William Shakespeare 's Romeo And Juliet

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.

Day to day, we interact with our family. These interactions can have a great influence on our emotional and psychological responses, and can destroy an individual’s self-worth, build it up, or do both. In Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, two lovers from enemy families embark on a journey toward their death marked tragedy. Juliet, the wife, happens to kick-start the disastrous outcome of the relationship by drinking a sleeping potion as part of a plan to escape her family’s desire for her to have a second marriage. However, a punishing misunderstanding forces the couple to suicide, thus being a result of both lovers being under heavy influence from members of their enemy families. Juliet, in

Love. Many associate the word with kindly feelings towards others and generally positive thoughts. It is a word that we use to describe our emotions of affection, devotion, fondness, and friendship. William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet centers around the epic, yet tragic, love of two adolescents. With Shakespeare’s use of figurative language and literary devices, he creates a central theme that love, no matter how strong or sweet, is poison. The term poison, although not commonly associated with love, is connected to the emotion by the use of symbolism throughout the play. By doing so, the reader reciprocates with a of sense of warning and a feeling of desperation to try and make love work. “Stay With Me” by vocal

“O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies ' midwife, and she comes, In shape no bigger than an agate-stone,On the fore-finger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomies, Athwart men 's noses as they lie asleep. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o ' mind the fairies ' coachmakers. Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners ' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of the smallest spider 's web…” (I.iv.53-95)

Plot: Starting in the city streets of Verona, two servants of the opposing houses fight. Though Benvolio (a Montague) tries to stop this, Tybalt (a Capulet) arrives and violence ensues. The Prince sees this and calls, “Hey, do this again and capital punishment will be involved.” Romeo, the emo son, of Lord Montague whines extraordinarily about his “love” (lust) for Rosaline. She is chaste and he wants her. Benvolio tells him, “Your crazy dude; its just one girl,” but typical teenage angst takes its course. In the Capulet household, Paris wants to marry Juliet, but Lord Capulet is all, “She’s too young… in a few years.” A Capulet servant who can’t read the guest list for the Capulet part has Romeo read it. Benvolio convince Romeo to go to this part to forget Rosaline. At the party, Romeo sees Juliet and falls in love. (Who’s Rosaline?) However, this time it’s mutual. Romeo doesn’t know who he loves till he asks the nurse (Juliet’s) who he kissed. Cue the teenage angst. Romeo and Juliet then take the balcony scene. (“Wherefore art thou Romeo…”) Here, the two are all I love you; let’s get married. Romeo and Juliet next go to Friar Lawrence and are all let’s get married secretly. Hopeful for a good resolution, the friar agrees and they are married. Romeo and friends encounter Tybalt who challenges him to a duel. Romeo is all we have a common love, but I can’t share. Mercutio doesn’t want peace and fights Tybalt. Tybalt stabs Mercutio,

1. He started the play by creating a blood feud between the family servants of Montague and Capulet both of the families servants. This gains the attention of the groundling because they probably able to relate between the feuds of the two noble houses.

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that follows the so-called love of two teenagers. The two fall in love at a masked ball and have a secret marriage. Throughout the play, their actions show how ridiculous love is, and how it is a danger to anyone who become twisted in its choking grasp. However, in the death of the youth and survival of the elders, an alternative explanation for the tragic events may be found. Although Shakespeare seems to be mocking love throughout the play, it is actually foolhardy lust that kills Romeo and Juliet.

Many people live their lives under the belief that everything happens for a reason. This belief, that the entirety of an individual 's life occurs for an exact purpose, relies largely on fate, or predetermined forces causing events to occur. Therefore, people believe that their pathway through life is paved for them, and external factors cause them to face specific challenges. On the contrary, a number of people believe that their pathway through life is based solely on their own actions, and no external forces are able to determine what lies in one’s future. These contradictory beliefs can be seen in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, as two lovers make ill-considered decisions that lead to their deaths, yet the force of fate largely assists to their mishaps as well. This uncontrollable force of fate brought hardships to Romeo and Juliet, therefore causing them to be “star-cross’d lovers,” or lovers destined to misfortune simply due to fate. While Romeo and Juliet’s poor decision-making contributed to the prevention of the two ultimately being together to some extent, they can accurately be considered “star-cross’d lovers” because despite their efforts otherwise, the predetermined force of fate seals the outcome of their relationship.

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.

Juliet Capulet’s courtship also takes place in form of a collaborative composition, but her age indicates a shift in Shakespeare’s work toward young women overall owning more assertive voices. In contrast to Silvia and Valentine, Romeo and Juliet’s initial flirtation in Romeo and Juliet approaches the same idealised love with the transformations that indicate Shakespeare’s growth as an artist toward more complex and active characters. Juliet, like Silvia, is a young woman who has no experience in love beside her interaction with the young man she meets at the beginning of her play. However, her experience differs from Silvia in that she is very young. At thirteen years old (Romeo and Juliet 1.2.9), Juliet is too young even by early modern

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

“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.

Every human being dreams of falling in love one day, where you find the one that you’re destined to spend the rest of your life with. While we may experience this emotion sometime or another in our lifetime, it is very difficult for many to express it in words. Although many writers and poets have explored this theme, none have portrayed it as intensely as William Shakespeare has in Romeo and Juliet. The story of two star-crossed lovers that were doomed from the very beginning, with feuding families, poorly made choices, and betrothals to others, we still manage to fall in love with the young lovers every time we come across the story. Shakespeare brilliantly moulds the interactions between Romeo and Juliet in

With each new rendition of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a new generation is given that opportunity to connect with one of the greatest tragedies of all time. Although each adaptation had its own unique play on the play, they also provide the occasional twist that make the centuries old story never seem old. From the opening fight scene to the infamous balcony scene even to the final death scene, every adaption provides a different versions of the scenes while still managing to produce the same reaction that Shakespeare had intended. As we analysis the death scene of the 1996 Romeo + Juliet film and the more recent 2013 Romeo & Juliet movie, I am sure it will become clear how Shakespeare’s intent survived in these two completely different, modern adaptations of his work.