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Tragic love and death of romeo and juliet
Analysis of Romeo and Juliet
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When falling in love with someone, people often don’t get a chance to carefully think things through, which often causing them to do something embarrassing or even dangerous. By reading Romeo & Juliet, it can be proven that this often happens. Romeo & Juliet, a play by William Shakespeare about two star- crossed lovers proves that this often happens. The families of these two characters have a long history of feuds with no explanation behind it, and because of this, Romeo and Juliet are forced to discover other ways to be with each other. While Shakespeare does suggest that love is a beautiful thing, he also implies that it may cause people to do irrational and dangerous things that a person normally wouldn't consider doing.
Romeo and Juliet decide to get married, despite their families view of one another, even though they only met each other the day before. Shakespeare writes, “So smile upon this holy act that after-hours with sorrow chide us not” ( 2.6.1) . The Friar is very happy that the couple is getting married, but he is also nervous about what the outcome of that bold act may be. The play also states, “ My life were better ended by their hate
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It states, “ O, if I ( wake) shall I not be distraught, environed with all these hideous fears… Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink. I drink to thee” ( 4.3. 51- 59). Since Juliet’s yearning to be with Romeo was so great, she decided to risk her own life to forever be with him. Later in the script, she even takes her own life with no hesitation because Romeo took his own for her’s. The script stated, “ O, happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die ” ( 5.3.174-175). This shows that without thinking anything through, she decided to take everything away from herself because of love for a man she met days
“Do not deny to him that you love me.”(Rom. 4.1 25) Paris, one of Juliet’s suitors, is trying to win Juliet’s love at the same time that Romeo loves her. Together, Paris and Romeo are juxtaposed, while vying for Juliet’s love, so that they are compared and contrasted. Both have similar traits but are different through how they act towards people and personalities. Paris and Romeo are alike in integrity but very different by their personalities and treatment of Juliet.
Throughout the course of the play Romeo and Juliet and the novel Lord of the Flies, there is a common motif of light versus dark that affects the way characters grow and view the world. Contrasting sharply between the two written works is the usage of this idea. In Romeo and Juliet the light is treated as a problem that will bring their forbidden love to “light” whereas the darkness provides a covering for their rendezvous. In Lord of the Flies it is the opposite, with the darkness being representative of the boy’s hidden savagery as well as providing fear of the unknown while the fire, a symbol of light, provides safety in warmth and food as well as the ability to see through the dark.
...se he believes Juliet to dead, drinks poison to take his own life as a last resort. What Romeo is unaware of is that Juliet is very much alive, so it is very ironic when he says, “Death, that has sucked the honey of thy breath,/ Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:/ Thou art not conquered; beauty’s ensign yet/ Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,/ And death’s pale flag is not advanced there” (V iii 101-105). This is fate in the works in the play. When Juliet sees that her love has not rescued her and rather is dead, she kills herself with a dagger found in the proximity. “O happy dagger/ This is thy sheath; there rust and let me die” (V iii 182-183).
Romeo and Juliet, (R&J), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (AMSND), are two different genres with but have the same basic plot: Two young lovers can’t wed and the girl is to marry another man who is preferred by her father, so the couple meets at night and plans to run away. Both couples have gone against the wishes of their authority figures but it doesn’t end well for Tybalt, Paris, Romeo, or Juliet. R&J is set in Elizabethan times, and the Chain of Being would have been disrupted by their actions.AMSND has fantastical elements that interfere with fate and these elements such as fairies and cupid, would have been understood to be higher on the chain than man by its attendees of the time. Is it the force of celestial bodies that makes R&J a tragedy and AMSND a comedy?
...re her fake dead body is kept, and drinks the poison he brought with him, hastily, without giving it a second thought, assuming that Juliet was dead and that he might not be able to live without her. However, Juliet wakes up at the moment when Romeo falls dead on her lap and she exclaims, “Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end” (5.3.167), signifying the untimely death of Romeo that occurred due to his unnecessary haste.
In other parts of the play Juliet is quite rash and acts thoughtlessly and very quickly. One example of this is when she wakes up in the tomb and finds out that Romeo is dead. She refuses to listen to Friar Lawrence's pleas, to leave the tomb and come with him to a nunnery. Instead she tells him "Go, get thee hence, for I will not away" (V.iii.165). She tries to poison herself but there is no poison left. When she hears the watch coming, she grabs Romeo's dagger and fatally stabs herself. Juliet is so upset she loses her ability to think rationally and tries to poison herself. Instead of listening to the friar, in desperation, she kills herself with the dagger.
