Juliet Capulet

Leonardo DiCaprio once said “To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the intimate tragedy”. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo falls in love with the enemy, Juliet leading the two individuals to go against their family values and principles of the rival. This is like the musical West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, Tony and Maria go against the ideals of their two separate rival gangs to be in love. They represent how…

character based on their balance of both positive and negative qualities. In Peter Holland’s edition of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is a strong female character who develops strength and power by the unfortunate imperfections in which she lives but ignites a powerful charisma within her that dominates in her relationships with Romeo, the Nurse, and her parents, the Capulets. It is clear that she is all but passive due to her determination to live up to nothing but her own expectations…

are around. Although it is important to always take ownership in your wrongs, those around you will likely affect your future. In the short play, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet’s deaths were provoked by those around them. First, the nurse’s irresponsible actions are to show for Romeo and Juliet’s death. The nurse, who was close to Juliet had no boundaries nor backbone to support the teenager and her haste decisions. Nurse helped sneak Romeo around even though Romeo and Juliet’s romance was…

to tragedy. This is the case in the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Two young star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, marry each other despite their families’ feuds. Their love brings them happiness and joy, but it causes obstacles which they have trouble overcoming. Desperation and conflicts appear when they want to be together, leading them to try to find solutions to their problems. Romeo and Juliet resort to Friar Laurence, the one who marries them, to figure out…

comparison to William Shakespears play ‘Romeo and Juliet’. ‘They don’t know about us’ is about a boy and a girl in love but everyone is saying that they are too young to be in love. The boy is telling the girl that he doesn’t care about what the others are saying and that they just don’t understand their desire to be together. The song ‘the don’t know about us’ has 5 lyrical lines that correspond with the concepts and the scenes from the play Romeo and Juliet. “People say we shouldn’t be…

perfectly describes the wild deaths seen in William Shakespeare’s written tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. Arrogance is having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities.Tybalt has arrogance which clouded his decision making during fights and arguments. Out of the many deaths in Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt's was one of the most brutal. In William Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Tybalt is the reason for his own death because he has anger issues, he has a need to…

Romeo and Juliet Many people in their young love life are faced with the conflict of romantic idealism. People argue that this idea of idealism in love is something too powerful and can lead to a great downfall. In Shakespeare passionate romance, Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers forbidden to be in love, fall in love at first sight. It is easy to believe that this kind of love is a fantasy everyone dreams about, or is a fairytale because this kind of love is so rare. But just because it is rare,…

“Pyramus and Thisbe” and Romeo and Juliet: A Comparative Essay Tragedy and love, two of the most common themes incorporated into ancient and modern literature, can be found in almost any piece of text ever written. Even more common, some might say, is a tragic love. The most famous tragic love story is a dramatic play written by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. It took place around the 14th century in the city of Verona, Italy. The play follows a pair of star-crossed lovers who belong to…

and ending of every relationship. Unfortunately, loyalty is what can also lead to the annihilation and demise of a couple. A true relationship that exemplifies extreme loyalty that can be seen in Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Loyalty is shown in the film through both of the main characters. Zeffirelli displays the immense passion and intense…

In Shakespeare's story “romeo and juliet” he discusses how love and fate play a huge role in a person's life and how it can affect others around that person. One of the main topics shakespeare uses is fate, he shows many examples of fate throughout the text, showing that no matter the choices people make fate will always determine the outcome. Readers can see that fate had the biggest role in the play rather than the choices they made because fate always found a way to intervene and cause…