Socratic Seminars are a great way to build critical thinking and communication skills by making students think differently about a subject. I will discuss my experience during our Socratic Seminar about the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The main topics addressed in this essay are the foremost vital ideas, discussing what students said, how I think I did, my likes and dislikes, how it influenced my thinking, and my goal for the next seminar. During our Socratic Seminar, I started by spectating the first group's thoughts about drawings related to Romeo and Juliet, where they discussed their answers from three different slides. During slide one, the students conversed about a drawing portraying a skeleton with an arrow through its chest, sitting in a nest surrounded by a plant and a large arrow with wings outside it. The students …show more content…
Their main thoughts on the painting were the mood of the painting, and they concluded that people mainly disagreed on the point that the image portrayed enough tragedy of what happened in Romeo and Juliet. Everyone agreed that the two lovers should be light in color, while the background should be dark to put the focus on the two lovers and less on the background. Lastly, they discussed slide three, an image with two hands holding swords, crossing with three snakes that spell out ACT, and three lines at the bottom saying “three.” Many people had different views on all the main parts of the images; some examples are people arguing if the two hands holding the swords represent the feuding families, Romeo and Tybalt, or Tybalt and Mercutio. They all agreed that the snakes represented Mercutio, Tybalt, and Romeo but couldn't agree on which person was which snake. Many students had interesting views on many slides, but one of Sean's comments stood out. In slide two, one of the questions was, “What kind of plants are featured in this
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
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.
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)
Good intention will not always lead to a happy ending. When one thinks that they have made a good moral decision, the outcome may differ from the forethought. In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, many characters thought they were helping the lovers but in fact, they were only assisting them in taking their own lives. Friar Lawrence’s good intention of marrying Romeo and Juliet led to the deaths of Mercutio, Paris, and Romeo and Juliet.
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.
In the tragic play, Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”, Kausse states that “two star-crossed teenagers find one another, fall madly in love and despite their well-thought-out plans, are destroyed by their parents hate as well as other forces beyond their control.” Kausse believes that the “parents hate” is the reason for the teens demise, but it’s actually because of love. Romeo and Juliet never thought through their plans, they were spontaneous. After reading “Romeo and Juliet, any meticulous reader can come to the conclusion that Romeo and Juliet can’t control their emotions. Situations arose and got the best of them.
Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare, where a boy and a girl fall in love with each other during a party hosted by Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet. The two teenager decide to get marry, despite their family's hate for each other and only meeting each other a few hours ago. However, the Montagues (Romeo’s Parents) and the Capulets end their feud after they discover that their children killed themselves. Romeo and Juliet’s death was caused by Juliet’s parents, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence.
When people die, the people they were surrounded by naturally have questions. This is more so true when the deaths are sudden and the person is young. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two young lovers from opposing families who take their lives because they couldn’t be together. At the end of this play, Prince Escalus wants to know who was the cause of their untimely deaths. Who should he pardon and who should be punished?
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is often referred to as a classic love story. It is a story of love at first sight and fighting between families. The classic is a true tragedy because of the way it is created. Romeo and Juliet is an Aristotelian tragedy because it clearly follows the model shown by Aristotle. All aspects of the plot and characters perfectly follow way Aristotle defined. The plot follows the events that need to occur and the main characters have a flaw. Pity and fear is felt for the characters throughout the play. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a true Aristotelian tragedy because of the characters, plot, and the fact that it triggers pity and fear.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare introduces an immense amount of diverse characters, the Nurse and Friar Lawrence being two of many. Both these characters react to Romeo and Juliet’s situation out of the goodness of their hearts. For the Nurse, helping Romeo and Juliet meant that “her child” (in a sense since she raised Juliet since birth) would be happy and that’s all she could ever want. However, for Friar Lawrence, helping Romeo and Juliet with their marriage meant that he could help end the feud between both the Montague and Capulet families. Although, they both had good intentions, these goals could not be accomplished without the suffering of consequences. Furthermore, much controversy is seen throughout the play. Friar Lawrence and the Nurse both begin to contradict their original feelings towards helping Romeo and Juliet as they find themselves in difficult predicaments. Therefore, Friar Lawrence and the Nurse did not do the right thing as issues came about: the Nurse tells Juliet to marry Paris after hooking her and Romeo up, Friar marries Romeo and Juliet, and Friar leaves Juliet’s tomb when he hears trouble.
SHOULD SHAKESPEARE BE REALLY CONSIDERED AS THE GREATEST LITERARY SAINT? In his own time William Shakespeare was considered as merely one among many talented playwrights and poets but since the 17th century he is considered the greatest saint of literary world. But, everyone who achieves something is criticized at some point of time. So, Shakespeare was also not able to stay untouched from the negative criticism which makes the world doubt that was he really the “GREATEST”.