A while later, Juliet wakes up from her "death" and sees Romeo dead. She would not be able to live on without her love, thus, she takes his dagger and pierces herself in the heart committing
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Shonda Rhimes’s Grey’s Anatomy were written in different times, they have different plots, and they seem completely unrelated, but we were still able to bring the two stories together. By using Act 3 Scene 1, Mercutio and Tybalt’s death scene, from Romeo and Juliet, and by pulling in director’s choices from Grey’s Anatomy, Maggie and I were able to seamlessly create Shakespeare’s Anatomy. The idea was to have Mercutio and Tybalt, both who were hurt in the fight, to come to the hospital Grey’s Anatomy is set at in order to be treated, and ultimately, die at. Our process of creating the parody included making director’s choices such as writing the script, making sets, making props, filming, picking music,
Romeo and Juliet are committed to their love. There so committed that they got married the very next day they first met. The second time they met was on Juliet’s balcony by accident, because Romeo didn’t want to go home and he wanted to see Juliet again. They were talking for a few minutes and kissed each other many times, and Juliet said to Romeo, “If that thy bent of love be honorable, Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow”(Act two, Scene two). Juliet tells Romeo if you you love me so much, the marry me tomorrow. Romeo without hesitation, agreed to marry Juliet the next day at the Church. Romeo and Juliet decide to marry at 9 o'clock in the morning. Later on, Romeo asks Faire ( a priest) to allow him and Juliet to marry. At
Romeo has a passion for love that is unbreakable, and he will do anything to get who he wants, no matter the consequences that might follow. An example of this is when Romeo goes to Juliet’s balcony and confesses his love for her, but what he does not understand is that “if they do see thee, they will murder thee” (Shakespeare II.ii.75). Romeo has trouble accepting the reality that it will not work out for him or her because of family differences. The intensity of love in both of these texts becomes a dangerous and violent thing.
You would never believe the trauma I have been dragged through. My kin, Tybalt has been slain by my only love, Romeo. Not only this sadness has been bestowed upon me, because of Romeo’s act the Prince has banished him and now I am alone, without my Romeo.
Love can cause a person to take actions that he or she would not normally do, some even going as far as suicide and murder. During Act 5, scene 3, after Romeo opens Juliet’s tomb and is saying goodbye to her in preparation to commit suicide, he says that Juliet is his love and that nothing can take away her beauty, even death.
In scene five, act three, Romeo was finding his way into the tomb where Juliet’s supposed dead body was resting. When Romeo found Juliet’s dead body, he brought out his poison and exclaimed that “Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die,” (Shakespeare 5. 3. 120), and followed to drink the poison, killing himself. In this passage, Shakespeare explains how Romeo dies, using diction to make the scene romantic. “Thus with a kiss I die,” (Shakespeare 5. 3. 120), can be seen as as a romantic way to die, but it was Romeo’s choice to drink the poison, which ended his life. Furthermore, this decision also resulted in Juliet’s death, shortly after. This passage explains Romeo’s foolishness because instead of killing himself on the spot, he could have waited. Although he would not expect for Juliet to wake up, simply waiting for others to arrive at the tomb to mourn with would have wasted enough time for Juliet to wake up. After some time passed, Juliet woke up from the effects of the potion she drank. When Juliet woke up from her fake coma, she found Romeo dead next to him. She took his dagger and exclaimed “O, happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die,” (Shakespeare 5. 3. 174-175), and of course, she died shortly after stabbing herself. Shakespeare included
After only getting to know each other for just a few hours, Romeo and Juliet make the decision together to get married the next day. As Romeo pleads with Friar Lawrence to perform the marriage ceremony, he says, "But this I pray, / That thou consent to marry us to-day" (2.3.67-68). This simple line by Romeo illustrates the impulsiveness of the two teen's decisions and how that leads to further conflict because he begs the Friar that the marriage must be done as soon as possible. Instead of being reasonable, Romeo and Juliet insist to get married after supposedly meeting their true loves just one day prior to this. The immaturity of this decision is what ultimately leads to the demise of the two characters. Secondly, Romeo and Juliet's decision to look over the fact that their families are sworn enemies leads to a string of further problems. As Romeo speaks to Juliet from her balcony, Juliet says, “My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words/Of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound./Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?” (2.2.64-65). After hearing this, Romeo responds, “Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike” (2.2.66). This illustrates the couple's willingness to be oblivious to the fact that their families have been feuding for longer than anyone could remember. They are still risking being caught together when they
Romeo and Juliet are the sons and daughter respectively of the Montagues and Capulets, two families that have an antipathy feeling towards each other. However, Romeo and Juliet overlook this grudge as they believe it is just a name and cannot replace their love for each other even though it was surreptitious. These young lovers would do anything for each other which shows that during tough times humans need each other. The tough times would be the boundaries that are preventing them from living happy with one and another. Friar Lawrence was faced with a conundrum of marrying these two together and created a plan to help bring them together after Romeo’s banishment. However, Friar Lawrence has told Juliet “to be strong and prosperous” (185). This quote illustrates the support they have received from other people to help with their marriage. Romeo loves Juliet so much that he would kill himself just to be with her. For example, Romeo tells her in the tomb, “here’s to my love. Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die” (227). Since both of them have are connected to each other, they will be supporting each other until they both die. This shows how throughout tough times, when they couldn 't be with each other how people stepped in to helped them