Foils In Shakespeare's The Tragedy Of Romeo And Juliet

The first example of love takes place in Act I when Romeo is lovesick and acting strange according to his friends and family. Romeo is depressed because he is in love with Rosaline, but she does not love him back. Romeo’s unrequited love is what makes him sad and Benvolio

Romeo was deeply in love with Rosaline and wanted to be with her and get married. “For beauty starved with her severity…She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, to merit bliss by making me despair: She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow…” (Romeo and Juliet 1.1.210-214) Romeo thought that Rosaline was everything he was looking for. Rosaline on the other hand did not care for Romeo, or from what the play tells us. Romeo moved on past Rosaline at a party the Capulets were throwing. If Romeo had not moved onto Juliet many, if not all, characters would have still been alive.

Yet, Romeo’s behavior changes quickly when he attends an event at the Capulets house. Where he sees Juliet and says “My eyes were liars, then, because I never saw true beauty before tonight.” Moving on from Rosaline to Juliet, quicker than a car trying to surpass a red light. Throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet become a couple.

Plus Romeo and Paris are very noble. They try their hardest they can to not get into fights. Even though Romeo killed Paris he honored him by fulfilling his request which was to lie next to Juliet. While two young men by the name of Romeo and Paris, share the same love for the same Juliet but are different in many ways and alike in many ways. All Romeo and Juliet wanted to do was get married to each other, but instead they committed suicide because their family wouldn’t let them be together.

As the story unwinds, the audience witnesses the obstacles the lovers undergo to be together. When Juliet receives advice for how to live happily with Romeo, she jumps at the opportunity and uses the Friar’s plan

Does the story of “Romeo and Juliet” show love is stronger, or hate is stronger? Which side do you choose? In Romeo and Juliet there 's a lot of love and hate. Romeo and Juliet fall in love with each other and eventually get married. The only flaw with this relationship is the fact that their families have a lot of enmity towards each other.

Romeo and Juliet is a classic romance story by William Shakespeare about two star-crossed lovers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, falling in love. Nevertheless, their two families have a vendetta against each other, making it difficult for Romeo and Juliet to ever truly be together. This romantic set-up has been used multiple times after Shakespeare, such as West Side Story. The story itself has very romantic and light-hearted moments, but a lot of issues that aren’t paid as much attention to can be calamitous. Despite a lot of the play exploring the positives and the beauty of love and romance, the real lessons from the story are found in the primitive and belligerent nature of the characters.

Mercutio is different from Romeo because he does not believe in love and makes fun of Romeo and falling in love so heavily all the time. When Romeo describes his love for Rosaline using a rose with thorns as a metaphor. Mercutio laughs and says ”If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking and you beat love down”(I.4.27-28). In another scenario of Romeo and Mercutio’s foils is when Romeo tells his friends about a dream he had about the party and is expecting a disastrous outcome of the party. Mercutio makes fun of Romeo because he does not believe that dreams can become visions of impending danger.

It’s true that people die because of the enmity between two families, but the death of their kinsman sacrifice to make peace between the Capulet and the Montague. When Romeo thought that his death is against fate, the prince knows that fate meant to cause so many deaths between two families to make peace for the village. The prince said to both families after their children’s death, “ See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love” (5.3.316-317). If Romeo doesn’t meet the servant and not go to the party, then there would be no fight or deaths. It is fate that makes the capulet’s servant meet Romeo, the Montague.

He is Hamlet’s love interest’s brother who implicates Hamlet’s success through conflict. Hamlet sparks the rivalry between the two families by killing some of the family members. By executing Laertes father and Polonius, this causes Polonius’ son, Laertes, to seek vengeance for his father. Consequently, Hamlet’s family goes against him and his love, Ophelia, kills herself. This demonstrates that family ties, even if not blood related, have serious impacts on Hamlet’s life which causes misery to overwhelm his life; this misery prohibits his success.

Mercutio and benvolio where insulting the capulets trouble starts as tobalt is trying to find romeo to get him back for crashing their party. Tybalt and mercutio got into it and mercutio was stabbed and later died so romeo killed tybalt. The prince found out and had mercy on romeo which he only vanished. Juliet found out and was upset also got mad at the nurse for trying to curse romeo.

Looking around a highschool classroom and studying the faces of the students. Wondering about the choices they have made, universal choices that will permanently affect them and their future, like ripples on the water of a usually still lake. Contemplating where they would be if previous decisions had been decided in a different manner, curious of where and who they would be. The decisions that they have previously made will continue to ripple and affect their lives. It truthfully really leaves a person to wonder, why humans are unable to base decisions off of other people’s mistakes whether fictional or real.