...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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...choose to highlight the idea that one’s desperation for love can lead you to bad decisions because in both the play and the movie both Romeo and Juliet made thrilling moves for the desperation of their love. In both art forms we see that Romeo is trying to get to Juliet after he heard the news that she was dead, and Romeo was on a mission to see her wife. In the movie when Romeo arrives at the church, there is a guard standing guard the door, but you can see the desperation on Romeos face and the way he acts towards the guard. He tackles him and puts a gun to his head threatening to kill him if he doesn’t let Romeo into the church to see Juliet. This here is an example why...
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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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...In the story of Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy occurs between two star crossed lovers in which the result is both of their lives are taken from them. Many people have debated on the subject of whose fault it actually is, but the person who needs to take most of the blame for what happened is Friar Lawrence. Friar Lawrence was the wise advisor to Romeo and Juliet, and he also was the adult in the situation. Even though not even all adults make the right decisions, he should have handled the whole situation better. For example, he should not have married the couple together because of how young and immature they both are. The Friar wasn’t thinking very well with the decision he make to join the two together, especially after how much trouble he...
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...Romeo and Juliet Everybody makes bad decisions somewhere in their life, even if some people end up making ones worse a lot earlier in their life. Therefore, Juliet was the most responsible for her and Romeo’s death because she was impatient, impulsive and immature. To begin, Juliet’s impatience had only started to show after she happened to meet Romeo at the party being thrown at her house. One of the biggest acts of impatience in both her and Romeo is how badly they both want to get married. This is mostly shown during the famous balcony scene where Juliet says, “Th’ exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine.” (2.2.134) Both Romeo and Juliet only spoke once before this, meaning that they have known each other for less than an hour and knew barely anything about the other. For Juliet to have already felt the need to propose to Romeo is incredibly impatient and foolish thinking. Therefore, Juliet’s impatience was one of the most important reasons to...
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...listen to all of the good and bad happening in one’s life. The idea of a relationship like this is shown in 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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...Light Over Dark: The Choice Romeo and Juliet Didn’t Make The purpose of the light/dark motif in Romeo and Juliet is to show how Romeo and Juliet are unable to tell light from dark, or good from bad. I think everyone has the potential to distinguish what choices lead to “light” and what choices keep them in the “dark”. So Romeo and Juliet had that potential but I don’t think they wanted to know about that, since nothing else mattered to them but them. In this play, Romeo and Juliet do never make a clear choice of light over dark because they almost do not want to deal that decision in the middle of their romantic journey. They could have brought their situation which was becoming more of a mess each day, into the light by talking openly about it. However that would’ve ended the feud between the families that would have to be dealt with in some way and I’m sure Romeo and Juliet would not have lost their lives doing that. By ignoring their responsibilities and ignoring the darkness that was rising on them quickly both Romeo and Juliet allow tragedy to take them both. In the first scene, Romeo is depressed because his love for Rosaline is a one-way love. His parents are worried because Romeo spends all his time in the dark. Even when it is light, he shrouds himself in darkness to reflect his dreary mood: Away from the light steals home my heavy son / And private in his chamber pens himself / Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out / And makes himself an artificial night (I...
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...Romeo and Juliet is a play about two people who think they are in love but they really aren’t. Romeo and Juliet aren’t really in love because love at first sight isn’t real,hey get married even though Juliet’s parents have plans for her to marry someone else, and they made lots of bad decisions. Romeo and Juliet fell in love in first sight. Teenagers can not fall in love in first sight because their brains are not fully developed yet and they can’t understand what real love is. They see each other at the party and fall instantly in love. Romeo was there to see a girl that he said he loved who wasn’t Juliet. Juliet was there to meet the man that her parents wanted her to marry. They hadn’t even talked to each other and Romeo said he was in...
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...it as an excuse for their shortcomings. During Romeo and Juliet, Romeo uses luck as an excuse for his actions. After Romeo has defeated Tybalt, he shouts “I am fortune’s fool”(III. 1. 98). Romeo is only half right in saying this, because up to this point, and for the rest of the play, Romeo is both a fool, and he is unlucky. This is due to the fact that some events during the play happen due to bad luck, while others happen because Romeo didn’t think through his actions, and made poor decisions. Throughout the play, Romeo is unlucky...
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...Romeo and Juliet Essay Draft “Love” is all over the place, and can be in many shapes. Such as, you love your family, your pets, or even your boyfriend or girlfriend. Love is shown in a cognitive way, and a corporeal way like hugging and saying that you love someone, or just thinking about love can have a great impact on someone, but it isn’t always a good thing as at times people can become victims of other people with only the thought of love in their mind for others, as in the play Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare; love is both wonderful, harmful or that some people can just take it to an extreme. In the play Romeo and Juliet love can cause pretty much anything to happen, including bad things. Love can have consequences on people....
