Dear 9th Grade English Teacher,
I hear that you are trying to decide which novel you are going to teach next year in order to let your students deeply understand the central idea of the control of one’s life. (Introduction) I suggest that you should teach both Romeo and Juliet and The Fault In Our Stars if you have enough time, however if you can only pick one of them, I appreciate to use Romeo and Juliet. (Claim) Even though The Fault in Our Stars deals with the concept of illness, such as the thyroid cancer totally messed up Hazel's life, Romeo and Juliet is the superior text because their tragedy ends is result of the fate.
As we start reading the novel written by Shakespeare, we know that the story will end in tragedy. It is nothing about their personal defect, but the fate, the destiny and character that determined by the star. “Two households, both alike in dignity.” (Prologue) Romeo is born to be a Montague and Juliet is from Capulet. It is definity the fate that this pair of “star-crossed” lover were born to be enemies. Even though we can change one’s appearance, and even one’s gender, nobody has the power to control his birth, and his background. In the prologue, it also points out they are “death-marked” which means the fate is going to against them lead to the suicide at the end of the
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Why Romeo decide to attend the Capulet party? Why does the serving man tell him about the party? Why he meet young Juliet and fall in love at first site? The only answer I got is fate, the most powerful force to run one’s life. In addition, Romeo has already predicted that something fearful is going to happen if he attend the party, "Some consequence yet hanging in the stars / shall bitterly begin his fearful date" (I iv, 114-115). To summarize, Romeo and Juliet's first meeting is sure to happen, it is the star the determine their future. (Evidence
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.
Love, an intense, deep feeling of connection, romantic, or sexual attachment showing affection for someone or something. As for all pleasant emotions, the feeling that comes with love is exquisitely satisfying. It feels like a cool, , long drink of water when you are parched on a hot day, it it refreshing. Scientists have a pretty good idea of what love does to the brain. Being in love floods the brain with chemicals and hormones that produce feelings of pleasure, obsession and attachment. Neuroscientists divide love into three phases: lust, attraction and attachment. During the lust phase, hormones flood the body with feelings of intense desire. Adrenaline and norepinephrine make the heart race and the palms sweat, while the brain chemical
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?
The plays Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Our Town by Thornton Wilder are similar in their use of imagination, dramatic technique, and the way town life was used. There is not many props in the play Our Town, so it is up to the viewers to imagine what is happening and how the setting looks. Romeo and Juliet, similar to Our Town, required viewers to imagine the setting as there was no backdrops, no lighting, and little or no props. A dramatic technique used in both Romeo and Juliet and Our Town is the comparison of youth to age. In Romeo and Juliet the comparison can be seen the most through the guardian figures of Friar Lawrence to Romeo and Nurse to Juliet. Both figures offer advise that Romeo and Juliet do not following, given
In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, all the choices made by the star crossed lovers have consequences. The two lovers blame fate for their misfortune. They refuse to believe that fate does not determine the end result, only that they can do that. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is presented with a plethora of choices. The audience is introduced to Romeo as he sulks over his lover Rosaline.
The play Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are two "star-crossed lovers". Their families are sworn enemies. When Romeo, Benvolio and others go to a Capulet party in the beginning is fate. Another event is when Capulet moves the wedding of Juliet and Count Paris up one day. A final event is when Romeo finds Juliet in the tomb. If Romeo had come a few minutes later he would've found Juliet awake. These events affect the tragic ending of the play.
It is not merely a coincidence that Romeo and Juliet meet in the first place. A serving man comes across Romeo and Benvolio in the first act, unaware that they are Montagues, and informs them about the Capulet party: "My master is the great rich Capulet, and, if you be not / of the house of Montagues, I pray come and crush a / cup of wine" (I ii, 86-88). It is by fate that Romeo and Benvolio run into the Capulet serving man and discover the party. It is not just a simple accident that the serving man tells the two cousins about the party at which Romeo is destined, yet unaware, that he will meet his love. Furthermore, before Romeo attends the Capulet party, he says, "Some consequence yet hanging in the stars / shall bitterly begin this fearful date" (I iv, 114-115). Romeo already predicts what the fates have in store as he says something bad might transpire if he dares to show up at the party, where he will meet Juliet.
