I fully agree with this quote from W.H. Auden. In my opinion, everyone directly or indirectly contributes to the unfortunate outcome of the play. The ancient feud between the Capulets and Montagues has a profound effect on the lovers from the beginning of their connection. When Romeo and Juliet discover that they are from opposite families, they already know that there will be problems. The two families' inability to come together and settle their differences puts a burden on both Romeo and Juliet, and this burden impairs their decision-making to the point that they commit suicide. Auden effectively describes the situation occurring when he says that it is a “tragedy of a city.” Grief is felt throughout the city due to the losses of life, and the bitter feud of the two families ends only after the heartfelt deaths. …show more content…
Juliet's parents are not understanding of their daughter; they have clear-cut plans for Juliet and come out as controlling. When Juliet pleads to not marry Paris, they show no signs of pity and cruelly threaten to disown her. Friar Lawrence has a great opportunity to reveal Romeo and Juliet's new marriage publically and potentially end the feud between the Capulets and Montagues; however, he continues to foolishly keep their relationship under secrecy. When his plans fail, they significantly worsen the ordeal. Nurse, who has a major influence on Juliet due to their close relationship, does not make things any better; she is not there for Juliet when she proclaims her love for Romeo. She calls Romeo a villain and takes the side of Juliet’s parents indefinitely without showing any compassion for Juliet’s dilemma. In a way, she abandons Juliet and goes astray from their friendship. When combining these three characters’ actions along with the rest of the community’s, we see an outside world that has a momentous impact on Romeo and
Romeo and Juliet first met each other at a party at the Capulets house. They fall in love with each other at the first sight without knowing that they are from families who hate each other, and when they do learn about it, it is too late. Juliet realizes that it was a mistake to fall in love with Romeo, because he is one of the people she should watch out for. He is her first and only love, but he is an enemy of her family. Lucky for Romeo, Juliet is smart, and such dumb thing as hate between their parents wouldn't stop her from loving Romeo and getting married with him. She is sorry that their families are enemies, though, because everything would be much easier if they weren't. So this is the first time when the hate between Capulets and Montagues becomes problem to Romeo and Juliets happiness. Only after their children die, the Montagues and Capulets come to their senses. The Prince accuses them of killing Romeo and Juliet. The Prince makes them see how wrong they were all the time, that all because of their hate, because they couldn't let their children love each other, Romeo and Juliet died. After that, Capulets and Montagues decide to call it quits. No more fighting, and Montague even says that he will make a gold statue of Juliet, but what is that going to do? It is too late, nothing will bring them back. It is totally Capulets' and Montagues' fault that Romeo and Juliet died. If they didn't hate each other so much,
Romeo and Juliet was a renowned play based on two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who came from two opposing families but fell deeply in love with each other. Although the play contained scenes of both love and death, Romeo and Juliet is not solely based on one, but rather how both themes intertwined with each other. Once Romeo and Juliet had established their relationship, it brought about their fate of an untimely death. Subsequently, the death of Tybalt not only aggravated the feud between the two families, but it strengthened and established Juliet’s love for Romeo. Furthermore, it was Romeo and Juliet’s death that finally resolved the argument between the two noble families,
Romeo and Juliet, the Shakespearean playwright of two star crossed lovers, ends in two tragic deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. Who can be hold responsible for their deaths, when so many things went wrong along the way? Many could be held responsible for the deaths of the two lovers, but Romeo himself deserves to carry the heavier load of responsible for not only his death, but the death of his lover, Juliet as well. The young boy’s acts of irresponsibility, impulse, belligerence, immaturity, and streak of bad decisions only brought definite consequences to both himself and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, was originally published in 1597. Until this day, the play is very well known worldwide. The classic love story is set in Verona and is about a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families. This feud causes the death of their beloved children, Romeo and Juliet, who are described as “star-crossed lovers.” It is a play of contrasts of love and hate, joy and sorrow, light and dark, youth and age, life and death. Some readers will blame the main characters, Romeo and Juliet for bringing about their tragic deaths, however some may argue that other characters are responsible for their deaths, with only little of the blame to be placed on Romeo and Juliet.
In the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, we learn of the many hardships and highs Romeo and Juliet go through over the course of the story. The play Romeo and Juliet is based off two star-crossed lovers who are separated from each other due to a feud between their two families. Their love is so strong that at the end of the story Romeo and Juliet both end up committing suicide because they can’t live without each other. Whether it is problems with love, or them complimenting each other on how they feel about the other person, Shakespeare uses many literary devices to make the reader dig deeper into the context to find the meaning behind the sentence. Some of the literary devices are; similes, metaphors, and personification.
Multiple actions of lying and deception can lead to horrific consequences changing the lives of family, friends, and one true love. In the play, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, two teenagers meet each other and instantly fall in love. Their families not only don’t get along, but actually loathe each other. The boy, Romeo, is a Montague and the girl, Juliet, is a Capulet. Throughout the play they try everything they possibly can to be together. Romeo ends up being banished from the town the two lovers live in because he killed a man named Tybalt. This causes Juliet to become upset and take actions that lead to life alerting events. She ends up faking her death causing Romeo to kill himself, which leads Juliet to taking her own life. In the end, the two lovers are no more. Who is to blame for the two teenagers tragic ending? Juliet’s selfish actions brought about the unnecessary death of Romeo and herself.
