...people make mistakes that are too sudden, and then regret their decisions. Decisions such as marriage should not be taken rashly, and that is just what Romeo and Juliet did. Romeo and Juliet are victims of their own actions because of their young age. Every action they take is too rash and too unexpected. In the beginning, Romeo chooses to go to a Capulet party even though he is not invited to attend the celebration. Next, he chooses to marry Juliet, even though he only knew her for six hours. Lastly, Romeo chooses to die to be with Juliet forever. To begin, Romeo chooses to attend the Capulet party, which he is not invited to attend. His friends talk him into attending since he is suffering from a broken heart. “ I’ll go along, no such...
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...Everyone makes rash decisions in their lifetime. In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, almost every character makes a rash decision - from the star-crossed lovers getting married immediately after meeting, to Tybalt kills Mercutio, and Romeo killing himself when he thinks Juliet is dead. Juliet Capulet is a beautiful, kind person that is always wondering about how the world works or how to get out of something cleverly. She too makes rash decisions, but she is the one character to really think about choosing carefully throughout the play. The readers are able to see that Juliet is a very thoughtful, logical character through a convincing instinct Juliet has, the balcony scene monologue, and her soliloquy before taking the vile. Every teenager tries to influence their parents. Juliet tries to influence them by...
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...Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet features two main characters from feuding families who fall in love but feel adversely about their developing romance despite their mutual attraction. Romeo wants to be in a relationship with Juliet and acts rashly because he believes it will help him to do so. Adversely, Juliet acts with caution and thinks more about possible long-term consequences of a relationship with Romeo. Their differing approaches to their relationship reflect restrictive social standards for women, and ultimately prove that women must act more carefully when it comes to love because a woman would face greater consequences than a man if they were to break social codes. Juliet proceeds more with more discretion than Romeo when...
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...Romeo and Juliet: Are the Parents to Blame? In every tragedy, it is a common goal to find out who or what is to blame for causing the event. This allows us as humans to punish the culprit or declare the event and accident. In the case of Romeo and Juliet, it is no different. There is a part of every reader who wants to know what happened to drive the star-crossed lovers to their death. Was it their parents or was it the naive teenagers? It was both. Both sides of the tragedy lacked communication with each other, seeing others points of view, and not putting in the effort to listen to each other. Throughout most of the drama, readers are exposed to the two opposing sides of a rooted family feud. The Capulets and Montagues want absolutely no relations between one another at all. This feeling of isolation from one another is...
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...Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written by William Shakespeare that shows the struggle of loving someone while everyone else is against it. Everyone is this wonderful play all have their own unique personalities that makes them, them. One way to describe a personality of someone is through a zodiac sign. These use the time of your birth to the types of traits you have, bad and good. Romeo is a Gemini because he is affectionate, inconsistent, and youthful. Romeo is a Gemini because he is affectionate and always looking for love. First of all, he falls in love with how a person appears. He falls in love with Rosaline without even talking to her. “Out of her favor, where I am in love”(1.1.168-173). If he never falls in love...
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...in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses metaphors and details through the characterization of Paris, Juliet, and Romeo in order to reveal the theme of how love is an addiction, it is an obsession and people make quick decisions without thinking because of love. Shakespeare incorporates many characters in his play in order to portray how love is so overpowering that it causes the characters apathy towards life to incline. For example, during act 5 scene 3, Paris is at Juliet’s grave morning when Romeo approaches and Paris says, “Nightly shall be to strew they grave and weep” (1136). This image invokes the idea that Paris is dismayed and feels depressed. Paris engages...
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...about possible coincidences in their own life. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, two ordinary teenagers met by chance and immediately fell in love. Unfortunately, within a one week span, death, pain, heartache, and turmoil was spurred. The interception of the Capulet invitations list, the finding of the Capulet garden by accident, and an important letter that never reached its final destination are three major events in the play; all coincidences, all with the same, tragic ending. In the beginning, a Capulet servant made the mistake of asking a question, which would eventually lead some Montague boys to a party, and lead Romeo to fall in love at first site. Romeo and Benvolio both help read off a list of people who had been invited to the Capulet Mask Ball to the servant of a Capulet. But by doing this, it gave Benvolio and some of the other boys to go to the party and for Romeo to go as well to get his mind off of Rosaline. Romeo seemed reluctant to go, but gave into pressure and went to the party after many arguments. When, at the party, he started to loosen up and have fun. Romeo was miserable with his thoughts of Rosaline, but at the party, he saw an abundance of other girls and was certain to enjoy the party while it lasted. “And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? For swear it, site! For I, ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Romeo finally saw Juliet and is overwhelmed by her presence. He has entirely forgotten about Rosaline...
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...always a result of many other factors. In the brutal tragedy, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare tells a story of two star-crossed lovers living in the quaint city of Verona, Italy. Their families, the Montagues, and the Capulets have been at each other's throats for generations, but when the two adolescents meet at a masquerade it’s love, at first sight, a series of unfortunate events take place leading to the demise of the young couple, however, along the way they are aided by the nurse and the priest who play major roles in the play. Although the families feuding was a major factor in Romeo and Juliet's deaths, it was also caused by; rushed planning and rash decisions. The Capulets and Montagues have equal blame in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet between a spiteful arranged marriage and starting fights amongst each other the young pair of lovers were being set up for catastrophe....
