Is Romeo and Juliet romantic?
What is romantic supposed to look like? Romances is defined as “a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.” For me I define romance as true love between two people who love each other no matter what. So by my definition of romances, Romeo and Juliet is not romantic. In the story of Romeo and Juliet it is not romantic because it is not true love, because it ends in a death scene, and because of their age.
The story of Romeo and Juliet is not romantic because it is not true love. In the play Romeo say, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/for I ne’er saw true beauty till this night,” (Shakespeare I.v.50.) As soon as Romeo see Juliet he claims that he has fall in love with her. But Romeo and Juliet barely meet how can he say that he’s in love when he doesn’t know Juliet as a person. Romeo seems to base his love off of who he think looks attractive. But then again how could Romeo have fallen in love with Juliet, when he said that he could not love anymore because the
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When Juliet and the Friar came up with the plan to fake Juliet’s death, the Friar wasn’t able to tell Romeo about their plan, so when Balthasar tells Romeo about Juliet’s death he believes that she is actually dead. Which causes Romeo to really kill himself. By him killing himself he didn’t really make the story romantic. Death isn’t romantic, death is a tragic and sad thing that happens in life. Juliet was just thinking about herself when she faked her own death. So when she wakes up from her fake death and sees Romeo she decides to kill herself for real. Which was really sad because she hasn’t really lived she’s only a teenager for her to be killing herself in the name of love when she doesn’t really know what love is. She fell for the first guy that started to flirt with her. Death and romance don’t mix together very well, it just made the story lose it’s romantic
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a play commonly viewed and known as a true love story; however, after analyzing several hints portrayed by the protagonists, it is evident that Shakespeare did not intend to make Romeo and Juliet seem like a true love story but a criticism of how superficial society’s view on love is.
Every day it’s possible to find something related to romance. There are so many “epic” stories that have gone down in history but a lot of them were infatuation mistaken for true love. Infatuation is a lot like love so it’s difficult to pick the two apart. They both are strong intense feelings and make you feel the same emotions but infatuation typically takes off very fast and is short lived. It’s more of an obsession based off of physical attraction and leads to absurd, impulsive decisions. A lot of the qualities of this fixation describe Romeo and Juliet’s marriage. “Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, I drink to thee!” (IV.iv.58) in this scene Juliet drank poison so she could fake her death to be with her lover which is an insane choice. When in love crazy things can be done but with infatuation a person will do anything to feel the euphoria again without even giving the consequences much thought. This is alike what Juliet did because she didn’t have any second thoughts until the very last minute before drinking the poison. “The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand / And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. / Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” (I.V.50-53) this was when he first saw her. As previously stated infatuation can be based off of physical attraction and this was when Romeo first saw her; he hadn’t even talked to
This slide shows Romeo and Juliet at the Capulet’s banquet or gathering. Romeo wears a mask to prevent being seen, for Montagues were not allowed, or even invited to this gathering. Romeo went to this gathering only for the sole purpose of meeting Rosaline again, which was Romeo’s first crush. But halfway through this “party”, Romeo saw Juliet, in which he stated he never saw true beauty until this night. He compares her to many things, such as a bright torch, a rich jewel, beauty too rich for earth, and a snowy dove among crows. This is truly true love at first sight, not founded on lust, for he shows true loyalty to Juliet later in the play.
The students read Romeo and Juliet and do not see the love story that society would have them see. Instead they examine what lies beyond this. They see a story of secrecy, sex, murder, suicide, and disease. All of these things are found within the play, but are masked by poetry and romance. For example, these students see Romeo and Juliet as a story of "whispering, tiptoeing, making love, and (children) driven mad in the dark." To the "normal" reader this is romantic. It is viewed as a story about the most amazing kind of love imaginable - true love ending in tragedy.
Romeo Act V 61-67. Once again, if Romeo wasn’t so irrational and so impulsive before killing himself, he would have thought to at least talk to Friar Lawrence before doing it. If he had talked to the Friar, he would have learnt that Juliet wasn’t really dead and that everything was staged so that they could be together. Unfortunately, because he wasn’t really thinking rationally, he failed to do the things mentioned above and drank the poison a few minutes prior to Juliet’s awakening. When Juliet woke up and realised that their plan didn’t work, she decided to end her life as well so she could be with her loved one for eternity.
