Romeo And Juliet

Does love really conquer all or is it destiny who determines the lover’s fate? Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, Play, is a story about two “star-crossed lovers” (Shakespeare Prologue.6) whose love is fatal because of their opposing families and misfortunate events lead the couple to their death. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses the motif of destiny to suggest that destiny is inevitable because everyone has their own fate for a reason which cannot be altered no matter the great lengths taken.

SAMPSON A dog of that house shall move me to stand. I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.

In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Benvolio said, “Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,/ Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!”(1.1.165-166) Benvolio suggests that love seems nice, peaceful, and innocent, but in reality it can be disastrous and even deadly. A world famous author and poet by the name of William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in 1597. Romeo and Juliet is known as one of the best love stories in history. There are many significant characters in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: Romeo, Juliet, Benvolio, Tybalt, the Nurse to Juliet, Friar Lawrence, Mercutio, Lord Capulet, and Lady Capulet. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is the heart-wrending love story of two people who want to be together (Romeo and Juliet), but they cannot because their families are rivals. In the end, the two star-crossed lovers do not live happily ever after. Instead, they both perish. Why did their lives end so tragically? Ultimately, the prideful and foolish actions of the Capulets and Montagues, Friar Laurence, Romeo, and Juliet caused their untimely deaths.

Young lovers defy their families’ long-established vendetta and jeopardize all they have to continue their relationship. The violent commotion between the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, finally bring peace to their feuding families, with their own death. Like with many suicide cases, there are challenges and decisions being made that lead up to this decision. Often times, we question who contributed to the suicide. Regardless, others argue that Romeo and Juliet should be held accountable for their ultimate decision. Then again, there is no definite reason to assign fault to Romeo and Juliet. Not only are their brains not fully developed, but pressures from outside forces caused such stress within the relationship.

Love is like a flame, it provides you with warmth, but too much of it can also burn you. Such is the plot of the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It is a tragedy about two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who unfortunately, belong to families who bear an ancient grudge against each other. In the play, Romeo and Juliet fall in love and quickly decide to marry each other. At the end, Romeo and Juliet’s decisions cause their untimely death, but in reality, there were other people who also contributed to the lover’s death. Friar Laurence, the Nurse and Lord Capulet are responsible for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

Who is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Be sure to use the text to prove your point.

Juliet wanted to do this because she did not want to marry Paris. It would have been better is Juliet would have told her parents that she did not want to marry Paris. As Friar Lawrence said, ‘’... Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou off; When presently through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse shall keep his native progress, but surcease. No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.

In Romeo and Juliet, love is depicted in several ways. Both Luhrman and Shakespeare represent love in different ways in different contexts to both the Elizabethan era and the contemporary audience. Both the original and later manifestations of the text are valued because they both communicate to the audience on the values of love and society by employing a variety of devices.

Juliet then awakens and finds Romeo dead then kills herself. In the end there is blood on someone’s hands and there are many characters you could place the blame to. I believe the Capulets and the Montagues are the main reason for the death of Romeo and Juliet. If there were no conflict between the two’s families there would have been no reason to be secretive about their love. The families put so much dirt on the other families name the kids knew their love would not be acceptable. At the age both they were at a family support system is crucial. With Juliet being only 13 she was still learning about everything there was to know about life and so it’s understandable why she felt she needed to keep her love

According to the text, Tybalt went to fight Romeo but Romeo didn’t want to. Instead his friend Mercutio steps in for Romeo. Romeo tries to break up the fight, but Tybalt ends up killing Mercutio and Romeo gets mad with it. So Romeo goes out to find Tybalt and kills him, but for that he is banished from the city. Juliet decides to go with him without anyone else know. So she takes a drug that friar Laurence gave her to fake her death. Romeo finds out that she is dead and goes to see her dead body. Romeo goes into the tomb and kills himself next to her. When she wakes up, she sees Romeos dead body and decides to kill herself. As you can see Tybalt is to be blamed for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because for Tybalt starting a fight it banished Romeo which lead to the deaths of Romeo and

Romeo, hours after meeting Juliet, ran down to the Friar’s chambers and asked him to marry him to Juliet (Document C). What other Friar would marry a couple that only knew each other for one hour. Romeo was impulsive because Juliet was attractive, but the Friar should've known better not to marry them. “For this alliance may happy prove, to turn your households’ rancor to pure love,” he said when Romeo convinced the Friar to marry them. The Friar was convicted to marry them thinking it would make the two families come together, but instead it caused even more chaos between the families. Second of all, he married Romeo and Juliet without anyone knowing about it. Their parents didn't even know. “So smile the heavens upon this holy act… When they kiss, they consulate the marriage,” he said as Juliet was walking into the church. But, the marriage led to Romeo killing Tybalt, for which he was banished for, and Juliet going against her parents and now not wanting to marry Paris. So after Juliet’s parents yelled at her and threatened her for not wanting to marry Paris, she immediately ran to Friar Lawrence’s chamber to try and find a way out of the wedding. The Friar said “And, if thou dearest, Ill give thee remedy,” meaning he'd find a solution to make sure Juliet does not marry Paris. Before the Friar said that, she said she’d kill herself if she had to marry Paris. The Friar was working on some potions, and said he'd created one to stage someone’s death. This means the potion makes you look dead, such as cold lips and being breathless, for two full days. So, once Friar gave Juliet the potion,

To begin with, Shakespeare stated in the prologue, “Two households, both alike in dignity...a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, doth with death bury their parents’ strife.” (Shakespeare.Prologue.1-6). This means that it was fate that Romeo and Juliet’s relationship could never work out since the vendetta between the two families. In fact, in Kerschen’s critical essay, Kelley Griffith states, “if the plot is only part of a larger or ongoing story, then the characters are more likely to seem at mercy of

Romeo is responsible for the misery and failure of Romeo and Juliet’s love and lives.He agreed to sneak into the party which caused the first problem.”A fair assembly.Wither should they com.”Said Romeo while he was getting talked into going to the party.(1.2.73)Him even thinking about going to the party wasn’t a good idea for him nor the families knowing the feud between them.That proves that he is starting to make this problem escalade.

As you can clearly already, Romeo and Juliet played huge parts in their own deaths but the one thing that pushed them to the point that they thought death was the only option was their families feud. This is because both their families never got along and they hated each other, so that made it extremely hard for Romeo and Juliet to be together. If what you have read hasn't convinced you that their families played a huge role in their deaths too, maybe this quote by the Price in this story will. “This letter doth make good the friar's words, their course of love, the tidings of her death; and here he writes that he did by a position, of a poor pothecary and therewithal came to this vault to die and lie with Juliet. Wheve be the so memies. Capulet, Montague, see what a scourge is laid upon you hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. And I, for writing at your discords too, Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished” (4.3.285-295). As you can see from this quote the Prince is telling both Capulets and Montagues that their feud has caused their children to kill themselves just so they could be together. So that is to say both Romeo’s and Juliet’s families are a part of the tragedy that happened to Romeo and

Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare’s most famous play which is about love of two teenagers of two rival families. Since Romeo’s family and Juliet’s family are rivals, their families don’t agree with the marriage of their children to each other. However, Romeo and Juliet despite the opposition of their families secretly get married at church and insist on reaching their goal of being together. The whole story is played in the theatre style of the Renaissance; audiences could see violence, young boys are playing female rolls without wearing masks, many scenes and time change. However, if it was played in Greek theatre style, the audience could see a different style of performance and there would be a different effect. In Greek Theatre we would