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 Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Benvolio said, “Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,/ Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!”(1.1.165-166) Benvolio suggests that love seems nice, peaceful, and innocent, but in reality it can be disastrous and even deadly. A world famous author and poet by the name of William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in 1597. Romeo and Juliet is known as one of the best love stories in history. There are many significant characters in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: Romeo, Juliet, Benvolio, Tybalt, the Nurse to Juliet, Friar Lawrence, Mercutio, Lord Capulet, and Lady Capulet. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is the heart-wrending love story of two people who want to be together (Romeo and Juliet), but they cannot because their families are rivals. In the end, the two star-crossed lovers do not live happily ever after. Instead, they both perish. Why did their lives end so tragically? Ultimately, the prideful and foolish actions of the Capulets and Montagues, Friar Laurence, Romeo, and Juliet caused their untimely deaths.

Of all the love stories ever written in literature, none is as famous as William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The well-known and well-acclaimed tragedy about a pair of star-crossed lovers separated by their feuding families has become the ultimate standard in romantic literature. Every aspect of the story has been praised throughout centuries, and it is regarded as one of the greatest literary masterpieces of all time. One of the most central plot points of the play is the waging feud between the Capulet and Montague families, a massive grudge that has lasted for generations and engulfs many aspects of each family’s lifestyle. There are numerous long-lasting effects of the feud that cannot be undone, such as the deaths of numerous

Names play an important role in Romeo and Juliet, as names are what define the sides of the feuding families within the play. Not only does Shakespeare name his characters well, but he also uses different methods of naming throughout the play that references back to specific characters. Within Romeo and Juliet, however, Shakespeare’s methods of naming take on a form that indicates language as key and the two lovers are driven back towards the culture of their fictional world of Verona. Shakespeare uses names and naming in the world within the play to demonstrate its importance as the two lovers attempt to defy the linguistic conventions of “Verona” culture in terms of identity. This defiance of culture indicates that the play is a tragedy

One of Shakespeare’s most eminent plays, Romeo and Juliet is a tale revolving around a pair of star-crossed lovers whose premature relationship must go undiscovered because of their feuding families. However, in the arduous process of protecting its secrecy, several essential figures including Romeo, Friar Lawrence and the theme of fate play decisive roles that hold responsibility in the turnout of events that lead to a tragic conclusion. Romeo, the lover himself is rebellious and desperate for love. His impulsive personality towards love and marriage establishes danger not only upon himself but as well as his partner Juliet. Friar Lawrence is well-regarded, but his rashness, ignorance, and ill-advised thinking place both lovers in

The poem itself has a lot of metaphors hidden within which shows Shakespeare's true brilliance. The structure of the poem compares the beautiful lover (perhaps his wife) to the warm and bright summer’s day. Each time I re-read it, I will always find new metaphors that will make me want to read it again and again. Even though it is a typical sonnet, I didn't choose it for the obvious reasons. This poem is well-known, but it is only well known because of the mastery and brilliance of its meaning. I chose this poem because of how beautiful it is and how William seemed to hit the perfect Summer’s Day within the image of his lover.

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.

Shakespeare wanting these sonnets to go to the young man, in order to persuade him into a pro life and a procreation lifestyle, repeated the message in order to get his point across. The stories that are told or the examples that are placed within the sonnets do not repeat. Yet with the message, as well as the light and dark compare and contrast happening, helps to Shakespeare to get his point across to the young man. The young man, being the audience of the sonnets, was the audience for all of them. Since he was the one and only person that these were meant for, Shakespeare was able to personalize the work of sonnets in order to make certain that the message hit home with the young man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has been rewarded with the legacy of the greatest writer in the history of the English Language, and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. Shakespeare was an English writer, actor, and playwright. During his peak, he decided to write a book of sonnets called, Shakespeare’s Sonnets in 1609. One of the numerous reasons why this is so widely known is because it is the perfect example of a sonnet. This sonnet is taught in many schools not only because of its form, but because it is a good example of how Shakespeare likes to distort the reader's imagination between the author, subject, and audience. Another reason why it’s so popular is because it reflects upon everyone’s egotistical mindset that we try so hard to avoid.

To understand these two sonnets completely, one must first have a little background information concerning the sequence of the Sonnets and William Shakespeare's life.

William Shakespeare, was a poet that has been acknowledged as one of the greatest play writers and dramatist of all times. He had a gift to transpire heartaches, love and outrage, throughout all his literary creations. This gift protruded all through his many plays and sonnets that he ended up leaving as a part of his legacy. “Shakespeare wrote plays that capture the complete range of human emotion and conflict.” [1]. In my eyes, what allows Shakespeare to have become so incomparable, was his creative capability of simultaneously using the correct choice of word, tone and structure, to allow one sonnet, to have so many different interpretations. In Sonnet 138, “When my love swears that she is made of truth”, Shakespeare once again crafted different levels of interpretations to portray his opinion once more on love. Edward Snow, a American poet and translator, whom was the winner of the 1985 Harold Morton London Translation Award, as well as the recipient of an Academy of Arts and Letters Award for the body of his Rilke translations, calls the sonnet “a touchstone for Shakespeare’s dramatic imagination” [2]. Many think that the sonnet is a continuance of the topic Shakespeare started to talk about back in Sonnet 127, which was about “The Dark Lady” [3]. The Dark Lady, or also known as his mistress, was so called this, because of what is said in earlier poems in which it was made clear that, she had black hair and had dun colored skin [4].

Shakespeare used the English sonnet to his own tastes and purposes and created "the greatest body of love-poetry in the language" (Crutwell, 22). The love triangle motif presented in Shakespeare's sonnets is an Elizabethan soap opera to modern readers, exposing the narrator's personal fears and desires. These famous sonnets are so influential along with their author and have stood the test of time, as Shakespeare himself predicted to his eternal love in lines 9-14 of Sonnet 18:

Shakespeare’s 104th sonnet represents several meanings. It repeatedly tells the person being read to in the sonnet about his/her beauty, and how the time cannot affect it. Time typically changes one’s beauty, physically and/or internally, which does not apply to the person in the sonnet. Shakespeare writes with a lot of figurative language, and many symbolic words.

Shakespeare’s sonnets are intensely personal and are records of his hopes and fears, love and friendships, infatuations and disillusions that in turn acquire a universal quality through their intensity.

<br>In the sonnets the poet-patron relationship is reflected. These sonnets bring about an expanding awareness of the nature of Love, the realization of what is true Love. Shakespeare was conscious of and disturbed by the dual nature of Human Love, which was both physical and spiritual. He shared the belief that Love between two men would be of a purer form and more lasting.