Secrets In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Because of their huge feud against each other, Romeo and Juliet have to suffer as a result. If the two families did not have a strong hate against each other, Romeo and Juliet wouldn't of needed to hide their love for each other. If they didn't have to hide their love, Friar Lawrence wouldn't of came up with a plan for them to end up together.

marriage. Keeping the marriage a secret caused Romeo and Juliet to turn to other people for

Secrecy is an evil thing. It grasps onto innocent people with innocent purpose. Shakespeare uses secrecy to protect Romeo and Juliet’s love and hide the threat of the family’s feud. Their love is cloaked in secrecy through the fear of consequences and the influence their love has on decisions.

Secret is defined as something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others. If that is true, why do we tell others our secrets? No one's secrets are truly theirs, at some point anxiety will build up, information accidentally comes out, or you may just tell someone. Your confidentialities are not always yours, at a young age kids tell their parents everything. As those kids grow up, and become teens they start to develop barriers between their parents. Not telling them whatever is going on, at school or at practice can only last so long. This is hardly the case, because everyone has told their friend or parent something that was meant to be classified. For example, if one player on the basketball team knows a secret about another player, the whole team knows. That is due to the fact that we are a family and don’t care what we think of each other, because we are one. Trustworthiness is hard to prove, confidence is needed to tell someone a secret. If the friend is not trustworthy then that secret could be floating around school completely changed from its original stature. A secret is only a true secret if it is kept with only yourself. Just as honesty is evident in life so it is in literature. In William Shakespeare’s famous love story, “ Romeo and Juliet” and in life, withholding secrets is the

The play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is about a tragedy of two star crossed lovers who want nothing more than to be together forever. “…Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” (2.2.35-36) Romeo, a Montague, who is young and passionate, meets Juliet at a Capulet party. When they meet, it’s love at first sight. Juliet, a Capulet, is a beautiful young lady tired of being controlled by her father, Lord Capulet. The two families are in a never ending feud that comes between Romeo and Juliet’s love. In the course of four and a half days, Romeo and Juliet plan their marriage with the help of Priest Friar Laurence and Juliet’s Nurse. After the couple is married,

As Benjamin Franklin said, “Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.” In the novel Romeo and Juliet, secrets run throughout Verona, Italy in the 1300s and end the feud of two families through loss. Shakespeare wrote this tragedy, to convey that youth think with their hearts rather than their minds. Due to the years of feuding between the Capulets and Montague families, Romeo and Juliet’s concealed love leads to secrets, death, and heartbreak. Consequently, their immature lust causes deadly secrets to outbreak in Verona.

Romeo was saying that love can be dangerous but that he would do anything to call Juliet his. This shows how the two shouldn’t have been married because it can end poorly. Their love was new and strong and they got so caught up in their first real love that it became all they thought of. Both of the characters knew about the dangers of keeping something a secret, yet they did it anyway. This lead to conflict because nobody knew. The marriage was done in secret for a reason, and that secret would lead to lives of three people.

Romeo and Juliet were in deep love and if they would have just told there families they would still have a chance to live. The main theme of Romeo and Juliet is "when passion overrules reason, tragedy often follows", this is displayed in every act and every scene. Some events are a little easier to relate to the theme and some are very complicated but they all relate nonetheless. The passion is usually a emotion like love or fear. The reason is sometimes a possible consequence or a why something shouldn't be done. the tragedy is the result of over looking the reason. I think Shakespeare was trying to teach us not to let are emotions get the best of

Others may say, secrets must be kept because they can hurt people. In an article by Irene Van, says that you can keep secrets about family and friends. Irene Van says, “ Gossip about family or friends unless this is about something that worries you, in / which case you should tell a adult you trust” (Van.II). This proves that, Irene Van believes that secrets about family and friends should be kept because it can really hurt your friends feelings. Second, this could be true because if I tell my friend one of my secrets, I trust this person. If he or she is going to go and tell my secret to someone, I am not going to tell he/she any secrets. However, on the other hand, in the same article Irene Van says that any kind of touch should not be kept as a secret. Irene Van says, “ Secrets that are not safe to keep:/ Any kind of touch” (Van.II). First, I would tell my parents if this happens to me because if I tell this secret to my friends, and they spread it, it would hurt me. Second, this can lead to more problems if I kept this as a secret from my parents because, the same thing will continue if I don’t take

Though often times in the world one may get caught up in the secrets and rumours about them or those around them, it is these secrets and rumours that shape a human being’s character and relationships with those around them. In the Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, the effects that secrets have on characters’ relationships shape the play, yet more specifically, it is the literal secrets regarding relationships that shape such relationships, which, in turn, shapes the play. Different relationships as outlined thoroughly in the play are not only a result of the secrets themselves, but the location in which these certain secrets are initially portrayed.

Their “love” for each other leads them to get married in secrecy. Although, only knowing each other for barely a couple of hours. Neither of them told their parents. The only people that know about the marriage are the nurse, Friar Lawrence, Romeo, and Juliet. William Shakespeare displays this by, “Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. / If that thy bent of love be honorable, / Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow / By one that I’ll procure to come to thee / Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite, / And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay /

The lovers spilled about their confidential relationship; Juliet to her Nurse and Romeo to his Friar, the secrets then get bigger and bigger with the nurse having to hide that Juliet was in love with her enemy to her father who was persistent to marry Juliet to Paris; a County at St. Peter’s Church, and the Friar who had to hide the fact that he was the one who married the two. The situation gets worse after Romeo gets banished from Verona and Juliet confides to the Friar, threatening herself with suicide if she wasn’t with her beloved, the Friar then suggests her to fake her death and eventually be with Romeo, another secret added to the list. This information becomes modified and ends up making its way to Romeo who assumes that Juliet has genuinely died. The consequence of this is Romeo claiming he “will [lay] with [her] tonight” (V.i.36) which outcomes in ending the short-lived lives of not only Romeo, but Juliet as

If they had just told everyone that they were together and married, then they wouldn’t both be dead by their own hands. One good example for this is when Tybalt and Romeo are fighting and since Romeo and Juliet’s love was secret Tybalt didn’t know that he shouldn't fight him. In act 3 Tybalt tries to convince Romeo to fight against him but Romeo says, “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee/ Doth much excuse the appertaining rage/ To such a greeting.

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet -- the story of two star-crossed lovers -- is built upon the foundation of secrecy. The Elizabethan era was the core of an accustomed secrecy in society. The Capulets and the Montagues, two feuding families in Verona, pay the ultimate price for their everlasting brawl. Young Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love at first sight, only to hide their intimacy and marriage from adversaries. When reading the story, one finds that Romeo and Juliet feel as though they have to retain their endearment from their battling families, thus, leading to a chain of luckless events.

Romeo and Juliet decide to keep their love a secret because they know the consequences that would come from having their families find out. The Montagues and the Capulets have been in a long standing quarrel for generations. Romeo first only tells his