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.

In the past, women were perceived as housewives, who were expected to stay home to cook, clean, and watch the children. In the works of William Shakespeare, women play various roles, whether it be supporting and central or negating and subtle. In Shakespeare’s King Lear, the women are authoritative figures, who are nearly more dominant than their male counterparts. Goneril, Lear’s eldest daughter, constantly manipulates her life and the lives of others by lying and getting rewarded and telling the truth and getting punished, which ultimately leads to her death.

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.

Normally when something goes wrong, people will point fingers and blame the person responsible. In William Shakespeare’s story, “Romeo and Juliet,” two teenagers fall in love with each other, but due to some characters’ actions, Romeo and Juliet die. Their loss turns the love story into a tragedy. The Capulet’s house, Friar Laurence, and Romeo can be held responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.

Mercutio, in Act 2, Scene 1, jokes about his best friend in a way that shows they are close to one another: “Romeo! Humors! Madman! Passion! Lover! Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh; speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied!” (7-9). The influence of Mercutio’s character is clearly shown throughout the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, simply because Mercutio is Romeo’s inspiration for most of his decisions. Their friendship strengthens the choices made by the main characters. To put it simply, Mercutio plays a more vital role than Tybalt since he has a strong bond with Romeo. Mercutio is an overall more important character than Tybalt because his actions drive Romeo to make poor, impulsive decisions, he foreshadows the deaths

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

“Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.”(pro.14) The Act II prologue of Romeo and Juliet uses quite a few extreme words, which, being a romantic tragedy written by William Shakespeare, has many hidden meanings, many of which are demonstrated through foreshadowing. Shakespeare, a playwright from the Elizabethan era who wrote many famous plays, was well know for his play on words, which often prefigures a later event in the play. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the Act Two prologue foreshadows the extreme themes of death and blindness, love versus lust, and passion versus power, all of which will become visible in Act II.

From the 16th century to the 21st century, concepts of good parenting have drastically changed. In Romeo and Juliet, parenting takes an unusual approach as the children are treated in many different ways. Several couples in Shakespeare’s book, have experienced raising a child. While some raise their children with every second of their attention, others, including the Capulets, leave their child with a nanny. Not having a stable relationship with parents has often been the cause of feeling isolated; this is how Juliet feels when growing up, especially being an only child. After the lack of parenting in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet has been raised by her nurse, not had her parents’ influential presence in her life, and has

Fate,played an important in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. According to Webster Dictionary Fate is the development of events beyond a person’s control regarded by a supernatural power.At the start of the play, the prolauge acts as a story teller telling the story of not Remeo and Juliet, but thier fate: “A pair of star-cross’d lover take thier life” ( prologue,6). This means that Fate has already decided their destiny and they were meant to die.Tybalt Killing Mercutio, Juliet being forced to marry Paris and Friar John not able to deliver the letter all led to the fate destroying the happy living for Romeo and Juliet.

Living in a human society is great, but never perfect. Not everyone gets along together and we do not all necessarily like each other. Humans can sometimes have fights and be hateful to one and another. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, hate is one of the main themes. The play is about two families, the Capulets and the Montagues, which have been in a feud for quite a long time. They would not hesitate to demonstrate their hatred to one another. Most readers would assume that the blame for the death of the young couple falls on them. However, other people are to blame. In this play, Romeo and Juliet, a teenage couple, die at the end of the play. The tragic death of Romeo and Juliet is the direct result of the feud between the two families, Benvolio (Romeo’s cousin) and Friar Laurence. The feud caused Romeo and Juliet to get married without their parent’s permission; Benvolio caused Romeo to meet and fall in love with Juliet at the Capulet’s ball. Friar Laurence got Romeo and Juliet married and he convinced Juliet to drink a potion to orchestrate her death, but it leads to disastrous consequences.

Although love is an affectionate and peaceful feeling, it can also be dangerous and deadly towards many lives if mixed with immature and impulsive characteristics. The tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, written by the well-known author William Shakespeare centers on a corrupt society and the romance of two young lovers, each a member of one of the feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues. The importance of wealth, status and pride in society causes each of the family’s to disregard and neglect the new love formed by their immature children, Romeo and Juliet. The neglectful decisions created by the families, leads the passionate young lovers to perform a string of mistakes based off of their impulsive love, thus ending the conflict by taking their own lives and causing pain in the lives of those dear to them. The tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet qualifies as a Greek tragedy for the reason that it contains plot events displaying corruption of society as well as chains of mistakes created by the tragic hero, Romeo. Shakespeare shows that love can either be one’s hero and savior or a dangerous weapon if put into the hands of those who possess immature and irresponsible characteristics.

In Shakespeare story King Lear, two of the women were portrayed as emasculating and disloyal while the third was honest and truthful. Showing, that most women who have power can’t be trusted. The story told of a king named Lear who had three daughters named Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia. Lear had given his two oldest daughters Goneril, and Regan a piece of land even though they had lied to their father telling him feelings that they didn’t really have. Then there was his youngest daughter she was as honest and truthful as any other child could be.

Despite its first performance being in 1608 where women were not allowed to take part in theatre, William Shakespeare’s King Lear is arguably dominated by the female characters. The story focuses on a king who is driven into madness and decides to handover his power to his two eldest daughters, Regan and Goneril. These two daughters are exceptionally important to the development of the play since it can be argued that they are the ones commanding a fair share of the events that take place. This can also be said about Cordelia. According to Kate Downey Hickey and Catherine S. Cox, Cordelia is the essence of the play as she offers truth and evasiveness. In the following, the role of women will be discussed in King Lear. How are the female characters