Forsaken

Romeo and Juliet is by far the most famous love story in English stories. Love in the story, is the most dominant theme. William Shakespeare has an interesting view toward philosophy about young love. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's persona about young love consists of the forcefulness of love, love as a cause of violence, and fickle love or as we call it, puppy love. In the timeline of the play, the young couple constantly defy the social aspects of the world. For example, families:…

Fate is a mysterious concept. What is it exactly? Does it really exist? These are questions that can never truly be answered. Although some fate was involved, Romeo and Juliet’s hasty and thoughtless actions ultimately caused their unfortunate (but inevitable) demise. They chose to get married too quickly. They chose to get married even though they were never really in love. In the end, their death played a bigger role in the larger scheme of things by ending the feud between their families.…

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet The death of Romeo and Juliet was tragic, and could have been prevented. The author of Romeo and Juliet is William Shakespeare. The play's name is The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Some of the main characters are Romeo, Juliet, The Capulets, the Montages, and Friar Laurence. The main characters that had the most influence on Romeo and Juliet's death were the families, Romeo and the Friar. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a play about teenagers trying to make…

Young love is a common subject used by teenagers lately. They may understand the definition from reading out of a dictionary, but at such a young age you cannot fully comprehend the emotion of love. Romeo and Juliet are a strong example of young love, for they may think they're in love. In reality, they were truly an example of being infatuated with each other, leading to their demise for each other. Between Juliet saying how she wishes to no longer be a Capulet or Romeo and Juliet getting…

Plagued by tremendous amounts of landfills full of trash, daily methane gas, and poverty would be a great description for the suburbs of Payatas in the Philippines. Just outside of the capital of Manila is the god-forsaken town of Payatas. Manila is home to almost eleven million people and the town of Payatas is known as dumping ground for the city. Surrounded by crime, pollution, extreme poverty and death, Payatas seems to have every third world countries problems to get ahead, if only other…

Robert David Putnam, American political scientist and professor at Harvard University at JFK School of Government, came to the conclusion that in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, a crucial tide turned in the United States. For most of the twentieth century, Americans had been increasingly involved in community and political life, but that trend reversed in disturbing ways. As Americans pulled apart, community vitality weakened causing political participation to drop as well. Putnam analyzes the…

choices are close to what Christ said as he was dying on the cross. In Matthew 27:46, Jesus’ last words were spoken: “About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”),” (NIV). Unlike Christ, King Arthur does not die then resurrect, but Tennyson does allow for leave in a way similar to that of Christ. For Christ’s departure from the earth, he ascends into heaven (Luke 24:41 NIV). King Arthur, on…

Matthew 24:45-51 describes the story with a servant whose master is away. The parable has two outcome; if the servant is faithful and do what he was assigned for then it is good; however, if the servant choose to disobey and “beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards” then he will be punished severely (NIV Bible, Matthew 24:49). Jesus was giving a warning for Christian underneath the actions of the servant. In the story, the master is Jesus himself, the Son of Man, but in this…

The Friar and the Two Lovers Do people ever let their emotions control their actions? Do people ever listen to ill given advice? Many do, and the greatest example of this can be found in english literature. In 1597 the great english playwright, William Shakespeare wrote, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. In this legendary play two children of feuding families fall in love. Through the whole play they try to figure out how to make it work but, in the end it only leads to death. The audience…

"The Greek transliteration of Golgatha is the Aramaic word for the skull" and in Latin, the word skull is "calvaria" which in English means calvary (Mitch and Sri, 358).Called Golgatha because there were rocks that formed a structure that resembled a skull, symbolizing death because it was an execution site (Mitch and Sri, 358).Before crucifixion, the wine was offered to lessen the pain, but the same soldiers who mocked Jesus with the crown of thorns put a poison called gall in the wine that…