two families, misunderstanding Juliet’s feelings, and the urge to punish Romeo for Tybalt’s death.
Do not apologize for your absence, dear friend, as I have come to terms with your family’s busy schedule. Either way, I would like to be the first to congratulate you on such a momentous occasion, and fully support your unification with Romeo. Never has it crossed my mind that you would ever engage in such acts of love, being one to always detest the idea of a life-long commitment. Nevertheless, I feel the need to remind you of maintaining modesty and your composure, to ensure you don’t succumb to the unwanted pain that love can bring forth. Those initial feelings of love can often drive those inflicted to engage in irrational acts, which can be quite dangerous in your circumstances. Although I lack sufficient knowledge of who this Romeo
To begin with to the statement made earlier about the claim that the Montague's and Capulet's were responsible for the death of their children. If both families didn’t have an ancient grudge bot4h of the children wouldn’t have died. The both families had an ongoing grudge that didn’t allow them to be married to one family to the other. In document A, “Two Households”, it states in the third line “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny.” Proving that both families had or have a grudge and that made the turn into a war. Making both households have a fight. Finally, if anyone had any contact with the opposing family they will be killed probably making Romeo and Juliet very scared to be together.
During tragic times, the question is always: who deserves the blame? In Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet, their families, sworn enemies, meet and fall hopelessly in love against all odds. They must die to end the ancient feuding of their families. At the end of this tragic story, the question of who to blame for the lovers deaths is asked. While Lady and Lord Capulet and Friar Lawrence are partially responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, fate is mostly to blame.
Like in our world today we like to assign blame to someone's faults, that’s what is happening here. Who is to blame for the six deaths in Romeo and Juliet. The families, the Capulets and the Montagues because of their feud. Romeo and Juliet because of their stubborness, impatience and stupidity and then the Nurse. For not telling somebody before the problem got worse.
In Romeo and Juliet we learn how Shakespeare uses vivid language to build character and depth in their roles. Shakespeare was a poet, playwright and an actor with a great love for language. Shakespeare was of great importance when it came down to the moulding and developing of the English language. Shakespeare had such an immense love for language that he created neologisms that we use in everyday life. Some of these neologisms he created include words such as puke, lonely, bedroom, democracy etc. in the play he developed numerous characters that played incredibly believable roles. An example of how Shakespeare made his characters believable was Tybalt, who spoke only forty lines in the entire play. Though he
events all fueled by hate serves as a stark contrast to the romance between Romeo and
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light,” (Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban). This exemplifies the true beauty that even in the hardest times of anyone's life, there is always light somewhere, to restore. Many struggle with something that rests upon them throughout their life and never seem to have a way to cope with whatever the challenge may be. Nevertheless, many should put forth effort to seek for those concealing glimmers of hope that illuminates anyone's heart. Similarly, within Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” two family rivals, the Capulets and Montagues, clearly resemble this quote, however in this case Juliet and Romeo’s relationship represents
The level 3 individual question that seemed outstanding for an analysis paper is “How far would people go for their true love without deliberating the fact that Romeo and Juliet come from families that despise each other?” Just look at what the Capulets and Montagues have executed in the Shakespearean book and play. All that they have done were sharing blows with one another, but nobody knows how the fight had started/when it will end. Romeo and Juliet are two fact-based lovers, in which Romeo and Juliet’s names really mean “passionate, mutual love” If I recall from Shakespearean text, “Two households ( Montagues and Capulets ) both alike in dignity, In Fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From Ancient Grudge, break to new mutiny, Where civil
The big talk with all teens these days, is romeo and juliet (not really). They are all wondering the same exact question: Whose fault is it that romeo and juliet went through their horrible tragedy together. Is it the families?... Romeo?… The friar?… Well, you guessed it in the title. It is all juliet's fault that all of this ever went down. The main idea of the essay today will be how juliet messed up everything. Yes, there were many other people that contributed to their deaths, like the nurse, but the main problem of all of this, is Juliet. I will talk about her main mess ups and how she could have fixed these problems.
William Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet, which is about the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are forbidden to see one another, due to their families’ feud. The Capulets, Juliet, and Montagues, Romeo, are the enemies in this feud. The question is, were the parents against them? Or were they just trying to protect and make them happy? Shakespeare was born on April 26, 1564 and died on April 23, 1616. When he was eighteen years old, he married Anne Hathaway and has three children, Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet.