...tension to the story. Romeo and Juliet is a Shakespearean play that displays these qualities. In the play, there were many different types of loyalty that progressed over time and were constantly being tested. When the loyalties were being tested by risks and threats, some characters resisted them while others did not. The Friar remained loyal to Romeo while the nurse betrayed Juliet when the nurse was tested with threats. However, one of the strongest bonds in the play was the relationship of Romeo and Juliet. The Friar was very devoted to Romeo, as he was allegiant to Romeo even after Romeo’s death. The Friar took the role as Romeo’s father, although...
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...William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet - Haste In the play, Romeo and Juliet, everything happens very quickly, this is why one of the main themes in Romeo and Juliet is haste. As a result of haste, Romeo and Juliet wind up married and dead within the course of five days. Throughout this play, three characters stand out when it comes to haste; Capulet, Juliet, and of course Romeo. Once Capulet decides that he wants Paris and Juliet to be married, he tries to move things along very quickly. At first, Capulet wants Paris to wait two years before he marries Juliet because she is so young. “My child is yet a stranger in the world, / She hath not seen the change of fourteen years; / Let two more summers wither in their pride, / Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride” (Shakespeare, 1.2.8-11). Capulet then changes his mind but is furious when Juliet does not want to marry Paris. “Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest, / Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought / So worthy a gentleman to be her bride?” (3.5.143-145), “Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! / I tell thee what: get thee to church a’Thursday, / Or never after look me in the face” (3.5.160-162). Although Juliet does not agree to marry Paris, Capulet agrees for her and makes the wedding date Thursday. Capulet is so anxious for this marriage to happen, that when Juliet finally agrees, he changes the date to Wednesday. Capulet is very quick to make this wedding happen as a result of haste. Due...
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...How Romeo is impatient Romeo has been many different types of emotions such as bipolar or depressed, but to many people, they think that Romeo has been more impatient in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.The play is about two kids who fall in love but their families are against each other but they still love each other. Throughout the entire story Romeo has been showing signs of impatience and did not think about what he was going to do next. There were many scenes where Romeo has been impatient and the first time was when he decided to go off and marry Juliet. They rushed into the marriage, which caused friction in the households. Another way that Romeo was feverish was when he killed Tybalt. Romeo literally did not think...
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...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 once joyful and desperate, while at the same time it shows us that the lovers...
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...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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...The Story of ROMEO & JULIET Based on the play by William Shakespeare, as told by Bart Marks In the town of Verona lived two families, the Capulets and the Montagues, engaged in a bitter feud. Among the Montagues was Romeo, a hot-blooded lad with an eye for the ladies. One day, Romeo was recounting for his friends his love for Rosaline, a haughty beauty from a well-to-do family. Romeo's friends chided him for his "love of love" but agreed to a plan to attend the feast of the Capulets', a costume party where Rosaline was expected to make an appearance. The disguises would provide Romeo and his friends a bit of sport and the opportunity to gaze undetected upon the fair Rosaline. Once there, however, Romeo's eyes fell upon Juliet, and he thought of Rosaline no more. Asking around to learn the identity of Juliet, Romeo's voice is recognized by Tybalt, a member of the Capulet clan. Tybalt calls for his sword, but the elder Capulet intervenes, insisting that no blood be shed in his home. So Romeo is tolerated long enough to find an opportunity to speak to Juliet alone, still unaware of her identity. He begs for an opportunity to kiss her hand. She relents. He presses his case, desiring her lips. She has no breath to stop him. Interrupted by the girl's nurse, Romeo learns the name of his heart's desire: Juliet Capulet. The vision of Juliet now invades his every thought. Unable to sleep, Romeo returns late that night to the bedroom window of his love, hiding in the bushes...
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...In the book Romeo and Juliet is a couple who falls in love at first sight not knowing that they will never be together. The book describes many obstacles that came between the young couple relationship. The flaws that were identified in the book were chance/fate, pride and being to impatience that what eventually lead to the tragic death of the couple so in love. Although, all three flaws play a significant role in the book. Chance/fate is the ultimate reason for such a tragic ending to a young couple who was meant to be together. The most important flaw that led to the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet was chance/fate. Romeo reads the invitation to a masquerade ball where he is hoping that the love of life Rosaline will be there. Romeo...
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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, a play written by William Shakespeare is set during Elizabethan times .It explores how the thoughts and actions of young adults contributes to the ‘ancient grudge’ between the feuding families. Sampson and Gregory, the servants of the Capulet act rebellious and self-absorbed as a result of anger towards the ‘dog[s] of the house of Montague’. The ordinary discussions of topics such as their ‘pretty piece[s] of flesh’ the exploitation of multiple women and outperforming each other foreshadows and sparks all the ‘profaner’ conflict in ‘fair Verona’. Romeo and Juliet also contribute to that as they convey similar attitudes as the servants. The fact that they are adolescents as well, gives them more of a reason to be compensated...
