Is love worth dying for? Well for two couples they seem to think it is worth it. Maybe those two are not to blame for their deaths. There can always be a victim in a sucide. That is where romeo and juliets deaths come in. There is someone who can be blamed and that person is Friar Laurence. He is to blame because he did not tell Romeo and Juliets partents about their marriage, giving juliet the posion to fake her death, and not sending the note about juliet to romeo early enough.
There are many different types of love in this world, thus there are many different ways of expressing love. What revolves around that love, and the many different circumstances, trials, and tribulations that a love might face can greatly influence the outcomes of that love. These trials and tribulations can also be seen as different literary elements when used in plays. When looking at Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, he used many different themes and elements to provide complexity to the love story. Shakespeare cleverly takes the main theme of the play, love, and ties in other elements such as time, stage imagery, and language to pull the whole play together in a way that makes one think about the play on other levels.
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the views of love held by the character Romeo contrast sharply with the views of Mercutio. Romeo's character seems to suffer from a type of manic depression. He is in love with his sadness, quickly enraptured and easily crushed again on a passionate roller coaster of emotion. Mercutio, by contrast is much more practical and level headed. His perceptions are clear and quick, characterized by precise thought and careful evaluation. Romeo, true to his character begins his appearance in the play by wallowing in his depression over Rosaline who does not return his love:
The Shakespearean tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” represents the idea that love incurs a price through a range of dramatic techniques. In this play, it becomes very clear that intense and sudden passionate love brings hurt and pain to the lovers involved, as well as their family and friends.
Love is ironic. It can take you anywhere in the world unexpectedly, and turn you into a person that you never were. However, love is also two-faced, having both a negative and positive view. It is what drives you to the point where you do not know who you are anymore. In Shakespeare's story, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare perceives love with the personalities and actions of the characters, Romeo and Juliet. Both Romeo and Juliet are characterized as immature and irrational due to their "love." In addition, both characters fail to realize the reality of life and go towards the path of adolescence. Even though Romeo and Juliet are doomed at the end of the journey of "love," their demise was caused by their rash and silly decisions because their belief of everlasting love blinds them from reality and shapes their lives into an unstoppable time bomb.
Tybalt first enters the play in Act 1 Scene 1. Tybalts name gives us a
Love is a very powerful force which some believe has the capability to overpower hate. Within the play, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare displays various events in which the characters convey the message that love can conquer all. The characters in this play continue to forgive the ones they love, even under harsh circumstances. Additionally, Shakespeare effectively demonstrates how Romeo and Juliet’s love for one another overpowers significant emotional scenes within the play, including the feuding between their two families. Furthermore, by the end of the play the reader sees how love defeats the shock of death and how Romeo and Juliet’s love ends the ancient feud between the Capulets and Montagues. Using these three events, the reader sees Shakespeare’s message of how love can conquer all. In the desperate battle between love and hate, Shakespeare believes love to be the more powerful force in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet as a Play About Love Romeo and Juliet is a story about love, hate and death. It is a romantic play but also contains sexual and slightly comedic aspects. From all these themes there are two of them that carry more importance. than any other, love and hate. Romeo and Juliet was initiated as a play by Arthur Brooke, which was intended to tell children not to disobey their parents.
There is already enough proven facts stating that Romeo and Juliet is not based on love. You can argue with the fact that in the poem itself that Romeo does say that he loves Juliet for a fact, but we already established that Romeo just wants to settle down in a relationship that 's the reason that he left Rosalina, is it not? Also I argue that who in the right minds kills themselves for love. Never in my entire life, at that young of an age, have I ever had the audacity to think of killing or hurting myself. It was much of a plot twist as well that Juliet was drugged hoping that Romeo will come rescue her, and Romeo, as smart as he may seem, kills himself because Juliet is dead. Here comes the funny part where Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo dead, you think she would move on as well to the point where she would go find another guy, due to the fact that Romeo killed the person she was supposed to marry, alas she kills herself as
Romeo and Juliet both died, and these deaths were preventable deaths. If these children's families had not hated each other so much, these children would not have died. These children died because of the love they shared, the true love they shared that blinded them of all that was going o around them. Romeo and Juliet is a timeless play written by William Shakespeare that will forever be remembered and preformed because of the sad ending and romantic touch.
1.William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” was first printed in 1597. 2.Which means that in 400 years there have been approximately 200,000,000,000 copies sold around the world.3. In every copy sold there has been an underlying question.4. Why did William Shakespeare write a tragic love story? 5. In the article “Love, Sex and Death in Romeo and Juliet” by Clayton G. MacKenzie she states “Sexuality and death have been linked in art and literature since ancient times” (29.) 6. It is a known fact that this is the world’s favorite play written by Shakespeare not only for the love and the passion, but the sacrifice of each other.7. For more than 400 years’ critics and playgoers have been analyzing this play trying to understand the love and tragedy
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and most easily of all, the gates of fear” (Brainyquotes.com). In Romeo and Juliet these emotions are portrayed throughout this love story. However, these emotions aren’t as present in modern day couples. There are many similarities and differences between Romeo and Juliet to modern day couples. These may include: the age, physical affection, marriage and divorce.
In the first scene of Act one there is the servants Sampson and Gregory talking about sexual love. As they both talk about taking girls virginity. They both sound arrogant as they talk as if it is through experience. To them the thoughts of taking a girl’s virginity seems a joking matter.
Romeo and Juliet has been known as the best love story to hit the face of the earth. It is the most known and most talked about Shakespeare play and has become the ultimate classic love story. But is it even all that great?
As Shakespeare stated in his play Merchant of Venice, “Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit.” Love makes one imperceptive to the imperfections or faults of loved ones. Playwright, William Shakespeare, in his play, Romeo and Juliet, tells a tale of two star-crossed lovers from opposing families with indistinguishable stature. Shakespeare’s purpose is to convey the idea that, a strong emotional force such as love, can be displayed through Eros, Storge, and Tragedy along with other texts.
Shakespeare refers to the play as a “fearful passage of [...] death-marked love.” (1.Prologue.9) Both Romeo and Juliet constantly configure confidential plans and do their best to have a sense of security. However Despite their best efforts their love results in death. For instance, after Romeo is banished from the city of Verona Juliet threatens to kill herself while telling the Friar that “God join'd my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands; and ere this hand, by thee to Romeo’s sealed.” (4.1.55-56) Juliet believes that death is the only solution for their love since she can no longer love Romeo as god intended. She does not kill herself now but later does for the same reasons. It is also apparent that Romeo and Juliet’s love is doomed from the very beginning because of their unfortunate circumstances. The Romeo’s family The Montagues and Juliet’s family The Capulets are engrossed in a severe feud. The hatred between the two families makes it nearly impossible for Romeo and Juliet to be together. Their love is always surrounded by the constant and lurking presence of death. And because of the circumstances and fate of Romeo and Juliet, the results of their love is far beyond their control. Their love is bond to end in