Benvolio

Shakespeare plays have been told all throughout the world and have many different connotations. Shakespeare’s most famous play is Romeo and Juliet which entails the story of two star crossed lovers. The story deals with themes of love and tragedy. The lovers in the play are similar to some of his other works like The winter tale and As you like it. Romeo and Juliet is seen to be one of his tragedies but closely relates to his comedies. Shakespeare had a habit of intertwining his comedies and…

During the adolescent years, many teenagers make poor decisions without any logic and or reasoning. It puts them at risk of dying two times more than when they were preteens. In the story of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare tells an inspiring story about two young lovers who make many decisions in order to be together. Their decisions were mostly caused by external influences. Romeo and Juliet were from the Montagues or Capulet families. The two families were rivals who despised each other…

The tragic drama, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, begins by describing how two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, will meet and eventually kill themselves, ending the ancient feud between their two families. Romeo is characterized as an impulsive lover, as shown when he discloses his unrequited love for Rosaline, only to ask himself if he had ever fallen in love, when he catches a glimpse of Juliet. Juliet is introduced as a dutiful young lady, but towards the end of the act, we see her more…

Shakespeare’s play, “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” is about two star crossed lovers who cannot be together due to the feud both of their families have against each other. This causes them to marry in secrecy after only knowing each other for less than one day, but from that point forward everything goes wrong. By the end of the play the two lovers kill themselves in order to be with each other. Many people say these events would never occur if Romeo and Juliet thought their actions out…

Romeo and Juliet is a play written by Shakespeare. The play is set in Verona and tells the story of two star-crossed lovers and their fight to be together even when the world is against them. Lots of the play shows examples of love, fate and power. Love is shown between many of the characters and drives them to do, sometimes terrible things. The two main characters fate is stacked against them and changes the course of their lives. Lastly characters in the play have more power over Romeo and…

Romeo and Benvolio’s relationship is very tight. They are always helping one another out. You can see that there close when Benvolio says “I promise I will find out what’s wrong with Romeo and be his counsel.” This shows me that they have a really close friendship and Romeo will tell him mostly anything. Also, when he fights Tybalt for killing Mercutio he did that because he didn’t…

This language mocks true feelings and is offensive and dirty, often anti-women oriented. While the main character is hiding in the bushes under the balcony of his beloved one, Mercutio is expressing his opinion to Benvolio: “If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark./Now will he sit under a medlar tree/And wish his/ mistress were that kind of fruit/ As maids call medlars when they laugh alone.—/ O Romeo, that she were! Oh, that she were/ An open arse, and thou a poperin…

about the dreamer.” Teenage crushes can mean a lot of different things, including the admirer and who they admire. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo first falls in love with a girl named Rosaline. He’s infatuated by her beauty and often tells Mercutio, Benvolio, and even Friar Lawrence how much he’s in love with her, despite the fact that she’s rejected him countless…

infatuated with each other Romeo doesn’t love Juliet because he just wants to be in love with a beautiful woman. Before Romeo met Juliet he claimed he loved Rosaline, but she didn’t like him back, yet he was convinced his love was deep. When talking to Benvolio he said, “A right good mark-man! and she’s fair I love.” (I i 197) He believed he was completely in love with Rosaline, but then thought Juliet was prettier. If he forgot and threw away his love for Rosaline that fast, why wouldn’t he…

Sometimes, your worst enemy- the cause of your own defeat, can be yourself. When someone has a reputation for being a jerk, those same actions will come back to bite you, perhaps worse than the previous problems that they created, or even kill them. This applies to Tybalt Capulet, a side antagonist in the play Romeo and Juliet, whose temperamental and aggressive nature, antagonization and instigation of others, and direct insubordination of the law is what led to his demise. The first point why…