Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet

Comedy in Romeo and Juliet

Even though Romeo and Juliet was a famous tragedy, in Act I and Act II, Shakespeare took the mood to the opposite direction. As we can see at the end of Act II, Romeo and Juliet gave each other their love proposal and were happily married. For a comedy, unexpected love would always come first; then the lovers would overcome obstacles and finally they would have a happy ending. From act I and II, we can see that drama between Romeo and Juliet followed the route of a comedy and they consummated their love. The play started off by telling us Romeo was from the Montague family and Juliet was from the Capulet family. We knew the two families’ relationships from Romeo and Juliet’s prologue : “Two households, both alike

After the feast, Romeo was wondering about his love in front of the Capulet’s balcony, he used the image of light to describe his lover Juliet; he believed Juliet’s beauty can shine, light up the world and his own heart. On the other hand, Juliet appeared and expressed her love towards Romeo by wishing Romeo would become her petting bird, so she could either decide to let him go and hold tight on him. Although when Juliet was confessing her love, she didn’t notice Romeo was down there and listened to her for the whole time. After Romeo appeared with a happy mood, Juliet was afraid that Romeo might think it was too easy to win her love so he would use her weakness. Then after Romeo expressed his love to Juliet many times, she was a little touched by his words: “ If that thy bent of love be honorable/ Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,” so she asked Romeo to marry her if he was honest with his love towards Juliet(2.2.150-51). All the sparks of love crushed in that short night, the power was too strong that they even wanted to marry each other. The next morning, Romeo went to Friar Lawrence to ask him to testimony their love. At first, Friar Lawrence was angry about Romeo gave up on Rosaline; then he agreed to assist their love,”In one respect I’ll thy assistant be,/ For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.” he believed their love would end up happily and helped break down the ancient grudge between the two families(2.3.97-99). In that afternoon, Romeo told the nurse his plan to marry Juliet and let her pass his words to Juliet. The message from the nurse pumped Juliet up: “ Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell.”as a reader we could already see the satisfactory ending of their love (2.5.83). In the final scene of Act II, Romeo and Juliet was happily married by the testimony of Friar