The dramatic play of Romeo and Juliet, written by the famous English poet; William
Shakespeare in the mid 1590’s, is about two “star-crossed” lovers from rival families that have despised each other since ancient times. The play takes place in the city of Verona, Italy when a brawl engages by the feuding families; The Capulets and The Montagues. The Prince, filled with exasperation, explains that if anyone disrupts the peace once again, the punishment will be death.
Further into the play, lovers from the feuding families meet each other and instantly fall in love.
Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, are willing to do anything for love and will put their trust in fate. Romeo and Juliet demonstrate that the recipe for love runs
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Love becomes a recipe of disaster as Lord Capulet enrages and threatens his daughter to engage in artificial love. Lord Capulet elaborates and assumes it would be a marvelous idea for
Juliet to marry Paris in order for her to disremember the grief of her deceased cousin, Tybalt. Since Juliet is already married to Romeo secretly by law and has no affections or feelings for
Paris, she neglects her father’s offer and selflessly says, “not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love”
(3.5.150-152). This demonstrates that Juliet is thankful and grateful that her father is authentically devoted to her, but she does not wish to marry Paris because she does not love him.
Her father is frenzied, fuming, and is fighting the urge to hit his daughter as it is written “my fingers itch” (3.5.169). This demonstrates how frantic and stubborn her father is towards pressuring Juliet to wed Paris. He is filled with such absurd exasperation, that he threatens
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For, by my soul, I’ll never acknowledge thee” (3.5.202-203).
This quotation demonstrates how persistent Lord Capulet is toward Juliet marrying Paris which makes it more troubling for Juliet as the marriage seems to be set in stone. This is an excellent example of how love does not run smoothly because Juliet’s feelings toward Romeo is perfect true love and this is why she went against her father’s will and married Romeo. This long spark of true love does not last very long after a forceful marriage to Paris in line. Juliet becomes so upset about this love triangle that she is willing to die for her true love as she cries out , “and with this knife I’ll help it presently.” Through her father’s entanglement, the recipe of love has become complex, confusing, and ultimately, resulted in a disaster. Romeo’s banishment from Verona creates trembling fear of love between him and Juliet.
A vicious fight engages in which one of Romeo’s good friends; Mercutio is slain by the hot- headed Tybalt. Romeo, filled with fury, seeks vengeance for this loss and in turn slays Tybalt. A day before this encounter, a different brawl engages in which the Prince puts an end to
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a story of two young lovers. These two hearts, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, belong to feuding families. The family feud causes them to keep their love a secret and therefore only Romeo, Juliet, Benvolio, the Nurse and Friar Lawrence know of their love. Romeo and Juliet are able to look past the feud and let themselves fall in mad love with the other. They let themselves do almost anything for the other and at times it seems like too much to do, even for the one they love.
Juliet certainly should have known that the results would be disastrous had she married a hated Montague. Some may say that Juliet marrying Paris would have been a tragedy in itself, but surely it would have been far less severe than the loss of two lives!
Here in Verona after Romeo and Juliet meet, The two men quickly show that they are bad husband’s from lack of experience by abusing family members, showing bad communication skills, and criticizing their loved ones.
Lord Capulet is a loving father who deeply cares for Juliet. When he arranges the marriage between her and Paris, he is just trying to do what he feels is best for her. He knows Paris, being handsome and rich, will make a good husband to Juliet. When she refuses to marry Paris he goes into a violent rage, saying things he doesn’t mean. “Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! / I tell thee what: get thee to church o’Thursday, / Or never after look me in the face.”(3.5.166-168). He feels that the marriage of the two will be beneficial for Juliet and he loves her so much that he doesn’t mean to hurt her feelings. When Juliet “dies” he laments. “Despised, distressed, hated, martyred, killed! / Uncomfortable time, why cam’st thou now/ To murder, murder our solemnity? / O child! O child! My soul and not my child! / Dead art thou! Alack, my child is dead, / And with my child my joys are buried.” (4.5.65-70). He cries out in a pain and anguish for his lost daughter Juliet. By showing emotion on account of her death and for her disobedience, Capulet shows that he really does care for Juliet and that he is a good father, wanting the best for her.
There are two families that hate each other Romeo's family the Montague's and Juliet's family the Capulet's. The families have hated each other for many generations. Romeo and Juliet met at a party even though Lord Capulet has found Juliet a husband but she doesn't like him and falls in love with Romeo who was previously in love with Rosaline. Romeo and Juliet get married in secret hoping in the long run that this deed will end the family feud but Juliet's family don't know about the wedding. Mercutio Romeo's best friend and Tybalt Juliet's cousin get into a fight and Mercutio dies but Romeo turns up and kills Tybalt.
Romeo and Juliet is a famous tragedy written by Shakespeare. The plot is based on an Italian tale but Shakespeare makes it more dramatic by developing specific characters, such as the Nurse and Mercutio. The plot is set in Verona in the sixteenth century. The Montagues and the Capulets are two distinguished families in Verona; however, they see each other as enemies. They are fighting all the time. Romeo and Juliet, who respectively are Montague and Capulet, fall in love at their first sight. In the end, two star-crossed lovers are dead. The Montagues and the Capulets reconciled by their children’s death and end the feud which has lasted generations.
However, there was an intense moment of despair when Romeo was caught in a brawl and banished away. This was an emotional time, for the two had just gotten married. Romeo went away that night and Juliet sobbed for days. Everyone tried to comfort her, but only Juliet’s secret lover could heal her throbbing heart. This emotion is displayed yet again when Romeo finds that Juliet is “dead”. He is so torn apart that he decides to join his love with a bottle of baneful toxin. She then wakes up from a deathly slumber to find her lover dead. Out of anguish, Juliet pierces herself with his dagger.
Even though the pair spend less time together, it is enough for them to fall in love. It is clearly true love and there is great intensity in the young lovers’ passion for one another. Love has unlimited forgiveness. As already shown, both Romeo and Juliet are horrified to discover that they are family enemies. Despite this, they both choose to devote their love to each other.
Besides the Friar, Capulet heavily contributed to the demise of the two star crossed lovers. In the town...
Romeo is depressed and is shutting himself off from the world because love is not working out for him. Before Juliet attends the party at her father?s, she is being arranged to marry Paris. This is against her will, though, she does not love this man at all. Juliet has never been in a relationship before, so this is a new experience for her. Lady Capulet, Capulet, the nurse, and others thought that she was being ridiculous.
Capulets, have a fight and are warned that the next fight will result in punishment by
Capulet and Romeo Montague, face a bigger problem; forbidden love. Taking place in Verona, an ignorant Romeo first meets a childish Juliet at the Capulet’s party. Romeo and his kinsman, Benvolio, attend the party masked, searching for his first love, Rosaline. Coincidentally, Romeo meets Juliet, a new beauty, and falls in love with her not knowing the fact that she is a Capulet. The feud continues, leading one mistake after another, until both families realize their selfishness at the last minute. The unfortunate tragedy of two “star-crossed lovers” is ironically caused by the impetuosity of Romeo and Juliet themselves (Shakespeare 7).
culprits will be put to death. Romeo is not at the fight as he is at
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.
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.