“When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold, you yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.” (Kahlil Gibran,1) Shakespeare tries to show that the love between two people can lead them through even the scariest of situations. In Shakespeare’s iconic Romeo and Juliet, the love Romeo and Juliet have drives them to face their fears. Shakespeare was born in April 23, 1564. He grew up to become an English poet, actor, and playwright. He was regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. A testament of how well he wrote was his story of Romeo and Juliet. This is a tale of two star-crossed lovers that end their families feud with their deaths. In the story the love the two have for each other seems to be just, but that isn’t so. While it is good to love passionately, Romeo and Juliet not only loved passionately but also desperately. The fears of their parents, life in feuding families, and the ridicule that they would get because of what family they’ve come from were totally cat aside due to the influence their love had on them. Even though love can be an amazing thing, it can sometimes blind one from the much-needed truth. The book Romeo and Juliet is based on the forcefulness of love, but what it fails to realize is that Romeo’s and Juliet’s love wasn’t forceful but blind. Now they weren’t actually blind, but they soon became morally blind in order to stay together. This doesn’t
Romeo and Juliet is, as is commonly known, filled with tragedy. There is no question about the moments of bitter misfortune but what is worthy of question is what causes the somber events and it may be who most would least expect. Romeo and Juliet is a poem by William Shakespeare written in the late 16th century. Upon a rebellious request by Romeo’s cousin and great friend Benvolio. Romeo meets up with Juliet and over the course of five dramatic days the end up dead, poisoned and stabbed as both families mourn on their mistakes. Romeo and Juliet is about love, but is also about how dangerous love is. Shakespeare hints at an idea of love’s constraining effects of the mind and how this can be to the danger of many.
William Shakespeare's timeless tragedy, "Romeo and Juliet," has captivated audiences for centuries with its poignant portrayal of young love doomed by the feuds of their families. While many perceive their tragic fate as inevitable, a closer examination reveals that Romeo and Juliet's impulsive decisions ultimately led to their untimely demise. By analyzing their choices throughout the play, it becomes evident that with greater wisdom and restraint, Romeo and Juliet could have avoided their tragic end and lived to cherish their love. From the moment they meet, Romeo and Juliet's love is characterized by impulsivity. Despite being sworn enemies, they fall deeply in love at first sight, oblivious to the consequences of their forbidden romance.
Throughout the world there is people who spend their whole life trying to fix another person's problems. And eventually they end up getting themselves into trouble. This is what happens to a character in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. In the play many characters try to fix another problem. But throughout their fixing they make many flaws that ends up creating a huge mistake that ends the lives of two young lovers. And throughout all those characters, Friar Lawrence is the one most at fault for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet ends in tragedy, because of some of Romeo and Juliet’s faults. Romeo and Juliet obviously rush into things. They do not listen to the advice of Friar Lawrence and end up paying the ultimate price. They also ignore the obvious factors that prohibit Romeo and Juliet from ever being happy together. Romeo and Juliet are also very immature and are groomed for social disaster. Romeo and Juliet are also not in love, but in lust. The combination of impatience, immaturity, and ignoring other’s advice leads to the tragedy of these two “star-crossed lovers.”
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light” ( Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban). This exemplifies the true beauty that even in the most distressing times of anyone's life, there is always light somewhere to restore. Many struggle with things that rests upon them throughout their life and never seem to have a way to cope with whatever the challenge may be. Nevertheless, many should put forth effort to hunt for those concealing glimmers of hope that illuminates anyone's heart. Similarly, within Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” two family rivals, the Capulets and Montagues, clearly resemble this quote. However in this case Juliet and Romeo’s relationship
Love inflicts a diverse combination of emotions that will often change a person’s relationship with others. One of Shakespeare’s most notable plays, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a tale about the forbidden love of two young lovers who were the sole children of two long-feuding families of Capulet and Montague in Verona, Italy. The feud between their families, their love and marriage forces a teenaged, impetuous Romeo, and thirteen-year-old Juliet Capulet whose actions are driven primarily by her emotions to grow up in a course of four days. Throughout the course of the four days, Juliet’s loyalty to her family gradually wanes until she is fully loyal to Romeo as her husband. Juliet holds an eros love for Romeo which causes them to act out of impulse.
”Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds”. This quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt explains that events that happen are not entirely dictated by fate, rather by how people behave. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, flawed characteristics are easily seen as the cause of the death of the characters Romeo and Juliet. Some people may claim that their deaths were merely an act of fate however, Romeo and Juliet had control over their actions and could have prevented their deaths. The death of Romeo and Juliet was dictated by the foibles of characters throughout the play, not fate because they intentionally kept their marriage a secret, they made drastic decisions, and they accepted the help of the
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses elements of tragedy to create a very emotional and intense story about two teenagers who fall in love despite being from feuding families.. By doing this, Shakespeare shows how Romeo and Juliet's flaws and questionable choices lead to their downfall, and how their family's hatred for each other makes things even worse. Through this tragic tale, Shakespeare teaches us about the dangers of letting emotions control our actions. Shakespeare uses elements like tragic hero, tragic flaw, dramatic irony, comic relief, and fate, to make the characters feel even more relatable and real. Romeo is portrayed as the tragic hero in Romeo and Juliet through his noble birth, his flaws, and his ultimate demise.
Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, tells the story of two star-crossed lovers and the tragic fate that suits them both. The theme of true love’s power to fuel actions of irrationality is deeply explored. Kept apart by their family rivalry between the Capulets and the Montagues, they defy the social norms, willing to risk everything for the sake of being together. Driven by their passionate love, they lead themselves into impulsive situations and on a tumultuous journey that inevitably ends in death. Shakespeare looks into the complicated nature of love, demonstrating how it can lead people to act in ways that defy reason and logic, sometimes with disastrous effects.
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that involves young lovers, their “untimely death,” and a feud between their two families. The Capulets and the Montagues war against each other. The feud continues to escalate and provides the background for the story of these “two star-crossed lovers.” This literary masterpiece is still relevant today since it involves parental ambition, family fighting, and young love.
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.
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – popularly considered by many to be the quintessential love story of all time – is a play that we are all familiar with in one way or another. Whether it be through the plethora of portrayals, adaptations and performances that exist or through your own reading of the play, chances are you have been acquainted with this tale of “tragic love” at some point in your life. Through this universal familiarity an odd occurrence can be noted, one of almost canonical reverence for the themes commonly believed to be central to the plot. The most widely believed theme of Romeo and Juliet is that of the ideal love unable to exist under the harsh social and political strains of this world. Out of this idea emerge two
Shakespeare understood that with young love came rebellion, (which upon Juliet’s marriage to Paris being advanced ahead of time), made the lovers more determined to defy their scorning families and the chain of being. Had their families ceased their feud and with time, let their children get to personally know each other, their young love might’ve extended into true love. Shakespeare presents the complexities and faults with young love in the play with rebellion and time as catalysts in their downfall, suggesting a negative view of the human nature.
Fate works in mysterious ways, everyone makes choices out of their own free will which affects their
Montague's son Romeo in the book Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare in the 1500’s, supports the audience with many of his strengths and weaknesses. In this story, two well-known families of Verona, the Montagues, and Capulets are in a feud against each other; however, the son of the Montague family, Romeo, and the daughter of the Capulet family, Juliet fall in love at first sight at a Capulet party. Even though Romeo is a Montague, his personality and his calm behavior persuades Capulet to let him stay at the party. After he meets Juliet, Romeo asks the friar to marry them both; even though, the friar was concerned about Romeo because of his instantly changed and unthought decisions he lets them marry each other secretly. Romeo’s commendable behavior proves a strength and his uncontrollable emotions show his weakness.