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3rd hour Who is to Blame? Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love stories and probably will be for a very long time. It is a basic story about two star-crossed lovers. They eventually get married, but their families are feuding and Romeo gets banished. The two both end up killing themselves in the name of love. The one question always thought about when this story comes up is: Who is responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s death? Many people may say it is their families feuding to blame.…

In Romeo and Juliet, we see two ill-fated lovers from two feuding families fall in love for one another but soon die in the end as a consequence of their love. Teen crushes have a major impact during adolescence, as when Shakespeare explains the story. The lovers’ parents didn’t take the relationship seriously, thinking that it was just a phase, unaware that they were very much in love. Parents shouldn’t laugh off their children’s crushes, because teens can end up harming themselves and/or…

Do you believe in love at first sight? (Rhetorical Question) Romeo and Juliet did and it lead to both of their deaths. Romeo believed that he was in love, a feeling he had never truly felt before. As a young teen, you could expect that he would make some irrational decisions, but nothing like what he did to be with who he believed to be his true love. Romeo Montague's fatal flaw was his impulsiveness due to falling in love and marry Juliet, becoming a murderer, and taking his own life . One…

Did you know that having a bad connection with your daughter as a father can lead to her making bad decisions in choosing boyfriends? Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare. It's about the son and daughter of two feuding families who fell in love. They try to live married secretly, but when Romeo gets exiled from Verona, Juliet threatens to kill herself unless Friar Lawrence helps her. A plan is made to fake her death, but Romeo thinks she's dead and drinks poison and dies When Juliet…

Cedric Deal 2nd Period Honors LA 9 Argumentative Essay 5/2/2017 Argumentative Essay “Thus with a kiss I die” ... “The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” a drama written by William Shakespeare is about two feuding families and children from the two houses, the Capulets and Montagues that meet each other during a party and have love at first sight. Sadly, they are forbidden to see each other in public so they find other ways. Even though Romeo and Juliet committed suicide, their untimely deaths are…

Have you wondered what life would be like in Verona in the 1500s? In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, life is hard, and full of love and hate. The play takes place in Verona Italy, where two families are enemies, feuding all the time for years. They are the Capulets and the Montagues. It starts off by introducing Romeo, as he is in love with Rosaline, but she doesn't love him back. Then he and his good friend Benvolio decide to crash a Capulet party, as they are Montagues. This…

As in Ovid’s tale “Pyramus and Thisbe,” in “Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare communicates the theme that familial hindrances upon a romance may induce the deaths of the lovers involved; however, these deaths may allow for the families to attain peace. Shakespeare further develops this theme, insinuating that such situations may prove avoidable, rather than maintaining an inextricable tie to human nature. Shakespeare initially mirrors the theme of “Pyramus and Thisbe,” as the families of Romeo and…

Romeo + Juliet is a movie about two star-crossed lovers who journey with a relationship between the toils of two families feud, adapted from Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and produced into a film by Baz Luhrmann. The movie details the lives of Romeo and Juliet, who are in love, though caught in the confusion of their families feud. The lovers conceal their relationship, but that doesn’t keep either families from concealing their ‘swords’. Several die in the conquest of…

Throughout the play we see how Romeo and Juliet's love grows and leads to their death. From the start of the show the audience is informed in the prologue that Romeo and Juliet will die, “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”. With actions such as kissing on the first date , marrying within a day of knowing each other, and not telling their parents. Their love led to the death of many of their loved ones, then leading to Romeo's…

and Juliet might have been able to marry with their parent’s consent, allowing them to live happily. Lastly, while they may not have realised it, the only way to end the feud was with their deaths, as seen in the prologue with the line “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents’ strife” (Shakespeare 7). These are all extremely pivotal points in the play, that, if they did not happen, could have seriously altered…