Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet discusses the many challenges the ‘star crossed lovers’ face. It is their own deceptive actions that ultimately lead them to their untimely end. However Romeo and Juliet are forced to be deceptive due to their fate and misfortune, the ongoing feud in Verona, and the misleading guidance they receive from others; which also contribute to their deaths. Romeo and Juliet focuses on the theme of love and hate, this theme is interweaved throughout the play. Romeo and Juliet experience bad luck and misfortune, regardless of their deception. They have awful timing, and it is unfortunate that they must ‘love a loathed enemy’, as this is what causes Romeo and Juliet to be deceptive. Romeo and Juliet hide their …show more content…
Juliet’s father forces Juliet to marry Paris, and if she does not he threatens to leave her to ‘hang, beg, starve, die in the streets’. This arranged marriage with one she does not love compels Juliet to find an urgent resolution, and this resolution contributes to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The families’ feud contributes to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, as they know that their relationship must remain unknown. The feud leads to delusion and deceit, and their eventual death. Ultimately, the feud between the families makes their deception necessary and inevitable; but this deception leads to their untimely deaths. Romeo and Juliet deceive others due to the poor guidance they receive about their situation. They resort to deceit as a resolution for their desperate situations. Friar Laurence performs their secret marriage as he believes that this alliance could ‘…Turn [their] household’s rancour to pure love’. Juliet is later forced to marry Paris and asks the Nurse for assistance. The Nurse replies that Juliet is ‘…better in this second match’. The Nurse helped Juliet to marry Romeo but as the situation becomes tricky, she betrays Juliet and encourages her to marry Paris; she provides poor guidance in doing so. This poor advice convinces Juliet to consider a plan involving a ‘desperate… execution’. This desperate execution is provided to Juliet by Friar Laurence who provides Juliet with a potion that puts her in a sleep like death. The Friar
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet focus on the two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love and die within a span of three days. Romeo and Juliet illustrate how the love brings them together to over power the control of their relationship. The moment that Romeo and Juliet declare their love for one another, they try to keep their love a secret since they are the children of the feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Initially their families would be outraged against their relationship that Romeo and Juliet propose to hide the truth of their love. Once Romeo and Juliet reveal to the Nurse and Friar Lawrence their plans to marry, their relationship is nothing but a risk of problems. Romeo is unafraid to show his love that he teases Tybalt teasing him about falling in love with Juliet, although not explicitly. However, the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, occur when Romeo and Juliet take actions to protect themselves, but they are not however, protected. Juliet protects her relationship by committing a false death only for Romeo to believe it as true. As a result, the act to protect Romeo and Juliet’s relationship a secret are examples of the failed actions both Romeo and Juliet try to prevent; however, it is not ‘fate’ that control their lives and deaths.
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.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story of a star-crossed pair of feuding families. Their love is forbidden therefore they cannot be together publicly, leading to a string of events that ultimately result in the death of both Romeo and Juliet. The exceptional tragedy that takes place is partly a result of Romeo’s impulsive behaviour towards love and conflict. The pressure Romeo instills on others, his emotional grief and self-pity, and his judgment-clouding rage are examples of Romeo’s impulsive nature that contributes to great tragedy.
Romeo and Juliet’s parents play an unwitting role in their children’s deaths. Their parents’ rivalry poses a big problem for them and makes it almost impossible for the two to live in peace. Romeo and Juliet acknowledge this obstacle when it is placed in front of them. The problems already arise from their first meet when Juliet just finds out about
There are many misfortunes that occur in Shakespeare’s piece, Romeo and Juliet. In this play, there are two families - the Montagues and Capulets. These two families have an ongoing feud, but trouble begins to surface when two teenagers under these households fall in love. These two characters (Romeo and Juliet) continue with their love in secrecy. Romeo is soon banished and Juliet finds herself in an arranged marriage.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a pleasant and suspenseful drama written by William Shakespeare in 1595. It is a romantic tragedy about two young lovers from feuding families the Capulet’s and Montague’s who decide to marry against their parent’s wishes. They try to find peace and happiness, but it is not to be, and their lives finally end tragically and under strange and very sad circumstances. However, in the beginning, the noble aristocrat, Count Paris, who was the favorite suitor of Juliet’s family, the Capulet’s, and will be the subject for this analysis, promotes himself for marriage to the very young Juliet. There is an intense and persistent struggle between the lovers Romeo and Juliet against Paris. A plan is devised by Juliet
Romeo and Juliet fall in love at a party. But they come from families which hate each other. They are sure they will not be allowed to marry. But the helped by Friar Laurence, they married in secret instead. Unfortunately, before their wedding night Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin Tybalt in a duel, and in the morning he was exiled. If he returns to the city, he will be put to death. Juliet’s parents told her she must marry Paris. Her parents don’t know that she is already married. She refuses in the beginning, but later agrees because she plans to fake her death and escape to be with Romeo forever with the help of Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence designs the plan. He gives Juliet a sleeping potion. She appears to be dead and was put in a tomb. Romeo
For centuries, the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet has made people, young and old, weep. It's a tale of love's doomed struggle against age, tradition, society and hate. A story where it seems as if all the world opposed them. And yet, it's not the world that condemned them to their fate, but rather than own rash choices. Choices which resulted in murder, sorrow and banishment from the kingdom.
In Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare many people recognize the play for the star-crossed lovers that fall in love, and eventually die together. The play is not what some people may call a beautiful love story is nothing but a terrible tragedy. The lovers did not have to die in each other’s arms. The tragic deaths that the two star-crossed lovers had, occurred from their poor decisions instead of what was supposedly written for them in the stars.
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Romeo and Juliet, the story of “two star-crossed lovers”, is a play written by Shakespeare. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare premeditated the different varieties of tensions associated with love throughout the course of the play. There is a tension between the two rival families; Montagues and Capulets, due to neither families wanting to forget the past, the expectation of Juliet to marry Paris and the constriction between the two main characters; Romeo and Juliet. Moreover, the tension between the Capulets and Montagues is immense.
‘Romeo and Juliet’: the most ill-fated tragedy of all time; a tale of the unadulterated strength of Romeo and Juliet’s love, pure and young, with power enough to conquer the hatred of generations even through the veil of death. But, were they really in love? Throughout, Romeo and Juliet’s three day ‘love’ affair, they experience a surfeit of emotions: anger, lust, fear, lust, confusion, lust, excitement, lust, sadness … more lust and a deep, overwhelming infatuation with each other, but never love. Romeo’s womanising nature and his capricious mind allow him to admire Juliet only for her aesthetic beauty to the point where he will do anything for lust for her. While Juliet’s child-like naivety beguiles
One of Shakespeare’s most eminent plays, Romeo and Juliet is a tale revolving around a pair of star-crossed lovers whose premature relationship must go undiscovered because of their feuding families. However, in the arduous process of protecting its secrecy, several essential figures including Romeo, Friar Lawrence and the theme of fate play decisive roles that hold responsibility in the turnout of events that lead to a tragic conclusion. Romeo, the lover himself is rebellious and desperate for love. His impulsive personality towards love and marriage establishes danger not only upon himself but as well as his partner Juliet. Friar Lawrence is well-regarded, but his rashness, ignorance, and ill-advised thinking place both lovers in
William Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet is filled with serious decisions. The two title “star-crossed lovers,” Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, not only decide to get married mere days after their first meeting, but also choose to carry out a ridiculous plan to avoid an unwanted marriage and eventually kill themselves (prologue). Although such subject matter is not often found in young adult novels, the impulsivity of this behavior is a mark of Romeo and Juliet’s teenage inexperience. Their immaturity ultimately results in drastic consequences— namely, their own deaths; however, their naiveté was not a hazard for the entirety of the play. The way it affects their decisions and relationships with others changes over time, different at the start of the book before they meet than at the end, when they both finally make the monumental decision to commit suicide. Before they first encounter each other, Romeo and Juliet’s immaturity is harmless, but after their first meeting and as their relationship develops, it begins to prove dangerous.
In his iconic play, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare incorporates a range of literary terms to explore the idea that, ultimately, the world must be governed by a delicate balance of good and evil. About two lovers, who are forced to hide their deep affection for each other because of their quarreling families, the Montagues and Capulets, this tragedy describes the actions the protagonists, Romeo and Juliet, as well as other supporting characters, take in order for the pair to be together, despite their fears of their parents finding out. The opposing characterization of different individuals and the several contrasting concepts described with literary elements contribute to the state of harmony in the play.