Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare exhibits both romantic and identity crushes to tell the story of two star-crossed lovers. What even is a romantic and identity crush? In both cases, “the young person largely projects onto another person idealized attributes the admirer highly values and wants to be associated with” (Pickhardt 2). According to the article Adolescence and the Teenage Crush, Romantic crushes are formed by finding someone whom they find powerfully attractive, who they feel excited to be around, and with whom they want to spend most of their time with. Contradicting romantic crushes, identity crushes are formed by finding someone they much admire, want to become like, and treat as a leader or model they are eager to imitate…
The two star-crossed lovers in Romeo and Juliet appear to have a relationship that entails emotions that date back for years, when in the grand scheme of it all they were only together for a couple of weeks if not months. Their love was quick and all consuming, furthermore it is clear that the two characters predictable deaths can be attributed to their young love. Romeo and Juliet’s predictable deaths, however do prove to be fitting in terms of the themes of rashness and heedlessness of young love which are continuously presented throughout the story of the two lovers. Feuding noble families, the Montagues and the Capulets find themselves in a whirlwind when son and daughter of the two families fall deeply, into a fated romance.…
Known as a tragedy, but commonly mistaken as a romance, the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet entrances the readers with hatred and love, bloodshed and kisses, and poisons and remedies. William Shakespeare creates a story about two young lovers who are doomed from the beginning due to their fatal flaw- they are too impulsive. Although Romeo is often the character to make hasty decisions, one of his best friends can be found to do so too. He and Mercutio are foils for one another, their opposite traits push each other to do things they wouldn’t normally do and help to reveal both their positive and negative traits. In the beginning, the audience is given a glance of Romeo’s emotional side and his views on love.…
Throughout the story, there are many types of love shown. The main focus of the play is the romantic and passionate love which Romeo and Juliet share for each other. Their love is shown as an overpowering force which supersedes other loyalties and emotions. Throughout the play, the young lovers are driven by their affection for each other to defy major aspects of their entire social world: Juliet is willing to betray her family to be with Romeo, “be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet”; Romeo abandons his Mercutio and Benvolio after the Capulet’s ball to seek his newfound lover.…
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare began and ended with death, but the story continues to live on. Romeo and Juliet was written in 1500’s and showed how relationships worked back then and how Shakespeare saw relationships. It is important to use lenses because, “The different lenses also allow critics to focus on particular aspects of a work they consider important.” (McGinn research, via Tyson, Richart). The relationship lense is looking at the different types of relationships and see how they affect the story or the characters.…
Romeo and Juliet start out as immature children who think they know what love is. Towards the middle of the play, the two lovers start to make more mature decisions but still make some immature ones too. The immature decisions cause them to run into trouble along the way. In the end, the lovers make adult decisions that decide their fate. The “star-crossed lovers” knew they would die, but to them their love for each other meant more to them than their own…
Unfortunately, sometimes love can not escape societal pressures. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the main characters are members of feuding families. In the end, their love for one another can not survive the strain that the feud puts on the couple. Love can be life altering, especially in high tension situations. Shakespeare uses both character development and plot conflicts to show how love drives the attitudes and behavior of his characters.…
Romeo and Juliet, the account of "star-crossed darlings", is a play prior composed by Arthur Brookes. Shakespeare later on revised it and rolled out numerous improvements that enhanced the play. In Romeo and Juliet he endeavors to demonstrate reality and the idea of affection. He figures out how to accomplish his objective by demonstrating the diverse sorts of adoration all through the play. For instance, he demonstrates Courtly love amongst Romeo and Rosaline, Romantic love amongst Romeo and Juliet, Physical love is investigated in the main demonstration, and there is additionally kindly love between Romeo, Mercutio and Benvolio.…
The play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, tells the story of two star-crossed lovers, their family and friends. They go through their lives proving that every action is made for the ones they love whether the relationships is romantic or not. The characters show the reader that the actions made can be unwise and not a normal trait for the character. This may lead to the person neglecting their other…
In Conclusion, I think that Romeo is a young, inexperienced and impatient but loyal and brave boy. I think that his naivety plays a huge rule in this because love was taken as an extravagant feeling to have when it was not truly happy as the lovers can experience heartbreak and many other obstacles. It seems as if Romeo only more cautious and deliberate, his devastating ending could have been prevented (even though we have not finished the book yet). Amongst friends especially Mercutio, Romeo shows signs of his social and quick witted persona, even with his fond of verbal jousting that is mainly about sex. Lastly, Romeo is like every other male in the world who only unveils their true self to the people who they trust or who understand them.…
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare described a meaningless romance between two spoiled rich kids. First, Romeo and Juliet always got everything they wanted. Romeo and Juliet started to like each other more as soon as they found out they could not have each other. Romeo was sad when he could not HAVE Rosaline, and he was sad when he could not HAVE Juliet. They also disobeyed their parents and acted irrationally to be with each other.…
Infatuation and love are two vastly different types of affection that most people get confused between. It is likely to occur more so among a boy and a girl when they are young and inexperienced as opposed to when they’re grown and matured. Infatuation can easily be mistaken for love in many cases. In Romeo and Juliet infatuation is mistaken for love by the both of them, for what they had between them was not love due to the fact that they were not mature enough, love takes time to develop, and because it was based on physical attraction. Love deals with more than just looks.…
Romeo and Juliet rush to get married after their first meeting. For example, when Romeo and Juliet are meeting in the orchard, Juliet says, “Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed./If that thy bent of love be honorable,/ Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,/By one that I’ll procure to come to thee,/Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;/And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay/And follow thee my lord throughout the world”(2.2.142-148). Although Romeo and Juliet just met earlier that night, Juliet is already proposing and confessing her love to him. This is unexpected, considering their time span of knowing each other. Shakespeare uses this to amplify the audiences emotions of love and warmth towards the characters.…
Blaise Pascal once stated “Love has reasons which reason cannot understand”. Although, Romeo and Juliet is a classic tragedy written by William Shakespeare in the late 1500’s it tells the story about a young pair struggling to save their love. It also teaches the audience the different types of love and how too much of it can be dangerous. Therefore, Shakespeare’s use of dramatic techniques gives audience an insight into the different representations of love through the use of romantic, courtly, familial love, as well as lust, that is present in the play.…
How to Win Friends & Influence People Section One Principle: “Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.” Certainly, criticizing others is something that every person has been guilty of at some point or another. Why go through the time and effort to understand another person’s perspective when one can simply point out perceived flaws in that perspective? Dale Carnegie asserts, “Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do” (Carnegie, 16).…