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desire. Romeo and Juliet are just out of puberty, their desires had very much formed their obsession. Romeo’s desires are what drove his obsession about Rosaline. It was after Rosaline chose to be a nun that Romeo had lost interest. Romeo had told Benvolio, “For beauty starved with her severity/ Cuts beauty off from all posterity” (I i 205-206). Romeo realized that he would be unable to marry or have children with Rosaline, and so he moved on to someone else. Lust even caused their haste in…

As Romeo and Juliet both grow they begin to learn what love means to them and how they will react to it. Romeo is seen throughout the beginning of the play battling with love and what it is after talking to Benvolio he decides that his initial love for Rosaline was unrequited and decides to find a better person (Levenson). Romeo is the challenge to those in the Elizabethan Era to whether or not the love they experience in their society is real. While today in…

in love with Rosaline without even talking to her since she is never seen in the play. Just a few hours later at the party, Romeo falls in love again, this time with Juliet. He flirts with her as they exchange kisses. Afterward, while he talks to Benvolio, he finds out that Juliet is a Capulet, “Is she a Capulet? O dear account! My life is my foe's debt.”(Act 1, Scene 5, lines 131-132). Here it is evident that Romeo has fallen in love with Juliet, and in just a couple hours at that. The fact…

Juliet’s death was caused by things as big as adults not thinking or a prideful cousin to things such as not being able to read. What if Tybalt wasn’t so focused on his pride and the rival between the Capulets and the Montague? Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio decided to go a party, the Capulets party. No Montague were allowed at this party and Tybalt saw Romeo. Tybalt was unhappy with it, but couldn’t do anything because there were no more fights allowed in Verona. The next day Tybalt was…

Some of William Shakespeare’s most famous pieces are Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, where two people from feuding families fall in love and are forced to keep it a secret. Romeo and Juliet get married in secret and in the end, they die in each other’s arms. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, however, is quite the opposite. This story is about the four lovers Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia, and Helena. Lysander and Hermia are in love but Hermia’s father…

“The upper man has all the money He can eat his bread and honey His only job is to command Yet not to use a single hand The middle man has little power Yet can afford his bread and flour He works where he can get a job But may take time to go and sob The lower man is last in line He often lacks the food to dine He doesn’t work because it's too hard And there isn’t any type of yard The upper man seems to be best But having everything on request What’s there to enjoy in life If you’ve never…

think was at fault for Romeo and Juliet’s death, how they were at fault, and what they did to cause it. I think Romeo and Juliet took part in their own deaths. First of all Romeo killed Tybalt and got himself banished. The prince was talking to Benvolio, Lady Capulet and Montague and said, “Let Romeo hence in haste, else when he is fond, that hour is his last” (Shakespeare, 1051). This quote is important because the prince is discussing Romeos punishment for killing Tybalt. The second thing is…

William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and its interpretation by Baz Luhrmann. By Madhav Mishra. A little over four centuries ago, William Shakespeare published the modern day classic Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy about two star-crossed lovers who marry each other against the will of their feuding families. Ever since its first performance, the play has spawned a number of interpretations and adaptations of the original. A recent noteworthy adaptation of the play by the well-known…

The Fault in Their Time Romeo and Juliet opens with a summary of the events to come. The audience is told that the ”star-crossed” lovers are “death-marked”, that the main characters are already dead through the fault of fate. However, apart from this explicit mention of fate, and perhaps contrary to the young lover’s beliefs, Romeo and Juliet don’t seem to be governed by the cosmos at all. In fact, they seem to be most governed by the fleeting nature of time and their exceedingly impatient…

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a heart breaking story of two star-crossed lovers named Romeo and Juliet. The family of these two lovers hate each other and despite knowing this, they pursue their forbidden love. This ultimately leads to their deaths and the play ends with the with both of the families ending their feud. However, the question remains, who is responsible for the deaths for Romeo and Juliet? The answer to that question is simple, it is Romeo’s fault. Firstly, Romeo…