In Romeo and Juliet, there are a few examples of symbolism that is shown. Symbolism is important because it allows whoever is reading or watching the play to think deeper about certain aspects of the play and understand it to lengths they could not without it. Three examples of symbolism in this play are the poison, Benvolio, and Juliet’s wedding ring. In this play, the poison plays a huge role and it symbolizes a few different things, but one example of the symbolism of poison is that it represents desperation and impulsive actions. After his banishment, Romeo was a very desperate man. He was lonely and he did not have a good idea of what was going to happen to him. When Balthazar tells Romeo Juliet had died, it just left him even more lonely …show more content…
When Friar Lawrence bound Romeo and Juliet through marriage, she received her wedding ring. The ring represents the promise she made to Romeo on that day, and by wearing it, she remains true to her vows. She shows her commitment to Romeo by refusing to marry Paris and supporting him even though he killed her cousin. When Romeo is banished she gives her ring back to Romeo as a token of her affection. Romeo’s “comfort is revived by this” because he have her love with him no matter where he is (3.3 175). Juliet wants Romeo to always have a piece of her, which shows how much she loves him. She could have kept the ring for herself, but she would rather have Romeo keep it to remember her by. The author includes this symbol to maintain Romeo’s hope of returning to Juliet. As long as he has that ring, he knows that their live is still alive. However, when he finds out that she is dead, he wants to return the ring to her. This represents how Romeo is back with Juliet and how they will be together for eternity. This symbol is important to the story because it represents their devotion to each other. That ring is a bond that ties them together, and they remain devoted to each other even when they are apart. For example, Juliet fakes her death so she could be with Romeo. By doing so, she leaves behind her family and risks her safety. However, he love for Romeo is so strong that she is willing to give up her current life for
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’s diverse use of rhetorical and figurative language enhances and develops the moods he conveys, thus creating vast and various atmospheres throughout his works. An example of one his works that uses many of these devices is Shakespeare’s renowned Romeo and Juliet. In the famous play, the two lovebirds (Romeo and Juliet), fall in a forbidden love as the long-lasting rivalry between their two families continues its onslaught. The couple later on tragically commit suicide, which ultimately ends the feud. During the journey of the two lovers, Shakespeare expresses clearly the mood of each scene using figurative language.
First of all, the dishonesty of Friar Lawrence, who married Romeo and Juliet, foreshadows the probability of his continuity to take even more insincere measures in manipulating the consequences faced by the young lovers. The Friar carries out an erroneous act of secretly marrying them under the church’s license without manifesting it in the public and encourages them to deceive their parents by keeping their relationship to themselves. He then agrees to marry Juliet and Paris, a county, and plans on faking her death, in order to avoid the marriage instead of revealing the truth about Romeo and Juliet right away. “I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,/On Thursday next be married to this County.” (4.1.49-50) In short, various incidents in the lives of Romeo and Juliet, controlled by Friar Lawrence’s cowardice result in undesirable circumstances.
When Romeo is leaving Juliet's chamber and climbs down to the ground to leave Juliet sees him as pale: "O God, I have an ill-divining soul. Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low. As one dead in the bottom of a tomb"(Rom. 3.5.54-56). Juliet describes Romeo as looking dead when he is descending from the tower. In the scene Juliet is sensing something wrong but doesn't think much of it and brushes it off. She then after goes back to saying goodbye to Romeo. This shows that their love has caused Juliet to not think of the uneasy feeling she had felt. The purpose of this scene connects to the message of Shakespeare because it shows that in the end they both have killed themselves due to the fact that they love each other so much. The two lovers feel they can not live without each other and cause them to make the irrational choice of taking their lives. Another scene foreshadowing the two lovers death due to their love for each other is shown in a quote of dramatic irony. Romeo is begging Friar Lawrence to marry him and Juliet : “Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare” (Rom.2.6.6-7). Romeo is saying in this quote that as long as they are married then love-destroying death can do whatever it wants to them both. He is prioritizing his love for Juliet and her being his wife over what could happen to them in the future. Being so in
At the foot of Juliet’s crimson dress lie a bible and a ring. The ring is placed to represent her loyalty to Romeo from the moment of introduction until the moment of depart. In her refusal to marry young Paris, the reader can surely see her devotion. “Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, But thankful even for hate that is meant love” (3.5.146-148). The bible is placed to represent Juliet’s faith that all will work out as it is meant to be, as well as a religious faith. However, her extreme faith against all odds also emphasizes how naïve she is to the world around her. Such traits make her seem like a child, blissfully ignorant to the world around her.
