Identity was and always will be an important part of human life; it is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. Identity is what makes a person himself. Without identity, a lot of things wouldn’t have happened, including the events of “Romeo and Juliet”, where in my opinion identity contributed to the conflict.
In “Romeo and Juliet” the two protagonists come from entirely different families, each of those families has its own identity that it build itself over hundreds of years. These families’ identities are very different, and because of those identities the whole conflict between the Capulets and Montagues started. In the Novel the Montagues seemed more passive and friendly, Romeo did not want to fight, and he was free to roam Verona while the Montagues seemed more aggressive. Tybalt always wanted to fight with someone and Juliet’s parents were harsh about her marriage, they would not back down even when asked to delay the marriage only by a couple of days, and Juliet’s …show more content…
Identity is also affected by social class; I do not think Juliet would have had the same level of attraction to Romeo if he was a peasant. Also, Juliet says “Deny thy father and refuse thy name” And there she almost says something impossible since back then, refusing a family name is like being thrown out on the street without money. From that statement one can see that Juliet is a dreamer, but she is also more logical than Romeo, she understand what she needs to do, and she is more responsible, while Romeo follows only his heart, he makes rash decisions and is womanish in feature, as Friar Lawrence said “Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast” (3.3, 109-111). The two characters have very different public/family identities but they are both dreamers in their personal identity, and that made them make the connection they
In “Romeo and Juliet” the two protagonists come from entirely different families, each of those families has its own identity that it build itself over hundreds of years. These families’ identities are very different, and because of those identities the whole conflict between the Capulets and Montagues started. In the Novel the Montagues seemed more passive and friendly, Romeo did not want to fight, and he was free to roam Verona while the Montagues seemed more aggressive. Tybalt always wanted to fight with someone and Juliet’s parents were harsh about her marriage, they would not back down even when asked to delay the marriage only by a couple of days, and Juliet’s …show more content…
Identity is also affected by social class; I do not think Juliet would have had the same level of attraction to Romeo if he was a peasant. Also, Juliet says “Deny thy father and refuse thy name” And there she almost says something impossible since back then, refusing a family name is like being thrown out on the street without money. From that statement one can see that Juliet is a dreamer, but she is also more logical than Romeo, she understand what she needs to do, and she is more responsible, while Romeo follows only his heart, he makes rash decisions and is womanish in feature, as Friar Lawrence said “Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast” (3.3, 109-111). The two characters have very different public/family identities but they are both dreamers in their personal identity, and that made them make the connection they