Oliver Brown Ms. Armstrong English 9 DATE Title “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you don’t stop.” -Confucius. This quote is a very pertinent theme in both Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare and Scythe by Neal Shusterman. In both stories, they have overcome many challenges, and keep going without stopping. There are many similarities with overcoming challenges in the two stories as they both get help, but they also differ in their methods and whether they keep going. First of all, there are lots of similarities between the two texts, but one big similarity is that the main characters have to overcome many challenges. Not only do they have to overcome challenges, but they are also helped by their respective mentors. In Romeo and …show more content…
Friar helped them overcome their challenges, similar to how the mentor of the main characters in my book, Scythe, helped them. In the story, humans manage to overcome death and the Scythes have to kill people to help with population control. The two main characters, Rowan and Citra, are training to become Scythes. They did get into some trouble during their apprenticeship, with Rowan being accused of murder and sentenced to be killed by Citra. To get out of the sticky situation, their mentor, Scythe Faraday, faked his own death and he devised a plan to escape shown when he said, “‘Good evening Rowan,’ Scythe Faraday said. ‘How are you not dead?’ ‘I could ask you the same question, but time is of the essence. Now please, close the door’” (Shusterman 433). This is very similar to Romeo and Juliet because they both have a mentor helping them overcome their challenges as they can’t do everything by themselves. In addition to that, there are many differences between overcoming challenges in the two stories. The differences aren’t in the challenges they have to overcome, or who helps them overcome the challenges, but they show in the methods of overcoming these …show more content…
In that quote, he said that he wanted to find the part of him that is his name and he would cut it out. He was saying that if it was for Juliet, he would kill himself. At that moment, instead of working to overcome the challenge, he would’ve rather killed himself. That’s not the only time that the main characters do that. Later in the story, Juliet goes to the friar for a similar purpose and says, “Give me some present counsel, or, behold, ‘twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife shall play the umpire.I long to die” (Shakespeare 4.1.62-68). Not only did Romeo want to overcome his challenge by killing himself, but that’s also how Juliet was overcoming hers. This is in stark contrast to in my book Scythe, in the book, one of the main characters, Rowan, went to a second master who taught him killcraft. When Rowan started apprenticing him, he didn’t know he was the bad guy, but after he realized, he came up with a plan. For months, he was working through a plan to kill him, never giving up no matter what happened to him, not once giving up. It all comes to a climax when he kills his second mentor and he says, “For months he had trained for this, and now he finally understood why Goddard always let the last one go, it was to prepare him for today” (Shusterman
In “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, two very young people fall in love but cannot be with each other because of the feud in between their families. The feud ends when Romeo and Juliet both kill themselves because of heartbreak over the other. The minor characters Mercutio, Tybalt, and Friar Lawrence serve as foils to Romeo, to help support the theme of patience.
Who would be willing to die for their loved ones? Romeo and Juliet would and did. Romeo and Juliet’s love and death brought two families together who could not even remember the origin of their hate. When the parents saw what their children's love for each other, they realized that their fighting had only led to suffering and insoluble conflict. Romeo and Juliet loved each other to an extent that they killed themselves rather than live apart. They did it with no hiatus. Juliet says before she kills herself, “O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.”( 5, 3, 182-183) demonstrating how she would rather die than not be with him.
William Shakespeare composed the tragedy Romeo and Juliet in the 16th century. This play vividly portrayed the banned love between the heirs of two families. Spoiler alert, Romeo and Juliet killed themselves in the end. Every person in Romeo and Juliet held responsibility for their death. Among all of the characters, Friar Lawrence and Capulet were major catalysts of the casualties. Let's not forget Romeo, the one that started it all.
In act one scene three of Romeo and Juliet Lord Capulet states “…She hath not seen the change of fourteen years. Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.” This means that Juliet is not quite fourteen years old and her father is not sure if she is ready to become a wife and mother. There are many differences between how people marry today, and how they married in the time of Romeo and Juliet. Some of the differences are when the people marry, why people marry, and also the level of maturity people marry at.
Albert Camus points out that for some people, it is easier for them to take their own life, than it is to continue living an empty one. This is the case for the star-crossed lovers, Romeo, and Juliet, in William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet. Although there were multiple contributing factors to the suicides of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence is directly responsible for their deaths. He is responsible because he trusted someone other than himself to deliver the letter to Romeo, he gave Juliet the potion, and left when Romeo and Juliet were in danger at the tomb.
Advice is always helpful and it can be used to solve many problems. But advice can also be dangerous if the outcome is not considered. In William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, the blame for Romeo and Juliet's death lies on Friar Laurence. In spite of being the most kind, sensible and thoughtful person, he presents misleading advises and actions towards the lovers which lead to their tragic death. Friar Laurence's deceptive advices and actions towards the lovers are secretly marrying Romeo and Juliet in the hope of getting two families together and bring peace to Verona, Friar Laurence organizes poorly for the plan of Juliet's fake death which causes the death of the lovers, Friar Laurence proposes a plan to fake Juliet's death and gives her the potion which leads to Romeo and Juliet's death.
