Romeo And Juliet Character Analysis

In the play “Romeo & Juliet” shakespeare portrayed all aspects of love throughout different characters. Each character carries its own meaning of love which is what makes this play unique. Romeo,Nurse, and Tybalt all represent divergent love.The word Love can come in all sorts of ways which is why it is such a diverse word. Love is a powerful term that can be portrayed as deep affection, devotion, and even heartbreak.

After reading and analyzing the story “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, it comes to the conclusion that each character represents an emotion by using two main characters from the story. The emotion anger, can be shown in multiple of scenes but the one who represents it the most is Tybalt Capulet as his anger within is mostly identify by from the Capulet’s angry feud to the Montagues. The emotion honestly, can be shown by a man named Benvolio Montague who not only shows honestly to his formal Montagues but also for the Capulets as he doesn’t want the feud between the two to turn into war. Although these emotions are seen throughout the story and from other characters, these two show more in depth with their corresponding emotions.

Have you ever felt true love? Sometimes it does not always work out in that relationship. Maybe outside factors affected how a relationship turned out in the end. In the tragedy, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, both characters Romeo and Juliet died and had a bumpy relationship mainly due to outside factors. Romeo and Juliet had many outside factors affect their relationship. Characters such as Friar Laurence, Tybalt, themselves, or even fate.

The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is the result of choices and actions on the part of several characters in this play: including Friar Lawrence, Romeo, and Lord Capulet. Friar Lawrence marries Romeo, and Juliet without anybody’s permission, also he gives Juliet the sleeping potion, and lastly, he does not properly inform Romeo that Juliet was not dead. Romeo rushes into his relationship with Juliet, kills Tybalt when in a rage, and immediately drinks the poison after seeing a sleeping Juliet. Lord Capulet took part in the fight at the start, he also tells Paris to marry Juliet, and lastly, he threatens Juliet to marry Paris. All these events were not fate, but where choices each character made. The most impactful character in this tragedy

As written by Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet's play is primarily based on love. However, even though love is the play's primary and most dominant theme upon which the story develops, we realize that an adverse atmosphere overshadows much of the play thereby presenting the negative consequences of love. Fortunately, Juliet manages to grow through the challenges hence increasing her development, which enables her to overcome the adverse occurrences in her life. The adversities, therefore, have impacted considerably to Juliet's maturity thus defining her behaviors and personality throughout the play.

Many plays and other types of literary works use dramatic foil to portray the different extremes of emotional and personality spectrums through characters. In the play, “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare used many of his characters to portray dramatic foil in his scenes. While Shakespeare did use dramatic foil, he used more than one type, he used his characters to create dramatic foils that would draw in the audience and develop the characters being used by having the two extremes make each other stand out.

The poor decisions made by Friar Lawrence despite his deep understanding of the feud put him more at fault than Romeo. His plans, though well intentioned, were flawed. Despite marrying Romeo and Juliet in pursuit of peace, as highlighted by his statement "I'll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your

William Shakespeare, the well known playwright and poet, likes to add unique attributes into every major character of his plays such as, possibly, the most known play, Romeo and Juliet. One character that has shown rash, impetuous and impulsive behaviour in the play Romeo and Juliet, is Romeo Montague. Throughout the entire play, Romeo, makes rash decisions that cause significant consequences. These consequences affect many characters and some consequences result in death. Rash and impetuous characters can change the plot of the play and the final outcome of it. An early example of Romeo, acting impetuous is when he goes to Capulet’s orchard to meet Juliet. This shows his rash thinking because Romeo, acknowledges the consequences of him being found in Capulet territory, which is death. Romeo states this in the following quote; “ I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes/And but thou love me, let them find me here/My life were better ended by their hate/Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love” (II, ii, 75-78). This quote shows Romeo, willing to risk his life, ignoring the potential consequences, showing his stubborn behaviour. Romeo also shows his rash behaviour in the orchard when he and Juliet, impulsively decide they should marry each other the next day, proven in this quote; “We met, we woo’d, and made exchange of vow/ I’ll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray/ That thou consent to marry us to-day” (II, iii, 62-64). This shows his rash behaviour since he knows that he is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet and they are family enemies, but wants Friar Laurence to marry them today (Monday in the book) even though he just saw her for the first time yesterday. Because of this decision, dramatic irony stirs since the Capulets and the Montagues are unaware of this, other than the Nurse and Friar Laurence. Another time when Romeo acted impulsively in the play was when Romeo slays Tybalt, who is Lady Capulet’s nephew. He displays the reasoning behind his anger in this quote; “ Alive in triumph! And Mercutio slain!/ Away to heaven, respective lenity/ And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!” (III, i, 121-123). Romeo acts impulsively in this part of the play because he let his