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...Through the characters of Romeo and Juliet explain how hasty decisions or actions result in the final tragedy of the p/lay.” In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, multiple characters demonstrate recklessness and make hasty decisions which ultimately caused the death of the protagonist, therefore resulting in the final tragedy of the play. Such actions and decisions were shown on three accounts throughout the play for example at the Capulet’s party, on Juliet’s balcony and Tybalt’s death. To begin, already during Act I, Romeo not only agrees with the decision of breaking into the Capulet’s party, but also falls in love with Juliet in a very short time, and this directly contributes to their downfall. Romeo said “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” (I.v.51-52) He knows nothing about this young girl yet he has already fallen in love with her without thinking twice. To make matters worse, Romeo has completely forgot about his previous love, Rosaline, whom he was in love with just days prior to the party. Falling for Juliet so quickly and without thought was an impetuous and rash decision made by Romeo. Furthermore, during the balcony scene, Juliet also becomes responsible for the tragedy which is about to happen; in fact, after declaring her love to Romeo, she made the decision to marry him, and this marriage will become another main cause of their death. Juliet confessed her love by saying “Romeo, doff thy name, and for...
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...Romeo, a teenage boy who does not think ahead and acts on impulse according to his emotions, like passion and hatred, is blamed for the tragic deaths of Juliet and himself. First of all, when Romeo meets Juliet at Capulet’s party, instantly falling in love with her, but when he learns of her family name, he decides to blame his family for this ill-fated love, stating, “Is she a Capulet?/O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt”(I,v,117-118). Instead of acknowledging the consequences their love has and ending his “relationship” with Juliet, he immediately chooses to blame his family and does not think logically of the situation. This also shows how hasty he is to fall in love and think only with passion, considering the fact that he was mourning over his one-sided love with Rosaline only a few hours before the two misfortuned lovers met....
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...swoon as they read Romeo and Juliet for the first time. The girls wish for a boy like Romeo to spot them in a crowded room and instantly fall in love, and even though they would never admit it, young men probably wish for the same. Even the students who scoff at Romeo’s flowery language and the dramatic irony secretly wish for the kind of overwhelming passion Romeo and Juliet share. However, the same students tend to overlook the warning Shakespeare has within the first page of the play. In the prologue, Shakespeare writes that Romeo and Juliet tells the tale of two families with such an intense hatred toward each other that it takes a child from each of the families committing suicide for the...
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...In the tragedy play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Juliet Capulet’s personality, as the dynamic character, had changed drastically from the beginning of the play up until her death. This play however, set in Verona, Italy, is based upon an ancient grudge between two families which are very much alike in social standings, the Montagues and Capulets. The reason for the so-called bloody feud between these two families is still unknown. But, between all of the hatred between the two sides, a Capulet and a Montague, known as Romeo and Juliet, found love and became star-crossed lovers of the play. Throughout the play, Shakespeare included many events and things to portray how Juliet Capulet’s personality constantly changed from obedient,...
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...Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Romeo always goes to Friar Lawrence for confession and the Friar will help Romeo with the problems he is facing. Shakespeare shows this kind and helpful relationship through metaphors, foreshadowing, and personification. The friendly nature of Romeo and Friar Lawrence’s relationship was captured by Shakespeare through metaphors. The Friar says, “Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies, not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. (2.2.68-70). The Friar is asking Romeo how he moved on from Rosaline so quickly, saying young men must love with their eyes and not with their hearts. This shows how the Friar is being protective to Romeo because, the Friar wants to be sure that Romeo is not making a rash decision to marry Juliet after only...
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...of the Function of Speed in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is an avalanche. As a loose pebble in the snowcapped mountain wobbles in the wind, Romeo yodels to Juliet in the cliffs just to send it tumbling, lightly, down a vertical abyss. It does not end there, of course, for this pebble held back the rocks and boulders constituting the height of the peak, and the reaction now begins as each individual stone rolls with momentum. They pick up speed and snow, growing in velocity and size until the inevitable occurs and Romeo and Juliet are engulfed in the upheaval and finished forever. William Shakespeare’s version of the play Romeo and Juliet, taken from Arthur Brooke’s play similarly titled Romeus and Juliet, is a fast paced tragedy in which a boy and girl from two feuding families meet, fall in love, bond in matrimony, and commit suicide in a matter of four days. Compared to the nine-month romance that takes place in Brooke’s play, Shakespeare’s version is a consciously hastened piece of work during which the most significant parts of a young couple’s lives begin and end in less than one week. Speed, a well-utilized literary tool in Shakespeare’s play, serves to emphasize emotion, as opposed to reason, in the characters’ decisions. Through this device, Shakespeare demonstrates his skills as a playwright by showing control of time in the play. Perhaps the most well known episode in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the balcony scene is a prime example of passionate...
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...Romeo and Juliet Written Analysis Romeo and Juliet’s tragic fate was a direct result of their poor decisions because they were naive and went to extreme measures when they acted on impulse. Romeo and Juliet made the conscious and irrational decision to marry each other when they met, knowing their families hated each other. Some scholars may argue that falling in love is fate and it makes people blind to bad decisions. Ultimately, all of their actions were their own decisions and could have been prevented. When Romeo and Juliet first meet at the party thrown by the Capulet’s, they fell in love with each other upon their first dance. However, they were unaware of whom the other person truly was. When Romeo finds out that Juliet is a Capulet,...
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