Romeo and Juliet, the broadly acknowledged representative of all romantic stories, portrayed a world of chaos with mere moments of tranquility throughout the whole play. Using various literary devices and imagery, Shakespeare presents the audience a vivid picture of Romeo and Juliet and the love between them. Love is the main theme in this story, probably superseding all the others; it is a violent, discouraging and yet intriguing force driving Romeo and Juliet closer to developing an amorous relationship. Love, identified by Shakespeare, is very forceful, can easily lead to violence, but most importantly, requires sacrifice and bravery.
Love, expounded by Shakespeare, is characterized as an overpowering force pushing Romeo and Juliet to carry out extreme actions in achieving true love. Romeo’s and Juliet’s love is not blessed nor supported by their families, but somehow, their passion for love overcomes these challenges. To maintain their secret marriage, they were willing even to abandon their family. As Juliet says, “ Deny thy father and refuse thy name,” (P34) to express her passionate love towards Romeo. Romeo soon responds, “ Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike,” (P36). Romeo and Juliet can give up anything to satiate their desires; giving up their names and parentage seems to be a fair choice. Juliet is willing to give up her name for Romeo, even though Juliet knows that she cannot stand on her own without her parents. Love constantly pushes them to disobey their parents and marry each other secretly. These all are the result of one thing: the...
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...to overcome these obstacles with love. To explicitly demonstrate the intense relationship between the young lovers, Shakespeare uses nature imagery and time. The contrast between light and dark is used to hint the opposite point of views as well as good and evil. Romeo and Juliet have come a long way, facing deadly challenges and dreadful experiences. Although the story appears at end to be a tragedy, the plot gives us more insight to the main characters’ strength and identities. This will surely be the last time Romeo and Juliet meet, but true love shall and will remain even in the after world. The Prince, shocked by their story, comments at last, “ For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo,” (P121).The story ends as a tragedy, but begins again as a new wonderful day for the Montagues and Capulets living peacefully after.
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Yukio Mishima’s The Sound of Waves, the secondary characters play an essential role in the book. In Romeo and Juliet by an English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, Friar Lawrence is an important secondary character who designs solutions for Romeo and Juliet and brings the play into the dramatic results. The failure of his plan causes the tragedy of death for both main characters at the end of the story. In The Sound of Waves, Shinji Kubo, a young and poor fisherman in Uta-Jima falls in love with Hatuse, a rich man’s daughter. Shinji and Hatsue try to be together throughout the book, but encounter many difficulties with their neighbors. Shinji’s mother tries to help Shinji and Hatsue by asking many people and going to shrines to beg the gods for help to get them together.
A character goes through many changes that depend on the kind of events they experience. The play “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare, uses different tones and language that shows the readers that Juliet, a Protagonist, changes over time, proving the idea that she is a dynamic character. At the beginning of the play, we are introduced to a young, innocent and inexperienced girl, Juliet the daughter of Lord Capulet . She has not yet seen the real world and is raised by the person she trusts most, her nurse. Juliet begins as a naive child who has thought little about love and marriage, but she grows up quickly upon falling in love with Romeo, the son of her family’s great enemy. Due to the fact that Juliet is a girl in an aristocratic family, she has none of the freedom Romeo has to rome around the city, climb over walls in the middle of the night, or get into swordfights. As we begin to learn more about the character of Juliet, we learn that Juliet is not the girl she used to be anymore. She is more courageous and willing to break the rules. She goes against her and her family beliefs. In the beginning of the play she obeys her parents. But as the play descends Juliet is disregarding of what her parents say. She is no longer the innocent girl she use to be. Shakespeare use of language helps the reader to see the change in a character that makes them a dynamic character.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet tells the tragic story of two young star-crossed lovers whose fates are inevitable. This poetic play reaches a theatrical crescendo in Act 3 Scene 1, a pivotal turning point that leads to the ultimate tragedy of the play. This play incorporates plot, language devices and aesthetic features to explore themes on the forcefulness of love and the inevitability of fate. Shakespeare applies literary devices to portray the instinctive and strong attraction between Romeo and Juliet. Elements of aesthetic features are also included to further create a text that exquisitely expresses the heartbreak of forbidden love and devastating tragedy.
Romeo & Juliet Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy, but it did not have to be. Many things could have been done to prevent their deaths. Many characters contributed to their deaths. The sole character that was responsible for their deaths is Friar Lawrence. Friar Lawrence is responsible for the deaths of the lovers because he was secretive with their relationship, he was unable communicate effectively, and he had a cowardly persona.
