The play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is a profound story of two ill-fated lovers and their journey through their short naive love story. Romeo makes impulsive decisions based on unrequited love, friendship, and romantic love, which bring about his tragic death. Romeo reveals that love causes people to act irrationally.
In the past century there have been many movies, novels, and plays that both have plot twists and mood swings but you don’t find too much in the 1500s. Between the dates 1516 and 1616, a playwright by the name of William Shakespeare rose up to be the best writer in the English language. He was the Mark Twain of his century. He wrote many plays but one of which that was the most popular of his time was Romeo and Juliet. This is one of the most tragic love stories written in the 1590s that shows both passion and hate. Two families, the Capulets and the Montagues, are both rivals, however one person from each side falls in love with one another and soon end up together but not in the way anyone would imagine. Romeo and Juliet’s connection towards
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare. The tragedy is focused on two true lovers and their confrontation in love. Romeo and Juliet consists of many things that connects to the lovers’ intense feelings. I believe the theme of loyalty is a very significant and thought-provoking theme in Shakespeare’s tragedy, which is an aspect of Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other. Most important, Romeo and Juliet possessing the admirable trait of loyalty is essentially all about devotion, reverence, and dedication.
William Shakespeare wrote the tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet. The play is about two star-crossed lovers who happen to from feuding families that are filled with hate. The play is set in a city called Verona, it describes the problems and conflicts that happens when two children fall in love from hateful families. Shakespeare used the motif of love vs. hate in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is developed by an extended metaphor and a simile to describe how two people that loves each other, but their family doesn’t like each other.
Throughout the internationally acclaimed novel, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare conveys the theme of young love fabricating an ill-advised notion. First of all, Romeo and Juliet’s family and friends dislike one another, presuming a strenuous relationship. Furthermore, Romeo and Juliet constitute irrational decisions due to their spontaneous intimacy.
Romeo and Juliet’s relationship has often been romanticized as being authentic while his love for Rosaline has been depicted as being a superficial infatuation. This is what many die-hard romantics want to believe; however, the text represents Romeo’s love for Rosaline as a genuine one—at least on Romeo’s part. In the beginning of the play, Romeo lashes out at love’s cruelty as do many heartbroken individuals. In Act I Scene I, the depressed Romeo describes love as a deadly poison, a smoke, a swollen sea, a madness, and a choking gall. When he describes love as a “smoke,” this evokes images of a choking black cloud of doom. Everyone who has tasted the bitterness of love knows how gloomy the world feels. Romeo’s hurt stems from authentic feelings
Romeo and Juliet could they be in true love, yes they can because they have oblation their lives so that the people around them could not be in a family disapprove.Tybalt and Benvolio had started a massacre over dignitary tripping senior citizens.Making them want to destroy each other little by little allowing this to happen both families go to grieve about their kids committing suicide. They blame the others for it and still go into battle like they were trying to prevent. According to this, I believe that they do have true love for their families and for themselves because they would sneak around just so that they could see one another even though they are from different sides the Capulets' and the Montagues.Romeo had disappeared to Juliet's house to prove to her that he loved her even though that if Romeo was discovered to
Yet Romeo and Juliet 's love is one that transcends the orthodox realms of society and goes against what is socially appropriate. Even Friar Lawrence makes this distinction when he speaks of the difference between loving and doting. This is the difference between Romeo 's feelings for Rosaline and for Juliet. His love for Rosaline being trivial and juvenile while his feelings for Juliet are more intense and even at times imply a vague sense of religious idolatry. Juliet too, shares similar feelings which is displayed in her soliloquy, thinking of Romeo: “My only love sprung from my only hate!” (Shakespeare 50). Without having really gotten to know him on a profound and romantic level, she can already claim that she is in love with him despite their families ' fighting. Friar Lawrence even anticipates that something bad may occur due to the couple’s ardent passion, as he says, “These violent delights have violent ends,...” (Shakespeare 92). These feelings of affection can be chalked up to the teenage brain in love. As explained by Dr. Helen Fisher, "When you 're in the throes of this romantic love, it 's overwhelming, you 're out of control, you 're irrational" (Carey 1). This explains Romeo and Juliet 's willful and impulsive actions, such
Have you ever read Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet? Romeo and Juliet is the story of two “star-crossed lovers.” It is known for its amazing love story and tragic end. Although some people say they were only infatuated with each other, Romeo and Juliet truly loved each other.
Romeo is not really in love with Juliet; he is infatuated with her. At the start of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Romeo thinks that he is “out of [Rosaline's] favor, where [he is] in love (1.1.168). He spends the bulk of the first act sulking because he thinks he has been shunned by his one and only. When Romeo first sees Juliet he says “ for I neer saw true beauty till this night” (1.5.53). This quote shows how unsatisfied Romeo is about love. He goes from moping around about Rosaline to ditching her for Juliet. Even the friar realizes Romeo’s fanciful idea of love is far out. “young men’s love then lies” (2.3.67). The Friars comment about the dissatisfaction of young men’s love shows how Romeo's infatuation with Juliet really comes from
The play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, is a story of love and hate between the Capulet and Montague families. In the prologue, Shakespeare introduces this idea by saying, “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, whose misadventured piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife,” (Prologue 4-7). For decades, the two households have lived in conflict. Not only do they fill the innocent minds of their children with hate, but destroy the happiness and peace of Verona with constant fighting in the streets. The children of these families are blinded by their ancestors dispute; they are unable to form their own opinion of their neighbors until, despite their blood, Romeo
In William Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet, love is the dominant theme, and is portrayed in various forms including romantic love, familial love and unrequited love. Romeo and Juliet who come from opposite sides of the track, Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is Capulet, and their families have
“Love is not affectionate feeling but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained”
In Romeo and Juliet the theme that the reader learns from the story is love conquers all. Through out the story both Romeo and Juliet have faced many problems that would not let them be together. There was the long lasting feud between both of their families. There was Juliet's
In William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, both protagonist act impetuous, which alters their lives. They act without thinking and forget that there are consequences to their actions. Both Romeo and Juliet hide the fact that they were in love and married from their families. If Romeo and Juliet really love each other they would take their time to get to know each other. They also would talk things through, but they both have their flaws. Romeo falls in love with the beauty of women and doesn 't even get a chance to get to know them. While Juliet doesn 't want to be married, for fear that her marriage will be like her parents, where there 's no love expect for their child. So Romeo and Juliet aren 't model citizens and have their flaws and they both seem to leap before looking. Both Romeo and Juliet seem to act hast in their desertions, which,