Romeo and Juliet, Cause and Effect

Romeo and Juliet care for each other and would risk anything for each other. But they barely met each other and they both love one another because of their facial features. Romeo and Juliet are two protagonists who feel they have “true” love, but neither character knows what “true” love is.

are enraptured with their lovers. Why then does Romeo and Juliet end with their death's and the

The story of Romeo and Juliet is one of love and terrible tragedy. Many people have argued if it was actually love that they were experiencing, or if it was just a physical attraction. The article, “Love At First Sight“ by Elizabeth Bernstein, provides facts that prove Romeo and Juliet were not in love, but experiencing strong infatuation with each other.

In Shakespeare’s classic play, Romeo and Juliet, the prologue refers to the title characters as “star-cross’d lovers” with a “death-mark’d love”, showing that the two are doomed from the start (Shakespeare 3). Being from two opposing families that are in a never-ending feud, Romeo and Juliet 's love is forbidden. However, throughout the novel, the lovers defy their parents and pursue their fast-forming love with the help of supporting characters, such as Friar Lawrence, who are seemingly presented as beneficial characters that help the story progress. However, it can be argued that these ”beneficial characters” are actually interfering with their relationship, and are a key factor in contributing to their deaths. Although fate is seemingly

“A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; whose misadventured piteous overthrows do with their death bury their parents' strife.” (prologue)The Lord Capulet is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. There was a longstanding family feud between the Capulets and Montagues, Lord Capulet holding power over everything Juliet did in her life, and their whole family was uptight, uncaring, and unreliable altogether. All these things led to the tragic death of these so called “lovers”.

ROMEO'S FEELINGS CONTRADICT WHAT THE CHORUS TELLS US IN THE PROLOGUE. WE ARE TAUGHT THE "STAR CROSSED LOVERS" TAKE THEIR LIVES BY ROMEO MAKING DECISIONS WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT ANYTHING.

Star-crossed lovers are partners whose love lives are destined to fail due to fate. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, it is said that two star-crossed lovers are initially unable to be together since their families have an ancient, long-term feud. With this prolonged hatred towards each other, anyone from the Montague and Capulet families cannot be together. However, Romeo and Juliet attempt to bypass this because of their strong and intense love for each other. By the end of the play, Romeo and Juliet have committed suicide. Romeo and Juliet’s passing did not happen coincidentally. Although there may be many people to blame for this, the blame of the fall of Romeo and Juliet is most likely Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence

In the article, Taking Words Seriously - Romeo and Juliet are Troubled Kids . By; Stanton Peele,” there was a question that made me think of the story of Romeo and Juliet. The passage says: “ And, most important of all, why do the two lovers end up killing themselves? And they do so when only the other is present?” I think that as they are known as the “star-crossed lovers,” there was a risk in this love. Romeo being a Montague and Juliet being a Capulet. This is a

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, two teens from feuding families fall in love and get married, but can’t be together because Romeo got banished from their city after killing Juliet's cousin, while Juliet’s parents arrange for Juliet to get married to another man. With the help of Friar Lawrence, Juliet fakes her own death, leading Romeo to suicide because of his lack of knowledge of this plan, followed by Juliet’s suicide after seeing the late Romeo. It seems as though fate keeps two star-crossed lovers apart time and time after, but in reality, certain people the two star-crossed lovers’ lives were the ones to push Romeo and Juliet off the cliff and into tragedy. Lord Capulet is Juliet’s father and the enemy

Romeo and Juliet fall in in love as they first see each other, since their families are rivals, hate between the families will cause them to separate. For example, as Tybalt says “Romeo, the love I bear can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain” (Act 3, Scene 1). Tybalt does not admire Romeo, and wants to kill him, for he believes Romeo is a villain. They then have a duel. In addition, Mercutio trash talks Tybalt,

The tale of Romeo and Juliet tells a tragic story of a pair of star crossed lovers. But were Romeo and Juliet really in love? This essay will investigate the play of Romeo and Juliet in order to see if love at first sight was truly possible with this iconic pair.

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.

Here lies the beloved Romeo and Juliet. The star crossed lovers who regrettably because of their true love, caused the deaths of many. Since Romeo and Juliet couldn't live without each other they now lay here in peace. While much can be blamed for this, only three are the most responsible: Lord Capulet, Nurse and Friar Lawrence are the ones who deserve the blame for the casualties of Romeo and Juliet and should be chided for their actions.

The causes of Romeo and Juliet are caused by just not the main characters but with others in verona. With so many causes that lead to the ending here is three charters that stand out to the causes of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ending. With The nurse, Mercutio, and Friar Laurence all with a cause of the tragic ending. First the nurse, the one that is the Juliets adviser to all of Juliet's life decisions.

Shakespeare manifests the final scene of Romeo and Juliet to illustrate how love triumphs over the terror of death and depicts how the Capulet and Montague parents’ mutual love for their children dismisses the ancient feud. The protagonists, Romeo and Juliet’s preference of being killed rather than “death be prorogued, wanting thy love” (Page 91; Act 2, Scene 2), indicates they would rather die than death be delayed without the fulfilment of each other’s love. Romeo commits suicide as he is unaware that Juliet’s death is fiction, which results in Juliet finding his corpse when she awakens and stabs herself as they both do not wish to live with the absence of each other’s love. Again, Shakespeare portrays that love conquers the most feared prospect of life: