Payton Pavlicek Ms. North-P.4 Romeo and Juliet Essay 24 February 2017 Obedience is Key “Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief” –Edwin Louis Cole. In the tragic play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, Juliet was very disobedient and went behind her parents back to get married to a member of their enemy family. An abundance of disobedience can lead to tragic outcomes and disastrous endings. Disobedience is prevalent in teenagers. In the play, Romeo is very disobedient in different ways. For example Romeo goes to the Capulet’s party even though he is not invited. He is convinced by his friends to crash the party because Rosaline would be there: “I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown, but to rejoice …show more content…
in splendor of mine own” (1.2.102-103). He bends to disobedience under peer pressure, even though he knows it is wrong. Another defiant action Romeo takes is when he sneaks into the garden beneath Juliet’s balcony. This is a sign of disobedience as her parents would certainly disapprove of his actions because of the feud between the families. This feud has often resulted in brawls in the streets. The prince has threatened alarming consequences to anyone caught in one of these fights. Romeo disobeys this edict from the prince and fights Tybalt in the streets, what is ironic about this is that Romeo does not want to fight Tybalt but only does so because Mercutio fought Tybalt to defend Romeo’s honor and died as a result. Romeo realizes what this defiance has cost him: “This day’s black fate on more days doth depend; this but begins the woe others must end” (3.1.116-117). This would lead to further problems that ultimately result in tragedy. It is not just Romeo who defies the rules, Juliet also does as well.
For example, Juliet gets married without her parents’ permission, sneaking away to do so. Juliet never gives her parents a chance to say no to the marriage. Her father only wants her happiness, and with time, might even have agreed to the marriage. He even tells Tybalt at the party that “Verona brags of him [Romeo] to be a virtuous and well-grounded youth” (1.5.67-68). This indicates that Lord Capulet might well have eventually welcomed Romeo into their family. Unfortunately with Juliet’s disobedience he never gets the chance. Juliet further disobedience to her parents when she defies them and refuses to marry Paris. “I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear it shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, rather than Paris. These are news indeed” (3.5.122-124). She explains that she would rather marry her “enemy” over marring Paris. She is saying no to her parents and expressing resistance to their sayings. Soon after that, Juliet agrees to marry Paris. She tells her joyful parents that she will be going to Friar Laurence to speak about the wedding. She is now lying to her parents because she is actually going to Friar for the potion. She set up this plan to escape the marriage and go into a death-like sleep. She once again disobeys her parents which may lead to further
complications. Growing up is difficult. Young people will make mistakes as they test their limits with their parents and other adults. It takes a cool head and a strong resolve to always do the right thing, especially when peers are often pressuring one into doing the wrong thing. Fortunately, these errors in judgement do not often have serious consequences. Sadly this was not the case with Romeo and Juliet. Their actions were not only unwise but lead to their deaths. They left behind their grieving parents who will never get over the loss of their children. The disobedience of these two young people led to tragic endings for everyone concerned.
In the Elizabethan period, woman of higher social classes were supposed to embody “obedience”(Gerlach et al. 1) and this is shown throughout the text. In the beginning of the book, Lady Capulet tells Nurse to summon Juliet, so she can inquire about her getting married. As Juliet enters the room she says,“Madam, I am here. What is your will?” (1.3.7). Here, we can see not only Nurse being obedient to Lady Capulet’s wishes, but also Juliet being obedient and going to her mother after she is summoned. Similarly, after a discussion with Count Paris, a noble man who seeks Juliet’s hand in marriage, Lord Capulet decides that Juliet will marry him and tells Lady Capulet to deliver the news to Juliet. Not happy with this, Juliet expresses her opposition
A key theme of Romeo and Juliet that occurs throughout the play is Loyalty Vs. Disloyalty and the effects that this has on the characters Romeo and Juliet and their families. For example Romeo knows that if he tells his family of his love for Juliet it will be seen, as a disloyalty to his family and Romeo knows this so he tries to hide this truth.
One of the most popular theories about irrational behavior is that people’s actual interests will differ from what they believe is really their interest. In other words, what you think you want is not really what you want, it is not what your real interests are. The story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is about two people from two rival families who fall deeply in love. The two lovers believe that they have been in love since the moment that that they landed eyes on each other. However, this did cause some terrible things to happen, only because they loved each other. Shakespeare's purpose in writing this play was to show that you should not be irrational just because you believe that you want something new.
The famous Romeo and Juliet, thinking that it could be a tragic love story that existed in the past, yet the Tomba di Giulietta is not true. William Shakespeare’s play is famous, but famous to the point where people speculate Juliet’s tomb is an actual tomb of Juliet because Verona is an actual city. If the tomb of Juliet is an actual burial of Juliet, then why would it be accessible to the public. The tomb of Juliet doesn’t seem right because someone could be actually profiting off of the tourist attraction, yet the evidence of Juliet’s tomb is too vague.
