Prior to their love affair, Romeo and Juliet were complete opposites. Juliet, categorized as an Eros lover, had a “normal”, happy childhood (with at least one secure parental figure), and knew love existed but wasn’t desperately searching for it. Meanwhile, a Mania lover, such as Romeo, is pessimistic, over dramatic, and yearns for light, but makes no effort to reach it. When souls such as Romeo and Juliet’s cross, it causes an extreme attraction concluding in a collision, ending both of the lover’s lives as they are remembered as tragic heroes. Throughout Juliet’s seemingly untroubled and satisfactory childhood, she was fortunate enough to have, not only a personal servant, but the Nurse being someone she could trust, acting as a best …show more content…
The prior Juliet said “I’ll look to like, if looking liking move;/ But no more deep will I endart mine eye/ Than your consent gives strength to make it fly” (I.iii.97-99), promising her mother that she would stay inside the restraints Lady and Lord Capulet placed on her and Paris’s love. This same girl was suddenly was making secret plans to get married the very next day. “Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow” (II.ii.144). When her husband of a few days was banished from Verona, she broke down to near insanity. “‘Romeo is banished’ - to speak that word/ Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,/ All slain, all dead. ‘Romeo is banished’” (III. ii. 122-124). She was willing to go to measures such as killing herself in order to not marry County Paris, refusing to be a wife of two men, even though her chances of ever seeing Romeo again were slim. “Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,/ Then it is likely thou wilt undertake/ A thing like death to chide away this shame” (IV. i. 72-74). She settled for just a taste of death. “... appear like death;/ And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death;/ Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours” (IV. i. 103-105). Then when she found her husband dead lying on the ground next to her upon her awaken, she knew her plan had failed. Juliet decided a life without Romeo is not a life she wants to live. In result, she found
Romeo and Juliet deceive others due to the poor guidance they receive about their situation. They resort to deceit as a resolution for their desperate situations. Friar Laurence performs their secret marriage as he believes that this alliance could ‘…Turn [their] household’s rancour to pure love’. Juliet is later forced to marry Paris and asks the Nurse for assistance. The Nurse replies that Juliet is ‘…better in this second match’. The Nurse helped Juliet to marry Romeo but as the situation becomes tricky, she betrays Juliet and encourages her to marry Paris; she provides poor guidance in doing so. This poor advice convinces Juliet to consider a plan involving a ‘desperate… execution’. This desperate execution is provided to Juliet by Friar Laurence who provides Juliet with a potion that puts her in a sleep like death. The Friar
Romeo and juliet is very similar to the story “Pyramus and Thisbe” because the theme was nothing can keep love apart. Watching some of my favorite youtubers, and seeing shows backs up this statement because they will fly to far places and will not care about the expenses, or anything that will provide an obstacle because they are inseparable with their love for each other.
The plot of each film has major differences that affect the overall significance of the scenes. Zeffirelli’s movie shows Romeo mourning over Juliet’s body in the Capulet’s Vault. During his final speech to Juliet, Romeo sees Tybalt’s dead body lying next to her, and begins to apologize for killing him. After Romeo’s death, Zeffirelli also includes Friar Laurence entering the vault to come across Romeo’s body. As Juliet wakes up, Friar Laurence tries to lead her away before she discovers her husband had committed suicide to be with her. The inclusion of these characters shifts the attention away from the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet, taking away from the romance and heart break that this scene should convey to the viewer. On the other
A feud is a continuous hostility between two families and often last for years. Family feuds only harm the families involved. In Romeo and Juliet the deaths of Romeo, Juliet, and Tybalt can be linked to the family feud. Tybalt is furious that Romeo attends the Capulets party, and decides to challenge him the next day. This leads to the death of Mercutio, which causes Romeo to seek revenge, and kills Tybalt. Consequently, Romeo is banished by Prince Escalus for the for causing the death of Tybalt. The Capulet family assume that Juliet is grieving over the loss of her cousin Tybalt, and decides to have her married in a couple days to Paris to cheer her up. As a result, Romeo and Juliet turn to Friar Lawrence to come up with a plan to re-unite
Romeo is an unconventional hero which means he’s a hero but with flaws.Romeo’s flaws are that he’s impetuosity , impulsive, and selfish.romeo is impetuosity because he doesn't think thought about drinking the potion that will kill himself before making sure that juliet is actually dead.Romeo is also impulsive because his affections from rosaline to juliet is certainly very quick and impulsive.Romeo is also selfish because he ignores the danger he is getting himself into repeatedly in order to continue to see juliet. Romeo is a young handsome 16 year old that is intelligent and sensitive.He’s an affectionate and devoted friend to his relative Benvolio , Mercutio, and Friar lawrence.Romeo also is affectionate towards juliet and loves her deeply.
