Essay on The Inner Struggles of Romeo and Juliet

As Juliet awaits for Romeo to arrive, the Nurse rushes into her room and tells her the awful news about her cousin’s death. “This is that banished haughty Montague. That murder'd my love’s cousin-- with which grief...Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee. Obey, and go with me; for thou must die (5.3.49-57)”. With these harsh works, Juliet expresses her sadness for the death of Tybalt, but in reality she is heartbroken by Romeo’s banishment from the town of Verona.

Juliet’s love and loyalty towards Romeo, and her developing character do not only play an important role in motivating her in speaking the lines that she does, but also in motivating her actions. Despite all the current events that have occurred; events that have affected her state of mind, Juliet decides to remain true and faithful to Romeo.

William Shakespeare is widely known for all of his literary works; one of his most famous love tragedies being 'Romeo and Juliet'. A Shakespearean definition of tragedy exemplifies the sense that human beings are inevitably doomed through their own failures or errors, the ironic action of their virtues, or even through the nature of fate and destiny (Sayour, Susan, 2007). Romeo and Juliet is a tragic tale based on two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. Throughout the play, Shakespeare intentionally draws on text structures and language features in order to replicate the attitudes, values and beliefs of Elizabethan audiences and intertwine it into his

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.

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet focus on the two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love and die within a span of three days. Romeo and Juliet illustrate how the love brings them together to over power the control of their relationship. The moment that Romeo and Juliet declare their love for one another, they try to keep their love a secret since they are the children of the feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Initially their families would be outraged against their relationship that Romeo and Juliet propose to hide the truth of their love. Once Romeo and Juliet reveal to the Nurse and Friar Lawrence their plans to marry, their relationship is nothing but a risk of problems. Romeo is unafraid to show his love that he teases Tybalt teasing him about falling in love with Juliet, although not explicitly. However, the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, occur when Romeo and Juliet take actions to protect themselves, but they are not however, protected. Juliet protects her relationship by committing a false death only for Romeo to believe it as true. As a result, the act to protect Romeo and Juliet’s relationship a secret are examples of the failed actions both Romeo and Juliet try to prevent; however, it is not ‘fate’ that control their lives and deaths.

Love is spoken about a lot in all of these stories, one thing that these stories talk about is love can come with a cost. As you will see in these stories ( Romeo and Juliet, Pyramus and Thisbe, and Duty) there will be death due to love.

“For never was a story of more woe, than that of Juliet and her Romeo”.

All in all, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet consists of family love, such as when Juliet married the son of her family’s enemy and when the Prince got personally involved in the family feud because his relative, Mercutio, dies in one of their arguments, friendship love, such as when the loyalty Mercutio and Romeo gets Mercutio killed and Romeo banished, and romantic love, such as when Romeo was madly in love with Rosaline and when Juliet and Romeo fall in love and get married. In Romeo and Juliet love is emotion of deep affection usually if not always accompanied by conflict. Love and conflict are the same as comedy and tragedy; two sides of the same coin.

The long-standing bitterness amongst the families creates dramatic obstacles which cause the lovers to rebel against their families. “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name.” (II.ii.33-34) exemplifies Juliet’s distraught emotions, as she starts to re-considerthe importance of her family’s grudge. Subsequently, both Romeo and Juliet ignore the wishes of their families, the law, and moral behaviours of society so they can be together.

The human spirit is one of the most complex systems of emotion that we contain or possess inside our body. For example a rubix cube is very challenging and puzzling and can easily fool you and cause you to grow impatient and angry. Also a puzzle can be just as challenging though easier because of the certain locations of edge pieces. Now apply that to your life you can learn how to be a more understanding patient person by waiting till you are done with the cube or learn nothing but disappointment from leaving it unsolved. Another lesson you learn is to be a great problem solver and in a way it helps you learn to trust by just working on the puzzle and eventually finishing it. In the play written by William Shakespeare all of these lessons

After the Capulet Ball has come to a close and Juliet is interested in who Romeo is, Juliet asks secretly who the boy she’s fallen head over heals for, “‘Go ask his name-If he is married/ My grave is like my wedding bed. ’/‘His name is Romeo, and a Montague/The only son of your great enemy’” (1.5.133-136). Juliet’s discovery of her new found love’s true identity leads her to feel crestfallen, but her and Romeo’s love for each other sets up the greatest defiance they could perform: marriage.

Hey, do you ever stop and ask yourself questions when your reading Romeo and Juliet? If you do are some of the questions something like, Why are these two families fighting? Are Romeo and Juliet's families the reason for their struggles throughout the play? Or even, Are Romeo and Juliet's families the reason for their deaths at the end of the play? "CHORUS

After learning of Tybalt’s death and Romeo’s exile, Juliet feels conflicted which reveals her inner struggle. After their secret marriage, Juliet is patiently waiting for Romeo, her husband. The Nurse comes in and is very upset. She is crying that someone has died. Juliet thinks that the Nurse is talking about Romeo. The Nurse later reveals that Tybalt is the one who has died and Romeo has been banished. Juliet first feels very betrayed by Romeo and curses him. She later says, “He was not born to shame. /Upon his brow shame is asham’d to sit;/ For ’tis a throne where honor may be crown’d/ Sole monarch of the universal earth./ Oh, what a beast was I to chide at him!” (3.2.92-95). Juliet is saying that Romeo does not

In A midsummer night’s dream by Shakespeare, Lysander used to say: “The course of true love never did run smooth” (1.1.134). It doesn’t only indicate the development of the plot but also works in real world. In a love relationship, people are always facing difficulties from all aspects: There could be opposition from parents and society; there could be difficulties from destines; not always this, another person, one of the lovers, money, desire, or even magic can ruin their relationships. Therefore, there is no denying that true love always encounters obstacles.

Paris. A letter is sent to Romeo, but is unable to reach him in time.