Lines 5-6). These famous chorus lines are from Shakespeare’s even more famous Romeo and Juliet. The two lovers being mentioned about are Romeo and Juliet. They die of a feud but not in an actual brawl. They die as a result of two people’s actions that turned detrimental and killed Romeo and Juliet. Those two people are the nurse and Friar Lawrence. Although the nurse’s and Friar Lawrence's actions are well intentioned, in the long run, they cause the great tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. While Friar Lawrence and the Nurse are trying to make Romeo and Juliet gleeful and possibly conclude the feud, they cause a huge problem. The Friar is the biggest and…
like a double edged sword. One side brings solace, while the other strikes you down. This idea is expressed in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The basic premise of the story is how two families, Montagues and Capulets, have had a feud between them. The next kin of these families, falls in love and must find a way to continue their love. They seek out the help of Friar Lawrence, who devises a complex plan that is doomed to fail. They agree to the plan, however despite the alternatives that could…
Shakespeare uses some relationships between characters, such as the relationships that Lady Capulet and the Nurse share with Juliet, to give social commentary on the Elizabethan society. He also used relationships to highlight his key themes, such as the relationship between Romeo and Juliet proving that true love is uncontrollable. The relationship between Lady Capulet and Juliet is used to show how family members tended to be distant from each other. This is shown in the utterance “what say…
to the young couples who seek to be with each other but their choices lead to the wrong path. In the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare two young adults fall in love but one factor that keep them separate is the feud between their families. In the short story “Pyramus and Thisbe” by Ovid. In Pyramus and Thisbe, they are forbidden marriage by their parents. Instead of obeying, they secretly meet up to be together. Personal choices have a greater impact that will lead the young star-crossed…
Romeo and Juliet: Who is Responsible? Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes that reason is because people let their emotions make their decisions for them. Pertaining to the deaths of Juliet and Romeo in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the hate rooted within both families’ hearts led to decisions that were ultimately regretted in the end. Anthony Robbins, an american author, once said, “It’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” The decisions made by everyone…
influencing us today. Romeo and Juliet, one of Shakespeare’s…
In the play, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, the two main characters face a tragic death. Romeo and Juliet are the youngest in their family bloodlines, the Montague’s and the Capulet’s. These two families have been fighting and disagreeing for many years and can’t stand to be together. This creates a complication for the lovers, Romeo and Juliet, to be together. They are curious and impulsive at different extents for love-especially for each other. They do whatever it takes to be with…
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, and Amy Broadway’s article, “Adolescents Are Prone to Love Addiction.” Shakespeare’s characters, Romeo and Juliet, are from feuding families. The animosity between the Capulet and the Montague can be traced back to before either Romeo or Juliet was born. Nevertheless, they still meet, fall in “love”, and get married all in the span of a day. However, the harsh consequences of their rushed actions eventually catch up to them affecting not only them, but the people…
ROMEO AND JULIET Shakespeare shows commitment in the prologue through a variant of different ways.‘’A pair of star crossed lovers, take their life,’’ In this sentence the word star-crossed lovers, tells us and indicates that the two people who were the star-crossed lovers were truly in love and by it saying they ‘take their life’ then the commitment between Romeo and Juliet was strong. The phrase saying ‘death marked love,’ could indicate that the deaths were because of love, or they died with…
anyone else. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare is able to create many different evident relationships with sheer indirect characterization. With his use of the Friar’s exclamatory remarks along with his contrasting of Romeo and the Friar’s personalities, Shakespeare is able to emphasize that the Friar is almost a fatherly figure to Romeo. Throughout the passage, the Friar has many exclamatory expressions which assist in conveying his authority over and his love for Romeo. In a mere…