Despite what many knew of Romeo being a young adult, his actions spoke contrary to his age. Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy genre novel written by the infamous William Shakespeare. A tragic love story that narrates between two lovesick teenagers whose families are enemies. They fall in love, but cannot be together. They ended up killing themselves because they couldn’t cope with being separated. Despite this, Romeo is responsible for his own banishment, not only does he choose an incomplete crush over his last name, but also turns a blind eye to his actions. In the first place, Romeo gave up his name the moment he confessed his love for Juliet. This idea is particularly present in the scene of Juliet on her balcony, where she is speaking aloud to herself. It states, ““O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou …show more content…
She questions why Romeo is a Montague, why they had to be enemies. Marry her and she will be a Montague too, she says. It could be argued that Juliet was still unsure of her feelings towards Romeo, that she was speaking nonsense without knowing. . While that might be true, that does not dismiss the fact that Juliet still agreed to marry Romeo without double thinking. She could have declined his offer and made him wait if she was unsure of their love for each other, nonetheless, she agreed to his offer. Overall, Juliet played a big role in Romeo’s act of disobedience; she convinced him with her beauty to give up and end this feud together. Besides, they both betrayed their families, and even ended up dying for each other because they were so oddly in love. Secondly, given the fact that Romeo can’t think straight when it comes to romance, his doings have caused the loss of his freedom. An example of this idea can be found in scene three of Shakespeare’s novel. In the scene, after the fight between Mercutio and Tybalt ended and Romeo stabbed Tybalt as revenge, Benvolio explains the situation to Prince Escalus; ““There
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a story of two young lovers. These two hearts, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, belong to feuding families. The family feud causes them to keep their love a secret and therefore only Romeo, Juliet, Benvolio, the Nurse and Friar Lawrence know of their love. Romeo and Juliet are able to look past the feud and let themselves fall in mad love with the other. They let themselves do almost anything for the other and at times it seems like too much to do, even for the one they love.
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare is a play about two lovers from different families that have an internal feud between them. It ends in both lovers, Romeo and Juliet, committing suicide as they could not openly live with each other. An important idea in this play is that of the impetuosity of youth and the rash decisions that young people may make. This idea is continuously brought up throughout the play and is explored through the concepts of overreacting and being blinded by anger, desperation in forbidden love and taking your life for love.
In the play, Juliet is questioned by the Nurse after Tybalt’s death and replies with this, “Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband.”(III.II.XCVII). Juliet was not bothered by her cousin’s death at all. She was much more worried about Romeo’s punishment for killing Tybalt. A normal reaction to one’s cousin's death would have been sadness, but instead, Juliet was worried about the killer’s punishment which would normally be abnormal, however, she had more interest in her and Romeo’s relationship. Normally this would not have been how she wanted to feel, but her new love made her think irrationally and selfishly. She did not want her new love to end so she chose to take Romeo’s side as she may have felt it would make their love last forever. He was her only love so of course she would not want it to end. She wanted it to last. However, this caused her to make decisions based on the fact that she wanted something, which made her decisions
The story people adore; Romeo falls for Juliet and they get married. They are forced into hiding which leads to Juliet pretending to be dead. The love struck Romeo kills him self, when Juliet awakes to actually kill herself, a fantasized love story. However another side to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet tragedy that fans don't look at is who is responsible. The dominant male characters, Friar Laurence, Lord Capulet, and Romeo are most at blame for the story.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a coming-of-age story about two teens from rival families that meet at a feast that the Capulets’ (Juliet’s family) are hosting. When they first meet, it’s like
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare is a play about two lovers from different families that have an internal feud between them. It ends in both lovers, Romeo and Juliet, committing suicide as they could not openly live with each other. An important idea in this play is that of the impetuosity of youth and the rash decisions that young people may make. This idea is continuously brought up throughout the play and is explored through the concepts of overreacting and being blinded by anger, desperation in forbidden love and taking your life for love.
“I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity”.-Retired american musician Tom Lehrer. Adolescents often show lack of maturity. Romeo and Juliet is a story about two kids who meet and and fall in love in the same day only to get married a few days later. Then juliet is supposed to marry another person named Paris after a day of being married to Romeo which then leads to all three of them being dead.In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses figurative language to display that Adolescents can make decisions that are not thought through.
