The Quest In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

In the book we read over the summer called How to Read Literature like a Professor, the list of a quest came up. The list consisted up our quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials, and the real reason to go. Over the past few years I have read three books that have had aspects of a quest come up throughout the books.

The first book I have read which is also a story that is also a classic in literature. It is called Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet they had a quest of being together but in the ned the families were rivals and they couldn't be in love. Even though throughout all the trial and errors of trying to be together, it's loved them killed them. The quest was to be with one another but seeing each other had its own troubles. Romeo was risking his life to see her as well as Juliet. Not well communication between the couple's plans to figure a way to be together is what killed them. They later killed themselves because of Juliet not telling Romeo she was going to fake a death to be with him. Romeo killed himself by drinking poison in front of Juliet’s cassscate she was faking her death in. Juliet killed herself …show more content…
In this book a big conflict was going on that these children had no idea what they were actually doing. The best way to describe it is that a space military was recruiting smart young people to train for a “battle” one day. What they didn’t realize is that during these test trial “games” they had to control of a “simulator” battle, they were actually fighting and they were lied to. They were trained for a quest to defeat an alien species that was going to take over Earth. The quest was to defeat an alien species and many conflicts arose in the barracks and who was the best “squad” on the base. People died and people killed each other, but all in all the whole so called “game was a quest to defeat a war to save planet