...The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a play directed by “fate”, according to the characters. Although the events of the play are definitely conducted by the characters influencing them, one being Juliet. Juliet’s defiance to her parents, reliance on other people, and her terrible plan to reunite with Romeo set the stage for the calamity to occur. The main dilemma in the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is that Romeo and Juliet are “secretly” married. It is “secret” because Juliet’s brilliant mind believes it’s a good idea to tell her parents they’re married about half way through the play. “I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear it shall be Romeo…” (Shakespeare, Act III, Scene V). The point of having a secret marriage is to keep it a secret, but this does not translate to Juliet. This did not directly kill anyone, but it was still a idiotic decision since it raised the tension for Juliet to marry Paris....
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...If life was the inconstant moon, then Tybalt was the diabolic tide, so easily lead and guided by the seductive lunar pull. Many may too be mourning the passing of Mercutio, first cousin to Romeo, dear son to Lord Montague. Both he and Tybalt possessed blood-stained hands at the time of their passing, dirty with the broken, wretched spirits of others. But while Mercutio dipped and trailed his fingers through the pale veils of death, Tybalt thrust and plunged his hands into the bloody shadows of darkness. And yet, both of them are now cleansed, having perished in such a mutual dignity. I cannot say Tybalt meant no harm through his actions, only that he died a child who laughed at the...
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...Both Romeo and Juliet loved one another. they both do not see this coming in their expected lives together. their parents were to influencing towards their marriage. each side had a dislike for one another because of a feud they have had. once they realize they grown fond of each other the hate grew stronger. so the love of romeo and Juliet had to be hidden. Although a couple of each pardon knew what was going on, one of which is Friar Lawrence. He himself knew romeo loved Juliet but knew he lived his old beloved Rosaline. Though he knew he caused al lot of mishap between the two. He created a plan that utterly failed in the end causing both to die, because the family was in a feud he thought this would break it. The case may being the most influential person was friar Lawrence in his way of breaking a feud of two families. in the text he tried to send a message to romeo of Juliets' death but the message was never received. If that may be because of this romeo had no clue that it was a setup for them to live happily married. but the overall out come was that romeo had to go to the burial of Juliet so she can awake out of the potion she had taken....
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...William Shakespeare, the author of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, sets his play in the city of Verona, where two star-crossed lovers perish due to a series of intervening characters. One of which includes Lord Capulet, the Patriarch of the Capulet Family, who implicitly induces the five demises that occur throughout the play. Playing a leading role during Juliet’s life, Capulet alters many of Juliet’s intentions and thoughts, such as when Capulet proclaims that “[Juliet] should be married to this noble earl [Paris],” although Juliet declares that she has no deliberation to marry at such a young age (III.iv.22). Furthermore, when Juliet declines Capulet’s suggestion for marriage, he chastises her by calling her a “young baggage” and a “disobedient wretch!” which reveals his malevolence towards his daughter (III.v.160)....
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...At the start of Act 4, Paris is at Friar Laurence’s cell trying to make final arrangements for his wedding with Juliet which has been moved to Thursday. Friar Laurence tells Paris to leave so Juliet can make her confession and once Paris leaves, Juliet immediately threatens to kill herself with a dagger if Friar Laurence cannot stop the wedding between her and Paris. He tells her that if she is willing to kill herself then maybe she would be desperate and brave enough to go through a plan which would involve her imitating death, and she responds that she is willing to do absolutely anything if it means being with her Romeo again. So, the plan is that Friar Laurence is going to give her a potion, that will give her the look of death- it will...
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...I believe that Romeo and Juliet were not in love, and throughout the play it was merely lust. There love was doomed from the start. Not only did they rush their feelings, but their families hated each other. Juliet was set to marry another man that her father gave approve of, Paris and with the secretivity of Romeo and Juliet's marriage there's not many ways it could have lasted. Juliet wasn't the only one that was preoccupied with plans for the future, Romeo was madly in love with Roselin. “Out of her favor, where I am in love.” (Romeo I. II. 158) Juliet didn’t want much to do with Paris, while Romeo wanted everything to do with Roselin, mostly to bed her. Also, Juliet was extremely skeptical about marriage and the thought of having to...
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...Throughout “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, Lord Capulet’s personalities become revealed. In the first scene, Capulet comes across as aggressive. When Sampson and Gregory fight Abram, Capulet does not hesitate to pull his sword. “What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!” He says demanding Lady Capulet to hand him his long sword. In act three, Capulet shows his anger when Juliet disobeys him. “Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. Out, you green sickness, carrion! Out, you baggage!” He threatens to disown Juliet and make her live out on the street if she will not marry Paris. In the fifth act, Capulet shows his hatred toward Montague has vanished.” O brother Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more...
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...reason with them both. It was only then that Romeo had came up to us. Tybalt’s attention went towards Romeo and then he proceeded to call him a “Villain.” Romeo had calmly told him he only had a reason to love him and was not the “Villain” he had called him. Tybalt took what he had said only as a joke. He had stated that Romeo’s words were just excuses to the pain that he had caused...