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...Romeo and Juliet was William Shakespeare’s last play, and quite possibly one of his most popular. There are many hidden themes and metaphors, one of which is fate. This play is about 2 teenages from feuding families that fall into a forbidden love, and the plot of this play describes the issues they run into and the hoops they jump through in order to be together. In this story, Shakespeare uses the age and timeline of the story to show the theme of fate through misdelivery of Friar Lawrence’s letter, the resolution between the Montagues and the Capulets, and the love between Romeo and Juliet that lead to suicide. One event that was prudent to the future of Romeo and Juliet was the delivery of Friar Lawrence’s letter, which was quite unforgiving when it came...
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...Romeo and Juliet Love is one of the most powerful human experiences. It is what makes life most worth living and it has started wars and destroyed families. There are many forms in love; universal, romantic, religious, erotic, platonic, friendly, brotherly, familial love, etc. But, what was Romeo and Juliet’s type love? Romeo and Juliet's love is romantic love which is “the highest expression of spiritual longings, the source of feelings that reach an unparalleled depth and intensity. The key to this notion is the idea of love as a function of "sympathetic imagination," the capacity to enter into another's feelings, enabling the move toward a basic unity of self and other.”(Source D) In the play Romeo and Juliet, the theme of love was the reason for the many decisions made. William Shakespeare portrays just how serious, even dangerous, love can be and how a huge role it played throughout the story in time, decision making, and even death. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, time plays a crucial part in Romeo and Juliet's love. Everywhere in the book everyone is always rushing. “Haste” is the word that was constantly used; meaning swiftness, speed, or quickness. You would even say that Romeo and Juliet’s marriage was rushed. For example: “Then plainly...
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...were born. There are many examples of this in Romeo and Juliet. In the play Romeo and Juliet, The central idea is your destiny is inescapable. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet got married and destiny tried to break them up multiple times. For example, Juliet’s parents wanted her to marry paris even though she was already married to Romeo. “Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender of my childs love”(12). This scene was significant because Capulet arranged this marriage behind Juliet’s back. Capulet did not know that she was already married to romeo and cannot remarry until one Romeo dies. I think what Capulet and Lady Capulet did was wrong. If you are going to be married to someone...
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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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...question on everyone’s mind is whether Romeo and Juliet were driven by true lust or love? Some may argue that they lust over each other, and do not truly love each other. Sexual desire is not the case for Romeo and Juliet; it is merely inexperience and immaturity. Firstly, Romeo is just another confused teenager, he does not know love, but he wants love. Romeo is not in love with Juliet or Rosaline, but rather, in love with the idea of love. He goes off of impressions and does not know who Juliet really is, due to the brief amount of time they have been together. In the early parts of the play, Romeo is shown with internal conflict, desperately in love with Rosaline, but the minute he sees Juliet, he changes his mind. Juliet is also inexperienced with love, so she has strong feelings over Romeo's impression. Secondly, it is impossible for one to fall in love at first sight, despite popular belief. Love is something that takes time to develop slowly. However, a week is not enough time for love to develop. It is true that Romeo and Juliet were devoted to each other until their very deaths, but it was not true love that they had. Love and infatuation differ so slightly that this remains a common misconception even today. Lastly, Juliet had men hand-picked by her parents, whom she did not approve of. Juliet was a teenager and felt trapped underneath her parents' constant reminder than she had no freedom - and so she rebelled. Juliet never was able to have her say in the...
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...Within the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, we see two houses both emanating hate for one another. Multiple events arose along with every different possible outcome and within these situations, had Romeo chose to act differently and thought more rationally than impulsively, perhaps his seed of love with Juliet could’ve blossomed into a magnificent flower. If Romeo has chosen to realize that time is the only barrier to love, not to spite the Capulets, and to have truly understood Juliet’s heart, this tragedy may have averted. Different events and contributions led to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, yet some factors stand out better than the others like a beacon in the midst of the dark night. Romeo may have been a Montague, but he did not hate nor despise the Capulet. He proposed marriage upon their second meeting disregarding their parental relationship. He spent less than 3 nights with Juliet and has not yet acquired the knowledge of Juliet’s thoughts. He acted irrationally choosing marriage despite the conflict revolving around the two houses, the Capulets and the Montagues. With this in mind, he should have known that any form of involvement...
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