...Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in the 15th century. In this play there are two main groups, the Capulets and Montagues.These two families have been rival families for centuries before them and play an important role in how the play displays the theme that love at first sight will not last and it’s better to love moderately. This is shown by the consequences of there rash actions, and how they were warned by many people and still did not listen because of love at first sight. When love is quick and rash it will lead to a lot of bad consequences. As in the story Romeo and Juliet fall in deep love at first sight and because they get married after a few day Romeo decides to not fight tybalt ad because of this his...
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...Cause of Their Deaths Romeo is the cause of Juliet’s and his death because Romeo is so attached to Juliet that it is hard for him to let go. Romeo fell in love with Juliet at first sight. He got over Rosaline because he was depressed because that she did not like him back. Romeo went to the Capulets party. At the party he fell in love with a Capulet that was Romeo’s fault because he should have fallen in love with a Montague. When Romeo and Tybalt fight Romeo killed him out of anger because Tybalt killed Mercutio, he fought because they were saying Romeo couldn’t fight. “A plague O’ both your house” (3.1.87). After Tybalt was killed instead of banishing Romeo from Verona, he should be found in the city and he will be killed. Well, one idea to consider is that if Romeo had not killed Tybalt he...
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...------------------------------------------------- Romeo and Juliet Mini Essay 3.4 The idea of love for young men, especially Romeo is more attraction than relationship. Both Romeo and Juliet are fairly young, so the qualification for their love is either 'fake' or 'real'. Both Romeo and Juliet saw each other as deep, true lovers but realistically the love both of the character developed was infatuation. Romeo sees Juliet as the beautiful woman in the world or the most beautiful girl he saw far. Simultaneously Juliet sees Romeo as the most handsome guy she has ever seen. Both of the lovers based their love on appearance of the other. Romeo's love is only the desire of lust. According to the character list Romeo is described as someone who likes the idea of love. Being in love is appealing to him. Towards the beginning of the play Romeo decides to be in love with Rosaline. After being supposedly rejected by Rosaline, sulking Romeo goes to the Capulet banquet to see Rosaline but instead he "falls" in love Juliet. Friar Laurence correctly describes Romeo's case of love regarding the fact of his fairly fast movement from heart break to new love. "Holy saint Francis, what a change is there! Is Rosaline whom thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies, not truly in their hearts but in their eyes." (I. ii 61-4). Romeo's respond to friar's comment by justifying his cause, "I pray thee chide me not, her I love now, doth grace for...
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...Theme Layers: Many themes are present throughout Romeo and Juliet. One that is most relevant is love as a cause of violence. Some examples of this occurring are the deaths of Romeo, Juliet, Paris, Tybalt, and Mercutio. None of these deaths would have occurred without love or passion. Romeo and Juliet fell in love at first at first sight and sacrificed their life for their love. Romeo wanting to see Rosaline lead to him going to the party, which is where downfall of the story occurs with the many deaths. If Romeo had never gone to the party, Tybalt would have never had a reason to kill Romeo. Love was the cause of violence when Romeo crashed the Capulet’s party. Romeo went to the party because of his love of Rosaline. At the party, Romeo and...
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...famous tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare examines the theme of love. Undoubtedly, he draws upon the wealth of experience in allowing the audience to experience various types of love personified. In his play Shakespeare reveals that love is a complex emotion hovered over an evil cloud of death, is confusing when loved at first sight and is the partner of death.The theme of love in this play is illustrated through the use of cacophony, imagery and metaphor, rhyming couplet and first person. These techniques reveal to the audience how Romeo and Juliet’s love was doomed from the start. The first scene in which love is explored is in the prologue. The quote “death marked love” is portrayed through the technique of cacophony.The effect of cacophony puts a harsh and discrete sound pattern in the reader’s mind and in this case the letters are d, th, m, and rk. The imagery or metaphor stained shows that their love will end in grief and ultimately death. introducing this quote from the beginning expresses that their love was doomed from the start and wasn’t meant to be. The adjective ‘marked’ shows us...