In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, two star-crossed lovers betrayed their own family in order to be with each other. Given that both Romeo and Juliet are both young, they made endless sacrifices and decisions just for them to be together without considering the consequences. All of their sacrifices resulted in vain as their tragic conclusion was their own death. Although fate played a significant role in the star-crossed lovers' downfall, Romeo and Juliet paid the consequences of their dreadful decisions due to their reckless rebellion which eventually led to their catastrophic ending. In the first few events that happened in the play, the readers have already seen some poor choices Romeo and Juliet made that eventually led to their death.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy mainly because of the downfall of the main characters through weakness or misfortune, which lead to their deaths but these flaws are not the only reasons for this tragedy, it is possible that their fate was “written in the stars” as there are many references made about these stars. Fate (the fact that life is already planned out and is out of human control) must be one of the key factors in causing the tragedy of the “star-crossed lovers” Romeo and Juliet. It is possible that there was “some consequence yet hanging in the stars”(I iv) that already had their lives scripted down and no matter how much Romeo wanted to defy them “I defy you stars”(I, vi) he could not. This must mean that Romeo’s life was already planned out. But fate was not only interpreted in the stars, somehow it seemed that some of the characters foreshadowed their own fate, like Friar Lawrence foreshadowed “love so gentle in [Romeo’s] view, should be so tyrannous in proof”(I, I), this meaning that Romeo may see the love he has now, as wonderful, but as it continues it causes trouble.
Another conflict found in this play was the feud between the families. The resolution of that conflict is after Juliet and Romeo’s parents found the dead bodies of their offspring’s they decided to set aside the feud. These conflicts and resolutions are totally different with the book The Fault in Our Stars. A conflict in The Fault in Our Stars is Hazel has terminal cancer and depression, and the resolution of this conflict is, she meets Augustus and he teaches her to treasure life. Another conflict in the book is Hazel finds out Augustus has cancer again. The resolution of that conflict is he dies, furthermore she thinks about how much Augustus affected her life for the
“Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, still-waking sleep, that is not what this is” (Shakespeare 1.1. 179-180). A string of contradictions explain the love story of Romeo and Juliet, a contradiction. Some critics consider this story a tragedy because Shakespeare once wrote; “the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves”. While others say it does not follow the standard Aristotelian form of tragedy (Krims 1). Romeo and Juliet can not be a tragedy because no flaw causes them to fall, the lovers, could not have controlled fate, and family and friends assisted them to their deaths.
Romeo and Juliet is the play by William Shakespeare which is famous for its tragedy. The novel that is similar to the play is The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald. They are both similar in the way they ends; both protagonists die at the end. They are also similar in the way the plot leads characters to the death. Both literature pieces have several factors in the plot which leads characters to death. One of them is the action of others. In Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence and Capulet leads both Romeo and Juliet to death. In The Great Gatsby, Tom and George Wilson's actions contribute to Gatsby's death.
The lover’s immediate connection is established at the Capulet feast, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Through doing this, it shows that Romeo is reckless and continues even though he recognizes that they come from different families, “o dear, my life is my foe’s debt”. Throughout the play, it establishes that Juliet allows herself to behave impulsively and be persuaded by Romeo into a impetuous and thoughtless marriage, “The exchange of thy love’s faithful vowel for mine” Juliet expresses her concern that it is too soon to promise to love Romeo when they have only just met, “It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden / Too like the lightning” This simile is used to convey Juliet’s thought on their sudden love. Although Juliet has recognized how spontaneous they are acting, it does not prevent her from continuing her relationship with Romeo, proving that Juliet is just as impulsive as Romeo. Thus, Shakespeare has skillfully utilized the lovers to demonstrate that their own reckless actions is a reason for their untimely
William Shakespeare has provided some of the most brilliant plays to ever be performed on the stage. He is also the author of numerous sonnets and poems, but he is best known for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet. In this essay I would like to discuss the play and movie, "Romeo and Juliet", and also the movie, Shakespeare in Love.
The lovers of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Romeo and Juliet are perhaps the most famous pair of lovers in history. Their story has been told and remade in countless ways, with a variety of endings. The original piece however ends with tragedy in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. Throughout Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, fate is the driving force in that the star-cross lovers are destined to have a tragic end. Throughout the play, Shakespeare uses literary elements to reveal that our actions are not what controls our life, but it is fate that determines what will happen to us.