I. Romeo and Juliet is a timeless love story that ends in a tragedy.
A. A story that turned into a play, into a movie, and became one of the biggest
successful love stories in the movie business and novel world.
B. This story is extremely famous for the poetry and love scenes Shakespeare wrote
around 1596.
C. Even though people know what’s going to happen and they still attend because of
the well written passionate poetry and story.
II. The background and inspiration of the story was a narrative poem written by Arthur Brooke.
A. The narrative poem was established in 1562 as a different and older version of Romeo
and Juliet.
B. In Brookes Prologue he covered the fact that love is difficult and hard to have when
others don’t approve
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of the love you have for each other but, they don’t let that get in the way of their growing relationship. C.
Romeo and Juliet are caught up in this idealized, unreal, passionate love that they had
for each other but to soon realize that she has to be set off to marry another and he was
to be found to be banished didn’t make their plans to be together easy.
III. These lustful lovers are from two different worlds.
A. Juliet is a montague and Romeo is a capulet these civilizations aren’t at peace with
each other and they say they will never be, working out their problems isn’t an option
and didn’t plan on until Romeo and Juliet die.
B. In the story when they met and it was love at first sight so shakespeare wrote,
Romeo was 17 and Juliet was 14 and apparently age wasn’t in consideration back then.
C. There was absolutely no turning back they were madly and instantly in love but death
was their way out.
D. Romeo and Juliet were to die because they married without permission.
IV. To know what “Star-Crossed” means in this particular love story you have to realize that most
people back in this era believed in astrology.
A. Most thought that their lives intent was by the hour, day, month, and year of their birth
and the stars that laid in the sky the night were born.
B. Shakespeare didn’t share this belief with others and kept to
himself. C. In a later play Julius Caesar had a character question about the age-old believe on the influence of the stars at night “The Fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” V. To say Romeo and Juliet are victims of disastrous fate isn’t what shakespeare means in his prologue, they affected the lives of others as well. A. They make decisions that followed them to their deaths, most importantly there’s a handful of characters who take a big role in the leading of this tragic situation. B. To say “Fate” affects us in a way is true, I personally think as we are younger we tend to have this image in our minds especially girls that we will find love and think its fate even if it isn’t and force ourselves to believe it is and settle. C. We do control our destinies, if you choose to be successful or unsuccessful the choice is yours, it isn’t easy to be something great without work and it isn’t easy to change in an instant to be successful, but our choices is what makes the future great or not.
known works, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. But is it so simple? How do these two compare,
Romeo and Juliet are madly in love with each other and will go to any lengths to be together.
In the prologue, the quote ‘ A pair of star crossed lovers take their life’ tells you they a...
The Phenomenon of Love at First Sight in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare One of the first things that make a reader believe in love at first sight is the way Shakespeare created two characters who should of hated each other in the form of Romeo and Juliet but who instantly fell in love the moment they first saw each other. This shows the reader that even though they were from feuding families and were each other enemies love at first sight was in itself was real enough force to make two people fall in love The first message in the play is where straight away Shakespeare makes his first reference to love "†A pair of star crossed lovers take their life†Doth with their death bury their parents' strife." though this does not refer to love at first sight directly, it does help the reader believe in love at first sight as it is showing what a powerful emotion love is. This is because at the beginning of the play The reader discovers the Montague's and the Capulet's (Romeo and Juliet's family hate each other so much that they have even killed her.
Because Romeo and Juliet knew each other for such a little amount of time, it’s likely that the feelings
seems that they are obsessed, not in love. How could they love each other when
Thomas Otway wrote one of the most varied versions in 1680 entitled The History and Fall of Caius Marius. Set in ancient Rome, this version focuses much more on politics than a story of true love. With this variation, many of the characters are in much varied roles. One of the most obvious character disparities is found in the title character Romeo, or Marius junior as he is called in Otway’s version. While both versions of the male lead go through little or no character development, Romeo and Marius junior are very different in their regard and understanding of filial duty and responsibility.
The second difference is the way people talk in the old age and the new days. There is a huge difference in Romeo and Juliet and American teenagers on how they talk. In Romeo and Juliet, many people proceed to use numerous and plenty of words to present a very little bit. The language in Romeo and Juliet was poetic-type. In our time, teenagers get to the point when they are talking to their friends or other people. Teenage Americans don’t use poetic-type of language because we aren’t in the old medieval days. We even use slang and abbreviated words for us to talk
Marriage in Shakespeare’s time mostly served as a union of two parties interested in acquiring property, money or political alliances. Few ever married for love.
The story began as it could be a fantasy. They seemed like the perfect couple. They were happily in love.
... truly in love, they would be inseparable and would not have left without exchanging information. The ending scene of them going their separate ways showed that what was experienced between them was romance, attraction, and lust—a one day stand—but not love. Love is just not as easy to walk away from, which is what they did in the end.
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.” (Shakespeare) Forbidden love and tragedy is evident in the prominent play of Romeo and Juliet, but this play differs from all the other works of William Shakespeare. The distinction between protagonist and antagonist characters in his other works are not as clear compared to the play of young lovebirds Romeo and Juliet. The two main characters are protagonist, while there are very few antagonist present. Individuals that could be considered antagonists in the play would be the two hating and feuding families: The Capulets and The Montague. Juliet was of the Capulet and Romeo was of the Montague. Because of the strong hatred between the two families,
Star-crossed love is a relationship that is said to be doomed, and will end tragically. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, that is exactly what happens. The story takes any reader or audience on a true journey of star-crossed love. There are many speculations on who and why certain characters in the story could have impacted the outcome of Romeo and Juliet’s love, however Friar Laurence, the nurse, and the two lovers themselves are the biggest reasons to the tragic ending of this story.
that seems as if it was at first based on loving each other but over
Their love surpassed the hatred in which the families endured for generations. In the end, they both ended up killing themselves, for one could not live without the other. This story is a perfect example of true love.