Unhealthy Characteritics The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is about a forbidden love between two hateful households which tragically ends in death. It begins with Romeo’s broken heart from a dainty lady and a lively masquerade where two lone souls come together. However, their love for one another was doomed at birth for both households had a constant hatred for one another. Infatuation, rage, and sadness contribute to an unhealthy relationship between Romeo and Juliet. Before the two came together, Romeo was completely and utterly spiritless. This was because of a girl who did not love him back. However, as soon as his eyes wandered upon Juliet, all of his woe melted away. Romeo claimed to be in love once again, even though he did not know her …show more content…
name. Juliet also came to fall in love just as easily. This was all due to infatuation in the relationship. Their newfound love caused them to take their lives at too young an age and left their families with tears and regrets. Romeo acted particularly excessive in the relationship towards their fateful end. Due to Romeo being banished, Juliet was torn to bits. Soon after, a plan was put into action so they could spend the rest of their lives together. Unfortunately, her sweet love was oblivious to the strategy which caused acrimony within him. The perpetual and overwhelming feelings and thoughts tearing through his mind, he consumes deadly poison next to her bleak body. This was an extreme action that he took and in the end, she ended up still being alive. Being withdrawn was a characteristic found throughout the entire storyline.
However, there was an intense moment of despair when Romeo was caught in a brawl and banished away. This was an emotional time, for the two had just gotten married. Romeo went away that night and Juliet sobbed for days. Everyone tried to comfort her, but only Juliet’s secret lover could heal her throbbing heart. This emotion is displayed yet again when Romeo finds that Juliet is “dead”. He is so torn apart that he decides to join his love with a bottle of baneful toxin. She then wakes up from a deathly slumber to find her lover dead. Out of anguish, Juliet pierces herself with his dagger. Infatuation, excessive, and withdrawn contribute to an unhealthy relationship as seen in the correlation between Romeo and Juliet. Infatuation can cause a relationship to be almost unreal and even conditional. This can lead to major problems for example, Romeo and Juliet took their new love too fast which left two families grieving. Someone acting excessive can cause the other to feel chained down or uncomfortable. This characteristic can also cause one of the parties to act in an abnormal and strange way. Another problem is when one is
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“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex...People are irrational” said physiologist, Hugh Mackay. As a matter of fact nothing was perfect for Romeo and Juliet. Their lives were messy. Their relationship was complex. And they certainly did act irrationally. Romeo and Juliet quickly fell in love at the beginning of the plot in the play, named after them, created by Shakespeare. To be able to escape from her home and be with her love, Juliet drank a potion that made her seem dead. Romeo, not knowing about the plan, took his life at the sight of her “dead” body. When Juliet woke up and saw Romeo dead, she ended up killing herself as well due to his death. Shakespeare portrays the message that being in love can cloud people’s
Romeo and Juliet displays a clear but yet complicated views of love: Although love may seem powerless in this text, it actually is the driving force dictating the whole plot.
William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet tells the tragic story of two star-crossed lovers who belong to two opposite families: the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo and Juliet; the protagonists meet at a party and instantly fall in love, they soon have the Friar perform for them a secret marriage. The play ends with Romeo and Juliet’s death this outcome is do to the protagonists’ free will.
Romeo and Juliet is a story of two young lovers, whose love was destined for destruction. They could never have imagined that their love would lead to the tragedies that befell them. These two young people had done nothing wrong, unless it is wrong to fall in love with a person whose family is feuding with one’s own. Three aspects of the destruction of Romeo and his lovely Juliet included: the feud between the two families, the nurse and her betrayal of Juliet, and the most important aspect of all, fate.
Romeo has heard of the news that Juliet is dead and this crushes his heart but the only way to confirm that she will no longer be by his side is to go see her. “Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!” (5.2,113-115). Romeo has heard of the news that Juliet has died, and once Romeo was able to see her he was able to confirm what he was hearing was true. Romeo could not withstand the feeling of not having his dear Juliet by his side he believes that it is better to kill himself. “Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger, This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” (5.5,169-170). Juliet has awaken from taking the “death” potion noticing that Romeo has taken his life not so long ago. Juliet can not bare seeing Romeo dead on the floor and she prefer to dead than no longer have Romeo in her life. The feeling that Romeo was having was identical to Juliet's because once they show that the other was dead the could no longer live without each other and it's better to die than not have them by their
Thus ultimately, it is visible how Romeo and Juliet made choices out of infatuation, what they have mistaken to be the emotion of love. As they carried their desire for another to the extreme lines, it had resulted to countless deaths in the play. Unfortunately there are many couples mistaking crush as a genuine love, and follow the dangerous footsteps of Romeo and Juliet even in the present days. It might be confusing and easily mistaken, but remember true love would be like a fully grown tree, supportive and comforting.
