Today, in society, most humans find it healthy to hold grudges against people. Nowadays we either decide to let people out of our lives or hold a grudge against someone forever rather than even considering forgiveness. In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, a lot of characters suffered greatly because of the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. The play romeo and Juliet takes place in the city of verona. The Capulets and the Montagues have a major feud. The feud between the two families had grown bigger when the Capulets only daughter, Juliet. And the Montague’s only son, Romeo, had fell in love and wanted to get married. Romeo and Juliet were forbidden to get married because of the feud. All because of the terrible circumstance between the Montagues and the Capulets, Romeo and Juliet died fighting for their love. Eventually The Montagues and the Capulets ended their feud when it was too late. It is clear that forgiveness is an important personality trait to posses. The major feud between the Capulets and Montagues negatively affect several characters …show more content…
such as Romeo, Friar Lawrence and Tybalt. Trying to do the right thing does not always have to go the way you want it to. Friar Lawrence just wanted the best for Romeo and Juliet, although, it did not turn out the way that would enable Romeo and Juliet to be together, leading to the very tragic outcome of his decision.Friar Lawrence says “ I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest/ of death contagion, and unnatural sleep.” (5.3.156-157). When Juliet had awaken and found romeo dead beside her, Friar Lawrence says that either god or faith has ruined their plans because he did not want to take responsibility over Romeo’s death because he helped Juliet fake her death which caused Romeo death. If it was not for the feud Friar Lawrence would not have had to secretly get married which an possibly be illegal. Friar Lawrence says “ For this alliance may so happy prove/ to turn your households S’rancor to pure love” (2.3.98-99). The feud had caused Friar Lawrence to risk getting Romeo and Juliet married because he believes that if they get married the feud might actually end and turn the feud into pure love. Therefore, Friar Lawrence was definitely affected by the feud because he played a role in Romeo and Juliet's death which did not need to happen if there was no feud. Just because someone you love hates someone, does not mean that you always need to agree with them. The feud had caused Tybalt to have a ton of hatred for the Montagues, well, especially romeo. Tyba;t says “Uncle, this is a montague, our foe,/ A villain that is hither come in spite/ to scorn at our solemnity this night. (1.2.69-71). All because of the feud all of Tybalt's hatred turns all of his so called “enemies” into the equivalent of cartoon villains. He cannot even see them as individual people or if they are good or not. The feud caused tybalt to always find the need to train himself incase he bumps into an enemy on the streets that he barely knows. Tybalt says “Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries/ that thou hast done me. Therefore turn and draw.” (3.1.67-68). Thee feud had caused Tybalt to fight romeo for no reason when all he wanted was peace and because of Tybalt always acting as if he is the best and had a big ego, he ended up dead. Therefore, because of Lord Capulet being Tybalt's leader, Tybalt had to see all Montagues as enemies when he never needed to. You cannot always choose who you fall for.
Poor Romeo fell for the enemy. Romeo was so affected by the feud that he considered to change who he was. Romeo says… “ I take thee at thy word. Call me but love, and i'll be baptized./ Henceforth i will never be Romeo.” (2.2.54-55). The feud caused Romeo to want to change who he truly was just so he can peacefully get married to the woman he loved, who was Juliet. Not only did Romeo try to change himself but once he found out that juliet had died he had drank poison to kill himself to be with her. Romeo says… “Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death” (5.3.45).All because of the feud Romeo had to die. His own parents were the reason of his death because of their contribution to the feud. If there was no feud juliet would not have had to fake her death which caused Romeo to kill himself. Therefore Romeo was strongly affected by the feud because he had to
die. Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, teachess us how holding grudges and creating feuds can cost the lives of our loved ones and can affect other people who got dragged into the feud such as Friar Lawerance, Tybalt and Romeo. If there was no feud Romeo did not have had to die, Friar Lawwerance did not have a part in romeo and Juliets death and Tybalt wouldnot have had to die or see all Montagues as eenemies either. Holding grudges and having feuds are not healthy at all. Nowadays, people think that getting rid of someone out of their lives instead of working things out with them is for the best, when its not. Forgiveness is a reaally big and important characteristic that everyone needs to work on.