At a young age individuals tend to react impulsively when they lose someone they love, choosing instead to take their own lives to relieve the suffering. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two teens that quickly fall in love. When threatened to be separated forever, the thought of losing each other becomes overwhelming and suicidal thoughts produced there in their minds, ending tragically in both Romeo and Juliet losing their lives. In Romeo and Juliet, playwright William Shakespeare has shown the theme of impulse of young love successfully by using dramatic irony, creative foreshadowing, and situational irony.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story about a pair of star-crossed lovers whose demises were unexpected to most. However, their deaths were a result of their impulsiveness. It caused their problematic marriage, Romeo’s preventable death, as well as Juliet’s preventable death.
While Romeo looks at her and describes how beautiful she is, Juliet does not know that Romeo is there listening to what she is saying. When they met at the party, it seemed that Juliet did not fall in love instantly, however when she speaks to herself in the balcony, she demonstrates the intense love that she felt for Romeo because she says that she will “no longer be a Capulet” (II, ii, 36). Although the family feud is the obstacle of Romeo and Juliet’s love, she is willing to give up their families in order to be together. The names Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet do not matter to her. She tells Romeo to forget that he is a Montague because the only thing that she cares about is their love.
Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare, where a boy and a girl fall in love with each other during a party hosted by Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet. The two teenager decide to get marry, despite their family's hate for each other and only meeting each other a few hours ago. However, the Montagues (Romeo’s Parents) and the Capulets end their feud after they discover that their children killed themselves. Romeo and Juliet’s death was caused by Juliet’s parents, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence.
Romeo and Juliet is a timeless tale of lovers who's misfortune and immaturity was a cause of their own destruction. The characters individually show immaturity and together demonstrate how ignorance of the world effects more than just their own lives. Romeo and Juliet, as expressed in the succeeding examples, fall in love quickly as a result of their naivety.
Romeo and Juliet is the story of two star-crossed lovers who are placed in the difficult position of choosing their true love or their relevant families. The play is considered one of the greatest love stories of all time, complicated by fate, youthful inexperience, but mainly adult interference. Romeo and Juliet were on an already determined course of action that they were meant to follow. Romeo and Juliet were impetuous when it came to their actions. The adults in Romeo and Juliet’s life had some control over what the lovers were allowed to do, and played an influential factor in their lives, which led to their demise.
Before meeting each other, Romeo had fallen deep in love with Rosaline, and he was heartbroken when she chose to remain a virgin for her life. Because of this, he chose to try and fall in love with another woman. As a result met Juliet and once more fell head over heels. However, his love for Juliet was different, because while before he would give up, Romeo not only was banished, but he risked his life trying to get to his wife. As soon as he heard the news of Juliet’s death, he ordered Balthasar to, “hire posthorses. I will hence tonight” (5.1.26). He risked his life by returning to Verona, and this shows how his character grew because of his love for Juliet. She, on the other hand, had to face her marriage to Paris when Romeo is banished. She receives a potion from Friar Laurence, and despite all of her fears, drinks it because, “love give[s] me strength! and strength shall help afford” (4.1.125). Before meeting Romeo, Juliet was content with marrying Paris, and she tended to be docile when it came to her parents’ wishes. However, her love changed her loyalty. By the end of the text, Juliet believed more in her own conviction, and she put her loyalty first to herself and her husband before her family. While this characterizes the lovers as dynamic and changing, it’s their choices on both parts that ended up hurting so many others. Due to Romeo’s banishment, Lady Montague
Romeo and Juliet is a romantic love story about a young lad named Romeo who has fallen in love with Lady Juliet, but is unable to marry her because of a long-lasting family feud. The play ends in the death of both these characters and the reunion of the friendship between the families. Romeo is in love with Juliet, and this is a true, passionate love (unlike the love Paris has for her or the love Romeo had for Rosaline) that nothing can overcome, not even the hatred between their two families that is the reason for the death of their two children. Throughout the play, Shakespeare thoroughly explores the themes of both true love and false love and hatred. Without either of these themes, the play would loose its romantic touch and probably would not be as famous as it is today.