Shakespeare's Romeo and Juiliet Shows the Forcefulness of Love and Fate

Romeo is portrayed as an emotional and reckless character. His friend Mercutio and Fr. Lawrence comment on Romeo’s fickle attitude when he immediately falls in love with Juliet completely forgetting about Rosaline, his first love. Romeo quotes,” Did my heart love until now? Foreswear it sight, for I never saw true beauty until this night”. His love for Rosaline was superficial. Juliet transforms Romeo’s immature and erotic infatuation to true and constant love. After meeting Juliet he matures very quickly. Maybe Romeo’s love for Juliet is so intense because unlike Rosaline, Juliet reciprocates his

Romeo and Juliet’s lack of parental guidance encourages their disloyalty towards their respective families and their willingness to disregard their identity as a Montague or Capulet, creating a new identity based off of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship for them. Romeo and Juliet both do not receive proper guidance from their respective parents, which causes them to not hold as much importance for their respective families. As a result, Romeo and Juliet begin to disregard and not take pride in their identity as a Montague or Capulet, as Juliet is willing to “no longer be a Capulet” (II.ii.39) for Romeo, while Romeo also considers himself a Capulet after their marriage. Romeo and Juliet start to consider their relationship more important than

Romeo and Juliet, though termed as tragedy, love is the dominating and most vital theme of this play, the whole play is intertwined on the romantic love between Romeo and Juliet at their first sight, though the love can be considered infatuation love. In this play, the lovers deny the family and the entire world and proceed with their marriage "Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, I” “And I'll no longer be a Capulet" Romeo abandons his close friends, Mercutio and Benvolio and even risks his life and returns to Verona for the sake of his lady love even after being sent in exile. Love becomes a force for every incident narrated in the play. The lovers take impulsive decisions; by this, they go against the norms of this world. Juliet has no words to explain her immense love "But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up some of half my wealth"

Within the play titled Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare the character Juliet of the Capulet family changes her attitude toward love and marriage. Shakespeare's play displays that Juliet’s attitude adjusts throughout the play; she goes from being an independent woman who does not seek marriage, to having a cautious love, to eventually hopelessly in love. At the beginning of the play Juliet’s mother speaks with her about marriage, which Juliet answers to her mother "It is an honor I dream not of,” showing that she has no interest in love. Then when the play moves to the balcony scene Juliet shows change of where she feels that Romeo is her first love, yet she still displays no intent to marry. Eventually after Juliet does decide

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice. This is the dominant theme in Shakespeare 's The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, a play is about two rival noble families from Verona, the Capulets and Montagues. Indeed, the two families have such an ongoing hatred for each other that they are constantly feuding violently without end. Having had enough, Prince Escalus, the Prince of Verona, one day decrees the penalty of death to be upon the person who disrupts the peace again. It is against this vicious backdrop that Shakespeare by contrast, accentuates love in Romeo and Juliet. Three different types of love are depicted: the infatuation of Romeo, the son and heir of Montague, with a woman named Rosaline; the arranged love between Juliet, the daughter of Capulet, and Paris, a kinsman of Prince Escalus, whom Juliet’s parents have chosen to be her suitor; and ultimately, the true love between Romeo and Juliet, whose families are each other’s worst and greatest enemies.

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,

“A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their lives.” ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare is a love story turned into a tragedy. Two families are brought together after a long lasting feud. The feud ends after two teens from each family mistakenly fall for eachother. The only way out is death. The untimely deaths of Romeo and Juliet are ultimately caused by know other than, themselves.

In the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, meet each other and fall deeply in love. From the moment they fell in love they wanted to be together forever and because of the many issues around them, Romeo Juliet always found them helpless. Family, friends and feuds impacted Romeo and Juliet's decision and let to their suicides. Although family, friend and feuds impacted Romeo and Juliet, Lord Capulet, Lady Capulet and the Nurse impacted Romeo and Juliet's decisions and led to them committing their suicides.

Love appears as a burden at first in Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet depicts two protagonists: Romeo and Juliet, respectively. Romeo is apart of the Montague family, an ancient household, and sworn rival to the enemy household of the Capulets. Perhaps the greatest conflict in the novel is that Juliet belongs to the Capulet family, but is deeply in love with Romeo from the opposing side, and vice versa. A common theme of Act 1 of the play is of love. Near the beginning of the book, Romeo is introduced as severely depressed due to him loving a girl named Rosaline, and her not loving him back. He goes on to scorn love and all the pain it brings to him to his cousin, Benvolio. Benvolio himself even recognizes the irony of the situation: “Alas that love, so gentle in his view, should be so rough and

Romeo at the beginning of the play doesn't have the most level-headed understand of what real love is and as an example at the beginning of the play he has "fallen in love" with Rosaline and proclaimed that she is the perfect example of a women. Then later on completely forgets about her after seeing Juliet. This gives the reader the sense that Romeo is not very deep in his feelings for women and has a more superficial idea of what love is. Throughout the play though Shakespeare was able to convey how Romeo has matured in his attitude toward love from a shallow desire to a profound and intense passion. His fidelity toward Juliet is quite abstract in the sense that he loves her enough to commit suicide because he feels that he is not able to continue his lie without her which is a demonstration of his faithfulness and loyalty to her. In Romeo and Juliet Romeo is driven by his emotions a lot of the time when making decisions. Examples of him doing this are that because of anger compels him to kill Tybalt in a duel to avenge to death of his friend and despair causes him to take his own life upon hearing of Juliet's death. He also is driven many times by his love for Juliet. Love forces him to make the reckless decision to sneak into the garden of his enemy's daughter and risk death only to catch a glimpse of her. These intense depths of feeing are what drive the character in this story

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

<br>This shows how Juliet has passion and faith in her relationship with Romeo, while her parents are old-fashioned; her father arranges a marriage for her, and her mother takes the side of her husband, rather than that of her daughter. This scene also shows how Juliet has changed and has gained the courage to speak against authority.

Romeo and Juliet were facing many obstacles during the time they first encountered one another. Their, so-called, “love” sprung as they were both trying to escape from their present problems. Romeo was previously in love with a beautiful girl named Rosaline, although she couldn’t love him back and fulfill Romeo’s sexual desires because she was becoming a nun. He was heartbroken when he found out about this, and thus, he was left inconsolable. Once he discovered that Rosaline was attending the Capulet ball, he decided to sneak in. Minutes into the ball, Romeo sees Juliet and immediately professes his love for her. Juliet also had her own dilemmas to deal with. Some of which included being forced into marrying Paris, a man whom she did not love. Therefore, her love for Romeo was influenced by her reluctance to marry Paris. Prior to Romeo and Juliet’s encounter at the Capulet party, Juliet comments on marriage stating, “It is an honor that I dream not of,” (1.3.68). This quote shows that Juliet had no interest in getting married anytime soon, although when she meets

Romeo and Juliet unexpectedly meet during a party and later, once they realize who the other is and the family they come from, they know the relationship is doomed. After Juliet figures out that the mysterious man she met at her father's party was Romeo, she says “My only love sprung from my only hate!” She says this because her family and Romeo's family hate each other, but she is in love with Romeo. Since Romeo and Juliet are in love, they can’t stay away from each other and meet secretly. Romeo and Juliet feel the need to hide their relationship because they are afraid of what their parents would do if they found out

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the Chorus sets the scene by acting as the prologue to the play. It is here that the Chorus describes a “pair of star-cross’d lovers;” that by taking their lives end the feud between their families (I.Prologue. 5-6). Then the Chorus explicitly says that the two lovers and the strife between their