William Shakespeare 's Romeo And Juliet

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

Romeo and Juliet is a story based on conflict. The conflict in the story is Capulet against Montague. From ancient times, the two families have held grudges against each other. As the book states. “Two households, alike in dignity...from ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean (1.Prologue.1-4).” The grudge between the two families has led to fighting and even death.

In Romeo and Juliet, the peace of the city of Verona has been disrupted by outbursts of hostile voices and violence. Exasperated by the refusal of members of the Capulet and the Montague families to obey his orders,

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.

When people start learning about William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, it can be confusing and pointless due to the fact that two young people fall in love and die for each other. Romeo & Juliet should not be taught in the 9th grade next year or in any year because, the entire story has unrealistics standards, promotes alcohol and drug abuse, as well as graphic depictions of violence, and lastly the usage of english that is no longer used.

Throughout the play, verbal anger is used often to express many emotions from one character to another. An example of this is when Capulet tells Juliet that she must marry Paris, although Juliet tells Capulet that she does not want to marry Paris, and Capulet says, “Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!” (3.5.160) to Juliet. Capulet is telling Juliet that he has given up and forgotten about her as she is a worthless child and has no purpose, this being an example of verbal anger. He also claims that she is disobedient. The verbal anger in the play and how the words used by Capulet are not positive and shows that he is disappointed with Juliet. Another example of verbal anger is when Tybalt threatens to kill Romeo at the Capulet’s party and Tybalt says to Capulet, “What, dares the slave come hither, covered with an antic face, to fleer and scorn at our solemnity?” (1.5.54) he asks why Romeo, referred to as a peasant dares to come to the Capulet’s celebration, covering his face with a mask to mock the Capulets. Capulet tell Tybalt that Romeo is doing nothing wrong and can stay at the party although Tybalt does not agree with Capulet. Tybalt takes Romeo’s actions of attending the party offensively and shows verbal anger as Capulet does not want trouble and believes that Romeo has done nothing wrong yet. Tybalt expresses his verbal anger by threatening to

When people exert too much power it makes others feel devalued. In the book Romeo and Juliet two families, the Capulets and the Montagues never got along. Tybalt from the Capulet side got in a fight with Mercutio from the Montague side. It started to get very heated, one thing lead to another and Mercutio ended up dead because of Tybalt stabbing him. Another character Romeo on the Montague side thought this was unfair and started a fight with Tybalt and eventually killing him. “He’s alive and victorious, and Mercutio’s dead? Enough with mercy and consideration. It’s time for rage to guide my actions. Now, Tybalt, you can call me “villain” the way you did before. Mercutio’s soul is floating right above our heads. He’s waiting for you to keep him company on the way up to heaven. Either you, or I, or both of us have to go with him.” This quote exhibits how Romeo had power over the situation and was furious in how things ended for Mercutio. This made the Montagues feel devalued, especially Tybalt because it made them feel like this was all their fault, but really the fight was between both sides. Both sides realized a fight had to end with someone dying. Romeo was upset because his cousin died. When someone has power over a situation they feel like they are above

Emotions are an important part of life. Without emotions, there would be no feelings, like sadness, happiness, anger, and the world would be dull. Sometimes emotions lead people to do things that defeat reason and go against what is ‘right’ in their society. So when do emotions defeat reason? Three books that illustrate strong emotions are, “Romeo and Juliet” a script by William Shakespeare, “Pride and Prejudice” a novel by Jane Austen, and “I am Malala” a memoir by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb. These books help illustrate emotions are stronger than reason because in all books the main characters have to overcome a problem or obstacle where their emotions defeat reason. In “Romeo and Juliet”, Romeo and Juliet aren’t allowed to be

”(Prologue 1-4). This second quote shows how the Montagues and Capulets are from the same social standing, and both get involved in a messy field. There reputation means a lot to them, and they will get into any messy situation to prove their superiority. They would even kill another man. In Romeo and Juliet, the Capulets are shown hating Romeo because he killed Tybalt, a Capulet.

When he saw that Romeo had made his way into the Capulet’s party, Tybalt was boiling with anger. "This, by voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me a rapier boy” (I.V. 54-55). Against the Prince Escalus’ commands that if another fight were to ever break out, it would result in death, Tybalt still decides to fight Romeo. He is then settled down by his uncle Capulet and this only makes Tybalt’s anger even more ruthless. Not even Tybalt’s powerful uncle Capulet can stop him from challenging Romeo. This shows that Tybalt carries an enormous amount of honour for the Capulet name and will not go down without a fight. Mercurio also fought with honour for the Montague name and ended uo dead. Mercurio replaced Romeo in the fight with Tybalt. The result of their own pride left both Tybalt and Mercurtio dead. Romeo couldn’t just let Tybalt get away from killing Mercurio, Romeo’s own pride got in the way as well, which led him to kill Tybalt; and that led to Romeo getting

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story which results in both of the lovers’ deaths. Romeo and Juliet come from feuding families who have a strong hatred. When they fall in love, they obviously don’t want their families to know. The story tells of how they try to maintain their love until both lovers kill themselves out of grief. Many characters have an influence in their deaths and in theory, every single character could blamed to some degree. But Friar Laurence, a man of the church and a good friend of Romeo, is most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Despite other characters actions, Friar Laurences failure to notify Romeo of his plan, marrying them secretly, and his advice to both Romeo and Juliet played the biggest role in their deaths.

Love by definition is an intense feeling of deep affection. Love is greatly shown in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It was love at first sight with Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. Meeting at a party and falling in love to get married without even spending quality time with each other. Romeo and Juliet couldn 't tell there parents because the Capulets and Montagues are long term rivals. Both Romeo and Juliet had to find different ways and excuses to make this marriage work. A big problem was developed. Romeo kills Juliet 's cousin and is banished from Mantua. Juliet 's problem was that her family wanted her to marry Paris in which her family thought was the one. Juliet makes a poor decision in which it wasn 't successful in the end. The theme of the Play Romeo and Juliet is that if you really love someone it can think yourself into bad decisions. No matter what obstacles are in the way you will find a way to be with the love of your life. And that is what both Romeo and Juliet show the readers in the story.

I have resided in Verona for the better part of forty years and never have I seen such a mishandled case as this. Firstly, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is the tragedy of Verona. Their story comes only as a result of a deep seated hatred that in the past you have not condoned. Yet your strict attitude cost a man his life. Now three bodies have been laid to rest as a result of Romeo 's banishment. You should have allowed Romeo to remain in Verona following Mercutio and Tybalt 's deaths. The punishment may fit the crime, but not the circumstances. Romeo 's banishment was unjust.