Did you know that Romeo and Juliet was one of the biggest love story of all time. Romeo and Juliet is a story of two star-crossed lovers from two families the Capulets and the Montagues. The Capulets and the Montague had a big fight that made the families very angry at each other. Romeo and Juliet decide to get married. The two couple marry and run away. In the process both of them will die. When it comes to Romeo and Juliet who are the top three people that caused the two to die. The two people that are chosen are Friar Lawrence and Lady Capulet. Friar was chosen because he is the one that married Romeo and Juliet. Lady Capulet was chosen because she is forcing Juliet to marry Paris which is making Juliet want Romeo even more. The third thing
Romeo- Love causes Romeo to act impulsively and put himself in dangerous situations. For example, in act two scene two, Romeo sneaks into the Capulet grounds due to his love for Juliet. He loves her so much that he was willing to risk being caught by Juliet’s kinsman. If he was caught, a fight could have broken out, which would put Romeo’s life in danger. Also, he would lose his life due to the prince’s penalty. However, due to his intrusion of the Capulet party in act one scene five, it is Tybalt’s rage that jeopardizes Romeo’s well-being. This shows the intensity of Romeo’s love for Juliet, and how he cares more about seeing her than his own safety. For example, in act five scene three, Romeo kills himself because he believes that Juliet
In William Shakespeare's “Romeo And Juliet” Romeo is the main character. He is Montague's son. Which means he is the son of his loves enemy, the Capulets. Romeo is very depressed, he is very negative, impulsive, anxious, emotional, and he is a rebel. Romeo is stupid if he would have taken it slow and not rushed things with Juliet they might still be alive. Due to Romeo and Juliet's mad love for eachother, and their families hatred towards each other they died.
Romeo and Juliet is arguably the most famous story about love in literature. This is in part because of the tension caused by the look the different characters have towards what love means and its role in life. These views were very important for the progression of the story. Their different views collided and caused much grief and sorrow for the characters throughout play. Many important events that propelled the story forward would not have happened without the various feelings towards love the characters have and how they felt of and reacted to the other characters’ view on love.
Most importantly, Romeo’s poor choices and decisions lead to the tragedy of the drama. From the beginning of the story Romeo reveals his immaturity and ill-equipped emotions. His first mistake reveals itself when he claims to be deeply depressed. Romeo claims that he feels like “sinking ‘under love’s heavy burden’,” (Dupler). At this point Romeo has succumbed to his emotions, due to the fact that a girl named Rosaline refuses to reciprocate his love for her. Romeo’s friends Benvolio and Mercutio “urge him to stop philosophizing about his lost love and to seek another young lady as a new object of his affections” (Dupler).Romeo now demonstrates that he seems incapable of listening to his friends’ suggestions and chooses to continue in a juvenile state of depression. Romeo makes another fatal decision when he nurtures an undeniably damned relationship. Romeo admits that he still loves Juliet once her lineage appears as Capulet when he says, “Is she a Capulet? O dear account! My life is my foes debt” (1.5.115). Romeo irresponsibly supports the idea of a relationship between himself and Juliet only because “The young hero is simply shifting his attention to a more receptive subject as he responds to the erotic spurring implicit in his name” (...
Love, loyalty, and death are each words with different meaning that work together to formulate theme. One theme in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is an obsession with loyalty leads to death. For family or for love, many of the main characters die or kill to stay loyal to the ones they care about. Once the star-crossed lovers are married, dependability becomes severely important. After the wedding, Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt because Romeo does not want to kill his new family member, but after Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo seeks revenge. Wanting to stay loyal to her husband, Juliet refuses to marry the County Paris, but her enraged father will not let her. Juliet threatens her mortality to the Friar if she has to be disloyal
The feud meant that they had to keep their relationship under wraps and tip-toe around their families. The ancient grudge between the two families meant that if one member of either family found out about Romeo and Juliet then they would be killed, ‘If they do see thee, they will murder thee.’ The family feud between the Montague and Capulet families could also be held responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because they both grew up with people dieing within the families because of the grudge. For instance Mercutio and Tybalt, Mercutio was a very loyal friend of Romeo’s and Tybalt was Juliet’s cousin. The deaths of these characters meant that Romeo and Juliet were both distressed and unhappy, and thus could have given more reason to their own deaths, ‘ A’ Thursday let it be, a’ Thursday, tell her,
Given this point, it is unrequited love that brings Romeo and Juliet together. But this also means that they would have to get over the fact that their families hate each other. This eventually leads them to forgiving the rival family for all the hateful acts that have occurred against one another. This is not the only forgiveness that is experienced in this play. Tybalt is a Montague with a fiery attitude.