Tybalt the cold-blooded killer who killed Mercutio during a fray between Mercutio and Tybalt, which ended in Mercutio death. Soon after, another fray happens between Romeo and Tybalt as Romeo killed Tybalt on the street of Verona in revenge for the death of Mercutio as Tybalt killed Mercutio.
Everyone is forced to read "classic" literature in grade school, and at some point everybody questions what makes a piece of literature classic, and if some literature really should be considered classic. However, the one of the only books widely considered an undeniable classic is William Shakespeare's tale about two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Of course, the general consensus is that Shakespeare came up with the idea of Romeo and Juliet, but another author's poem was a huge source for this famous tale. Arthur Brooke's 1562 poem, “The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet”, was undoubtedly the main source for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, proven not only through the huge similarities in plot, setting, and characters, but also
Is it better to be cautious with love or to take risks? In the novel Romeo and Juliet there are different types of love. Some types of love are risker than others. Parental and romantic love are just two types of love in the novel, but both types of love have similarities and differences with sacrifices and/or benefits. Some sacrifices are greater than the benefits and some benefits are greater than the sacrifices.
William Shakespeare created the characters Romeo and Juliet as the main characters in the play Romeo & Juliet. The pair of them share a few similarities, such as being emotional, impulsiveness, and persistence. They also have several differences, Romeos differences are he allows his mind to be able to get changed, Never talks to his parents, always with friends, anger issues, confides in no one, and interested in love. Juliet on the other hand is, More religious and superstitious, Confides in her nurse, self involved, always lonely, before she met romeo not interested in love, Juliet speaks with them, and she remains truthful until she feels they try to hurt her, Then she lies. I believe he made this tragic love story to show that opposites attract and even in death love will remain.
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (Shakespeare 53). “Romeo and Juliet” is a tragedy play written by one of the best playwright in history, William Shakespeare. These teenagers are both in love with each other very much and want to get married, but there is one big problem standing in their way, their families both hate each other.
''Romeo and Juliet'' is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, it's about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reunite their feuding families. However, the lion king 2, is a 1998 American animated film by Jeannine Roussel, it's about a kingdom of lions in Africa, Kira, the daughter of Simba and Nala (the two main characters), falls in love with the son of the expatriate lioness (Zira), who is out for revenge. What is ''Romeo and Juliet'', and what is it about? Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare, written almost 1594–96 and first published in an unauthorized quarto in 1597. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare makes a world of viciousness and generational conflict in which two youthful individuals fall in love and die since of
Is there a difference between young love in Romeo and Juliet’s time and young love in our time.Romeo and Juliet written by william shakespeare in 1597.This play is about two teenagers that fall in love at first site but fined out that there families are enemies.They still want to be together so they get married but Romeo gets banished for fighting. Juliet drinks a drug that makes her appear that she is dead for two days so she can be with Romeo but Romeo gets there he thinks she is dead so kills himself and Juliet wakes up and kills herself because Romeo is dead.Communication, Attraction/sex and marriage during Romeo and Juliet's time was a lot different than the current time.
Did the universe really want Juliet and Romeo to be together ? I do not believe they were ever supposed to meet . But if they did not meet then the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare would have never been written . So Shakespeare used his character Benvolio to set the story in action .
I'm choosing to compare Romeo and Juliet themselves, from the poem “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare. This dramatic poem, dives deep into the sorrows and tragedy that can be caused by love. The poem goes back years ago, and concentrates on two families, the Montagues and the Capulets. These to family's have an intense hatred for each other, which is seeded deep within their family trees. However, despite the bad blood between the two families, Romeo and Juliet still manage to fall in love. At first glance the two young characters may come across as quite similar, although, if a deeper look is taken, they do have quite a few differences. Romeo is young, and therefore is driven by a wild teen spirit, and hormones; Juliet is quite similar
Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story of two young, ill-fated lovers who are stuck in the cross-fire of hatred between their families. But is it really a love story between Romeo and Juliet? Robert Sternberg, professor at Cornell University, develops his theory of love by comparing it to a triangle. In the triangle, each point is represented by one of the three components of love: intimacy, passion, and decision/commitment. Paris, a sickening creep, and Juliet, the young adolescent girl whom Paris craves, display more of the components of love, passion and long-term commitment, compared to Romeo and Juliet. While William Shakespeare’s work could be that of someone else, whoever wrote Romeo and Juliet excelled of telling a story through another