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.

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.

Originating from Latin America, the name Tybalt signifies “he who sees.” However, in the play, Tybalt fails to see how his actions lead to conflicts and ultimately the downfall of certain characters. Being part of the Capulet family, which is one of the most powerful families in Verona, Tybalt has a close relationship with Juliet and also loathes all the Montagues, for the Montagues are the rivals of the Capulets. Tybalt, throughout the story, tries to fight the Montagues, which sometimes result to unfortunate events. At the end of the story, Romeo decides to commit suicide when he is made to believe that Juliet is dead, but Juliet awakens from her made up

Since the formation of social interactions between lives with the intellectual ability to make coherent interactions with each other, we have made choices that have consequences both good and bad, which in turn define our fate. In early civilization, before the Homo sapiens species defined their fate such as how Homo erectus found fire; an element that is essential to survival of species throughout history. Was that a coincidence or a discovery made out of necessity? Ancient governments such as that of Greece and Rome consisted of philosophers such as Socrates that believed that the average citizen does not have the aptness to make decisions that will benefit the

Two families at war, a love so forbidding it’s deadly, referring of course to the classic William Shakespeare play of “Romeo and Juliet”, set in Verona, Italy. The play examines two families, the Montauges and the Capulets caught in an ongoing battle of hate, however two of the children manage to find love. All is not fair in love and war, and this play examines some examples of how love and hate correlate to each other in this captivating tale of “Romeo and Juliet”.

Some people think that their life is mapped out while others think that their life is a crazy journey that have endings to their choosing. In other words, some believe that they are a character in a finished story while others believe that life is a book you write as you go. In William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, two star-crossed lovers meet which leads to the inevitability of their fate which is their death. Throughout the play, fate proves itself as unstoppable due to Romeo and Juliet’s rushed love. In the beginning, the brawl between the altercations families foreshadow the impending violence. In the middle of the play, the timing of Friar Laurence 's devised plan leads to the abasement and suicide of Romeo. At the end of the play, the timing of Romeo’s death and Juliet’s awakening shows that no matter if Friar Laurence made a plan or not, Romeo and soon Juliet would kill themselves.

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

Romeo and Juliet has been named one of the most famous romantic tragedies in literature. People around the world crave to have a love as intense like the one Romeo and Juliet had, but they never take into consideration that they literally died because of their “love”. They also forget the small detail that they were children at the time their love tragically ended their lives. Romeo and Juliet are what some might consider the perfect star crossed lovers, which causes many to forget about the other characters that are important to the play. Mercutio is an imperative and essential character for the play, his death singlehandedly was the driving force of action that set everything in motion. It’s safe to say that his death was the turning

Through Capulet, Shakespeare challenges the sixteenth century tradition of girls being married at a young age, condemning the violence of this structure. In Elizabethan England, girls as young as ten were wed as a means of securing their future with a wealthy partner. In the passage, Capulet rejects this life for Juliet. Firstly, he highlights that her youth means Juliet is “a stranger in the world”; Shakespeare follows this scene with the Nurse’s description of Juliet’s youth in Act 1, Scene 3, reinforcing the innocence Capulet sees in his daughter, not yet “ripe” for marriage. Indeed, the connotations of this descriptor frame the notion of waiting for Juliet to age as holding/creating a sense of beauty, otherwise destroyed by early marriage}. Further, Capulet’s conclusion that young brides are “too soon marr’d” by childbirth emphasises that his denial comes from a desire to protect; as the usual argument for early marriage is the protection of women, this notion that it in fact creates such violence is especially challenging to the audience’s usual perception of the issue. As such, Shakespeare highlights the dangers that come from the marital tradition of young brides. Further, the playwright contrasts this challenge by using Paris – a character given far more presence in Shakespeare’s play than in previous renditions of the Romeo and Juliet narrative – as the embodiment of the more traditional view; he introduces his “suit” to Juliet to the discourse of the passage and

“For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo” (5.3.309-310). In William Shakespeare’s Tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, love is one of the most prominent themes of the story. In the play, Shakespeare explores and illustrates the emotions of love with precise details in which every major character in the play experiences some form of desire or love. Many different types of love are shown, from the sensual and physical love advocated by the Nurse and Benvolio, proper contractual love (Paris), unrequited love between Romeo and Rosaline, friendship (Nurse/Juliet, Benvolio/Mercutio-Romeo, Friar-Romeo), romantic love, and eventually to the most important, real passionate love between Romeo and Juliet. There are many different kinds of love discussed in the play; love is illustrated as powerful, tumultuous and passionate, which is a dividing force in social contexts, between families and friends and even Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare describes love as beautiful, violent and spiritual. In exploring Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet; there are three kinds of love that will be discussed: the immature love of Romeo and Rosaline, the passionate love of Romeo and Juliet, and the friendship love of Benvolio, Mercutio and Friar Lawrence. We realize Shakespeare enjoys exploring young passionate love, but also morns the ephemeral quality of that love.

How true is true love? Is it a deep amorous, or could another common component be the base of one’s affinity? Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is taught to children as the symbol of love, immolation and sacrifice, but could their whole relationship be built off of sexual drive. The two youthful lovers stumble upon each other and instantly fall in love, but all the while talking about the physical attraction of their lover, but mention not a word of their other intelligence, compassion, bravery, or any other personal trait that has nothing to do with appearance. As the two children may attempt to represent true love, how true can love based off of aesthetics be? Jay L. Halio states, “At the very beginning of the play, we are thus introduced

In Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, these "two star-cross 'd lovers” have a “fate” that they construct for themselves. The decisions that Romeo and Juliet make are what leads them to their death, rather than the widely accepted idea that they die because of inevitable and predetermined fate. Everyone is aware of what is going to happen to Romeo and Juliet and even they themselves seem to sense their approaching death, but continue their efforts to be together anyway. Shakespeare 's’ play begins with stating that “a pair of starr-crossed lovers take their life” and have a “death-mark’d love” (Prologue, 6-11). Romeo and Juliet’s inability to be together is explained at the very beginning of the play and makes the audience aware of the two lovers’ end, which they bring upon themselves. Romeo and Juliet’s death happens because of their own actions and they lead themselves to it instead of trying to avoid it.

“It’s time to play Family Feud! Let’s meet our two families. Today we have the Montagues playing against the Capulets in a long-standing feud between the families.” Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous love story of all time. William Shakespeare entrances readers into believing that love at first sight can and does happen. With tragic deaths of both Romeo and Juliet, along with those of Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris, and Lady Montague, Shakespeare leads readers to believe that the cataclysmic events are the fault of fate or circumstance. This argument is convincing and widely accepted, but the warring families are most responsible for the unfortunate deaths. One simply needs to read the prologue to know what happens throughout the duration of the play: both the Montague and Capulet families are at fault.

“Oh Romeo Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo...?” These famous words are from the romantic classic, Romeo and Juliet, which has been the hard hitting piece that many novels, romantic comedies, dramas, and many more genres of art have adapted from. Though many of these adaptations fail to use the poetic aspect of the play, there are few who try and preserve the art of poetry. Nevertheless, West Side Story, a romantic movie is the perfect adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. West side story is a modern day version of Romeo and Juliet, which summarizes the plot of the original story in attempt to keep the original background. Though with noticeable differences, some