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.
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.
My grave is like my wedding bed.” She asks the nurse to find out who Romeo is. The reader knows before Juliet does that Romeo is a Montague and that she literally will die because they are unable to be together. In Act 2 Scene 3 Romeo turns to Friar Lawrence for advice and the Friar agrees to marry them stating, “For this alliance may so happy prove / to turn your households’ rancor to pure love.” The Friar is saying that he will agree to marry them with the hopes of ending the Capulet/Montague feud.
The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the nurse is Juliet’s lower-class nurse. She is a loquacious, insolent trusting but yet dishonest character in the play. The only character that Juliet trusts and usually is seen cracking dirty jokes
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.
Throughout the film, it is clearly shown that the feud is deadly, referring to Mercutio and Tybalt’s death. Although poison has a literal purpose in the play, it also serves as a symbol of hatred between the two families. Friar Laurence uses a simile to apprise the belief that people are a lot like flowers—full of both “loveliness” and “rude-will,” even humans have the capability to be good or deadly. He mentions that it all depends on whether the “rude-will” takes over, which refers directly to how Romeo and Juliet’s love turns deadly when it is poisoned by the family’s vile feud. Due to the feud, the family would never allow the two lovers to be together which is the sole reason Juliet faked her own death and was brought to the Capulet tomb. When Romeo finds Juliet ‘dead’ in the Capulet tomb he can’t bear to live without her love, and he consumes poison which kills him. After Juliet regains consciousness and finds that her love is lifeless, she kills herself using Romeo’s dagger to be with him. This symbol displays that Juliet is happy to die as she describes the item that kills her with a positive connotation using the word ‘happy’. The star-crossed lovers can not cope life without one another. After their relationship was indisposed from the atrocious feud the lovers viewed no other choice representing
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name;” (Shakespeare, 536). In the book, ‘Romeo and Juliet”, by William Shakespeare there is a deeper meaning that Shakespeare is trying to portray other than parents cannot control their children’s hearts. He is trying to portray that a name is only a name and it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things and that even with a different name that person will still be the same person they have always been. Shakespeare is using the characters: Juliet, Romeo, Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence, and the Nurse to get this message across to the reader or the viewer.
In Romeo and Juliet, poison very often represents death. One example of where images of poison represent death occurs after Juliet receives a potion from Friar Lawrence that is supposed to put her to sleep for forty-two hours. Before she takes it, she expresses a portentous doubt about her trust in the cunning Friar's plan. She worries about the possibility of this potion actually being a pernicious poison, which could lead to her untimely death. She shows her misgivings when she states, "What if it be a poison which the friar Subtly hath minist'red to have me dead" (4.4. 24-25). Another illustration of imagery where poison symbolizes death is when Romeo goes to the Apothecary. After hearing news of Juliet's "death," Romeo talks of procuring poison to wreak death upon himself. He says, "A dram of poison... That the life-weary taker may fall dead" (5.2. 60-62). Finally, images of poison are used to represent death when Romeo is found dead by Juliet. When Juliet awakes from her sleep and realizes Romeo has died, she discerns that poison has been the cause. This is evident as she states, "Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end" (5.3. 162). In this passage, images of poison represent a weapon for death. Images of poison that represent death play a major role in Shakespeare's play.
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.