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...death of Romeo and Juliet, he could’ve easily stepped in and changed the whole outcome of the story. Even though there were multiple participants in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet that could’ve easily change the outcome; Friar was the most active participant in their secret romance. Friar was the one that agreed to marry them because it could possibly end the feuding between the two families; he did not only take part in their romance he encouraged it which makes him the main attribute to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. He also came up with the plan for Juliet to drink the potion and fake her which was essential in Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. Friar Lawrence was reluctant at first when Romeo approached him about marrying Juliet but his concern was about whether the love he had for her was real; Friar never had a problem with the risk that were associated with secretly marrying them he only was worried about his own personal agenda. In act 1 scene 3 Friar says, “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households' rancor to pure love.” (lines 90-92). This quote is after Romeo...
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...Phu Nguyen Ms. Leang English 1, Period 5 19 March 2015 Teen Behaviors in Romeo and Juliet Many teenagers make bad decisions, and act in a way most adult would say is unintelligent. Romeo and Juliet was a story about two feuding families with the same wealth living in Verona. After a big fight Prince Escalus tells them that if there is another fight they will be killed. Later that night Romeo meets Juliet at her father’s party and they both fall in love, after the party Romeo talks with Juliet about getting married and she agrees to have the wedding the very next day. After the wedding the two families get into another fight. Due to the fight Mercutio and Tybalt gets killed. Romeo who was also fighting was sentenced to banishment even though the Prince had said that if there was fighting there will be death. Juliet who was heartbroken drank a potion that makes her seem dead for nearly two days until the Friar could mend Romeo’s problem, but Romeo not knowing the plan thought that Juliet has really died so he kills himself. After Juliet wakes and sees Romeo dead she then kills herself too, as a result the two families end their feud because both blood lines have ended. In this play most of the teens made bad decisions. Teens tend to make bad decision because of the normal growth of their brain, Teenagers often have part in many dangerous actions. The American Academy of Child and Adolescents Psychiatry states that adolescent do dangerous things: “Based on the stage of...
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...11-16-09 Bad Decisions End in Tragedy Mrs. Trombley 9G Hour 6 The character Friar Laurence is a bad man in the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. The Friar makes a bad decision that ends with two lovers dead. He wishes for the best although it does not turn out the way he planned. When Romeo and Juliet decide to get married the Friar assists them and does not tell the feuding households of Romeo’s Montague family and Juliet’s Capulet family. Friar does not believe they should get married. Then he realizes it could end the battle between the families as he says in his cell to Romeo “But come, young waverer, come, go with me, /In one respect I'll thy assistant be; /For this alliance may so happy prove, /To turn your households' rancour to pure love” (II. iii. 93-96). Lord Capulet wishes that Juliet marry Paris. Juliet is already married to Romeo but not many people know of their secret marriage or love for each other. Romeo is in Mantua for his banishment of killing the Capulet’s kinsman Tybalt. Friar Laurence’s solution to Juliet not wanting to marry Paris is to put her to sleep, to have enough time to ‘die’ before the wedding and not have to marry Paris. He says to Juliet “Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous /In this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed/ To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord (IV. i. 123-125). Friar Laurence is sending another Friar with a letter to Romeo to meet Juliet at the cell where all the dead bodies lay. So once Juliet wakes up...
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...In the play Romeo and Juliet there lives are not controlled by fate but rather they make there own decisions during the play. Everyone feels sorry for Romeo and Juliet because their lives were controlled by fate. But, no one looks at the huge errors they made leading up to there deaths. So, that's why i think fate is not a major factor in Romeo and Juliet. Even though fate caused them to fall in love, they made decisions that affected their lives, when Romeo and Juliet kill themselves. Or, when Juliet takes the sleeping potion from the friar, Also when Romeo kills Tybalt. These are all examples of free will in Romeo and Juliet. When Romeo Kills Tybalt in the play it is one of the major example of free will. When Tybalt kills Mercutio Romeo could have just walked away from Mercutio's death. But instead he forgot everything and just focused on killing Tybalt. “And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now.’ this quote shows that Romeo wants to avenge Mercutio's death and he will do anything to avenge him. Even when Romeo kills Tybalt and claims he was “fortune’s fool!” It was really...
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...Humans tend to forget things and do not always clearly think through things when in a rush. A good example of this is in Home Alone when The McCallister family forgets their son Kevin at home as they wake up late and rush out to make it to the airport on time. This also happens in Romeo and Juliet which causes the deaths of Mercutio, Paris as well as both Romeo and Juliet . Which makes the overall theme of Romeo and Juliet is that when people rush they make mistakes. Starting with the death of Mercutio. Right after Romeo secretly marries Juliet and when he runs into Tybalt he says how he loved him because he recently became his cousin in law due to a recent marriage with Juliet. Tybalt rushes to the conclusion that Romeo is taunting him...
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