Teenagers that are in love tend to be impulsive and bad at making decisions. In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, two star-crossed lovers from families that don’t get along have to go against their parents, so they can be together. The language that Shakespeare uses depicts the characters and shows that they are impulsive, which affects the outcome of the play.
There was action and there was tragedy, but put it all together to make the perfect comedy and a perfect tragic story. William Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet, said to be the finest written play in history, for its originality and it's many plots. This story will take you through a lot of mixed emotion and will show you what a true feud is. This story is laid out perfectly because of its true holding and both family's passion for their children. William Shakespeare wrote the story to show how Romeo and Juliet's love for each other will show their youth and immaturity. Their over reacting cost them their life. At such a young age they thought they could never love another being again, and so, " A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life."(Act one scene one)
Accidentally, incidentally, unintentionally, intentionally; no one ever really knows, but we are for certain one thing: “the heart isits own fate.” For Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare’s masterpiece play ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ this holds especially true. Romeo and Juliet’s “misadventure piteous overthrow” is fueled by their love for each other and their determination to be together, no matter what. Romeo and Juliet’s love with stands the hate surrounding them. Thus, fate is undoubtedly the most responsible influence for the two young lovers’ heartbreaking tragedy.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a literary classic known for its tragic love story between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. In Verona, Italy, Romeo Montague has a passionate affection for a woman named Rosaline who does not return the devotion. Burdened with great sorrow, his close friends Benvolio and Mercutio convince him to go to the feast hosted by his enemies, the Capulets. There, Juliet catches the eye of Romeo, casting aside any memory of Rosaline. Eager and engrossed with thought of each other, they plan to be soon married. Romeo asks Friar Lawrence to marry them, and he reluctantly agrees hoping it will end the feud. Soon after the wedding between Romeo and Juliet, Romeo finds Tybalt, now his cousin, and Mercutio arguing in the streets of Verona. When Tybalt and Mercutio begin to brawl, Romeo steps between them, causing Mercutio to be struck with Tybalt's sword causing Mercutio to die. Romeo, driven with a mixture of grief and anger kills Tybalt. Shell-shocked with what he has done, he flees to Mantua, avoiding death. Meanwhile, Juliet unwillingly becomes betrothed to a respectable man named County Paris. Though Juliet does not wish to marry Paris, her father, Lord Capulet, threatens her and calls her ungrateful. Troubled, Juliet runs to Friar Lawrence for a solution to get out of the arranged marriage. Friar, then advises Juliet to tell her father that she will marry Paris. Subsequently he hands her a potion that will make her look as if she is a corpse for forty-two hours. Meanwhile Friar Lawrence sends a letter to Romeo that will apprise him on the current situation and the potion. Juliet agrees to marry Paris, causing her father, ...
Thesis: If one makes selfish choices in life, it can end in disastrous results, as shown in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet; And shown through the characters of Capulet, Tybalt and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, is a tragic love story between two young lovers who come from families that are enemies. The play starts off with a depressed Romeo Montague in love with a woman named Rosaline, who does not love him back. He often moans about his love for her and how there is no one more beautiful than her. Romeo's cousin Benvolio and their friend Mercutio try to distract Romeo, so they bring him to a party at the Capulet's. At the Capulet's party, Romeo sees the beautiful Juliet Capulet. Forgetting about Rosaline, Romeo declares that Juliet is the most beautiful person he has seen and Juliet falls in love with him. Although Romeo thought he was in love with Rosaline's looks before, Romeo and Juliet's love for each other is young and quick love.
Hawaiz Kaka Mrs. Kent ENG2DB-10 April 27, 2016. As seen in Hamlet and Macbeth, Shakespeare focuses a lot of his plays on tragedies. Romeo and Juliet is no different, a story of two lovers from feuding families that eventually die. But of course too much tragedy or romance will lead to a bored audience as the only thing that they see are characters dying and others falling in love.
Romeo and Juliet Character Analysis “Wisely and slow: they stumble and run fast” (II, iii, 94). This piece of wisdom comes from the late 1500’s. In the 1500’s, people were commonly married at a young age and often forced to marry someone without really knowing them. Also, most people do not have any great leaders to suggest that they slow down and get to know each other first. In the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Friar Laurence demonstrates leadership and well-intended actions.
A Psychological Analysis of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet was obviously not written to fit the psychoanalytic model, as the theories of Freud were not developed for centuries after Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote about Renaissance England, a culture so heavily steeped in Christianity, that it would have blushed at the instinctual and sexual thrust of Freud’s theory. However, in order to keep literature alive and relevant, a culture must continually reinterpret the themes and ideas of past works. While contextual readings assure cultural precision, often these readings guarantee the death of a particular work. Homer’s Iliad, a monument among classical works, is currently not as renowned as Romeo and Juliet because it is so heavily dependent on its cultural context.