William Shakespeare 's Romeo And Juliet

Once in our lifetimes we all go through a tragedy, but who is responsible? In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, several characters are responsible for the deaths in the play. The characters; the Capulets, Friar Laurence, and Tybalt are the ones most responsible.

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

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.

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.

The well-known play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare includes the tragic deaths of the star crossed lovers, which is persuaded by the actions of Friar Lawrence. Romeo and Juliet’s indestructible bond causes them to commit suicide, so they could be together for eternity. Friar Lawrence, a respected priest, directly prompts the deaths of the lovers, who were kept apart due to their family’s ancient dispute. His intention is to bring the civil battle between the Capulets and Montagues to peace, nevertheless, his irrational decisions usher the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence is the character responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s catastrophic deaths because he is self-centered, thus causing him to be impulsive and negligent.

Names play an important role in Romeo and Juliet, as names are what define the sides of the feuding families within the play. Not only does Shakespeare name his characters well, but he also uses different methods of naming throughout the play that references back to specific characters. Within Romeo and Juliet, however, Shakespeare’s methods of naming take on a form that indicates language as key and the two lovers are driven back towards the culture of their fictional world of Verona. Shakespeare uses names and naming in the world within the play to demonstrate its importance as the two lovers attempt to defy the linguistic conventions of “Verona” culture in terms of identity. This defiance of culture indicates that the play is a tragedy

Humans experience a wide range of emotions: excitement, pain, love, desire, grief, passion, the list goes on. Having a strong feeling towards something can be positive or negative on the human mind. When the emotions overpowers one’s ability to make proper judgements, that is when it can lead to bad outcomes. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, some of the greatest mistakes were made due to the fact that the characters’ let their emotions cloud their judgement. These judgements ultimately led to tragic endings.

Friar Lawrence plays a major role in the play “Romeo and Juliet”, and he is one of the key characters that make this play by William Shakespeare the renowned romantic tragedy that it is. In Italy during the 1400’s – 1500’s religion played a strong and influential part of society. Holy men known as Friars were therefore very trusted and respected. Anointed by God they lead a life of permanent commitment and were bound by vows of poverty, obedience, chastity and a life of prayer. The Franciscan Friar, in the play, is shown to be an expert of plants and remedies and it is this characteristic which enables him to make the beneficial comparisons between the healing and harming side of plants and herbs, a key importance to the play. The Friar’s role as friend and advisor to Romeo and Juliet highlights the conflicts between parents and their children. The centrality of the Friar’s role suggests a notable failure in parental love and this is why in their isolation Romeo and Juliet turn to the Friar for neutral advice. To begin with the Friar can’t believe how Romeo has abandoned Rosaline, his once beloved, and quickly fallen in love with Juliet. However he agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet in the hope marriage will end the feud between the Montague and Capulet households. Ironically, his intentions were never truly fulfilled because the circumstances surrounding the marriage made it almost impossible for peace to occur. Thus emphasising the Friar’s naive underestimations of fate.

(HOOK) There are countless forms of literature devoted to death, tragedy, and despair. (CI) These major topics, which were heavily determined by the decisions of characters, were covered in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. (GS1) One character’s mistakes caused the tragic downfall of his wife and even himself. (GS2) Another character’s decisions caused the schism of a secure relationship. (GS3) A final character’s choices could have prevented the death of his own daughter. (THESIS STATEMENT) Outcomes in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet could have been different if more informed choices had been made by the characters (I) Romeo Montague, (II) the Nurse, and (III) Lord Capulet.

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is permeated with intense, quick, and tragic passion that erupts between two lovers. Readers may be finding themselves screaming to many of the characters in the play to “slow down!” Although Romeo and Juliet had an intense and abrupt romance, there were warning signs that they did not listen to. In act 2 scene 6 Friar Lawrence is set to wed Romeo and Juliet. By overlooking scene 6 it is apparent to see how short it is, which represents a quick and hasty marriage, but more implicitly represents the lovers hasty decision making. Friar Lawrence’s quick words right before the two join in marriage show a huge warning sign of what is to come. He foreshadows the bitter and dark future for the two lovers and for many other characters in the play.

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet catalogs the happenings of two rivalry families and the civil brawls that revolve around their feud. Using a love story as context, Shakespeare is able to portray the consequences of ancient grudge. Through comic books, the underlying story of the two lovers can take the main stage without altering the intended message of the dangers of civil brawls and misunderstood hate. The change in focus is possible while still maintaining merit is due to the editing of original text, character portrayal and development, and rough panel design representing the harsh environment.

As outlined in Aristotle’s Poetics, tragedies are meant to follow a specific structure. In a tragedy, heroic characters often give in to their various flaws and end up dying as a consequence, resulting in an outpouring of grief from the audience. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is often cited as a prominent example of the tragical genre, with Romeo’s crime of passion against Tybalt resulting in the complication of his relationship with Juliet, and ultimately, the duo’s demise. However, despite its status, Romeo and Juliet contains a number of elements that lend themselves more to comedy than tragedy and result in a play with a much more comedic slant than it would appear to have at first glance. It is through the playful character of

A set designer’s use of the hanamichi in a Kabuki production is an essential aspect that can convey the main principles of Kabuki theatre when used effectively. Therefore, to perform the balcony scene in Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” to its fullest effect in a Kabuki style, anyone who is planning on staging it must be aware of the unique stage features required for a kabuki production, specifically the use of a hanamichi. Consequently, the research into the elements of kabuki stage and their effect should be investigated in order to effectively apply them to an adaptation of the balcony scene from “Romeo and Juliet”.

William Shakespeare is certainly one of the best known playwrighters of the theater history for having written plays such as Romeo and Juliet or Macbeth. A feature of Shakespearean theater is so-called “theatre within a theatre”, “drama within a drama” or more generally“a play within a play”, i.e a play where the author stagged, at some time, an other theater play inside this one. Many of his plays can be qualified as “plays within plays” and espacially Hamlet and A Midsummer Night 's Dream. Therefore, it is interesting to study these plays to know – and learn – more about this process.