60-61). Romeo’s love for Juliet motivated his decision because he wanted to be with her once again, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night” (5.1. 34). He loved Juliet tremendously that he took his own life without questioning if she was actually dead, all to be reunited with her. The major conflict in Romeo’s life was that he gets banished from Verona because he killed Tybalt and has to be far away from Juliet. The prince decides that to bring justice to the Capulets, Romeo must be banished from Verona, “Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste” (3.1. 190). This created conflict in Romeo’s life because he was newly-wedded to Juliet only a few hours prior and was forced to be separate from Juliet. Lord Montague’s relationship Romeo is not depicted in the play so the audience assumes that there relationship is not that close. Friar Laurence is like a father figure to Romeo because he gives Romeo wise advice and guides him on the right path. Before Romeo and Juliet get married, Friar Laurence gives Romeo advice and tells him to be careful because passion dies out eventually, “These violent delights have violent ends”
When Romeo found out who Juliet was, he says to himself, “o dear account! My life is my foe’s debt” (I v, 132). Regardless of the fact they were offspring of two feuding families, Romeo can’t help himself but love Juliet, he loved Juliet beforehand of he even discovered Juliet’s identity as one of the Capulet. It is planed he will love Juliet even its forbidden. Furthermore, when Juliet found out from the nurse that Romeo was a Montague, she says, “my love sprung from my only enemy! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me. That I must love a loathed enemy” (I v, 152-155). Even Juliet didn’t know beforehand that Romeo was an enemy, by fate, she still loved him unconditionally. When she did find her true love was her arch nemesis, it was too late for Juliet to forget the love and hate
Explained in Depth: My Photo Essay In Act 1, Scene 1, another fight breaks out between the Capulets and the Montagues. It states in the Prologue: “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,” –Prologue, Line 3.
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.
Many people think that society has changed so much over the years. That the way that children act, has taken a turn for the worst, but in reality children are learning from their ancestors. Children are lying to their parents, they are sneaking out at night to be with a boy that is “the one”, children are going back into the age of Shakespeare. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” which was written by William Shakespeare in 1597, there are two teenagers, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love with each other. These two teenagers try to do everything that they can to live the rest of their lives together, except their families despise each other, so there is no way that they can live the rest of their lives together. So, many people believe that the way that our children are growing up today is taking away the fun parts of their childhood. However in this play Juliet did many of the things that teenagers are trying to do now. Children and sometimes adults now need to realize how your actions not only affect you but also the people around you, you also need to think about the consequences of the actions you make. At first Juliet falls in love at first sight with Romeo, then she takes a potion, which causes her family to think she is dead, and then how Friar Lawrence helps Juliet with the scheming, which shows how adults have to think about others as well.
.... As the feuding relationship only makes the love between Romeo and Juliet more desirable but the hate more violent. First off, Romeo attending the Capulet ball is the first part of the play where we experience hate between the two families. As Juliet and Romeo first see each other, it becomes love at first sight and eventually impacts both families both good and bad. Just as important is when Tybalt sees Romeo at the ball, which unleashes a burning hate and leads to the duel between Mercutio and Tybalt. Lastly, Capulet marrying Juliet off to Paris and moving the wedding day ahead ruins Friars plan and leads to the death of two beloved ones but creates a new kinship between the two families. At the end of the play it is clear that although it came at a deep cost to everyone, love infact played a major role in causing the hate between two families to end for good.
Everyone is to blame for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo, Juliet, Friar Laurence, and Romeo and Juliet’s parents all played their own role in causing the four deaths of Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, and Paris. It is not just one of them to blame, every one of them did something to cause the tragedy. Some of them played a bigger role than others, but everyone contributed. Fate had nothing to do with it and it was all the different characters faults. Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence’s rash decisions where the main cause of the tragedy.