The play seemingly complicates the first scene’s public masculinity through Benvolio’s challenge towards the violence, but his failure to resist demonstrates how alternative masculine identities fail. Once the initial fight concludes and Benvolio and Tybalt join the fray, Benvolio encourages the men to “[p]ut up [their] swords” (1.1.70). Here, Benvolio attempts to stop the violence, which complicates the notion that all men must publicly perform violent behavior. By publicly taking this stance, Benvolio
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The Downfall Of Romeo and Juliet: Secrecy By: Hamza Irvin Imtiaz We are involved with secrets everyday of our lives, whether we know it or not. We all experience secrecy with our loved ones, co-workers, peers, and even random strangers. Secrets may not necessarily always be a bad thing. There are certainly times when it can be much better to keep a secret than to tell the cold, hard truth. But there are also times when you just have to give in and let go of what you've been hiding. Unfortunately
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famous play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, it portrays a tragic story of two young lovers in the city of Verona. Friar Laurence is the character most to blame for the tragic events in Romeo and Juliet because he gave poison to Juliet, trusted someone else with an important letter, and married Romeo and Juliet and kept their secret of them being together. Friar Laurence is the most to blame for the events that occur in Romeo and Juliet because he gave sleeping poison to Juliet. If Friar
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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
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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
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy because at the beginning of the story, the main ideas were lighthearted and comic, but after Tybalt’s death, many characters such as Mercutio, Romeo, and Juliet died. An abundant amount of the deaths were resulted because of heavily played emotions throughout the book. For example, Juliet pretended to be dead so Romeo can save her by drinking a potion that makes her asleep for 42 hours. If the potion does not work as she hoped, then she will kill herself. Moreover, Romeo
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many more. Romeo is the son of the Montagues. Romeo falls in love with a girl that doesn't love him back. Until he finds juliet his world then turns upside down. Romeo changes from sad and depressed from being in love with Rosaline to being secure, joyful and loved when he meets the love of his life juliet. Because of the emotional rollercoaster of emotions he is going threw; hence, romeo is moved in anger and emotions when he is set aside from Juliet. Through the series of rough events Romeo can’t seem
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William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” is an exciting play that many have gone to watch before. In fact, it has become so famous that when the technology of capturing moving pictures became commercial, the play has been incorporated into many films throughout the century. Films such as Franco Zeffirelli's “Romeo and Juliet” follow the traditional route of attempting to create a carbon copy of the play, but instead is in film. Many films of the play attempt to stick extremely close
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Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, many characters led up to the death of Romeo and Juliet. The three main characters were Fate, Lady Capulet, and Juliet. Fate could have been blamed because Shakespeare wrote the the story so Romeo and Juliet could be a ideal love story. Lady Capulet led to the death because she had a very poor relationship with Juliet, she encourages Juliet to get married to Paris. Finally, Juliet led to her own death. As soon as she sees Romeo she falls in love with him
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play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, he writes in motifs for example light and dark or celestial motifs. Shakespeare writes these motifs to have a deeper meaning behind them. The Capulets and the Montagues are sworn enemies, neither are good or bad but these two families represent light and dark. Romeo’s father and mother notices Romeo’s depression because he stays in his room and barely eats. Benvolio tells Romeo’s parents that he will talk to him and see what’s wrong. Romeo tells
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