Timing In Romeo And Juliet

Often in life, tragedies that occur have a lot to do with the bad timing of events. In William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers who live in the beautiful city of Verona, Italy fall madly in love at first sight. The problem with this is that their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding for centuries. After a secret marriage, the two lovers are separated because of the actions of their families. The play tragically ends with the married couple committing suicide because of imperfect timing and confusion. Throughout this play, timing continuously plays a major role in all of the characters actions, eventually leading to tragedy.

One of Shakespeare’s motifs from the story Romeo and Juliet is rushing. A way that Shakespeare uses rushing is when Juliet is waiting on Romeo to come. She wants to see him so very bad because she misses him. She says as an aside, “Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, / Take him and cut him out in little stars” (Shakespeare, 3.2.21-2). She yearns for Romeo.

Love, Haste and Contrasts in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet In this assignment, I will be looking at the play of Romeo and Juliet. I will analyse how Shakespeare has used language in the play for symbolic effect. I will observe on how Shakespeare has presented love and the way in which Romeo and Juliet talk to each other, I shall decide whether their love was real and talk about their parents contrasting views and opinions. I will also comment on the plays relevance today and see how Shakespeare has used dramatic devices and structures to enhance the conversation between the young lovers.

In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet fall in love when they are forbidden to be together. Romeo and Juliet then almost immediately get married which sets the plot for the rest of the play. This forbidden love and hasteful relationship ultimately leads to the demise of both Romeo and Juliet as well as many others throughout the play. The motif of haste in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is developed by the act of foreshadowing and the use of imagery to convey how hasteful actions can lead to one's demise.

later in the story it gets worse were He sates “That one short minute gives me in her sight/Do thou but close our hands with holy words/Then love-devouring death do what he dare/It is enough I may but call her mine.” at this point it is were Romeo is climbing into Juliet’s window. (II.vi.109-110). Soon the two are married and Romeo can hardly wait. He remarks that he is not worried about a thing after the two are married, even death. Here Shakespeare’s employs situational irony and foreshadowing to carry his theme. The play continues for a little less than three days, yet another example of how Shakespeare demonstrates his theme, by allowing the play to only continue for three days he gives his readers a feeling of quickness and shortness. This puts the reader, or audience member, in place where they can feel the inappropriateness of their rushed love.

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we meet the characters and how their actions led to a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet met, end up falling in love, and – since both cannot dream of living without the other – take their lives. While the play ends in a tragic death for both characters, it was their own reckless decisions; though others might believe that it was destiny that played a large role in the lovers’ downfall. However, the majority of the text evidence points to them making their own choices leading to their demise.

In Romeo and Juliet many decisions made by the characters result in the death of two young lovers. Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence make some questionable decisions throughout the play. Juliet decides to get married too quickly, Romeo kills Tybalt, and Friar plans Juliet’s death too suddenly. If even just one choice was different than the play would have ended differently and more characters could have survived.

The story Romeo and Juliet is a story written by William Shakespeare and is mainly about rushed love and making hasty decisions that leads to heave consequences. The story mostly revolves around main characters Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is handsome, intelligent, and sensitive. Though a little immature. He lives in the middle of a violent feud between his family and the Capulets, all though Romeo gets himself in fight and arguments he’s not interested in violence. And Juliet is 13 years old and the daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet. Her character at first appears to be quiet, shy and innocent. She then meets Romeo and shows she is not as shy and innocent as we think. Romeo Juliet is overlooked as a love story and it's more than that Romeo and Juliet love is rushed . For example While most good relationships take years to build, Romeo and Juliet met two hours before they decided to get married, romeo and Juliet fell in “deep love“ for no other reason but looks and appearances. This is proven on many occasions threw out the story, for example at the feast when Romeo thinks Juliet are attractive, just for that one reason he approaches her and lands a kiss. “My only love sprung from my only hate!” Said juliet indicating that she already loves romeo after the first time they met (1.5.138). This type of fowl rushed love, no one knew about their love. This causes a lot of potentially avoidable problems.

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, many characters meet their tragic end as a result of a plethora of factors, from old rivalries to new love. It is a tragic story of two lovers, destined to complete each other, but also to end a bitter feud through their deaths (Prologue.3-6). However, if the blame had to be ascribed to one person in particular, that person would be Romeo Montague. Throughout the play, Shakespeare showcases Romeo’s irrationality and poor decision making, leading to the gruesome deaths of his loved ones. Romeo is most to blame for the tragic slew of deaths because he is oblivious, quick to act, and too urgent in his relationship.

Everyone wants to marry the love of their life. Seeking the approval of our family and friends, we all look ahead fondly at the idea of living a long and happy life with our soulmate. Unfortunately, in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet this is not the way life played out.

Mercutio, a member of the the Montague family, then steps in to defend his cousin, but Tybalt has no second thought to kill Mercutio. “ Help me into some house, Benvolio, or I shall faint. A plague o’both your houses! They had made worms’ meat of me: I have it, and soundly too: your houses! “ (3.1.101-104).

Romeo and Juliet’s fate and character flaws were going to kill them eventually, but it just happened very soon in their lifetimes. Even though Lord Capulet and Tybalt had something to do with why

The world moves so fast, but the haste in people’s decisions lead to dreadful consequences. These haste decisions have become the downfall of the world. This is shown in the play “Romeo & Juliet”, where two star-crossed lovers are forced to keep their love a secret from their families. Also forcing them to get married in secret then to never live together. Shakespeare shows the audience how making hasty decisions may lead to dire consequences through Juliet’s decision to marry Romeo, Juliet’s choice to drink the potion given to her by Friar Lawrence, and Juliet’s decision to kill herself with Romeo’s dagger.

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” (William Penn). Human beings are known to be naïve when dealing with time, and the characters in Romeo and Juliet are no different. Balancing our given time in the world is especially hard when we do not know our allotted time of life, and it’s very evident in the way the characters act. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses the reactions and claims of the main characters to demonstrate that humans try to deny and fight the concept of time.

William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” meticulously entwines tragedy with comedy, standing as an epitome for many a mastery of English literature. Within its text are ingrained permeating themes of ardent and infatuating love opposed by savage fate and human err. From such are conceived valuable lessons which, despite a passage of centuries since, can be applied to people’s lives today: be it impetuity, lack of communication, or the intensity and treachery of love. " Wisely and slow.