Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare about the events leading up to six deaths. Shakespeare sets up the basis of the play with two supposed lovers who´s families forbid their love. After much conflict and many deaths of friends, one of the lovers plans to fake her death and then run away with Romeo. Romeo doesn't get the information that the death is fake and he finds Juliet presumably dead. At this horrible sight he kills himself and Juliet wakes up. She sees that Romeo is dead and decides to end her life as well. Someone may argue that Romeo and Juliet are in love, there is strong evidence to suggest that they are jumping to more dramatic conclusions due to their desire to love and their mental instability. Romeo and
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Romeo was ask about his unsusual sorrow he responded, ¨ This love that thou hast shown / Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. / Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs¨. He basically is saying that he was already always sorrowful and then things that are supposed to uplift you like love are bringing him deeper into his depressed state. SInce love tends to have the opposite effect on people then how Romeo describes it here, many would conclude that he is not in love but rather in a false state of attraction. If this isn´t enough, Romeo is often impulsive and quick to change his mind. Romeo believed he was in love with another girl at the beggining of the story named Rosaline. Of whom he immediately ditched for Juliet of whom he would over the couse of 4 days (2 of which juliet will be asleep) decide that she is worth dying for. Instead of just hearing it from the point of view of Romeo and Juliet, I thought that I would get a third opinion from Capulet. Capulet set Juliet up into an arranged marriage with Paris and he remarks this after she refuses his arrangement, ¨Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! / I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, / Or never after look me in the face. / Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me.¨. Arrangments like what Capulet had come up with were conscidered mandatory, essential, and
Romeo was ask about his unsusual sorrow he responded, ¨ This love that thou hast shown / Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. / Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs¨. He basically is saying that he was already always sorrowful and then things that are supposed to uplift you like love are bringing him deeper into his depressed state. SInce love tends to have the opposite effect on people then how Romeo describes it here, many would conclude that he is not in love but rather in a false state of attraction. If this isn´t enough, Romeo is often impulsive and quick to change his mind. Romeo believed he was in love with another girl at the beggining of the story named Rosaline. Of whom he immediately ditched for Juliet of whom he would over the couse of 4 days (2 of which juliet will be asleep) decide that she is worth dying for. Instead of just hearing it from the point of view of Romeo and Juliet, I thought that I would get a third opinion from Capulet. Capulet set Juliet up into an arranged marriage with Paris and he remarks this after she refuses his arrangement, ¨Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! / I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, / Or never after look me in the face. / Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me.¨. Arrangments like what Capulet had come up with were conscidered mandatory, essential, and