Romeo and Juliet

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two star-crossed lovers, will do anything to show their deep affection for each other. Since they are from two different families, who happen to be enemies, they can be punished for expressing their love for one another. Unfortunately, their passion sparks many outrages. Due to Father Capulet’s feud with the Montague family, Romeo and Juliet's love life results in death.

Romeo and Juliet shows how the story of true love can break the ancient grudge between two families. The conflict in the story is Capulets against Montagues. From ancient times, the two families have held grudges against each other. As the book states. “Two households, alike in dignity...from ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean” (1.Prologue.1-4). The grudge between the two families led to fighting and even death.

The feud between the two families is a reason that they are responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The Capulet’s hate the Montague’s so much that Juliet could not tell them that she loves Romeo. Document A states, “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny” (Document A). Meaning that the two

In Romeo and Juliet, love is depicted in several ways. Both Luhrman and Shakespeare represent love in different ways in different contexts to both the Elizabethan era and the contemporary audience. Both the original and later manifestations of the text are valued because they both communicate to the audience on the values of love and society by employing a variety of devices.

The Tragedy of the Montague and Capulets Just about everyone knows of Romeo and Juliet as being a classic love story… or is it? The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is the tale of two feuding families who’s hatred of one another led to the untimely deaths of their two only children, as well as many others. These two children are the star crossed lovers themselves- Romeo and Juliet, and their tragedy is caused by the ancient grudge lying in the Capulet and Montague families. Hate is both intoxicating and blinding, which allows the reader to see Shakespeare’s belief that hatred has the power to destroy. Shakespeare has shown us that hatred has a blinding and destructive power since the prologue, when he foreshadowed the dirty deeds to be done by the feuding families.

Romeo and Juliet argues that life is enjoyable if and only if mutual love accompanies it. Capulet’s perspective that life is limiting prevails for anybody who isn’t exposed to mutual love because “we were born to die” (3.4.4). To those exposed to mutual love---particularly Romeo and Juliet, life is profoundly valuable, for being with their partner stimulates and unifies every part of their bodies: mind, spirit and emotion. To both Romeo and Juliet, life absent of love makes death preferable to living. Shakespeare demonstrates that life with love transforms a meaningless existence into one that results in the complete, perfect unity of two psyches.

The story of Romeo and Juliet has gained much popularity in the Era of Literature. It is one of Shakespeare’s most well-written tragedies. Many people think that it is a love story but sadly it is not and it’s a long fight between the Montagues and Capulets. The Montagues and Capulets have a history of hatred between each other. In act 3 William Shakespeare brings characters and conflicts to a climax.

It’s a feud so deep and long lasting it seems that nothing can keep these families from fighting. The play opens up with a scene where two servants of the house of Capulet run into some servants of the house of Montauge on the street. Sampson one of the Capulet servants states “Nay, as they dare I will bite my thumb at them, which is a disgrace to them if they bear it” (Shakespeare 7). We see early on that the feud isn’t just family fighting, but also the servants. Tybalt one of Juliet’s cousins known to be hot headed when it comes to the Montagues, he walks up to the servants and states with his sword drawn “what, drawn , and talk of peace? I hate the word As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee,” (Shakespeare 8) from early on Shakespeare wants the reader to

The Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet, is an iconic story of two lovers who meet tragic ends. Set in Verona, two households: the Montagues and Capulets, are head to head in a hostile feud. Fed up with the rivalry, the Prince of Verona announces that the next person to cause a ruckus will be put to death. Meanwhile, Romeo Montague is in despair over a girl named Rosaline. His friends finally convince him to go to a party, where he’s lays his eyes on Juliet, a Capulet.

The Capulet and the Montague hatred lead to the intense love between Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet know that their parents will not bless them for their marriage, so they secretly met each other at midnight and plan to marry each other. When Romeo and Juliet spent the first night together and in the morning Romeo tell Juliet that needs to leave, but Juliet reply “Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone” (III.iv.7), which reveals Juliet don’t want Romeo to leave. Romeo respond “Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death; / I am content, so thou wilt have it so” (III.iv.9), it illustrates that Romeo will stay there with Juliet, even though Romeo know if someone find him he will die. Hatred makes Romeo and Juliet’s love more intense and because of that Romeo want to stay with Juliet every

Many people today have heard of Romeo and Juliet, but have not read it. Or they have read some of it, but have not paid attention to the moral lessons in this tragedy. Many people nowadays, think of Romeo and Juliet, as a super dramatic, boring play. In a sense, Romeo and Juliet are very dramatic, But the story is full of morals woven into it. One very important moral is having discernment and caution with the advice one is given.

Throughout the Renaissance era, Shakespeare has made many great plays. One of the best plays, Romeo and Juliet, takes place in Verona, Italy. This play is a tragicomedy that involves many puns, jokes and laughs. Every character makes mistakes that contributes to the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet, yet, throughout the play, there is one character prompting the feud, Mercutio. Mercutio is the character most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he causes problems for both families even after his death. Mercutio pushes Romeo to crash the Capulet’s party, which causes Tybalt to get aggravated and duel with Romeo, and the cursing of both families that come true after his death.

What is love? Everywhere we go we can find love. It surrounds us everywhere. Thousands of stories going back centuries about love and falling in love at first sight. Romeo and Juliet is a very popular story. A girl and boy lived in the city of Verona in Italy two noble families, the Montagues and Capulets. Unfortunately, there existed much bad blood between them. Their animosity was so pronounced that they could not stand the sight of one another. The bloody feuds of the two families led the Prince to order all brawls to cease on pain of death. Romeo, son of old Montague, is a handsome young man. He fancies he is in love with Rosaline, who disdains his love. As a result, Romeo is depressed. At the ball, Romeo is attracted by a girl who he learns is Juliet, daughter of the Capulets. They seal their love with a kiss. Juliet, on learning Romeo’s identity from a servant, confesses to herself that her only love has sprung from her only hate. The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. Dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur, it is often regarded as the first great work of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about 'Bilgamesh ', king of Uruk. These independent stories were later used as source material for a combined epic. The first surviving version of this combined epic, known as the "Old Babylonian" version, dates to the 18th century BC and is titled after its incipit, Shūtur eli sharrī. Only a few tablets of it have

Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare’s most famous play which is about love of two teenagers of two rival families. Since Romeo’s family and Juliet’s family are rivals, their families don’t agree with the marriage of their children to each other. However, Romeo and Juliet despite the opposition of their families secretly get married at church and insist on reaching their goal of being together. The whole story is played in the theatre style of the Renaissance; audiences could see violence, young boys are playing female rolls without wearing masks, many scenes and time change. However, if it was played in Greek theatre style, the audience could see a different style of performance and there would be a different effect. In Greek Theatre we would

Some critics feel that Shakespeare was a man ahead of his time, And therefore he was having plays and writing scripts. Shakespeare had gotten famous off of his one play called “Romeo and Juliet” this play is still being read to this day. And there are even other items that fall with the name Romeo and Juliet. They had “Romeo y Julieta” cigars. They made a state charge called the “Romeo and Juliet provisions” And this was all created from the play Romeo and Juliet. Modern day teenagers are not relevant to the play Romeo and Juliet.