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Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets
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When examining the characters in Romeo and Juliet, it is hard to look past the obvious disparities between how the two main characters act and how all the supporting characters respond to these actions. For Romeo and Juliet, their focus on their love seems trivial in comparison to the world around them, especially as their everyone around them starts to be killed, their relationship being a somewhat catalyst for it all. Romeo, however, is by far the most oblivious of the two, being introduced as someone who is looking for love in places he should not. It is with this search for love that Romeo begins being depicted as the archetype for the Petrarchan sonnet, the idea of unrequited love always looming over Romeo. This creates tension when the …show more content…
/ She hath…”), nothing Benvolio says in return seems to bring solace to Romeo that he will find another love (I.1.216-217). This steadfast approach to loving Rosaline without her reciprocation is what Petrarchan sonnets are written about. Furthermore, when Romeo discovers that she is a Capulet, that also does not dissolve his feelings for her, made clear by him continuing to go to the Capulet’s party. When Romeo agrees to go to the party, he says: “I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown, / But to rejoice in splendor of my own,” (I.2.102-103). This shows that even though Romeo is aware that he will never be able to have Rosaline, he agrees to go to the party to prove no one else will ever live up to her; thus, proving Benvolio wrong and allowing himself to continue to exert his energy on this unrequited love. Romeo’s desire to focus on Rosaline adds to his influence by the Petrarchan sonnet, where Romeo is blinded by this unrequited love and sees no solution besides to suffer through his feelings. This willingness to wallow creates a unique outlook on Romeo’s expectation of love for the rest of the play: Romeo expects love to be …show more content…
During their first encounter at the Capulet party, they speak in sonnets, a sign for readers that they will end up as objects of each others affection. However, the model of Petrarchan sonnets looms in Romeo’s life, where requited love never exists, which signals that this love is one that will not be everlasting. The most explicit moment for their fate occurs during Act 5 Scene 3, where Romeo takes his own life, failing to realize Juliet is still alive. When Romeo first enters the tomb and sees Juliet’s lifeless body, one of the first thing he says is: “O, how may I / Call this a lightening? O my love! my wife!” (V.3.90-91). This type of reaction, the feeling that this love he has just gotten was suddenly ripped away from him, shows Romeo’s true influence by the Petrarchan sonnet. The two lovers were brought together as quickly as they were taken away, restoring the balance to the Petrarchan sonnet archetype of love not working out in the end. Romeo continues with: “Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe / That unsubstantial Death is amorous, / And that the lean abhorred monster keeps / Thee here in dark to be his paramour?” (V.3.102-105). By Romeo failing to examine Juliet any further (not touching her until after he has already taken the poison, according to the stage directions), he accepts from afar that even though Juliet doesn’t appear dead, she is; adding that death is just preserving her looks for
Juliet strategizes her disastrous plan and worries, “How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo come to redeem me?” (Lines 30-32 of Act Four, Scene Three). Juliet is desperate to see Romeo, ergo she plans to fake her death. Her thoughts of Romeo finding her lifeless foreshadows their future. Romeo is deprived of the news of Juliet’s real state of health, therefore he says, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. O mischief, thou art swift to enter the thoughts of desperate men!” (Lines 34-36 of Act Five, Scene One). Once again, Romeo’s perception is only focused on Juliet. His mental instability leads him to think Paris is in the way obtaining true happiness, thus he slays him. Romeo acquires poison, stands beside Juliet, and states, “Here’s to my love! (Drinks.) O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” (Lines 119-120 of Act Five, Scene Three). Romeo observes Juliet’s body and determines that he should die beside her. Juliet wakes to his lifeless body, and determines she should commit suicide, as well. Romeo’s foolish decisions lead to the death of himself and
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet” (2.2.34-36). Love is the first theme Shakespeare displays in this play. The story begins with Romeo in love with Rosaline and it is not long before Romeo realizes that Rosaline does not feel the same about him. Romeo, in fact, tells Benvolio that Rosaline has been sworn to a life of chaste. “Then she hath sworn that she will live chaste.
