The Role Of Forbidden Love In Shakespeare's 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.

Either way, their love was bound to end in a tragic love story. Romeo and Juliet never seemed to be at the right place at the right time. Tybalt didn’t know Romeo and Juliet were married, so he tried to kill Romeo for trying to stop the fight between him and Mercutio. After Romeo’s banishment, Lord Capulet pushed up Juliet’s wedding so she could be married to Paris. Juliet was so upset that her true love had been banished, she considered of ending her life because she could never be with him again. Friar Lawrence said, “take this vial, mix its contents with liquor and drink that night with no one in your room. When they come in to wake you on Thursday morning for the wedding, your body will be lifeless. You will be in a deathlike state for forty - two hours. When your family takes you to the Capulet tomb Romeo will be there to take Mantua. You will have to remain brave and not become scared. Then you will be able to live happily ever after with your true love Romeo.” Friar explained to Juliet how her and Romeo could be together without anyone knowing. All of the secrets between them lead their fates. They never told their parents what they had done, and it ended lives in a heartbreaking mess.

Romeo and Juliet first met each other at a party at the Capulets house. They fall in love with each other at the first sight without knowing that they are from families who hate each other, and when they do learn about it, it is too late. Juliet realizes that it was a mistake to fall in love with Romeo, because he is one of the people she should watch out for. He is her first and only love, but he is an enemy of her family. Lucky for Romeo, Juliet is smart, and such dumb thing as hate between their parents wouldn't stop her from loving Romeo and getting married with him. She is sorry that their families are enemies, though, because everything would be much easier if they weren't. So this is the first time when the hate between Capulets and Montagues becomes problem to Romeo and Juliets happiness. Only after their children die, the Montagues and Capulets come to their senses. The Prince accuses them of killing Romeo and Juliet. The Prince makes them see how wrong they were all the time, that all because of their hate, because they couldn't let their children love each other, Romeo and Juliet died. After that, Capulets and Montagues decide to call it quits. No more fighting, and Montague even says that he will make a gold statue of Juliet, but what is that going to do? It is too late, nothing will bring them back. It is totally Capulets' and Montagues' fault that Romeo and Juliet died. If they didn't hate each other so much,

Love, in 'Romeo and Juliet' has its own importance in the theme of inner struggle between the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is torn between staying loyal to her family and therefore obeying her parents to marry Paris or staying married to an enemy, Romeo, “My husband lives, that Tybalt has slain; / And Tybalt's dad, that would have slain my husband: / All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?” (3:2). On the other hand, Romeo has his struggles too. He juggles between the idea of banishment from Verona and not being able to see his beloved Juliet again and that of death, “Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say 'death'.” (3:3). The secret marriage between Romeo and Juliet is also one of the outcomes due to love. It is because of love that Juliet risked her parents' disapproval to not marry Paris and Romeo risked the danger of being killed by Capulet's kinsmen to go to see her. Yet again, this shows the inner struggle of Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo kept on forcing the idea upon him, so he marries them hoping that their marriage would end the Capulet and Montague feud, even though he did not ask for the parents’ consent. He displays his hope when he says, “For this alliance may so happy prove / to turn your household’s rancor to pure love”(Act I, Scene 4, Lines 91-92). Friar Laurence kept Romeo and Juliet’s relationship secretive, making the situation worsen. Later on, the Friar shows that he has regrets about the marriage. The Friar feels that, “Violent delights have violent ends / And their triumph die… too swift arrives as tardy as too slow” (Act II, scene 6, Lines 9-15). The Friar senses that the wedding is happening too quickly and doubts his decision. He had the potential to prevent the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, but his decisions led Romeo and Juliet to do reckless actions under his ideas. Friar Laurence’s thoughtless decisions led to the deaths of Romeo and

Friar Lawrence marries the naive young couple in hopes it will bring peace between the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. These two families have a violent feud that is causing chaos in the city of Verona.

