Romeo is arguably the most important character in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. As the protagonist, he helps to drive the action. While this particular love story has often been simplified and typified, it is quite complex. Romeo himself is a complex character, bringing to bear many traits that help to influence the plot. In particular, Romeo is obsessive when it comes to love, he is reckless when it comes to many of his affairs, and loyal to a fault. These three characteristics are significant to the plot in Romeo and Juliet in multiple ways. Romeo is an obsessive lover from the beginning of the play all the way through the end. Though Shakespeare defined Romeo by his love of Juliet, this is not his first love interest in the play. Instead, he begins by loving Rosaline. He builds up Rosaline in his head, suggesting that she is the perfect woman. He believed that with Rosaline, he could have the perfect life and the ideal love story. Speaking of his love for Rosaline, after he accepts that she will not be with him, Romeo says, “Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proof of chastity well armed, From love's weak childish bow she lives unharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold” (Shakespeare ACT, SCENE?). Romeo’s obsession with Rosaline comes to a head when she will not give him the time of day, and it drives him to try to create an ideal love with Juliet, who does seem interested in him. While Romeo and Juliet is billed the perfect love story between two people, it was truly the original obsession with loving Rosaline, and the unrequited advances onto her, that drove Romeo into the arms of Juliet and set the story on the trajectory it ended up taking. The recklessness of Romeo is what causes him to kill Tybalt and engage in other behaviors that are undertaken with something other than rational thought. Romeo originally did not want to be in a duel with Tybalt because he thinks of Tybalt as family in light of the marriage to Juliet. However, when Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo loses his calm sense and responds by killing Tybalt. It is in this that one
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.
Romeo is portrayed as an emotional and reckless character. His friend Mercutio and Fr. Lawrence comment on Romeo’s fickle attitude when he immediately falls in love with Juliet completely forgetting about Rosaline, his first love. Romeo quotes,” Did my heart love until now? Foreswear it sight, for I never saw true beauty until this night”. His love for Rosaline was superficial. Juliet transforms Romeo’s immature and erotic infatuation to true and constant love. After meeting Juliet he matures very quickly. Maybe Romeo’s love for Juliet is so intense because unlike Rosaline, Juliet reciprocates his
Emotion is a wild card in life. It almost always influences people to make bad decisions in their life, and causes harm to not only the host, but to many other people around them. In the play Romeo and Juliet, the characters Romeo, Juliet, and Tybalt are all very emotional characters which conclusively lead to all of their deaths, as well as to the deaths of many other people around them. Because of these characters newly drawn emotion, they made decisions that would have been previously considered ludicrous and idiotic. Throughout the exceptional play of Romeo and Juliet, it is ultimately proven that emotion is the enemy when it comes to decision making.
One of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies is ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Romeo, the male protagonist, is a thoughtful, sensitive character who comes across as a very non-violent person. He behaves a little immaturely at times (usually under the influence of his cousins) but is generally a very serious person. At the beginning of the play, he seems to be love-sick as he has an unrequited love – better put as an infatuation – for Rosaline from the house of Capulet, but later, in Act 2 Scene 5, he meets Juliet, also from the house of Capulet, and immediately falls in love with her. It is rather like a paradox situation, as he is in love with his “enemy”. In this essay, I will be analysing and comparing Romeo’s feelings for
In “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” the younger generation, Romeo, Juliet, and Paris, and the older generation, Nurse, Capulets, and Friar, both had similarities and differences which had caused the end. They had a similar opinion on things going on and different opinions ones others. In the tragedy, the main characters died which was influenced by the older generations because they have similar and different opinions which all led the younger ones to death.
Juliet is not unlike the typical young women constantly struggling to find happiness and acceptance from those who are closest to her. Young Juliet must confront the harsh reality that exists between her and those who profess to be her friends and family, which is they failed to support her, love her, and lift her up with she needed it most. In the timeless book, “Romeo & Juliet” William Shakespeare writes a moving story about the betrayal, disappointment, love, and eventual death of Romeo and Juliet. No reader can truly appreciate and understand the level of Juliet’s struggles without first understanding the roles the Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence and Romeo, their betrayal and their role in her faithful decision.