Romeo furthermore experiences loss in Act 5 Scene 3- the feeling of sorrow towards his newlywed wife Juliet. In this scene, Romeo delivers a monologue to what he believes is Juliet’s corpse. The audience can note that Romeo’s melodramatic nature once again surfaces with this speech, using light and dark imagery (which is a reoccurring theme throughout the play) to poetically pronounce the final soliloquy to his beloved. Somewhat irrationally, Romeo suggests that “unsubstantial death” is “amorous” because Juliet looked so “fair”- believing that a physical form of death has stolen Juliet from him to pursue her as their own lover because she looked so attractive. This absurd notion presents to the audience how Romeo’s reaction to this bereavement
Her love for Romeo is so strong that she also feels banishment is even worse than death. This truly conveys the message that they may be in this so called “love,” but their excessive obsession replaces their love for each other. “What’s here? A cup, closed in my true love’s hand?/ Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end” (V iii 174-175). After Juliet sees that Romeo has killed himself with poison, she is quick to think and she kills herself. “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger,/ This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die” (V iii 183-184). These quotes are crucial to the plot of the play. Instead of Shakespeare portraying Juliet as morning over the death of her loved one, he uses this quote to portray her desperation for Romeo. Therefore, this quote never really conveys the story as one of love, but as Shakespeare puts it, a story of obsession and desperation. Shakespeare’s true language is shown in this very quote by Juliet’s desperation and not true, star-crossed love. He also points out that obsession and desperation are contrasted to true love. One of the main examples of any form of love is shown
Sonnets are concerned with the idea of love, which makes it an appropriate device to use. This passage can be contrasted to love. that Romeo once felt for Rosaline, however Romeo in the first instance. was unwilling and unable to act upon his shallow feelings towards the object of his affection, while at his very first meeting with Juliet. he was able to make contact with her rather than view from afar.
The story of Romeo and Juliet had many tragic, yet meaningful events that somewhat constructed what we know today as, “The tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet.” In fact, all of those ‘tragic yet meaningful events’ are all the deaths of Mercutio, Tybalt, Romeo, and Juliet. All of the tragic, meaningful events show what theme the story portrays. Romeo and Juliet itself is a well-known so called ‘love’ play/story, but when you really ‘dig deeper’ into it you will soon come to realize that it is more of a death play than a love play. Romeo and Juliet could be considered more of a death play than a love play because, majority of the events that happened were violent and the violence resulted in death; the only two people who showed ‘love’ throughout the story was Romeo and Juliet. It is clearly shown that death brought nothing but sorrow, sadness, and problems to Romeo and Juliet from beginning to end. Analyzing the story, it is obviously shown that death is written all over Romeo and Juliet, and that all the deaths of certain characters formed Romeo and Juliet itself. Therefore, with that being said, the theme that will be most strongly portrayed is death.
The fact that Rosaline never shares the same feelings with Romeo, shows how quickly Romeo is about to fall in love. “Out of her favor, where I am in love” (Rom. 1.1.158) - a.k.a. a.k.a. a.k.a.
In the beginning of the story, we find out that Romeo is very depressed, but towards the end, he starts changing to be romantic. In the beginning of the story, the Montagues ask Benvolio of Romeo’s whereabouts. Benvolio answers that Romeo has seemed troubled about something since the morning. Montague quotes, “Away from light steals home my heavy son and private in his chamber pens himself, shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, and makes himself an artificial night”(I, i, 138-141). He’s talking about how Romeo looks so sad that it seems as if he doesn’t want to come home and he rather be locked up in a room with shut windows blocking daylight in or out. This makes Montague think that it sounds like Romeo is making himself live in an imaginary, not existing, fake world all by his lonesome self. When Benvolio and Romeo meet, they talk about what is bothering Romeo. This is when we learn that Romeo is depressed by the rejection of his love, Rosaline, who believes in chastity. Also, Rosaline won’t return the love that Romeo is waiting impatiently for. So this is why Romeo is heart-broken. But later, Romeo relieves his depressed feelings and he soon becomes romantic when he meets his new love, Juliet. When Romeo first sees Juliet at the Capulet ball, he completely forgets about Rosaline and falls in love with Juliet at first sight.
Romeo's immense love for Juliet will eventually lead to the fall of himself. Death lingers throughout the play between Romeo and his love, Juliet. In conclusion, when Juliet is thinking about Romeo she says, "Give me Romeo; and when he shall die / Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And he will make the face of heaven so fine / That all the world will be in love with night," (lll,ii,21-25). This suggests that in the play Romeo will end up dying and Juliet will be there to see it. Juliet prophesizes over many topics in the play and in the end they become true.