Juliet faked her death, thinking that Romeo would know that she was alive, only to awake and find him dead by his own action. Her cortisol level became too high and she decided to follow Romeo into the after-life, neither of them thinking of how everyone else had been affected. In the words of Prince Escalus, “And I for winking at your discords too have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd” (Shakespeare). In conclusion, they did not truly love each other, for it was only the work of their growing and changing minds and
Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, took place in Verona in the mid-1590’s. In this town, two families hate each other. This hate has been sustained from generation to generation. However the son and daughter from the patriarchies of both the families did not find hate for each other, but instead they fell in love. When Romeo first saw Juliet at the masquerade ball they instantly fell in love. However, the hate between the Montagues and Capulets only grew throughout the play. Romeo and Juliet were not allowed to be together. The rivalry and disgust between the two families was responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has impacted modern civilisation’s perception of love for centuries. It solidified the idea of love at first sight and references or similarities to the play can be found throughout literature and popular culture, today. While many people concern themselves with finding an all-consuming, infatuating love, like that of the two star-crossed lovers, others ask the question: is it worth it? The love that Romeo and Juliet have wreaks havoc on the the dynamics of their respective families and tests the patience and goodwill of the Prince and his controlling powers within Verona. Maybe Romeo and Juliet had an all-consuming love, but their over zealousness allowed
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragic love story that foretells the story of two star-crossed lovers whose love was forbidden by their feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues. As a result of love at first sight, Romeo and Juliet decided to marry. Due to a series unfortunate events such as Juliet’s arranged marriage by her parents, Friar Lawrence’s plan, the two lovers’ suicide,and many more, Romeo and Juliet’s marriage was short-lived. Shakespeare utilizes dramatic irony in key lines of Romeo, Mercutio, and Juliet that foreshadow subsequent deaths in the Montague and Capulet households.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a story about the tragic deaths of two young star- crossed lovers. Romeo and Juliet were born to feuding families in Verona. They met at a Capulet party and fell in love without knowing their families were enemies. A whirlwind of emotion came into play when Romeo killed Juliet’s cousin out of rage and was banished from the city limits. Juliet was then thought to be dead, so Romeo killed himself out of grief in Juliet’s arms. She woke up and found him lying dead then killed herself to be with him. In Romeo and Juliet, there is a recurring theme of how spontaneous the minds of young adults are conveyed best in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation (1996) because of his casting choices, character development, and modernization.
Juliet is only 13 and Romeo is 17, they are just teenagers and being a teenager their Juliet thought that she was in love with Romeo the moment he showed any affection for her, which shows that she did not really understand love or the meaning of it. Romeo and Juliet were both having problems in their lives for example; Juliet’s parents (Lord Capulet and Lady Capulet) wanted her to marry Paris and Romeo was in love with Rosaline who did not love him back and we know that because he says “Out of her favor, where I am in love” and he was talking about Rosaline and because she did not love him back so he just wanted to get over her. you can tell that they were sort of an escape to each other’s problems which makes them more attracted to each other and shows that they were both just something that would distract each other from the problems they have In this
The tragic love story Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is about a long rivalry between the houses of Montague and Capulet, which disrupts the city of Verona. Romeo of house Montague, meets Juliet of the house Capulet and brings tragedy for the two star-crossed lovers and their families. Love, hate, and fate are intertwined throughout the play which ends in death for the two lovers. Shakespeare uses monologues and soliloquies to show the characters intentions, motivations, feelings and state of mind.
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families which disrupts the city of Verona. It is a tragic story of their blighted love between two young star-crossed lovers and of their parents’ feud continuing anger, which lead to their children’s deaths. Ultimately, their death has more to do with their rash actions, immaturity and poor support from families and friends than the action of others. These actions can be seen in the play itself displaying both families as well as the destruction and the toxic love that the two of them engage
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a play involving two star-crossed lovers whose family feud will not allow them to be together in Verona, Italy. In the play, the Capulets and the Montagues have been engaged in a feud for many generations that has resulted in them despising each other. One day, though, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet meet at a party and fall instantly in love. They soon get married without their parents’ knowledge but because Romeo has been banished from Verona, Juliet fakes her death in order to escape and live happily ever after though. Tragically, Romeo does not receive news of this plan in time and kills himself upon finding out that Juliet passed away. Juliet then awakens to find a dead Romeo and commits suicide as well. In the end, the deaths of the two lovers bring an end to the long-standing rivalry between the families. Friar Lawrence, the town’s spiritual leader, bears the most guilt for the kismets of the characters in Romeo and Juliet because he married the two lovers despite the fact that is has been forbidden and he assisted in the faking of Juliet’s death.