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...over heels for a person. Love comes at first sight. Love comes from dating. Love comes from marrying. There are so many different types of love and finding of love. “Romeo and Juliet is always greeted by the young with immediate sympathy, somehow expressing the essence of love, what it ought to be, a permanent possibility, a fulfillment of every renascent hope and a thing to be admired” (Bloom 273). Throughout literature, the most noteworthy way of showing how a couple in love would do anything for each other is through Romeo and Juliet. The context of the play, Romeo and Juliet is about two wealthy and noble families in the town of Verona that are not fond of each other. “Two households, both alike in dignity (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene)” (Spark 2). There is the Montague family, where Romeo is the son. Romeo is around the age of sixteen and at this time of century this is when a boy will start searching for a wife. Even though his family is fighting against the Capulet, he doesn’t believe in it. This makes him a more susceptible character to have the ability to fall in love with out getting into other kinds of violence. He is extremely interested in love and will do whatever it takes to be with the one he loves. The girl he loves is Juliet. Juliet is from the Capulet family. She is only thirteen and has never even thought about falling in love yet. This is until she meets Romeo. She shows great courage in allowing Romeo to sweep her off her feet and doing anything...
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...The Final Vote Should one fall for love or family? In Act II of the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's love for Rosaline dies and is revived with Juliet. However, Juliet is a daughter of the Capulet family, and Romeo is the son from the Montague family. These two families are in the middle of a family feud. Romeo and Juliet met at a masquerade and fell in love with each other at first sight. The two try to meet up again. Romeo sneaks into the Capulet's garden after the party to talk to Juliet about exchanging vows. Loyalty to one's family should not take priority over all other aspects of life. One's feelings of compassion are more important than their family's opinion. Juliet repeats her love: O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name,...
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...One distinct difference between Winston and Julia, and Romeo and Juliet, is how they met and fell in love. Winston met Julia at his work and from the first time he saw her, he hated her. Winston even wanted to kill her once, because he believed she was a spy from the Thought Police. His anger quickly changed to love when she secretly handed him a note containing the message, "I love you." Upon receiving this note Winston became obsessed with Julia, constantly trying to find ways to meet with her and worrying that she would lose interest in him. After much careful planning, Winston and Julia were able to meet, yet only talked for less than a minute and in a very business like manner. Eventually they found ways to meet a couple times a week for a few hours each time. Romeo and Juliet, on the other hand, met at a party. Romeo was looking at the fish in an aquarium when he spotted Juliet on the other side. He was stunned by her amazing beauty and could not take his eyes of her. She eventually saw him through the aquarium and was very attracted to him. They both fell in love at first sight and were married soon after. One similarity both these couples share is that their love is forbidden. Winston was a married man, and even though he does not live with his wife, the Party would kill both Winston and Julia if they found out abut their love for one other. And even if Winston wasn't married, love and marriage is frowned upon by the Party, but is allowed in order for there to be...
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...When Juliet and Romeo first met, it was at the capulet household on the night of a party. His friends were there to crash the party, but Romeo came for Rosaline. When the servant asked them for assistance and Romeo saw Rosaline's name on the list he knew he needed to go. Romeo did not plan on meeting Juliet there. It was truly love at first sight. Right when Romeo saw her he forgot about Rosaline immediately. He felt the need to be near her, to touch her, and that is what he did. Closer to the end of the gathering he snuck off with Juliet to an exclusive corner. He only received a few minutes of privacy, before the party ended, and he had to leave. There was only time to get her name and steal a few kisses. Once he left Juliet was told by the nurse that they were enemies even though they had never met until then. Of course, he had to be a Montague. She knew it was all too good to be true. Even though she was having bad feelings about the relationship, she went through with it anyway. During this scene I felt that it gave a good picture of what the clothing looked like. There was a variety of young peoples clothing to older peoples clothing. (N/A) The previous night they spoke on the balcony about marriage plans. Even though they had only met that night, they believed that they were meant for eachother. The Nurse was appointed their messenger, because they are not allowed to be seen together. She was sent to talk to Romeo about the marriage plans. Her job was to gather the information...
