When naive young Romeo and Juliet meet each other and fall in love despite their families feud they become star-crossed lovers. Both lovers do everything in their power to be together. Their doomed fate induces problems and tragic endings as well as their own. Their deaths resolve the feud and teach the Capulets and Montagues a lesson. Their parents ' trivial feud kill the thing they loved the most. In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, the conflict between their parental figures leads
consequences. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet fall in love at the hands of fate and try to make haste to pursue their love in secret, but come to a bittersweet and tragic end. Romeo and Juliet is the ever so iconic play that tells of the forbidden love between a girl from the house of Capulet and a boy from the house of Montagues. Romeo attends a party for the sake of seeing his one love, Rosaline. What he receives, however, is a new love blooming in his chest for Juliet. As the play
Throughout William Shakespeare’s work, there is a common theme of the character’s sealing their fate through their own decisions. This was what happened in Romeo and Juliet. The impulsive decisions made by Romeo and Juliet, including the fight between Mercutio and Tybalt, the Friar’s plan, and Romeo’s suicide, ultimately lead to the fate of many characters. Romeo’s hot temper led to the death Mercutio and Tybalt by interjecting into an argument and then acting out upon his emotions. Romeo sees Mercutio
Midsummer Night’s Dream implies a world of imagination, illusion and unconsciousness through the word ‘dreams’. In the last scene of the play, act V scene I, the audience experience there is different thought of Theseus and Hippolyta in interpreting the love stories of Hermia, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius and the imaginations of many other characters. The scene of Theseus talking to Hippolyta lead to a controversy about the value of imagination and reason. From the play, the audience indeed witnesses magical
male and female lead roles. This is the famous “Balcony Scene” after Tony and Maria have met for the first time. This is reminiscent of Shakespeare’s balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. This love ballad begins with an introductory section which In Comparison to All that Jazz, we have Maria from West Side Story. Maria is written and performed in the style of a love ballad, however Bernstein incorporates characteristics that are more Operatic in nature. This operatic ballad is performed by the lead