In the beginning of the play Romeo and Juliet make many rash decisions that change the course of the play. Such as, when Romeo decides to sneak into the Capulet’s garden to have a conversation with Juliet. If Romeo was spotted by any of the guards or a resident of the Capulet household, he would have been captured and killed. When Juliet asks how Romeo snuck into the garden he replies to her, “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out…” (2.2.66-67). Romeo states that he snuck in with love’s wings and that nothing can stand in the way of love. Romeo shows that his love for Juliet can lead him to make rash decisions and not to think his actions through. An example of Juliet making a rash decision
Although disobedient maybe true from Capulets point of view, it doesn't mean it is a bad thing if it is. he's in the wrong. I think Juliet should be felt sorry for as she has no one to turn to, her mother says. "Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word" and the nurse just leaves her on her own. As for Lord Capulet he is just being selfish and trying to control Juliet to protect his
Romeo and Juliet’s true love is being mistaken for infatuation because they are in lust and are not emotionally stable enough to be in true love.
First of all, the dishonesty of Friar Lawrence, who married Romeo and Juliet, foreshadows the probability of his continuity to take even more insincere measures in manipulating the consequences faced by the young lovers. The Friar carries out an erroneous act of secretly marrying them under the church’s license without manifesting it in the public and encourages them to deceive their parents by keeping their relationship to themselves. He then agrees to marry Juliet and Paris, a county, and plans on faking her death, in order to avoid the marriage instead of revealing the truth about Romeo and Juliet right away. “I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,/On Thursday next be married to this County.” (4.1.49-50) In short, various incidents in the lives of Romeo and Juliet, controlled by Friar Lawrence’s cowardice result in undesirable circumstances.
The decision of pursuing personal desire or choosing to conform is a conflict that every person in life experiences. In his play, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare portrayed that the aforementioned conflict was existent in everyone’s life, and, depending upon what they chose, there would be corresponding repercussions. Shakespeare displays this conflict when the protagonist, Romeo, attends the ball, marries Juliet, and kills Tybalt.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy of an ancient feud where the children of two families at war fall deeply in love with each other. Set in the 16th century William Shakespeare’s play has many different themes running throughout it, which include love, hate, death and conflict. The play opens with a fight but ends with suicide that creates peace between both families who unite from their losses. The conflict, violence and aggression in the play happen from revenge and an ancient family grudge. An audience from the 16th century would have enjoyed Romeo and Juliet because of the real life drama and tragedy the play goes through. The patriarchal society gave women absolutely no rights and they had to obey their man’s ordering a patriarchal system. The theme of conflict is revealed as the characters argue over Juliet’s disobedience.
Throughout the play Juliet became very disobedient. Even after she knew that her family and her lover's family were enemies, she decided to marry Romeo. When her parents wanted her to marry Paris, a young wealthy man she responded, " I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear it shall be Romeo."(3.5.136). This proves that she is disobedient because she talked back to her father, and changed from being calm and respectful to disobedient. Even earlier in the play
... Juliet bringing news for Juliet to “hie you hence to Frair Laurences’ cell; there stays a husband [Romeo] to make you a wife” (Act II.5.73-74), Juliet is ecstatic. This portrays Juliet as being disobedient because while she accepted Romeo’s proposal, her family has already arranged a marriage between Juliet and Paris. Juliet’s disobedience continues until her death in scene five when Romeo’s dagger finds “thy sheath” (Act V.3.170) in Juliet’s body.
Because of miscommunication, Romeo and Juliet’s parents are not informed of their teenager’s conflicts, therefore making them useless. An example of miscommunication between the adults and adolescents is when Romeo locks himself in his room depressed. Lord Montague is deeply concerned about Romeo’s seclusive ways, saying he is “to himself, so secret”. Lord and Lady Montague want to “learn from whence his sorrows grow” so they can help him with his troubles (I.i.155-163). Because Romeo alienates himself from his parents, not telling them he is heartbroken from Rosaline, his parents do not know why he is upset. If he would have had told his parents of his recent heartbreak, the Montague’s could have helped him resolve this issue. However, this does not happen and the parents end up being futile. While it is not the Montague’s fault that Romeo does not ...
Another example of adolescent disobedience is the children’s animated movie “Gnomeo and Juliet” which is loosely based upon the former. The theme of adolescent rebellion has been popular for a very long time. Like stated before, Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is based on this rebellion, as well as forbidden love. A specific example of where a juvenile revolts in the tragic play is in Act Three, Scene Five.
In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, it is shown that even though it is important to take your parents ideas and thoughts into consideration, disobeying is sometimes the better choice. SOMETIMES. Not always, which is also showed the play. The ideas that children know what will make them happy has a major factor in it. Also the thought that sometimes when one’s ethic and views on morals are in stake, it may be better to do what you feel is right. The last one was that sometimes children need to be on their own to grow up and learn some valuable life lessons that will benefit them in the bright future they have. So a person can argue either way but there is a point in a child’s life that they will rebel and quite often it doesn’t turn out well, but sometimes it does and that there is always next time. Unless you die first.