“Romeo and Juliet”, a play composed by William Shakespeare, is about a boy and a girl who are fall in love with each other at first sight, but soon find out that they have fallen in love with the child of their parents enemy. Seeing fate is not on their side due to the ongoing feud between their parents, they are willing to do anything to be together, which unfortunately leads to both of their demise. Many people question if the love between Romeo and Juliet was true. The love between the two was not true because they fell in love with each other’s appearances, they didn’t know each other long enough to actually figure out each other, and they were hardly thinking straight during the relationship.
The type of love, Shakespeare shows, is a destructive love between Romeo and Juliet, which leads to their hurried marriage and eventually their deaths. Their youthful love plays a big role in their irrational decisions, and their love blossoms so intensely and so quickly. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, a sight!
We all know the story of Romeo and Juliet, the star crossed lovers who kill themselves for each other. But when you think of Romeo and Juliet, you probably think of a great romance story. But is it really? Romeo and Juliet is a play written by the great William Shakespeare and most people think this play was written as a love story that just ends very badly. Well I think otherwise. Most people are tricked into thinking that Romeo and Juliet is a love story from what others say, but in all reality Romeo and Juliet is more of a tragedy.
Despite what many people think, Romeo and Juliet is not a love story; rather a story of desperation and obsession. People have been reading Shakespeare for hundreds of years and several people have mistaken it for a love story, due to the fact that Romeo loves Juliet so much he is willing to kill himself when he finds her supposedly dead; she does the same when she wakes up to find him dead. But in fact, Romeo is more taken aback by her beauty than he is in love with her. Juliet is intrigued by the fact someone could love her because her parents are very unsupportive of her. When the two find each other, they immediately become obsessed, mistaking this for love at first sight.
Romeo is surprised at what he did because Juliet awakes as he dies. To see him dead causes Juliet to stab herself with his dagger, straight through the heart. It's a bittersweet ending to such a famous and timeless love story. The fact that they both died for each other is romantic. The fact that they could have been together makes it all seem a greater tragedy.
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
As Romeo is in Mantua, his man Balthasar informs him of Juliet’s death. When Romeo tells Balthasar to hire horses so he may see Juliet, Balthasar says, “I do beseech you, sir, have patience./ Your looks are wild and pale and do import/ Some misadventure”(5.1.28-30). Balthasar is showing concern for Romeo and asks him to wait before he does something he might regret. Balthasar seems to be aware of how impulsively Romeo acts and knows that many of his actions lead to problems. However, Romeo tells Balthasar to leave and do as he said. Romeo then says to himself, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight”(5.1.37). Immediately after Romeo hears of Juliet’s death, he makes the major decision of killing himself in a very short amount of time. Once he makes his choice, he does not spend enough time considering what he should do, and so he is not thinking clearly about what exactly he is doing and how it affects not only him, but the people around him. After Romeo kills himself, Juliet awakens to find him dead, which leads her to kill herself. By choosing to die, Romeo not only kills himself, but also Juliet because he did not use his time to think about his
He relentlessly speaks about how beautiful she is when he questions, “did my heart love her till now? forswear it sight!/ For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (Shakespeare 1.5.51-52). It is evident that Romeo cannot focus on anything else but Juliet’s looks, which is a sign of physical attraction rather than love at first sight. Romeo proclaims to “love” Juliet the minute he lays eyes on her.
Throughout the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, various types of love are portrayed. According to some of the students of Shakespeare, Shakespeare himself had accumulated wisdom beyond his years in matters pertaining to love (Bloom 89). Undoubtedly, he draws upon this wealth of experience in allowing the audience to see various types of love personified. Shakespeare argues that there are several different types of love, the interchangeable love, the painful love and the love based on appearances, but only true love is worth having.
When the friar hears of this, he devises a plan so that the two lovers can be together. The major climax of the play comes when the friar gives Juliet a potion that will make it seem as though she has died, when in fact she is alive the whole time. While in Mantua, Romeo mistakenly hears that Juliet has actually died and he goes to lay by her side. Just as he takes a vile poison and dies, Juliet awakens to find her love lying dead at her side. She cannot fathom living in a world without Romeo, so she takes his sword and ends her own life.