Romeo And Juliet Literary 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.

Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film, Romeo + Juliet effectively appropriates the Shakespearean 16th century love tragedy. So why has Luhrmann decided to appropriate Romeo and Juliet? By changing the context, Luhrmann effectively makes the play relevant, discussing his contextual concerns of the 1990’s. This is done through the use of themes in the film, love, family disputes and hate which have remained similar to the original play, although the way they have been presented are different, in particular the form and characters. The form has had an obvious change as the original play has been adapted into a film. Characters in the film have also been appropriated to correspond with Luhrmann's contextual concerns. Hence, Luhrmann successfully appropriates the original Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet by maintaining similar themes, but altering the form and characterisation to fit his contextual concerns.

In Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet two lovers are not meant to be together resulting in the tragic death of both Romeo and Juliet. The two lovers meet at a ball and fall in love at once, but they do not know until the end of the night that they are each from different feuding houses. They decide to marry in secret the next day. However, on that same day Romeo gets banished from Verona for killing Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, and Juliet is being forced to marry County Paris in the next three days. Friar Lawrence, give Juliet a sleeping potion that will make her appear dead for three day. But when Romeo arrives to see her dead, he kills himself leaving Juliet to wake up and seeing him

When Juliet hears that the wedding has been moved up to the next day, she drinks the

While Friar Lawrence may have contributed to the couple’s deaths, Shakespeare places the blame on Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are to blame for their own deaths because of their tragic flaw. Romeo and Juliet’s tragic flaw is rashness. The two fall in love and get married in the span of twenty-four hours. At one point, Juliet worries that they are rushing into their relationship. She expresses this fear in Act II, “If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think’st I am too quickly won, I’ll frown and be perverse…,” (II.ii.94-6). Juliet clearly states her concern of how fast the relationship is moving, but her emotions cloud her judgement. Romeo and Juliet seem to lose their common sense as

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.

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, multiple characters were responsible for the tragic ending of the play. One of the characters was Friar Lawrence who was a religious figure who married Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two lovers from feuding families.Friar Lawrence is a mentor to Romeo and offers him advice about loving Juliet. Friar Lawrence cared for both Romeo and Juliet and married them despite knowing that the lovers were supposed to be sworn enemies due to their feuding families. He also rushed to Juliet’s tomb in order to make sure nothing bad had happened to Romeo or Juliet because Friar John’s failure to deliver the letter which was a crucial part of Lawrence’s plan to reunite the lovers. The letter outlined the friar’s plan and explained Juliet’s supposed death to Romeo but it didn’t not reach him in time which eventually led to the double-suicide of the lovers. However, Friar Lawrence concocted a poison which simulated a death-like state and gave it to Juliet which could have actually killed her which is a punishable deed. Friar Lawrence committed

The forbidden love between Romeo and Juliet could have been prevented if Friar Lawrence never married the couple. Friar Lawrence agreed to marry the lovers in Act 2,Scene 3. For example, Friar Lawrence states,"I'll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancour to pure love." (lines 93-95) Friar Lawrence thinks he is doing good by marrying them, because he is bringing the rivaling families together through love, while he is actually starting to end their lives.

“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

Even though he was fully aware that Romeo and Juliet’s relationship was forbidden, he agrees to marry them as well as encouraging them in hopes to resolve the ancient feud between their two families, the Capulets, and the Montagues. Shakespeare uses foreshadowing when Friar Lawrence says, “These violent delights have violent ends”. This quote foreshadows how Romeo and Juliet’s relationship ultimately ends up, violently with the suicides of the two. By agreeing to marry the two, it caused problems later down the line. When Paris requested to marry Juliet, Lord Capulet accepted his offer. Juliet was already married and refused to forget Romeo, so Friar Laurence stepped in again and devised a plan for Juliet to make it out of Verona and to Mantua, but it failed. Friar Lawrence developed a potion for Juliet to drink the night before the wedding, but when Juliet went back to Lord Capulet to accept the marriage proposal, she overdid it causing the wedding to be moved up to the next day. Friar Lawrence was supposed to send Friar John to Mantua to send the message of the plan to Romeo, but when Romeo’s man, Balthasar saw that Juliet was as far as he knew, dead, he rushed to tell Romeo and arrived before Friar John

‘The characters in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet undergo significant changes throughout the course of the play.’

“Romeo and Juliet” is a dramatic romance story that is full of love, hate, secrets, and lies. In Romeo and Juliet, the Capulets and the Montagues have a rivalry, a death penalty placed by the prince is threatened if the families have another brawl. At a Capulet party, Romeo and his friend, Mercutio sneak in, and he meets Juliet. They fall in love, and become married in secret, but Juliet is forced by her father to marry Paris after Romeo killed Tybalt, who is Juliets cousin. To avoid marrying Paris, Juliet fakes her death and Romeo thinks Juliet is honestly dead. He goes to her tomb and drink a potion that killed him almost instantly.When Juliet wakes up, she actually kills herself over the grief over Romeo being dead. In William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet”, Friar Lawrence is ultimately to blame for the deaths of the protagonists, by cause of Friar encouraged them to secure their love, he neglected to inform both parties if his plan to fake Juliet’s death, and he left Juliet when she was extremely emotional.

The well-known play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare includes the tragic deaths of the star crossed lovers, which is persuaded by the actions of Friar Lawrence. Romeo and Juliet’s indestructible bond causes them to commit suicide, so they could be together for eternity. Friar Lawrence, a respected priest, directly prompts the deaths of the lovers, who were kept apart due to their family’s ancient dispute. His intention is to bring the civil battle between the Capulets and Montagues to peace, nevertheless, his irrational decisions usher the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence is the character responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s catastrophic deaths because he is self-centered, thus causing him to be impulsive and negligent.

In the 1300’s certain wealthy, high status families had disputes and feuds with other families. These family feuds would encompass all their relatives including the younger generations. In the play, “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare it portrays two families, the Montagues and Capulets, whom have been at odds with each other for decades upon decades. The play also describes how Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, try to overcome their families long lasting conflict for the sake of each other's love. The vendetta between these two households is passed on from generation to generation. In this tragedy there are two main types of generations, younger and older, which share many similarities and differences, involved in the complex feud. The interactions between these two generations propels the action to its eventual tragic ending.

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