This essay will explain why Romeo and Juliet gave their lives for each other. The main reason why Romeo and Juliet killed themselves, was because of the feud between their two families. In the Play, Romeo and Juliet cannot marry each other in a normal marriage because of the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo and Juliet also killed themselves in the end of the play because of the miscommunication between Friar Laurence and Romeo, because of the banishment of Romeo from Vernon, and not being able to marry Juliet. Romeo was banished from Vernon because he killed Tybalt and was sent to Mantua, which is where the lack of communication happens. In the end of the play when the Montagues and the Capulets find out that Romeo and Juliet are both dead the two families decide to end the feud. Lady Montague in the end dies, because she finds out that her son Romeo ended up being banished from the city of Vernon.
Who would you blame for an epic tragedy? Do you think 2 feuding families could be the cause of 2 suicides? We knew Romeo and Juliet would end in an epic tragedy, so we knew they had a slim chance of surviving. What we didn't know was how or why they would die. A series of unfortunate events would lead up to their demise. Romeo and Juliet’s love was epic and ended ironically. Romeo and Juliet's parents are responsible for their deaths.
There are two paths that both individually could have been the cause of Romeo and Juliet's demise in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. One, being the uncontrollable road of fate, and the other being sheer human reaction. Though all of the gargantuan decisions made the facade of of destiny controlling their lives, It was mostly the lovers impulsive decisions that would lead to their inevitable end.The first of these decisions was after Romeo sorrowfully decided to crash the Capulet's party, he decided that he was going to waltz up to Juliet and kiss her upon her lips. Though a fantastic idea in is imaginative mind at the time, he did not realize that the furious Tybalt had recognized him before. This tragic mistake leads to Tybalt having even worse blood with Romeo than he did before. This would inevitably lead to Romeo's next impulsive decision that practically destroys his life. Romeo meets Tybalt on the blood-stained streets of
According to the National Institute for Mental Health, there are eleven suicides attempts a day in the Unites States. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in teenagers. In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, people often wonder how things could have gone so wrong for the "two star-crossed." As the story unfolds, it is clear that many characters play a vital role in the events that ultimately lead to the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The characters ultimately to blame are Romeo, Juliet, The Nurse, Friar, and the families.
A long feud between the Montague and Capulet families disrupts the city of Verona and causes tragic results for Romeo and Juliet. Love, revenge, and a secret marriage force the lovers to grow up quickly and fate cause them to commit suicide in despair. The Capulets are responsible for Romeo and Juliet's death due to prevention of Juliet's wedding. Since they are rival families, the Capulets don't want Romeo to marry Juliet. They want to intervene and stop anything from happening between them and make Juliet marry Paris, the rich boy from a “good family”.
Romeo and Juliet In the novel Romeo and Juliet, two “star-crossed lovers” are on a journey to marry and live together forever. They meet at a ball and fall helplessly in love, or so it seems. Them meeting at the ball soon leads to them both dead, a tragic suicide. They killed themselves, after knowing the other for only a few days, because they “loved” one another.
In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two young lovers seperate families have a long feud that disturbs the city of Verona by their often violent conflicts. The two main characters, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, end up suffering a horrible tragedy that is influenced by many actions and people, a lot relating to their families. By the end of the play you get to see that some of Romeo and Juliet’s actions may have been impulsive and not needed, but in my opinion didn’t effect the play as much as the other problems surrounding them. I disagree that the tragedy that destroys Romeo and Juliet is their own fault, due to the numerous other actions that intervene with their relationship such as their families hostility
The tale Romeo and Juliet is about romance, tragedy and rivaliers. Specifically this theatrical work is about a feud between the Capulets and MOntagues, the love of Romeo and Juliet, and their deaths. Romeo Montague is the central character, the son of Lord montague and his wife, and he he secretly desires and marries Juliet. Juliet CApulet is the only daughter of the patriarch regarding the house of Capulets and falls in love with Romeo. The introductory event that leads to the deaths of Romeo an Juliet is seeing each other for the first time at the Capulet's party. The alternative event is getting married to each other. The tertiary crisis is when they have their night as one. The quaternary incident is when Romeo gets banished and Juliet is unconscious through her arranged wedding with Paris. The finishing event is when Romeo goes to Juliet and finds her to be “dead” and he kills himself causing Julter to commit suicide. Friar Laurence is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death, because he agrees to marry them, he follows through and ends up marrying them, and he gives Juliet the potion to fake her death.
When walking in the dark it's easy to lose your way. It's easy to trip or to fall. Without a match or a flashlight anything can happen in the depths of darkness. Romeo, in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, led Juliet down a dark path where she had no other way to get through it rather than to stumble and fall. He, her only light wasn’t dependable and made bad choices leading to their lives to flicker and finally burn out.