Shakespeare uses detailed examples to draw clear images of his characters for the audience. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two rival families, the Capulets and the Montagues. Romeo struggles because he is blinded by his love for Juliet and will do anything, even risk death, to see Juliet. Shakespeare uses examples in the story to portray Romeo as an impulsive and passionate character. He demonstrates that he is passionate and impulsive by his inner thoughts and feelings, his actions, and how others view him. Romeo, throughout the story, demonstrates his impulsive and passionate character by his unplanned acts of love. Shakespeare shows Impulsivity and passion in Romeo through his inner thoughts and feelings. Shakespeare uses Romeo’s inner …show more content…
At the party, Romeo also demonstrates his passionate nature. When he talks to Juliet, he begins telling her his love for her and how he wants to kiss her. The author demonstrates this when Romeo says, “Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! / Give me my sin again” (I.v. 120-121). Romeo then kisses her showing that he is willing to do anything to show his love for someone. He does this even though he just met her. During this conversation Romeo also discusses marriage showing that he wants to be with her forever. Romeo then leaves the party but goes to the Capulet mansion to see Juliet again. He goes to her balcony and listens to her speak, and then he shows himself to Juliet. When he shows himself Juliet warns him that if her family saw him they would kill him, but Romeo says, “Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye / Than twenty of their swords. Look thou but sweet, / And I am proof against their enmity” (II.ii.75-77). Romeo is showing his passion by proving he is willing to die just to be able to see Juliet. This shows that he really loves her because he would die for her. The author uses other characters’ point of view to show Romeo’s passionate and
Romeo and Juliet is a play about two star-crossed lovers who have passionate and unconditional love for one another. Due to a family feud, the two lovers cannot be together, resulting in a great tragedy. Throughout the play, William Shakespeare uses figurative language to bring more depth and meaning to his dialogues. Due to the descriptive writing, readers are able to better understand and connect with the characters and the story. In Romeo’s famous love speech for Juliet, 2.2, Shakespeare uses many literary devices to show the audience that Romeo’s love for Juliet is true and everlasting. By using a metaphor, Shakespeare compares Juliet’s beauty to the sun to show the light Juliet brings
This is particularly apparent as he continuously and secretly visits Juliet late at night at her house, despite the dangers. His actions help prove that his only desire is to be with Juliet. He wishes for a life that “in it [Juliet] might I love, you honour, serve and please.” ( Line 513). However, their situation holds them back from truly expressing their love for one another. They are star crossed lovers with families that disapprove of their love to the extent that they are described as each other’s “deadly foes.” Overall, these characters help illustrate the main theme: romantic love. As a result of their actions and dialogue, they depict the passion and yearning that characterizes young love. Additionally, they prove that love is an overpowering force that transcends rational thinking and other emotions or values. I believe that as an effect of external forces, their love may be will be impaired which would further the
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is set in 16th century Verona, Italy. A play that relays the story of two young lovers whose ill-fated deaths end an ancient family feud. The two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, come from families who disapprove of their love. Their situation complicates as the play progresses, with an arranged marriage and several deaths. Romeo and Juliet both fall to the consequences of their secret marriage. Even from the beginning, their decisions were rash; especially from Romeo. Shakespeare use of various tactics in developing Romeo’s character in the play. He shows that Romeo has an impulsive and emotional disposition. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is irrational.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a tragic love story. The story concerns the love between two young people, Romeo and Juliet. This is set against a feud between their two families: the Montagues and the Capulets. This feud develops the themes of conflict, deception and dignity in the play. The play includes a lot of themes, love, family, hate, deception and revenge.
