The tragic love of Romeo and Juliet Essay

Every Time someone hears Romeo and Juliet they think about a tragic love story. In the story the Nurse tells us the age of Juliet and that she is thirteen years old. On the other hand, we never find out the age of Romeo . Some believe he is the same age as Juliet others believe he is in his late teen years, so about twenty years old. Throughout the play the lovebirds have a hard time trying to be together . There whole family background affects their love for eachother. Throughout the play there is a lot of conflict. As everyone knows the romance between the teens starts to die. Shakespeare is a well known writer. No one knows the date when the play was written . The play was composed no later than the year of 1596. The play Romeo and Juliet…

Tragic Love In real life your actions affect others as much as they affect you, and this relates to the stories Romeo and Juliet, and West Side Story in the way that death was brought because of feuds and people telling you who you can and can’t love, which in the real world it happens all the time. In Romeo and Juliet, the story starts off with two families with an ancient grudge, the Montagues, and the Capulets. Romeo, a montague, falls instantly and madly in love with a girl, Juliet a…

Two people love with all of their heart, and the others hate with the same passion. They all have flaws that cause a famous tragedy, but love and death, which are formally known as opposites, both bring the families together. In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare uses the dramatic elements tragedy, tragic hero, and tragic flaw to develop the theme that love has the power to bring people together, but if love fails, death will finish the job. The tragic heroes in Romeo and Juliet show that death is…

Romeo: The Boy Who Thought He Could Love Romeo is kneeling in the stale, musty burial vault of who is assumed to be his most abhorred enemy, the Capulets, but he is next to Juliet. He is next to the one whom he cherishes the most, the one that life is not worth living without. With a kiss, Romeo drinks from the shimmering vial of poison as he waits for the venom to course through his veins and make him the first martyr of his kind.Romeo Montague is a character from William Shakespeare's…

Romeo’s infatuation with Juliet is the reason Romeo and Juliet are dead. Romeo is the most to blame for the events that occur in Romeo and Juliet, because he pursued a romantic relationship with Juliet. Although Romeo knew there was a long standing feud between the Capulets and the Montagues he pursued a relationship with Juliet anyway. “See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!” The quote means that Romeo wishes he was the…

‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a well-known play with one of the most tragic endings in all of Shakespeare. One reason why this play could be considered so tragic is that Romeo and Juliet “loved” each other, but their “love” was forbidden. Although most people know the play as two teenagers who killed themselves because they were “in love”, the play is much more than that. The play may also be considered tragic because two families lost their only children, causing them to lose their future bloodline.…

Romeo and Juliet Final Exam Essay (Part 3) When a tragedy occurs, the question often arises about who is responsible. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare tensions between two families causes two star crossed lovers to to kill themselves out of love and a simple misunderstanding. When a man named Friar John fails to deliver a crucial message to Romeo it causes him hear that Juliet is dead and go to find her dead (she isn't dead) and he kills himself. Juliet wakes from her…

In the prologue of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare describes Romeo and Juliet as “star-crossed lovers”. Star-crossed lovers means a pair of lovers who have a set destiny and whose have lives that are set by the stars, or fate. Since they met the stars destined for them to have a tragic end to their relationship. Throughout this play, fate plays a prominent role in Romeo and Juliet’s meeting, their falling in love, and their deaths. The idea that fate and the stars control these star-crossed…

Romeo and Juliet, perhaps the most famous love story in history ends with, “For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo” (5.3.309-310). This iconic love story is one full of woe and lament. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is set in the Italian city of Verona. Romeo meets Juliet at a party, and despite them being of two rival families, they marry. In an unfortunate series of events, the two lovers die, along with a number of notable figures in the city of Verona. In…

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a provoking love story filled with suffering and tragedy. The star-crossed lovers were only partly responsible for their fates with surrounding influences such as Friar Laurence, the Nurse and Tybalt also leading them to their tragic fates. Romeo and Juliet were not entirely responsible for their fates even though they did make their own decisions and knew the consequences. From the beginning of the story, Romeo showed snippets of his fate with him…