“Here’s to my love! Drinks. O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” (V.iii.119-120). This is a quote out of Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet detailing rash decisions of people madly infatuated. In this play, two lovers (Romeo and Juliet) have a relationship that is shown to be quite shallow. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses idioms, allusions, and monologues to show that Romeo and Juliet have a shallow relationship.
Throughout the course of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship, they are constantly faced with trials and tribulations. Every time they overcome an obstacle, they are met with another issue, one after the other. Because they are so overcome with the kind of desperation and impulsivity that love produces, they are willing to risk disownment by their polarized families, disobey the wishes of their parents, and even put their lives on the line for one another. All of these risky and dangerous situations that Romeo and Juliet decide to place themselves in are taken without the concrete knowledge that the outcomes of their actions will successfully aid them in their goal of being together in the end. To showcase this underlying theme of love as a dangerous
Young love; a questionable topic since the early days of mankind. Even after centuries have passed, many still wonder whether it is considered true love or just plain lust. This mystery reincarnates itself through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The question that arises in this tragic love story of young, supposedly star-crossed lovers is who is to be truly blamed for their deaths within the first two acts? With a story as complex as this one, the blame can fall on various characters. However, the most evident characters to take the fall are Benvolio, Romeo and Friar Lawrence.
Romeo and Juliet is arguably the most famous story about love in literature. This is in part because of the tension caused by the look the different characters have towards what love means and its role in life. These views were very important for the progression of the story. Their different views collided and caused much grief and sorrow for the characters throughout play. Many important events that propelled the story forward would not have happened without the various feelings towards love the characters have and how they felt of and reacted to the other characters’ view on love.
Through this tragic play, Shakespeare illustrates that love requires people to sacrifice many precious things, which can include family, friends, even life. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet depicts the nuances of human experience of love. Romeo and Juliet’s story is the greatest declaration of romantic love.
Love has the power to do wonderful things, but for the star-crossed lovers, it made them stop at nothing to be together. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, a young man and woman from two opposing families must overcome several challenges to be together. The Montague and Capulet feud continuously sets several obstacles for Romeo and Juliet’s love. With society’s violence and controlling families, came many mistakes that all helped lead up to the final moments of Romeo and Juliet. Society’s violence, male-dominance, and plague all contributed to ruin Romeo and Juliet’s love.
A tragic story of a deadly love, William Shakespeare’s tale of Romeo and Juliet is incomparable to any other classic play. The story begins with a naive young Romeo Montague who experiences instant lust when he lays eyes upon the starry eyed Juliet Capulet. The lovers are instantly torn apart by their meaningless last names that are supposed to be feuding and incompatible. While on a quest to change the minds of their parents and change their unforgiving fate, they lose all hope in one day living together happily. The couple faces the deaths of family members that they cherished most, the abandonment of their parents and the ultimate sacrifice of both of their lives.
Love is a wonderful curse that forces us to do unexplainable things. Romeo and Juliet is a famous play written by William Shakespeare, who does an exceptional job in showing the readers what hate, mercy, death, courage, and most importantly what love looks like. This play is about two star-crossed lovers who are both willing to sacrifice their lives just to be with one another. Unfortunately tragedy falls upon the unconditional love Romeo and Juliet have for each other, but along the way they experience immeasurable forgiveness and extraordinary braveness just to be with one another. Sadly enough, love is a cause of violence in the end. Even though the pair spends less time together, it is enough for them to fall in love. It is clearly true
"Never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo," is a fitting phrase to the conclusion of the play. It is fitting because the text is truly about woe, which occurs when the characters allow their feelings to take over reason. Romeo, for example, constantly shows this nature in the play, just like the older and fiery-tempered Capulet. Capulet's daughter, Juliet, though younger than Romeo, is at times much more mature than Romeo, but also allows her feels to cloud her judgement; and so does her cousin, Tybalt, who is vengeful and loathes all Montague's. These characters are mere pawns in the tragedy, used by Shakespeare to display the dire consequences of allowing emotion to dominate over reason; and as a result, much woe is felt by all characters.
In the play “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare shows that love has power to control one’s actions, feelings, and the relationship itself through the bond between a destined couple. The passion between the pair grew strong enough to have the capability to do these mighty things. The predestined newlyweds are brought down a rocky road of obstacles learning love’s strength and the meaning of love.
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.