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...the play more appealing to the audience. On a scale of one to ten I would rate this production an eight because some of the actors were stuttering while they spoke their lines too early, but were able to recover from that. The show on Saturday the “capulet’s camera” “s” but the actors made it look like it was meant to happen because the capulet said “wait…. wait! What happened to my sign” and Paris said “the monologues” even though that was not a scene that was planned. The set was a camera and TV store and a house with a balcony. There were a couple of things that weren't functioning like when the nurse was knocking from the inside to come out at the friar lawrence's’ cell and the other thing that wasn't functional was a line said by Romeo to the fair, “there s no world without chicago walls” that line was a bit weird because chicago is not that big, if switched out with Illinois, it would have made more sense....
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...that I hold in my hand can save me from this grief that constricts my heart with an agonising strength, for Romeo; my love, my fugitive, is dead. Oh, Romeo! If only you were here with me alive and well; you could comfort me more than the rotting bodies that surround me. Your warm body next to mine, now cold to the touch, your strong arms around my shoulders, now wilted and limp, and your beautiful voice soothing the mosquitoes buzzing around in my head, now hushed by deaths kiss. Huh. The hilt of thy dagger is the same colour as his eyes. Oh God, those eyes! I could drown in those eyes; stare into them for all life… That’s what I noticed first, his eyes. At the party, I felt a gaze brush the back of my neck – how could I ignore such a look? And then, I saw the shine in his expression, and it was as if he and I were the only people in existence. When he smiled for me, oh that smile, when he smiled for me, everything else just… evaporated. The music, the candles, the hand of Paris on the small of my back. Paris....
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...Post-modernism in Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet: a comparison of two creative works from two different periods. In 1996, Baz Luhrmann directed “Romeo + Juliet”, a modern twist on the famous tragedy play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare in 1597, in which the main characters Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet where portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. While some praise the strange interpretation of the old tale, there are also those who condemn the rendition as destructive and disrespectful to the great work of Shakespeare. There will always be two sides to every story and this study will take that into consideration as well as comparing the two different yet similar works to see how post modernism has played a role in Luhrmann’s version of Romeo and Juliet. Postmodernism has been given many definitions. Some say it’s simply the outlook that the generation of late twenty first century has on life which entails the mistrust and dismissal of theories that existed before such as religion, ethics and law. According to these youths, the difference between right and wrong or what the meaning of life is based solely on that individual’s perspective. In film, the idea of postmodernism is somewhat similar as it’s an artist medium in which to undermine social norms and present one’s individual belief. The difference lies in that postmodernism in film concerns bringing in many aspects of popular culture to produce something...
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...It could be argued that Romeo and Juliet is the most popular of William Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays. In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare uses many different approaches to keep the whole audience interested. These assist in creating his ability to attract a wide audience and are a great contributor to Shakespeare’s success. Shakespeare uses foils to highlight various attributes of characters. Two foils in Romeo and Juliet are the Nurse and Lady Capulet, Juliet’s mother. The foils highlight certain traits of each other. Shakespeare uses the contrast between the Nurse and Lady Capulet to emphasize the difference between their relationships with Juliet, but it emphasizes other differences too. One significant difference between Juliet’s caregiver...
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...Emma Breitenstein Miss Raub 9 Honors English 16 May 2014 The Utter Infatuation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Over time, writing has become exceedingly prominent, and throughout generations it has tremendously improved, leaving behind some of the best literature pieces in history. Since writing began, many great authors, playwrights, and poets have emerged, contributing to the literary society and producing countless works of literature, some that are still read today. A few notable composers that left behind numerous classics include Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, and William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time due to his many great plays and his vast contribution to the English language. Some of his works include Hamlet, Othello, and the infamous Romeo and Juliet. Wrote in 1597, the tragic comedy tells the story of young Romeo and Juliet, who find themselves “in love at first sight”. Unfortunately for them, their love story goes awry when they learn their parents are mortal conflict between their parents, which ultimately caused their demise. Woven throughout the plot, many examples become present that show that the star-crossed lovers are not in love. It becomes clear Romeo and Juliet are merely infatuated with each other. The ill-fated couple focus only on each other’s physical appearances and are severely impulsive throughout the tragic story. “The play then impresses upon us the intensity of youthful love, at...
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...Shakespeare’s Writings William Shakespeare used many different writing styles in order to capture the minds and hearts of his audience. He wrote thirty eight plays (Boyce 119), two narratives (Boyce 294), and 154 sonnets (Boyce 607). In order to do his writing, Shakespeare had to put his mind, body, and soul into his work. Shakespeare wrote three different types of genres, comedies, histories, and tragedies. “A comedy is a drama that provokes laughter at human behavior, usually involves romantic love, and usually has a happy ending.” The plots of the comedies were usually about the struggle between two young lovers. Shakespeare wrote eighteen comedies (Boyce 119). His histories dealt with England’s historical events. He wrote his histories to define the perfect king. Shakespeare wrote ten histories (Boyce 294). “A tragedy is a drama dealing with a noble protagonist placed in a highly stressful situation that leads to a disastrous, usually fatal conclusion.” He developed his tragedies from other tragic plays. Shakespeare based all of his plays from these three genres (Boyce 652). Shakespeare had five major themes about which he wrote. He used these themes in almost all of his plays. In his comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, a “drunkard” named Christopher Slay is tricked into believing he is a lord and later finds himself in many conflicts with the ladies of the house (Chazelle, n.p). In this comedy, Shakespeare demonstrated contrasting worlds by comparing men versus women...
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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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