Fate is defined as, ‘the development of events outside a person’s control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power’. In the time in which ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was written, many people were strong believers of fate and it was a common belief in society. William Shakespeare was a famous poet who is recognised for his powerful writing and contribution to the English language. One of William Shakespeare’s highly recognised plays is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ written in the late 1500’s. It is a play about two star-crossed lovers alongside fate who by their death end the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. In ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Friar Laurence is not to blame for the tragic events which occurs in the play due to the fact that other
“A man's greatest pleasure is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them that which they possessed, to see those whom they cherished in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.”, said Genghis Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire. Shakespeare expands on this idea in his famous novel Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet tells a tale of two “star crossed lovers” born of rival families whose feud is continued by men battling in the streets, the two lovers try to get married and start a life together which is halted by the violence of men when Mercutio, Romeo’s friend was slain by Tybalt and Tybalt was slain by Romeo. Romeo’s brutality caused for him to be banished from Verona, a plan was
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespear, brings many themes to life; love and fate and comedy and tragedy being among the most common and reoccurring. This essay will be focusing on the real tragedy of one of the most famous plays ever written. Romeo and Juliet are not the only ones to lose something very dear to them; everyone suffered, both emotionally and physically. The couple's union was intended to bring the feuding families together instead, their love for each other only brought their own death and the deaths of others. But it is not just physical loss that is explored in the play. Both Romeo and Juliet lose their innocence. Juliet had never experienced maternal love, something that can never be replaced.
Romeo Montague is characterized by his passion and his tendency to beget rash decisions. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare provides examples of these two of Romeo’s qualities, and, ultimately, they are what define him as a tragic hero.
Juliet is the daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet. When the play begins, we learn from the nurse that Juliet is soon turning fourteen (“Even or odd, of all the days in the year come Lammas-Eve at night shall she be fourteen”). In Juliet's first meeting with her mother and the nurse, she seems to be an obedient and responsible child. She comes immediately when they call her and answers always respectfully to her mother: "Madam, I am here, / What is your will?" (“Act 1, Scene 3). She is also clever as when her mother asks her what she thinks about marriage, she gives an ambiguous answer by saying what her mother wanted to hear really: “it is an honour I dream not of” (“Act 1, Scene 3). We learn that she is
Romeo Montague is the main character in a well known story by William Shakespeare. He is a part of a long running feud between two families, Montague and Capulet. In the tale of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is a star struck teen who falls for his enemy. Romeo is the lover of Juliet, he kills himself for thinking that Juliet has died when in reality she has only put herself to sleep. Throughout the play he can be called many things: a fool, lovestruck, determined, quarrelsome, and a risk taker. Romeo has the traits of any teenage boy would when it comes to love and girls, but when it comes to his hatred for people it would seem as though he is a man of 30. He is determined and secretive.
More than 400 years after it was written, the play Romeo and Juliet remains to be one of few literary works in which the characters it contains are still analyzed. Shakespeare integrates multiple functions for each character, most which fall below the superficial role of the character. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses the character Benvolio not only as a confidant to Romeo, but also as a rational voice of reasoning to Romeo and giver of advice to him, a general peacemaker, and a problem solver throughout the play.
The play, Romeo and Juliet were written by William Shakespeare is based on the genre of tragedy, comedy and Romance. The play explains that the children from two enemies are now star-crossed lovers who would lose their lives just for one another. A Shakespearean tragedy involves three specific elements: fate, great sorrow, and character flaws. By all means, Romeo and Juliet do fit into the criteria of the tragedy.
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s beautifully written tragedies portraying love, hate, and destiny all in the town of Verona. During the play Shakespeare introduces a complex character, Juliet, a thirteen year old girl, daughter of a wealthy family, the Capulets. When two teenagers cross paths, will their love conquer all? Or will conflict get in their way? In this essay, I will argue that Juliet is an admirable character because of her ability to evolve into a mature young lady all in a period of five days. Juliet is Shakespeare’s most powerful character portraying the epitome of a woman with great strength amidst adversity.