Characters in Romeo and Juliet

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    play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare There are many interesting characters. They all have something unique and help the play/story move forward. One of these characters is Romeo, Romeo is one of the main characters in the play, and has many important character traits. Romeo’s traits are hasty, and emotional and influential, these can be seen in the play with several examples.. One of Romeo’s character traits is he is influential to other people within the story. A character that Romeo…

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    Romeo Montague is of the Montague house which is the enemy house of his true love, Juliet Capulet. The play he is of is Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. Romeo Montague is a loyal, brave, and caring character who is in love with Juliet Capulet. Romeo Montague is a loyal person, especially to his love, Juliet, and his family. “There is no world without Verona walls, but purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence banished is banish’d from the world, and world's exile is…

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    actually the love between Romeo and Juliet. Their love is the most prevalent love seen throughout the play and Shakespeare uses many language forms and techniques to emphasise this fact. An example of this can be seen in the balcony scene, where Romeo compares Juliet to the sun and asks her “to kill the envious moon”, insinuating how much truer and important loving Juliet is to him. The reason for this is the fact that Romeo widely referred to Rosaline as the moon and by asking Juliet to kill it…

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    Romeo and Juliet is a famous play, written by acclaimed 16th century poet, playwright and actor, William Shakespeare. There are many recurring motifs in this piece of literature; however, two of the most prominently portrayed ones are those of love and hate. These themes are inextricably entwined as the love of the two main protagonists in this play, Romeo and Juliet is constantly overshadowed by a pallor of hate, leading to an unresolvable confrontation between these two emotions, with each…

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    even with Friar’s advice, Romeo stops at nothing for his beloved Juliet. Romeo’s decisions and precipitous attitude along with the decisions of many other characters contributes to the consequences which many of the characters suffer from. The tragic events which started with the death of Tybalt and Mercutio are indirect consequences of their reckless decisions. The choices characters made were rash, sudden and were made based on their emotions. The death of the characters could have been easily…

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    Freewill in Romeo & Juliet Everyone makes choices out of their own free will which affects their life at that time, but it also affects others life. The choices people make now can either create bonds or inflict them with wounds, but it is the choices that are made. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare contains characters that act through freewill which causes a number of incidents. The tragedies of the main characters Romeo and Juliet occur in the play by characters…

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    it to be unsuccessful. Over the course of reading the story “Romeo and Juliet”, you come across several ignorant people that made mindless decisions that lead to the outcome of the famous couple’s death. However, the one specific character that had the most control and fault was unarguably Friar Lawrence. His role was a complicated one, and his foolish choices were what had the most impact on the story’s dreadful ending. Romeo and Juliet had been taking things slow, and everything was content…

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    Consequences Given to Romeo and Juliet Characters Several characters in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet should be put to death for taking part in the many murders and suicides that occurred. Some of the characters had rational ideas, however, had they made improved, more thoughtful decisions, the play would have had a more worthwhile ending. In Romeo and Juliet, Lord Capulet and Friar Lawrence should be punished and the Apothecary should be pardoned. In the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Lord…

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    of Romeo and Juliet. God and love; the two things that devastate humanity. They manipulate us and keep us from thinking straight. As Juliet and the Friar know this best, for they are the ones responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is crazy. She believed that love would save her and Romeo, but she was wrong. Love tore her apart, to the point of death. When Romeo was banished, she took a potion that would “kill” her for two days. Shakespeare writes a scene when Juliet…

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    Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, who is to blame? In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, tells a story about two star-crossed lovers that died tragically due to three important characters Capulets, Friar Lawrence, and fate. Fate is something that is destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way. The prologue says that “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life”.(DBQ: project, 2013) . Throughout this play William Shakespeare foreshadows that the dead of Romeo and Juliet…

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