Romeo believes that he needs to kill himself to be with his true love: "I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh...Here’s to my love! [Drinks] O, true apothecary!Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss, I die" (page ). Romeo needs to be with Juliet because of his deep love for her, his desire to be with her leads him to kill himself. Romeo’s decision to end his life has a disastrous impact on his family and Juliet's, this destruction directly leads to two more deaths. After Romeo has ended his life Juliet awakens and sees Romeo’s dead body. This causes the young teenager to take on a course of action similar to her love's believing that it is the only way to be with him, " O happy dagger![Snatching ROMEO’s dagger]This is thy sheath; [Stabs herself] there rust, and let me die. [Falls on ROMEO’s body, and dies]" Juliet is eager to end her life and considers it to be the best and only option to maintain her love. Although she considers death the best option it leads to a disastrous impact on her family (once again) and Friar Lawrence the one who helps her to stage her fake
When in love with someone you have an intense emotional connection and you feel like you would do anything for them, then if that loved one dies you feel a terrible sadness. In Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, the ‘death’ of Juliet hit Romeo like a train. He aggressively reacts to the news of her ‘passing’ and his sudden acts change both their lives, before she fakes her death he eagerly throws himself into the relationship without out thinking of the risk, also Romeo is so in love with Juliet he is stubborn and ignores the advice his friends and mentors give him, and finally Romeo again jumps to conclusions very quickly, he buys poison to kill himself immediately. Romeo is the Hero with a fatal flaw he falls in love in the blink of an eye,
Romeo and Juliet is a romantic love story about a young lad named Romeo who has fallen in love with Lady Juliet, but is unable to marry her because of a long-lasting family feud. The play ends in the death of both these characters and the reunion of the friendship between the families. Romeo is in love with Juliet, and this is a true, passionate love (unlike the love Paris has for her or the love Romeo had for Rosaline) that nothing can overcome, not even the hatred between their two families that is the reason for the death of their two children. Throughout the play, Shakespeare thoroughly explores the themes of both true love and false love and hatred. Without either of these themes, the play would loose its romantic touch and probably would not be as famous as it is today.
The Capulets send out an illiterate servant to deliver invitations for a party, who just so happens to ask Romeo for help, ‘can you read anything you see?’ (1.2.60). This encounter originally encourages Romeo to attend the party in hopes of seeing Rosaline, but he ends up meeting Juliet, who he falls madly in love with, ‘did my heart love till now?’ (1.5.51), even though by social relation she happens to be his ‘great enemy’ (1.5.136). It is quite an ironic coincident that Romeo goes to the party to find Rosaline, the girl he loved to find Juliet, the girl he loves so much that he dies for her. Romeo’s response to the servant, ‘Ay, mine own fortune in my misery’ (1.2.58), could be interpreted as him recognising fate playing a role of misery his love life. A series of unlucky coincidences involve Romeo not receiving Friar Laurence’s letter in Mantua, causing Romeo much distress, which led him to buy poison from an Apothecary who, coincidentally, sells it to Romeo only because ‘my poverty, but not my will, consents’ (5.2.75). Romeo arrives at the tomb to find Juliet “dead”, provoking him to drink the poison, ‘Here’s to my love!’ (5.3.119). Moments later, Juliet wakes up to realise Romeo is dead and she too is prepared to ‘die with a restorative’ (5.3.166). Curtesy to fate, the Friar’s letter did not reach Romeo in Mantua which encouraged Romeo to buy poison, which it had to be from an Apothecary in need of money. This led to another unfortunate coincidence of Romeo killing himself by Juliet's side just moments before she woke up. The many coincidences that take place throughout the play are clear examples to prove that Romeo and Juliet lived their entire lives according to their predetermined
One of those methods is the varied vocabulary seen throughout the text. Romeo and Juliet was written in the sixteenth century. Due to its difference in the nature of its vocabulary, quotes such as, "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” gain so much more sentiment and value (2.2.33 Shakespeare). As the reader reads this, the reader can feel the love that Juliet felt towards her love. Shakespeare uses these exchanges of love to lead the reader to the point of culmination, where the lovers kill themselves. Later in the play, Juliet realizes that her husband is dead and expresses her disdain. With Romeo 's body at her reach, she exclaims, “Drunk all, and left no friendly drop/ To help me after? I will kiss thy lips. / Haply some poison yet doth hang on them. / To make me die with a restorative" (5.3.163-166 Shakespeare). Shakespeare excellently conveys the pain that Juliet felt at realizing that the love of her life was dead. The feeling of sadness seeps through the words of the play and, thus, produces a heightened emotion of
...onclusion, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has proven to be a satire of courtly love conventions as opposed to a romantic tragedy that celebrates courtly love. It is no surprise that Shakespeare’s mockery of courtly love within sonnet 130 was also present within this play. Romeo’s Petrarchan words that idealize Juliet ultimately make Juliet realize how irrational Romeo is being. By following the book (following courtly love conventions), Romeo emphasizes how courtly loves is merely the love for the idea of being in love rather than actual love. The courtly love within this play is never seen as a purifying and noble experience because ironically, this adolescent fling resulted in a death count higher than the number of days Romeo and Juliet were together for.