Juliet Capulet

Romeo and Juliet is most likely the most famous of William Shakespeare's plays. This play tells the story of Romeo a Montague and Juliet a Capulet (from feuding families), who meet and fall in love. Their forbidden love draws them closer together, but fate is not on their side and eventually they decide to kill themselves instead of living without one another. Friar Laurence is Romeo's mentor and confidante, but he's not always looking out for the best interests of young Romeo. In the soliloquy…

Romeo and Juliet-Genuine or Imaginary Have you ever read the story of Romeo and Juliet or watched the movie and wondered if Shakespeare based his story on true events? Well, wonder no farther. The story of Romeo and Juliet is not based on actual events. There is no proof that they were ever in existence other than in the pages of Shakespeare. Though there are two houses in Verona, Italy called the Montague and Capulet house, they are just a tourist trap, and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is…

opinions are made up for you, years before you were even born. You’re not allowed to choose who you like or who you hate because society has set it all out for you. Now this is starting to sound like a dystopian novel, but it’s not. The classic Romeo and Juliet and To Kill a Mockingbird share some qualities with our well loved dystopian novels. Both are based around two parts of society that hate each other, and there are children who are able to see past society’s hate and think for themselves.…

Unfortunately, sometimes love can not escape societal pressures. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the main characters are members of feuding families. In the end, their love for one another can not survive the strain that the feud puts on the couple. Love can be life altering, especially in high tension situations. Shakespeare uses both character development and plot conflicts to show how love drives the attitudes and behavior of his characters. As the plot develops, Shakespeare…

Romeo like Juliet and the Friar has many strengths and weaknesses that he shows throughout the play. First of all it is obvious that Romeo is in love and all he wants is love. However Romeo being in love can be a bad thing because the woman he is in love with is supposed to be an adversary. “Oh me! What a fray was here? Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love” (Shakespeare 776). From this quote it is obvious Romeo is in love even though the play…

The first act of Romeo and Juliet has very conflicting images of romantic love. Dependant on the character you get very different images of love. For the majority of the first act Romeo is in love with Rosaline. He displays the idea of love hurts and it is aguishly painful. “riefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate to have it pressed With more of thine. This love that thou hast shown Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke made with the fume of…

both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,... the madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being’s difficulty in coming to virtuous balance with himself.”(Gilbert 262). In William Shakespeare’s iconic play, “Romeo and Juliet”, one is taught how incredibly important it is to have balance in their personality; failure to do so will result in their downfall. Friar Laurence, the primary facilitator of the young protagonists’ dangerous and romantic endeavors, is…

exceptionally manipulative keeping in mind the end goal to accomplish her advantages. A soliloquy is a prominent artistic gadget regularly utilized as a part of dramatization to uncover the deepest considerations of a character. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Juliet was pondering the conventional ill will between Romeo's tribe and her family, communicating…

Themes are universal ideas that are explored in literature. Although written in different time periods and in different styles, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees share the common theme of love – love of all kinds – the love of people, the love of community, or even the love of ideas. People of all generations and people of all ages deal with the universal idea of love: finding love, the loss of love, the love of…

This wonderful pieces was edited in two special and interesting format, one Zeferelli directed which was filmed in 1968, and the recent version produced in 1996. In the 1996 film version of Romeo and Juliet, the inside and outside designing of the home helped create obvious differences. Music was also used to build up this scene. The outdoor of the Capulet's palace was raise by red banners that hung down from the windows and white lights which attach along the palm trees showed an style. The…