William Shakespeare is widely known for all of his literary works; one of his most famous love tragedies being 'Romeo and Juliet'. A Shakespearean definition of tragedy exemplifies the sense that human beings are inevitably doomed through their own failures or errors, the ironic action of their virtues, or even through the nature of fate and destiny (Sayour, Susan, 2007). Romeo and Juliet is a tragic tale based on two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. Throughout the play, Shakespeare intentionally draws on text structures and language features in order to replicate the attitudes, values and beliefs of Elizabethan audiences and intertwine it into his
Romeo seems to be miserable as he is in love with Rosaline yet Rosaline is not in love with him. Once Romeo learns that the Capulet’s are holding a party at which Rosaline is attending he risks his life just to be with the one he loves. Romeo is passionate for love.
Shakespeare does this by noting how Romeo and Juliet do not actually love each other. This is represented by Romeo and Juliets actions and rash decision making. Their decisions are very impulsive and rushed. As a result, it will impact them badly in the near future and as well as their relationship. Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other is not actually how we view love as. They’ve mistakenly confused love for lust.
In this scene, we are introduced to Juliet's family and to Romeo. Their love is doomed from the start, because they belong to rival families. Their love will grow so strong to become more important than their life.
Romeo tells Juliet about his undeniable love for her even though she is part of Capulets. Juliet impulsively agrees to marry a man she has only known for a day because she believes that she is in love. Juliet knows that Romeo is a Montague, she does
Romeo falls in love at first sight. Romeo says to Juliet, “If I profane my unworthiness hand this holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: my lips to blushing pilgrims ready strand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss”, (1.5.102-105). This passage illustrates Romeo is compulsive because he clearly wants to kiss her even though it’s the first time they met. Romeo cries at the thought someone
This is when Capulet tells Juliet "My will to her consent is but a part". (1.2.9) when Capulet says this, this means that he's gonna throw a party so that Paris can get to know Juliet and then they can have a quick and easy marriage. The point of the party is just to make the process of marriage much easier. At this party Juliet meets Romeo and then that's when they begin to dance and then begin to get closer and closer to a point where they instantly begin to start liking each other, that's when Romeo and Juliet walk outside of the ball room and began to kiss. After they are done kissing they both take each other's masks off and see that they are both supposed to be enemies and sit there in shock and realize that they could get in deep trouble if they get caught.
Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged”(752). They then kiss and Juliet doesn't regret it a bit. However, it all goes downhill from there. It gets to the dangerous part when they get separated and end up committing suicide because they can’t be
Within the first few moments upon seeing Juliet, Romeo is mesmerized by her beauty: “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! / It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear-- / Beauty too rich for use, for Earth too dear!” (I. v. 43-46). Romeo proclaims his infatuation for Juliet immediately; however, he knows nothing about her. Romeo is mistaking his infatuation with undying love. He voices this mere hours after uttering similar thoughts about Rosaline, his former true love. In his switching his object of obsession so quickly, shows his love is not indeed love but just fascination. These words give insight into Romeo's volatility and his being controlled by his emotions, and foreshadows his death. Romeo is so utterly heartbroken, and obsessed that he commits suicide to be with her; “Here’s to my love! […]/ [The] drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die,” (V. iii. 129-131). Romeo’s fascination with being with his love was essential to his being; he would do anything to be with Juliet. His way of being with her, knowing she was dead, was to join her by taking his life. His blurred vision with the longing to be with Juliet ironically lead him to ultimately to his
The play of Romeo and Juliet is different from William Shakespeare’s other tragedies in that there is not a clear distinction of individual heroes. The two protagonists are more passive than active; both are naïve and lacking understanding. The hero is often thought to be the romantic, yet often hysterical, Romeo. But Romeo’s immoral background, emotional outbursts, mishap murders, and foolish actions make him a poor candidate for a hero. Juliet proves to be more innocent than Romeo because she possesses more rigorous moral ethics. Juliet is also more successful in overcoming the obstacles that she is faced with throughout the play. While both characters
Romeo and Juliet is a play about two young lovers, whose love was for destruction from the beginning because of the hatred between the two families, Montagues and Capulets. Therefore, the themes of love and hate are very important in the play as the plot is driven by these two themes. Shakespeare brings out the love between the two rivals through Romeo and Juliet and their relationships with the Friar and the Nurse.