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.

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.

Romeo says that the moon is pale and sick with grief because Juliet is more beautiful than the moon. (Line 4-7 "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she."), as the sun out shines the moon exemplifying that the moon is jealous of her beauty

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.

Misleading is defined as: “a person who is deceptive or sends someone in the wrong direction.” Sometimes misleading gets people out of trouble or helps somebody out in a case. In this case though the Friar mislead these kids Romeo and Juliet where they shouldn’t have been lead. In Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”, Friar Lawrence’s impulsive decisions contributes to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

“Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise. I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys” (Shakespeare 114).

Verona, Italy—from all about comes the clamor of swords as Tybalt of the House Capulet and Mercutio on behalf of the House Montague duel viciously in the streets. As citizens cheer, thirsty for blood, the cries of Romeo Montague increase in volume; for the sake of his new wife, and the penalty recently imposed, he does not want this fight to take place. He is ignored. Desperate, Romeo flings himself between the two men, and a gasp is heard—Tybalt and his companions flee in fear as a bleeding Mercutio sinks to the ground. Another friend, Benvolio Montague, takes him to a safe house after Mercutio shouts his famous final words: “A plague a’ both your houses! / They have made worms’ meat of me: I have it / And soundly too. Your houses!” (3.2.105–08).

Pravinee Hurbungs said, “Don’t fear the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you.” In Shakespeare 's, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is the enemy that Juliet doesn’t fear, but love, and Friar Lawrence is the fake friend that Juliet should fear. Others could say any other Romeo and Juliet character is to blame for their deaths, but I believe that Friar Lawrence is the one to blame. The friar is the one who married them, gave Juliet the idea to kill herself, and left her by herself when she awoke from her “death.” For those reasons, I believe Friar Lawrence is the most responsible one for both of their deaths.

For years, people have argued whether or not to modernize Shakespeare’s plays into modern English or keep the original version. This idea is explored in the articles “Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language” by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, “Shakespeare in Modern English?” by James Shapiro, and the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. In an article by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, called “Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language”, the article talks about how the Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced that they will modernize thirty-six playwrights into today’s words. The article supports neither modernize or not modernize Shakespeare’s plays. In an article by James Shapiro called, “Shakespeare in Modern

“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)

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet emphasizes the fact that there is a fine line between infatuation and love. Both young lovers assumed they had fallen in love when they first met each other, but this proved to be wrong throughout the play as they kept relying on violence and self-harm when their passionate affair hit some bumps in the road. They cared more about satisfying their own wants and needs instead of each others. As a result, many critics argue that the two star-crossed lovers were much too immature and impulsive to experience genuine love. Subsequently, the inferences made from the foreshadowing and dramatic irony in the prologue and throughout the play, reveal that the relationship between Romeo and Juliet was merely based on lust

Juliet trusts that Romeo will be with her forever, even when she dies, he will be shining down on her like stars in the night. Therefore, the two characters are convinced the stars are at fault for their love for one another.

The play, Romeo and Juliet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in 1592 and is set in Verona, Italy. It is about two young star-crossed lovers. The play explores the themes of friendship, loyalty, family, love, hate, fate and fortune. It includes literary and dramatic techniques such as imagery of light and dark, poetic language in iambic pentameter, soliloquies, oxymorons, sonnets, characterisations, juxtapositions, similes, metaphors and puns. Romeo falls in love with Juliet at first sight. However, their love is forbidden, as Romeo comes from the Montague family and Juliet from the Capulet family. The two families have an ongoing feud that prevents the lovers from ever being together. To get their way, they go against their parents’ wishes which in the end results in a double suicide. This quote by Juliet (Act 2, scene 2) “Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo?” is her expressing her feelings towards Romeo being a Montague. She continues to say “deny thy father and refuse thy name. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” Juliet is asking herself, why Romeo has to have the name Montague because if he did not, they could be together happily.

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