When people hear of Romeo and Juliet most think about a tragic love story of two young people who died because they could not bear being without one another, but how did that tragedy come about? Romeo and Juliet meet at a party one night and immediately fall in love. They soon find out they are from families that greatly despise one another and know that they should not be together but they are already too far fallen for one another. Romeo and Juliet's parents were bad influences on their kids because of their refusal to end a long lasting feud, teaching hate towards the opposing family and pushing their kids to do things against their will.
To begin, Romeo and Juliet introduces us to a long lasting feud carried through many generations and brought upon two families children. “Two households, both alike in dignity / In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, / From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, / Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean” (Shakespeare Prologue.1-4). This feud the Capulets and Montagues have not only affected their children but the citizens of Verona. For instance when two relatives of the Montagues and Capulets start fighting against one another, the citizens start fighting against them and soon everyone is pulling out swords someone, such as the Prince, comes to break up the quarrel in the city. Therefore, if the Capulets and Montagues were not openly fighting in the street there would be no reason for citizens to get riled up. To sum it up, many injuries could be prevented if the families just dropped all grudges against each other and strived for peace within the cities walls.
Carried over from the long-lasting feud comes the negative feeling the Montagues and Capulets have towards each other personally ...
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Holding old grudges, teaching hatred towards opposing families, and influencing their kids to do things they do not care for shows that the Montagues and Capulets are poor influences on their kids and those around them. It took the death of Romeo and Juliet for the adults to end their fight and by then four people had died that were close to either family. Four people’s death is four to many. Parents were left without children, and friends were forever separated. If Romeo and Juliet grew up together no one would have died because there would be no thirst for revenge between the Montagues and the Capulets, but it makes you wonder if they would have even fallen in love because they would not have had that moment that sparked at the party.
Works Cited
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare). New York: Barnes & Noble, 2007.
The feud between the Capulets and the Montagues was the major conflict throughout the play. The family feud between the Capulets and the Montagues made living in Verona difficult for everyone. Quarrels burst out in the village, causing destruction of property and the rivalry forbid
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.
Romeo and Juliet are madly in love with each other and will go to any lengths to be together. To support my thesis that the conflict between the heads of the Montague and Capulet families is responsible for Romeo and Juliet's death, I quote from Romeo and Juliet (V, iii, 291-293) Prince: ". Capulet! Montague.
The feud between the Montagues and Capulets- The loss of Lord Capulet and Lord Montague’s children bring the two households together. Romeo and Juliet’s death helped their parents realize how wrong their feud was and bond over the commemoration of their children. For example, Lord Montague want to build a statue of Juliet, so everyone can remember her, and Lord Capulet wants to build a statue of Rome beside Juliet. This project helps bring the families together, and set aside their
To begin, in the play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare makes a point in emphasizing the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. The feud shows how they are all just living in the moment and not thinking about how this feud could affect others living presently and also in the future. They are not thinking rationally but instead are stuck on the fact that they both think they are better than one another. This makes them think they can not talk to one another or be nice but instead just pretend they don't exist. In the future, they may actually
The feud between the Montague and the Capulet family plays a large role in the young couples death as it was the cause for almost everything that happened in the the young loves short yet long time together. The feud formed by the two families should have been stopped many years ago as still to this day its unclear as to why to to families really did hate each other so much, not even the death of daughters and sons was to bring the montagues and capulets together. If the hatred between these two families did not exist Romeo would have lived happily ever after? that is the question at the end of the day would it really have worked out? or would Romeo and Juliet have to endure the same amount of heartache?
The two main forces driving Romeo and Juliet together while simultaneously pulling them apart are the Capulets and the Montagues. As is typical with all teenage romance, parents who don’t approve of their child’s love will do everything they possibly can to keep them apart (in Juliet’s case, it’s trying to marry her off to someone else). But while these efforts are noble on their parents’ part, teenagers have a natural tendency to go against what their parents say, especially when it comes to something that will make them happy or their “true love”. In the instance of Romeo and Juliet, whether this was true love or simply lust, the Capulets and Montagues were made to be the barrier between them, causing sad, lovelorn children. Acting as barrier between them also forces Romeo and Juliet to see each other in secret, and Romeo’s walk of shame after their “honeymoon” night was what got Romeo into the whole ordeal with Tybalt later on in the play.
