The character Benvolio, from the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, is a peaceful man who takes pleasure in helping his family, the Montagues. Benvolio’s goal is for his family, himself, and others to live peacefully as he does everything he can to stop disputes and fights. His motivation to accomplish his goal would be his family's happiness as they are very important to him and he will do anything to help them. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” after Benvolio arrives and sees Sampson
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Romeo and Juliet Fate or Free-Will Fate is defined as “a powerful force that is believed to control what happens in the future.” In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet we are able to see how the theme of fate is cleverly infiltrated through events and dialogue throughout the play. Fate is mainly evident through the actions of Lord Capulet’s Servingman, Friar John, the timing of Romeo and Juliet’s death, and how the Montague’s and Capulet’s feud and been put to rest due to the tragedy in their
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In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, two lovers in the city of Verona take their lives. Their unfortunate demise is a result of many factors; adult influences, fate, and the animosity between their families. However, the two lovers made all the decisions leading to their tragedy even though they knew the consequences of their actions. Romeo and Juliet make many bad decisions throughout the course of the play, deciding to get married the day after they met at the Capulet party, and killing themselves
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‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a tragic love story written by William Shakespeare about two young star crossed lovers who live in Verona, Italy in the Middle Ages. One of the most important issues that these young loves come across quite often is that of choice. The real question is whether the characters have the ability to choose what they do or is it fate that decides it for them. The chorus introduces in the opening prologue that Romeo and Juliet are “star-crossed” and “death-marked”, and by stating this
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avoid obstacles through their lives. Romeo and Juliet love each other so much they are willing to face any obstacle or any painful situation to live together for ever. I will recommend my fellow students watch the full 1976 movie version of Romeo and Juliet for the fact that Romeo and Julie love is unbeatable, the way that Lawrence is trying to make peace between the two noble families, and the fact that Juliet father didn’t love his daughter Juliet. Romeo and Juliet love is unbeatable. These are two
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Compare Romeo And Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing There are many similarities between Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet. Was this Intentional or Accidental? Even though Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy, and Romeo and Juliet, is one of his saddest tragedies, the two plots share many common incidents. Did Shakespeare mean to have these coincidences or did they happen by accident? In both of his dramatic works, the Masque is a key element
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like juliet loved romeo more, her loves for romeo was more intense. The reason I would have a hard time choosing who loved who more is because I feel like your first love is the strongest. Juliet isnt romeo's first love, there's a certain feeling of falling in love for the forst time. He seemed like a bit of a player when he met juliet, he was caught up by her looks and just have a strong feeling of affection towards juliet that he just loved the idea of loving juliet. Act 1, scene 1. juliet is not
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Juliet: Good Girl or Rebellious? Romeo and Juliet, the two star-crossed lovers, experienced an extremely risky adventure together. William Shakespeare, the author of Romeo and Juliet, was a writer who expressed his thoughts and feelings like no one else. He lived during the time of the Renaissance, more than four-hundred years ago. Back then, this story made sense for two young people to get married, but not so much today. Romeo and Juliet were both young adults and they probably hadn’t experienced
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Benvolio In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Benvolio was and acted like the peace keeper of the play. Benvolio tried many times to either prevent a fight from happening, cool off the heat from a fight, or to just make everyone realize what they are doing is extreme or not reasonable. Benvolio was also the only other young character to not die in the story. Benvolio tried his best to keep the peace and to also protect Romeo and himself. In the first Scene of the play, the servants
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is caused by Romeo. That of course is Mercutio. Mercutio is one of the unlikely suspects to who is responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s death, as Mercutio has done many good things to Romeo. He defended him against Tybalt, even fought against Tybalt to prevent Romeo from having to duel him. Although that’s also where it went wrong. Mercutio fighting Tybalt to defend Romeo is probably the worst thing he could have done for Romeo as he himself is killed by Tybalt as he is stabbed when Romeo tries to break
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