Stated by Friar Lawrence, ‘Wherefore the infectious pestilence did reign. Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth; So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.’ (5.3.10-12) In Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses the niche of fate to transition the story into the next scene. As for the events happened in the story, has had happened to Shakespeare in real life. Further, the plague stopped Friar John from delivering the message to Romeo caused his parent’s death, and advanced this traumatic experience into a heartfelt tragedy. In the story, many events are examples of fated occurrences are not impacted by the decision of the characters. Further, exploring these events will tell how natural events change the

“Just like herbs men can be good and evil,” said Friar Lawrence. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet unexpectedly fell in love at the party that the Capulets threw. Romeo or Juliet did not know what they were, Juliet didn’t know that Romeo was a Montague and Romeo didn’t know that Juliet was a Capulet, this was a big problem because both the families had a feud against each other. They both end up secretly getting married by a priest named Friar Lawrence. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” Friar Lawrence, a priest, plays a key role in Romeo and Juliet’s love. He marries Romeo and Juliet so the family feud of the Montagues and Capulets would end.

Two star-crossed lovers , with families full of hatred , are victims of circumstances which are cast upon them ; Or at least that’s what audiences have been told about Romeo and Juliet.

In the play Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare treats the female roles as superfluous or extraneous, yet throughout the play, he allows one female to break the stereotype for women and be just as daring and witty as the men. In this play, Shakespeare writes that women are unsophisticated and not capable of making their own decisions. Shakespeare made his women overly dependent on men and wrote them to believe they physically could not live without any men in their lives. During the progression of the play Shakespeare shows reverence towards Juliet by making her possess an inner strength that enables her to have maturity beyond her years. Throughout Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare treats the women inadequately, but his perspective changes when it comes to Juliet and her outstanding individualism.

William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet is considerably one of the greatest love stories ever written. The play is set to exhibit the longstanding feud between the Capulet and Montague households. This results in the tragic deaths of the two main protagonists, Romeo and Juliet, as their love is forbidden by the terms of their families' hatred. The play ends in the unison of the families as they mourn together the loss of their children and end their conflict. As such a masterful piece of literature, Romeo and Juliet has become subject to multiple adaptations. Different versions of the story, often in film, make alterations to the plotline by adding or cutting out certain scenes. These changes are often made to give new insight into

It only takes up to four minutes to decide whether you like someone or not. Most people take about a week or maybe even a month. This type of fact about love is presented in Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet”. As the play begins, Lord Capulet has a masked ball to encourage the courtship of Juliet and Paris, and Romeo and his friend, Benvolio attend the ball, which is where Romeo and Juliet first meet and fall in love. After the ball, Romeo goes to the Capulet’s Orchard to visit Juliet and agree to marry the next day. Friar Laurence thinks whether to marry the couple, then agrees to think that it will bring the rival families together. During that period, Romeo is banished because he murder Tybalt. Romeo hides out at Friar’s cell and

Friar Lawrence should not have been blamed for the death of Romeo and Juliet. He should not be blamed for giving Juliet the potion because she threatened to kill her self if he didn’t. She said “Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it/ If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help/ Do thou but call my resolution wise/ And with this knife I’ll help it presently”(4.1 51-54). Friar Lawrence did not want Juliet to kill herself so he was forced to give her the potion. He intended on Romeo being together happily, and alive. His plan was unsuccessful because it was not in his hands. Friar warned them when they got married "therefore, love moderately; long love doth so"(2.6 12). He warned Romeo not get too carried away with their love, and to love Juliet calmly and sensibly. Romeo did not listen to his advice and made tragic decisions without thinking.