The feud between the Capulets and the Montagues, causes chaos in the lives of the regular citizens of Verona making them angry at both families,
If it wasn’t such a big deal that the two had fallen in love, everything would be fine and merry, but this foolish feud got in the way. More towards the beginning of the play, the Prince gets very angry with the disturbances caused by the Capulet’s and Montague's and all their fighting. At that time, he tells them that if it happens again, they will have to pay the price of death. Later on in the story, there happens to be another fight and Prince punishes Romeo saying, “And for that offense / immediately we do exile him hence” (3.1.184). Because of Romeo’s banishment, the Friar and Juliet had to come up with an elaborate plan to get Romeo and Juliet reunited which later on totally backfires. If they weren’t warned in the first place, there would be no banishment. And if there was no banishment, there would be no plan to get Romeo back. And all of that leads to many misunderstandings and the death of Romeo and Juliet. The only way this could have been resolved, was if there weren’t any fights between the Capulet’s and Montague’s to begin with. Their foolish actions really messed up the lives or their two most “prized possessions.” This feud makes many people angry and/or upset, one of them being
Long before Romeo and Juliet were born there were two equally noble families, the Montagues and the Capulets. For whatever reason they had a rivalry that lasted many, many years, all the way to the times of Romeo and Juliet. When Juliet was about thirteen years of age the feud between the families had flared up. “From ancient grudge, break to new mutiny, / Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean:(Prologue.1-14)” The feud between the families are responsible for every single other person to blame. While in their situation they didn’t take the correct course of action, it ultimately comes down to the fact that the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets started all their problems. In Lady and Lord Capulet's case, without the feud between the families, Juliet would not have had to kept her love for Romeo a secret in the first place, making it so they never set up her marriage with Paris. With Tybalt, his only reason for wanting to kill Romeo, causing Romeo to kill him and get banished, was because he was a Montague. Finally for Friar Lawrence, the absolute only reason he was involved in any of this was because he married them to try and mend the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. “For this alliance may so happy prove / To turn your households' rancor to pure love.(2.3.93-94)” Without a doubt, the conflict between the Montagues and the Capulets, which Romeo and
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. The Norton Shakespeare. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1997. Print.
Firstly, the Capulets and Montagues are at odds with each other. Members of each house and servants break into a sword fight, clashing with each other. Sampson says "Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow." (Act 1, Scene 1, Line 60). The feuding between the two families motivates Sampson to challenge the Capulets. Another example of how the two houses despise each other is what Romeo and his friends have to do to get into the Capulet feast. So they will not be recognized, Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio wear comic masks to hide their faces. Mercutio says, "Give me a case to put my visage in" (Act 1, Scene 4, Line 29). They do not want to be recognized because of the hatred between the two houses. Also, Romeo and Juliet are not supposed to be in love: "My only love sprung from my only hate! / Too early seen unknown, and known too late! / Prodigious birth of love it is to me, / That I must love a loathed enemy." says Juliet (Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 137-140). They are not supposed to love each other because it just so happens that each of their houses despise each other. It is unfortunate for Romeo and Juliet that their two families are against each other, because this means that they are not supposed to be married.
Nothing good can ever come out of holding a grudge with someone. The Montagues and Capulets both had a huge hatred for each other, which lead to several fights and many deaths over many generations. This grudge was a huge reason why Romeo, son of Montague and Juliet, daughter of Capulet died. As well as, Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, and Lady Montague.
What makes a piece of literature relevant or irrelevant to a society? There have been many debates on the relevance about particular pieces of literature, especially old literature, in the modern day. Their relevance can be judged by how they address issues happening in society when they were written compared to those same issues today. It can also be judged on whether the themes present can apply to the modern day. And even if a story portrays issues that are either resolved or irrelevant today it can still have value on how it portrays human nature The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a relevant work for a person in modern times due to its themes on suicide, human recklessness, and violence and revenge.
First, society’s absurd focus on honor and disgrace is culpable for the continuation of the Capulet and Montague families’ “ancient grudge”, which forces Romeo and Juliet to sneak around this to be together, following a precarious plan that ends in their deaths. (Prologue 3) Society’s unreasonable obsession with dignity threatens to disgrace either foe who steps down as cowardly and gutless, so that the two families, who cannot even remember the reason of their inane feud, are burdened to continue fighting or face absolute social humiliation. If this fixation was eradicated, the two foes would have made peace years before, and most importantly, Romeo and Juliet’s lives would be spared, since their families’ harmony would render their risky plan unnecessary. Is the senseless death of innocent young people worth ephemeral glory? Society obviously thinks so, and plants these toxic doctrines into its people’s minds, creating a vicious cycle of unnecess...