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...word to describe it all is the end. Romeo and Juliet met and fell madly in love, some people would state it all true love first sight. At the end of the book both characters kill themselves because they couldn’t be together. The three characters who are most responsible for the tragic ending...
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...Shakespeare Essay Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story that includes many heartbreaking events. Capulets and Montagues hate each other and the family feud is turning people against each other, causing many unexpected deaths. When Romeo: a Montague, and Juliet: a Capulet, decide to get married. That will create much tragedy in the near future knowing they will have to hide their marriage. Especially because the Capulets are pressuring Juliet to marry Paris. The family feud is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Had there not been a family feud, Romeo and Juliet would not need to conceal their love while still wanting to keep their good reputations in the family. Also, Friar Laurence would not have to devise a plan to help the lovers escape. In the end, two young, innocent lovers will die, through not fault of their own. In the beginning of Act I Romeo was in love with Rosaline. Immediately when he saw Juliet he lost...
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...Life Long Relationship? Love or Infatuation? Both are demonstrated by relationships in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and Romeo + Juliet by William Shakespeare. Infatuation is an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something, which is exactly what Romeo and Juliet experience, and love is best defined as an intense feeling of deep affection, and love is what George and Lennie have in their relationship. Since George and Lennie love each other, George and Lennie have a better relationship than Romeo and Juliet because they have been friends for a long time and they know each other better, they are loyal to one another, but not too loyal, and their relationship didn’t hurt anyone around them. George and...
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...similar kinds of unrealistic love too, which is shown on Media. In literature, there are many love stories on love. For example, Romeo and Juliet, Paris and Helena, and Paolo and Francesca. From all these stories, the most common example of love was well known l described in Literature was Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet were the most famous lovers ever. Those couples became a synonym for love itself. In literature, that true love story was written by William Shakespeare. It’s a story of two teenagers from two fighting families who fall in love with each other at first sight and then get married. Both couples, chose to take their lives away for true love. To take your own life for your husband or wife is definitely a sign of true love. Their "untimely deaths" ultimately bond their fighting households. Media has played a big role in making people believe that whatever has come on TV is true. People believe that uretic and fake love which media shows happens in real life as well. The one of the biggest example on love Media has shown us the Movie called Titanic. In that movie, people fell in love with each other during an unhappy voyage. It was unhappy because the boat titanic was about to sink. Some people believe that love can happen during an unhappy voyage as well. This sort of thinking can create complications in couple lives. title: Romeo &...
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...portrayed in William Shakespeare’s work, Romeo and Juliet, a tragic play that presents two youths, Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague, that met and fell in love at first sight. However, they are forced to keep their relationship a secret for their families, the Capulets and Montagues are bitter enemies. Because of this secrecy, misunderstandings arise and reckless decisions, along with their irreversible consequences, are...
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...Exploring ways in which relationships are shown in “Romeo and Juliet” and in Wuthering Heights”? In this essay I am going to compare the relationships in Romeo and Juliet and wuthering heights by discussing their similarities and how love is portrayed in them. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and wuthering heights by Emily Bronte are considered to be two of the most famous love stories ever written in the English language. Both explore love from many different perspectives such as domestic, maternal, social,romantic,religious and transcendent. The main characters in these two novels are Romeo and Juliet and Cathy and Heathcliffe.Cathy and Juliet’s lives are similar by how their lives rely around their lovers. Both of which also have their own personal obstacles to overcome, for example Juliet does not want to jeopardise her reputation and Heathcliff has to put aside the hatred he has towards them. Both stories display forbidden love by how Romeo and Juliet’s families are involved in a family feud and they are betraying them by falling love with one another, how Cathy is married to Edgar and sneaks around to visit Heathcliff behind Edgar's back is also portraying this idea of forbidden love and secrecy. Cathy describes her love for Heathcliff like the “sea” and that her love for Edgar is like a “horse trough” this suggests her love for Heathcliff is ever going and dangerous/unpredictable whereas her love for Edgar is confined and motionless unless prompted. It is...
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