Romeo and Juliet Essay

in your life who can always make you laugh all the time? In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the nurse is that person. The nurse is funny, caring, and a friend to all. The nurse is funny because she says “ yea,” quoth he, “ dost thou fall upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backwards when thou hast more wit, wilt thou not, Jule?”. This is a story that the nurse tells us about Juliet when the nurse is talking to her mother about Juliet.(1.3.56-58). She also says “an honor? were not I thine…

could lead a family down a reckless road filled with consequences. William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, consistently displays that hatred between its two families, Montagues and Capulets, allowing the readers to see how that led to the ultimate deaths of several characters. Shakespeare had shown hate through the dialogue, mood, and characterization. Directing a film version of Romeo and Juliet, Franco Zeffirelli used acting and the setting to show the hatred between the two…

Romeo and Juliet is a tale of love, death, and heartbreak, and is a story that still clings to the hearts of many today. However, the way death is displayed and treated by Shakespeare is much more dramatic than if it were to be a quiet, sorrowful mourning, and was treated differently pertaining to each character’s role. All of the deaths were a tragic result of climatic actions that took place, putting characters Mercutio, Tybalt, Juliet, and Romeo in their graves. The casualties of these…

Romeo and Juliet Essay – Year 9 English The play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a love story about two star crossed lovers from two different households, who fall in love and end up taking their lives. Juliet is a Capulet, Romeo is a Montague, their parents hate each other and they are forbidden to love each other. There has been a strong and everlasting feud between the two families. Romeo is banished from Verona as he killed Tybalt and Juliet wants to fake her death so…

The play, “Romeo and Juliet” , written by William Shakespeare, expresses love with deep sorrow. The play involves a young man named Romeo, who is in search for his true love. His lover Juliet, happens to be a part of the Capulets family, which is feuding against Romeo’s Montagues.This tragedy causes major conflict between the two families and characters involved. The Nurse and Friar Lawrence both inadvertently perform a negative and positive parent role in the lives of Romeo and Juliet. Friar…

In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare ventures upon love’s transfixing abilities. Two adolescents, Romeo and Juliet, who descend from feuding families, enamor one another, yet their relationship never seems to progress favorably. Both protagonists’ contravene against their family’s notion of appropriate life partners. Due to an adverse effect after a brawl, Romeo is banished, leaving his love distraught and bewildered. Juliet, in a state of melancholy, concludes she must forge her own death…

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, tells of two star-crossed lovers who take their own lives because of the feud between their two families. Within this tragedy lies many characters who influence Romeo and Juliet in various ways. Friar Lawrence is fair Verona’s priest. He has a great impact on the lives of Romeo and Juliet, in a very bad way. In Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence redefines what it means to be a priest. His posthaste making of decisions, bad advice, and selfish and lazy…

However, in order to help Juliet through her "grief" over Tybalt's death, Capulet decides to marry her off to Paris (III, iv). Of course this is a problem as she is secretly married to Romeo at this time. In III, v, Lady Capulet states, "I'll send one in Mantua, where that same banished runagate doth live, that he shall soon keep Tybalt company…" (ll94-96). This statement prophesizes Romeo's death later in the final scene of the play. Then, Lady Capulet wishes her daughter to be…

In the story of Romeo and Juliet, there is one major contrasting idea, life and death. But instead of life being positive as it is usually thought of, it could be more thought of as death. Though Romeo and Juliet are alive, they aren’t living life as they want to, and it’s worse living without being together. They would rather be dead than to live with their partner lifeless. In Romeo and Juliet, life represents misery, and as life is typically thought of as a positive, it’s actually the…

Andrea Gautier Ms. Klumpp English IV p-5 15 April 2016 How Teenagers relate to Romeo and Juliet When you think of being in a relationship, do you picture it to be perfect? Well, relationships are never trouble-free. In the novel, Romeo and Juliet, the two star crossed lovers have a forbidden love for each other. They go through many obstacles just to be together. Just like these lovers, Romeo and Juliet, teens now-a-days are very naive when it comes to love. Teens are just so caught up in the…