...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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...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 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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...Shakespeare’s classic play Romeo and Juliet two young teenagers fall in love. A series of circumstances quickly lead to rash decisions and the lovers are dealt difficult decisions. The outcome of these decisions show the level of Romeo and Juliet’s maturity. In this story they take maturity to a whole other level. Romeo’s immaturity is shown from the beginning of the play when his love is so strong for Rosaline, yet within four scenes he is in love with someone new. Spotting Juliet, his love is instantly transitioned to her. “Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear/ So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.” (I.5.46-47) While alone they talked...
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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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 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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..."Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings" Wiz Khalifa. A quote that could both fit in literature and in life, a decision will shape who you are and who you going to be. In William Shakespeare’s play, “The Tragedy Of Romeo and Juliet” there were plenty of choices made by Juliet that emphasizes her ways and ways of thinking. Juliet is a 13 year old Couplet soon to become 14 who falls in love with 15 year old Romeo and a member of the Montague family. In this tragedy, with the Montagues and Capulets being sworn enemies, their love is complicated and altogether they were all forbidden to begin with let alone to meet each other. Throughout the play we see Juliet with Romeo make foolish decisions that end both of their lives but seems to end other problems along with it. In Act I Scene III when Juliet takes it out with her mother and her Nurse and while within the whole scene...
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...Shakespeare’s tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet, focuses on the deaths of the two teens, Romeo and Juliet. Poor mentorship grouped with fate and the anatomy of the teenage brain are most responsible for the deaths of the young lovers, demonstrating that when teenagers make poor decisions, it is not entirely their own faults. The first factor affecting the two deaths is poor mentorship. The main adult in who supported the love of Romeo and Juliet’s throughout the story was Friar Lawrence. The reason the Friar was a poor mentor for the teens is because he did not take a stand against the two kids, even though he knew they were making a wrong decision. The Friar gives advice to Romeo by saying, “These violent delights have violent...
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...people have luck, others do not. Some use 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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...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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