Characters in Romeo and Juliet

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    A Motivated Character In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, many of the characters are complex in that their actions are influenced by multiple and even conflicting factors. In literature, as in life, a character’s motivation is what makes him unique and believable. If we all behaved the same way in similar situations, life would be boring. The characters in Romeo and Juliet are all motivated by different backstories. Each character’s actions are influenced by their family life, environment,…

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    Charlotte Gedraitis Block: 6 Romeo and Juliet Essay It Wasn’t Their Fault Romeo and Juliet is a timeless classic about two teenagers who fall in love, get married, and end their lives and with them dies an ancient feud. This tale has proven to be an exaggerated truth of the young brain. The characters deal with the most difficult parts of life; love, loss, and betrayal. The teenage brain is in the midst of its most critical development as a teen and it is not fit to make decisions that would…

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    The presence of conflicts definitely takes an impact on the fates of people. From the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare and Francis Ford Cappola’s film ‘The Outsiders’, the audience can learn from the tragic consequences of the characters conflicts what kind of fate is determined for the characters. Due to the severe consequences of conflicts, the characters can choose to fight fire with fire and make more conflicts or sit back and become a better person. Conflict determines fate…

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    Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet is a story of two teenagers from two rival families who fall in love. The play consists of many unfortunate events and tragic deaths that many characters could have played a part in. However, Friar Laurence is primarily to blame for the catastrophic deaths that take place in Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence is at fault for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths by secretly getting them married. Friar Laurence believes the Montague and Capulet…

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    Behind any tragedy of love, there is always someone’s fault to blame for that. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare lots of tragedy events happen to the characters. The Capulets and The Montagues have a feud and Romeo (Montague) and Juliet (Capulet) fall in love. They have to keep their love a secret and they only adult that knows is Friar Laurence. The Friar helps them be together, but what he doesn't know he was just helping them get closer to their deaths. The one that I think has the…

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    Romeo And Juliet's Dream

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    begin, Romeo contemplates his dream of Juliet, from the night before, in which she found Romeo died, so she kissed him back to life. Soon after, he receives word from Balthazar that Juliet is, "laid low in her kindred's Vault"(Act 5, Scene 1). Therefore, Romeo's dream was a premonition of Juliet laying in the tomb, and needing a kiss, but he was never informed of their plan. Romeo's dream may have been intuition about upcoming information about Juliet, was good news. Moreover, after Romeo…

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    Romeo and Juliet are teenagers who fall in love, but their families are enemies. The author is William Shakespeare. He born in 1564 and died 23rd of April in 1616. The theme is tragedy love. My secondary character is Friar Lawrence. He is kind-hearted and helps Romeo and Juliet throughout the play. He is acting in their marriage scene, and he brings the fate in many ways. First of all, Frier Lawrence gives good advises in marriage scene. But he is a political person too. He marries Romeo and…

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    In the play of Romeo and Juliet there are two important characters, Friar Laurence and Tybalt. These paragraphs will explain the reasoning behind Tybalt being the most important character throughout the play. Tybalt is a character who is making the play flow in order. Each event that specifically happens is in a way linked to Tybalt. Though friar Laurence was associated with the event as well, Tybalt was the main character to make each event happen like they should have. Tybalt is the most…

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    other events and characters are to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet ‘a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.’ The protagonist fall into the depths of forbidden love, despite on ancient family feud, of both their houses. For the purpose of this discussion the term blame is defined as a feel or declare that someone or something is responsible for a fault or a wrong doing. Both the Friar Laurence and the Nurse help marry Romeo and Juliet with…

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    thing. In his play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare expresses how the role of fate can change anything. Shakespeare uses many examples of fate in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. For example, Romeo killing Tybalt after Tybalt killed Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend. The fate of Romeo and Juliet was expressed in the prologue of the play. The play stated, “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,” (Shakespeare, Prologue. 6). The duel between Romeo, Tybalt, and Mercutio…

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