The two carry out their love in secret, and are infatuated with themselves. The hatred of the two families arises again and ends with the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt. After a series of events due to Romeo’s banishment from Verona, the Romeo and Juliet take their life. The story ends in a tragedy, but the family’s ancient grudge had been resolved. Shakespeare uses Romeo’s impulsive nature to propel his downfall and show a person cannot move forward without resolving a fatal flaw.…
In the play, Romeo and Juliet, the two doomed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, go through the ups and downs of marriage, to finally, their certain demise. However, one striking thing about this poem is all of the family deaths that they encounter. First, the loss of Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt. Next, Romeo best friend, Mercutio was killed in a fight. Then, Lady Montague, who commited suicide from grief, like Romeo and Juliet had.…
The death of the star crossed lovers brings the families feud to an end and brings them to peace . Shakespeare's theme is that love can bring hate to an end with a negative consequence. Friar Lawrence helps romeo and Juliet even though their families have a feud , but Romeo's and Juliet's love only grew stronger . Their plan didn't go as planned and went the opposite which ended in death . The importance of this theme is that love can bring negative things together in the…
Is it possible to love someone with all the flaws they have? Are flaws so important that it can enable someone to not love someone? Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare illustrates that everyone has flaws but one can still love them with all their flaws. It is possible to be able to love someone because of their flaws.…
The story of Romeo and Juliet is about two star-crossed lovers from feuding families. In this tragedy, written by William Shakespeare, two adolescents separated by a held grudge between their families meet at a large party hosted by the Capulet family. The two, Romeo and Juliet, have an instant connection. The morning after the party, the two lovers eloped. The Friar, who agreed to marry the two, thought it would solve the everlasting feud.…
Romeo and Juliet is a famous play of William Shakespeare. This is one of the oldest and best love stories ever written. It’s a story of tragedy of two star crossed lovers. Romeo is a Montague. On the other hand, Juliet is a Capulet.…
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare is a play about two young lovers who take their own lives because of the tragic events that separate them. Throughout this play the family of Romeo, the Montagues and the family of Juliet, the Capulets are in a malicious conflict. This makes it all the more surprising and dangerous when Romeo and Juliet declare their love to one and other. To make matters more difficult, they marry in secret, cementing their love. This leads to Juliet undertaking an audacious and childish plan to see Romeo after he is banished.…
Shakespeare’s original title for Romeo and Juliet was “The most excellent and lamentable tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.” Romeo and Juliet is about a Montague and a Capulet falling in love with their families in a quarrel. Soon they end up getting married without anyone Friar Lawrence and the Nurse knowing. Then a dangerous plan throws everyone off and, they both ending up dying along with a couple others. In the play some of the character’s change effect the end of it.…
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a thrilling love story with a doleful finale. This play showcases the epic love between young Romeo and Juliet. Yet the back end of this play diverges when the star crossed lovers take their own lives. Which in turn creates a tragedy out of this romance. Nonetheless, there is always a party to blame for a circumstance.…
Romeo and Juliet is a story about teenagers from rival households that fall in love. They face many challenges on their path and end up committing suicide. In Between Shades of Gray, Lina and her family are taken from their home and sent to Siberia. They are forced to do hard labor and face obstacles they thought would…
Romeo is a very complicated character, he is handsome, intelligent, impulsive and very sensitive. He is charming and well liked, amongst most characters in the play. Romeo’s emotions run very strong, throughout the play. Though he is very impulsive and immature. He is still a passionate lover, though sometimes unusual, when he is first introduced in the story, he is obsessed with Rosaline, in act I scene I, saying she is the perfect women.…
Sonnet 18 represents love in a positive light looking at the good things, whereas sonnet 130 is more negative looking at the down side of things. Throughout Sonnet 18, a woman's beauty is compared with wonderful things. He starts the poem by using a rhetorical question comparing love to a summers say. He then starts describing his love as more temperate and lovely than a summer’s day.…
As Don Paterson points out ‘with the Young Man he’s in the grip of a pure love, but stalked by the presence of lust’. This can be seen in each of the Fair Youth sonnets as the speaker not only fights to find a way in which to preserve the fair youths beauty but ultimately replaces the role of a wife and son in the young mans life as he proposes that his own poetry will preserve the fair youth for eternity. Paterson then looks to the Dark Lady sonnets in which the speaker is ‘in a grip of a pure lust, but stalked by the absence of love’. This is evident in the way portrays her as rugid, sexual and often times faithless. The Dark Lady sonnets are filled with sexual desire, it’s fulfillment and the ultimate shame that follows, a prime example of this can be seen in sonnet 129.…
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare attempts to show the truth and nature of love Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romaine stretching back to antiquity. The basic story is a boy (Romeo) and girl (Juliet) fall in love but they came from families which hate each other and know they will not allowed to marry. They were so much in love and they got married in Secret instead. However, before their wedding night Romeo kills Juliet’s Cousin in a duel and in the morning he is forced to leave Verona.…
An Explication of Love: “Sonnet 130” Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” is a powerful poem that describes love as something based off of more than mere beauty. The poem depicts the speaker pointing out the many imperfections of his mistress. This is a far cry from the ideal women many poets depict. An English or Shakespearean sonnet consists of fourteen lines “composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg” (“Shakespearean sonnet”). In “Sonnet 130,” Shakespeare establishes a shifting tone through the quatrain structure, words that target the senses, and a repetition of words and poem structure that can be related to many aspects of love.…