Links Between Romeo And Juliet

Document D shows, “They are two-star crossed lovers who live apart from each other because of the war between the Montague and the Capulet family that results in death in order to be resolved.” This relates to when Juliet was upset with Father Capulet because he has made arrangements for her to marry Paris. Lord Capulet is unaware of Juliet liking an enemy from a different family. In addition, he also does not know that his daughter is in love with a banished lover who happened to kill Juliet's cousin. This action causes Juliet to fake her death with a sleeping drug. Due to being far away from his wife, Romeo hears about this news and commits suicide by drinking poison. A couple of moments later Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead. Afterwards, she commits suicide by stabbing herself with a sword. When these deaths are seen, it causes the Montagues and the Capulets to come together. Romeo and Juliet's death could have been avoided if the fathers had stopped the feud between the two

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into the friend,” Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr or also known as MLK was a civil right leader. He fought for what he believed in. He believed that all whites and blacks should be equal. In this quote, he explains that love is the only way to make your biggest enemy you friend. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. Their families have been rivals for ages. Romeo had walked into that party that night seeing Juliet and thinking she is the most beautiful women he has ever seen. The quote is related to this story because it brings out the aspect of hatred among the families and how Romeo and Juliet transformed themselves from an enemy

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.

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

He jumps right in, and tells Balthasar to get the horses ready at once. Romeo and Juliet’s lack of maturity also causes them to love one another without a limit. They are too immature to realize that the feeling of love should not conquer common sense and reasoning. They love each other too such an extreme, that they are inseparable; and once separated, they are willing to go up to any extent to be loyal to each other and their love. This idea is strongly emphasized when Juliet is willing to kill herself rather than marry Paris which proves that she is loyal to her love. Romeo, in return, kills himself after he sees Juliet dead, which shows that he too is loyal to his love. Romeo and Juliet are both young and immature when they fall in love with each other, and their immaturity results in them not understanding that love has its limits. The young lovers love to an extreme neglecting love’s limits, which leads to them not taking mature decisions and steps, but rather rashly and abruptly on impulse to honor their love for each other. Romeo and Juliet feel such a burden to honor their love for each other that they end up committing suicide.

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

Upon their first meeting, Romeo takes Juliet’s hand and compares her to a holy shrine, meaning she is sacred and set apart by God. He correlates his lips with two pilgrims which are people who journey to a sacred place for religious reasons. Romeo uses this imagery to apologize for his rough hand touching something as divine as her by offering a kiss.

Loyalty is the quality of showing constant and complete support to one another. It is about the people who stay behind your back like family and friends you can trust. Similarly, the play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare shows a great deal of loyalty by Juliet, Friar Lawrence and Romeo. Loyalty and disloyalty is shown by Juliet whom betray loyalty to her parents by loving the son of their enemy, Friar Lawrence whom stays loyal to his friendship with Romeo by helping them hide the relationship and risking his life and Romeo posterior the death of Mercutio.

Romeo and Juliet one the most famous stories about love by William Shakespeare. Romeo and juliet were a pair of star crossed lovers who were destined to take their lives, for the sake that it will end a feud between their two families. Romeo’s family were the montagues and Juliet’s family were the capulets. If Romeo and juliet wouldn’t of killed themselves for the feud, they wouldn’t of been of happy together. Romeo was so quick to act in every situation, so he couldn’t really control his emotions. Both of them barely knew each other , and they only knew each other for four days and only loved each other for beauty. I don’t even think Romeo and Juliet truly even loved each other.

Friar Laurence’s character flaws greatly impacted the end result of the play. The Friar should be punished for his poorly made decisions throughout Shakespeare’s story. His first mistake was when he initially helped Romeo and Juliet with the aid of the Nurse. Both Romeo and Juliet are children and their parents should be included in every decision made for them. The Friar married Romeo and Juliet in Act 3 of the play. “Till Holy Church incorporate two in one” (3.1.37) The marriage was the start of many issues. Such as Juliet’s inability to wed Paris, being a married lady. This led to Friar’s next choice of giving Juliet the sleeping potion—making her appear dead. “Take this vial, being then in bed,” (4.1.93) Giving Juliet the poison was the reason why so many characters had died in the end of Act 5 of the play. Paris had died fighting Romeo because he thought he was attempting to steal Juliet’s “dead” body. Romeo, ignorant of the fact that Juliet was not dead, killed himself. Juliet committed suicide because of her fiancé lying next to her lifeless. The poison given by Friar

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.

Then to make the matters worse, Juliet has to marry Paris. She is forced into a marriage where she didn't love the man and she was also married to Romeo at the same time. This is completely against her religion forcing her to disagree with her parents on the marriage, resulting in an argument. "An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets," is what Capulet ranted to Juliet after she disagreed to marring Paris. Not to mention her mother didn't even care what she did after the argument, she says "Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee (3. 5. 205). This scares Juliet and also enrages her. She doesn't know what to do at this point besides either talking to Friar Laurence. "I'll to the Friar, to know his remedy," and if that doesn't work, "myself have power to die" (3. 5. 241). She would kill herself because she would be banished from her own home if she didn't marry or she would basically never see Romeo again, plus be married to a person she doesn't love. Her parents don't even care about anymore over a marriage. That seems unreasonable and makes sense to completely disown their

<br>This shows how Juliet has passion and faith in her relationship with Romeo, while her parents are old-fashioned; her father arranges a marriage for her, and her mother takes the side of her husband, rather than that of her daughter. This scene also shows how Juliet has changed and has gained the courage to speak against authority.

To be honest, this video was pretty depressing, even though I don’t really agree with its message fully. The creator of the video defines love in a very harsh way, as some sort of distraction we imagine to be a connection. Near the beginning of the video, the creator says to the viewer, “You are irredeemably alone”. I think what the creator is saying with this is that everyone is looking out for themselves, and you as an individual, are completely on your own. That hints towards what this creator thinks love is, but she truly gives her definition of love when she says “The idea of love distracts us from an existential loneliness”. The creator has already said that everyone is on their own, and she is adding on to that by saying, because of that, humans have come up with the idea of love, to take our minds off the

Quotation: “Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time,/ But I will watch you from such watching now.” (Rom. 4. 4. 12-13)