However, their families (Montague for Romeo, Capulet for Juliet) were engaged in a mortal feud. They would never be allowed to marry; because of their families rule they decide to get married in secret. Later that day, Romeo killed her cousin. This caused rift after rift until eventually because Romeo thought that Juliet had died, he killed himself, and Juliet upon seeing his corpse for herself did

Within the play, Romeo, a young Montague boy, and Juliet, a youthful Capulet, meet at a party thrown by the Capulets. The two quickly fall in love, only finding out later that each belonged to a family that has been despised by their own family for years. Nonetheless, the two lovers continue to see each other after the party, and within the span of a day they have decided they want to get married. But for this to work, they both know

The Capulets and Montagues, dangerously full of pride, let their small-minded hate for each other restrict the potential of their lives as acquainted equals. When Romeo and Juliet ask Friar Laurence to marry them, he could have said no, apprehensive of getting in between this often violent familial rivalry. Rather, he gives them their right to marriage when others would have refused. Friar does not let fear test his morals and instead recognizes how this marriage could result in the reconciliation and

Love is defined as the intense feeling of deep affection. In the play, Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, the attraction between the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet, does not factually classify as true love. Meanwhile, lust is a concept in which is commonly mistaken for love, which is very apparent throughout this classic “love story” of Romeo and Juliet. While others could debate that Romeo and Juliet’s love, was love at first sight, it is debateable that their feelings towards one another were pure lust. Romeo and Juliet are too immature to fully understand the concept of love as they are too young and hormone-driven, they were both in search for escapism from their present troubles, and they had an excessive amount of

While marrying the two, Friar Lawrence expresses how the marriage will hopefully bring the two families together, Capulets and Montagues, and thus ending the ongoing feud between them. Soon after their wedding, Romeo is banished for the murder of Tybalt, further enhancing the arguing between the families. At that time it seemed impossible for their marriage to now fix their feud, however later on it did. Although it did accomplish what the priest intended, it was not in the way anyone hoped or expected, furthermore creating the irony. By uniting the two families through the marriage of their children, Friar Lawrence thought that it would bring and end to the feud, one that was creating lots of negative events. Unfortunately it took the death of Romeo and Juliet for the houses to understand how trivial the rivalry was, and to finally end it. Both the Capulets and the Montagues realized how their fighting caused the death of their children, and agree to make amends and build a statue in their honor. This is ironic since it was the hope that the marriage would create the resolving outcomes, however it did not happen in the way expected. Romeo and Juliet were intending for their marriage to end the rivalry amongst their families, and the irony is that it did, however at the expense of their lives, something nobody in the play was

Don’t you hate it when something doesn’t turn out the way you wanted it to? When you care so deeply about something and sacrifice so much just so that it can happen, but despite it all, ends in ruins. This is the theme of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In this tragic tale, two fated lovers risk everything, even life itself, to be with one another. They go against family, friends and fate to be together. Had premonitions in the play been taken more seriously by key characters, tragedy could have been avoided.

However, their “love” leads them into new problems.Which resulted them into making rash decisions. They could’ve easily avoided these conflicts, by talking to their parents about their marriage, but that is not what they decided to do. Romeo and Juliet’s decisions are never well thought out at all, since all their decisions lead to suicide threats. In addition, both of them are very self-centered becuase, it never occured to them that if they died it could effect other peoples lives terribly. William Shakespeare is showing us, how their decisions will affect themselves in the future. He demonstrates that love should be taken slowly and peacefully. But in Romeo and Juliet’s case love is very fast and unpleasant. William Shakespeare states that, “ As if that name, shot from the deadly level of a gun, Did murder her, as that names cursed hand Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me Friar, tell me, In what vile part of this anatomy Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack The hateful mansion” (A.3 s.3 l.102-108). Romeo is very upset in himself because he believes that Juliet is heartbroken, that he had just killed her cousin, Tybalt. Therefore, he threatened Friar Lawrence, suicide by drawing his dagger. This indicates how Shakespeare describes young love as misleading, because Romeo is very impulsive. He is not thinking this through with Friar Lawrence at all. Instead, he

For this anthology about love I have chosen, and mainly centred around the topic of love that is forbidden. With this type of love, comes many struggles and questions that I’m sure must go through the minds of people in this situation. This is what happens with Romeo and Juliet in the Play written by William Shakespeare in 1591. It will be a romance that will strongly challenge them, but as we see it will not break the bond of love they have for each other. In this task I will try to describe the pain, happiness, frustration, forgiveness, anger, and joy through a collection of shorts texts that come with the topic of persecuted, and forbidden love.

Frist of all, forbidden Loves can be caused by many different issues. For example, forbidden love can be caused by differences in race, religion, social standing, gender preference, or in the case of Romeo and Juliet, family feuding. As a result, people, especially teens,